Archive for December 9th, 2009
Surrounded by shelves stocked with 180 different wooden train cars, Sandy Oliver boxes orders at Whittle Shortline Railroad in New London, Mo. (pop. 1,001). Then she stops and picks up a bright blue replica of The Little Engine That Could, reports American Profile. This is my favorite. I think it has personality,” says Oliver about [...]
According to a story at Fast Company, everything will soon be connected to the social net–we’ve said it before, but if you’re a social network denier then here’s proof positive: Now your tiny baby can status update too. The magic comes from Belgium’s Hasselt University and a course on mobile and pervasive computing–it was the [...]
Difference Between Fad and Trend
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting article about the difference between a fad and a trend. Zhu Zhu Pets are THE toy for Christmas. Every kid wants them. Cepia, the maker of Zhu Zhu Pets, is billing the toys as “the best alternatives to real live hamsters” because they “don’t poop, die or stink.” Stores [...]
A year ago, Glenn Beck’s semi-autobiographical novel, The Christmas Sweater, was atop USA TODAY‘s Best-Selling Books list and in the top 10 for three weeks. Now, it’s back on the list – and not just in its grown-up form. The Fox News host’s 284-page novel was No. 47 last week, and a new 40-page picture-book [...]
The New York Times has a story about a man with an interesting ‘job’. For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own count, nearly half a million dollars’ worth of discarded winning tickets from wagers on thoroughbred races across the [...]
Obama Offers Help for Small Bizs
In a speech on Tuesday, President Obama outlined proposals intended to promote job creation. They included incentives for small businesses to hire more workers, additional money to build roads and other construction projects and rebates for homeowners who invest in energy-saving weatherizing improvements, reports The New York Times. Obama did not put a price on [...]
Daughter Keeps Hand In Moms Biscotti
pennlive.com: When it came to divvying up baking duties in the family business, Putch & Buckie’s Baked Goods, Buckie always made the anise biscotti. The mother-daughter team of Dolores Sides, aka Buckie, and Sara Goulet, aka Putch, started their home-based Hershey business in 2003, using the family’s generations-old biscotti recipe. The unusual moniker came from [...]
