Archive for August 27th, 2007
From Metro Here’s an amazing street installation by Mark Jenkins. That is, it’s art. See, we are not all about blatant commercialism here at Billboardom. Although it wouldn’t hurt if the headless guy’s clothes were branded. Photo by Billboardem.
From Metro Guinness created these special cans that it distributed around bars to promote responsible drinking. Blame Canada. Photo by Billboardem.
Chad Vader “Chocolate Rain” Remix
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Mom Opens Restaurant To Help Son
El Paso Times: After nearly seven years of watching her adult son struggle to get a job, Sharon Ausderau decided that she could no longer hope for employers to look beyond his disability and provide him an opportunity to be productive. “His father died about seven years ago,” Ausderau said. “I don’t know how much [...]
Mom Aims To Revolutionize Tween Publishing With Kiki Magazine
PRNewswire: After a fruitless and exasperating search for magazines that would entertain, educate, and inspire her own daughters, Jamie Bryant found herself doing something she’d never dreamed of — launching a new national publication. Kiki Magazine, which debuts next month, is aimed at “girls with style and substance” ages 9-14. Part magazine and part studio, [...]
PC Magazine: Capture memories with live video, thanks to the EZ201 Small Wonder by RCA. It’s a portable digital camcorder that lets you record up to 60 minutes of standard definition or up to 30 minutes of high-res to its 512MB flash memory. With the integrated Memory Manager software, users can download video through a [...]
Attracting Customers with a Blog
Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, Steve Spangler was a science teacher outside Denver. These days, his educational toy company, Steve Spangler Science, employs nearly 30 people and he speaks to groups of science teachers across the country. Mr. Spangler largely credits his blog for his success. Steve Spangler Science recorded more than $5 million [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Reasoned Audacity.
Systems Work, People Fail, or How to Start Your Own Successful Business
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Losing Inventor Laughing All The Way To Bank
BBC News: One expert, Rachel Elnaugh, called the Stabletable device “the most ridiculous idea” she had ever seen. Its Surrey inventor Andrew Gordon had the idea after drinking five pints with friends at a wobbly pub table. He woke up with a hangover the next day and designed the gadget by cutting up a cereal [...]
The Salt Lake Tribune: Many teens mow lawns to earn some extra cash. When Matthew Millet was 12, he decided to turn his lawn-mowing chores into a full-time job. With the help of cousins who worked for a landscaping company, Millet, now 18, bought a truck, a trailer and lawn-mowing equipment and began his own [...]
U.S. Patent Office To Publish New Rules
Patent Baristas: The United States Patent and Trademark Office will publish in the Federal Register new rules that will allow the agency to continue to make the patent examination process more effective and efficient by encouraging applicants to use greater precision in describing the scope of their inventions. The new rules will be effective on [...]
Austin Business Journal: More than 82 percent of small business owners said their companies were growing on schedule or at a faster pace than originally predicted at the beginning of the year, according to an Administaff Inc. survey. Most respondents — 59 percent — said they are meeting their initial business projections this year, while [...]
Inventor Cures Musical Dilemma
Herald Sun: Being able to hum a melody into a computer should see an end to people being frustrated because they can’t remember the words, a boffin has discovered. But RMIT’s Sandra Uitdenbogerd, who has spent the last ten years developing advanced music-recognising technology, says the tone-deaf will still have to struggle to learn the [...]
