Archive for September 9th, 2010
Via BoingBoing, comes word of a Tea Party multi-level marketing program called TeaPartyBizOpp.info. I’ve no idea if this is actually real, since I’ve been unable to contact because the site’s owners because they’ve taken down their contact information due to “the many threats, and vulgar hate mail we receive daily from far left radicals.” Anyone [...]
Multi-Million Dollar Prizes For Inventors
According to The Week, in an attempt to discover and deploy new technologies more quickly, a growing number of organizations are offering hefty cash prizes to inventors with breakthrough ideas. Here are five $1 million-plus innovation prizes currently up for grabs: $1 Million For Growing Chicken In A Test Tube In an attempt to put [...]
Coaches’ Lips Sealed With ‘Boomguard’
According to PR Newsire, a Long Island special education teacher has revolutionized big-league play-calling with BoomGuard, a brilliantly simple device that shields coaches’ mouths from potential lip-readers. Inventor Ramone Ward remembers the autumn Sunday in 2005 when it came to him: for all those NFL coaches holding laminated play cards over their mouths and running [...]
Nate Ashcraft is well on his way to creating a reputation as an inventor and someone that likes to ‘think big’ reports TC News Net.com. His first place finish last year in the local Invention Convention and runner-up finish the year before may have helped him land an appearance for episode 12 of “Think Big” [...]
Cardholders Swiping Debit Cards More
Consumers in the U.S. are keeping their credit cards in their wallets in favor of using debit cards to avoid building up more debt, according to a new report by Javelin Strategy & Research. Among the 11 percent of consumers who claim they have an increased ability to put funds into savings, 46 percent have [...]
Bed bugs should be on their toes, there is a beagle named Angel that is ready to sniff them out reports The Palm Beach Post. The year-old pup is the only dog in South Florida certified by the National Entomology Scent Detection Canine Association to sniff out live bedbugs and viable eggs, according to the [...]
Website Serves Up Dining Deals In Naples
When you decide to look into a new restaurant, where do you find out the latest information? Seasonal Dining Deals hopes to attract Naples residents to their site where they list some of their favorite dining deals in the area. They offer information that will help someone hoping to dine on a budget make the [...]
Amy Rosenthal hung 100 dollar bills from a tree in Chicago just to see what would happen. Via: The Daily What
Small Bizs On Hold Waiting For Aid
According to USA TODAY, Small businesses have put hiring, supply buying and real estate expansion on hold as they wait out the vote on a small-business-aid bill that stalled in the Senate earlier this summer. The much-debated legislation offers tax breaks and waived loan fees. But it also comes with more divisive components, such as [...]
THAT’S MY BUSINESS!: Dan Florio
In this edition of THAT’S MY BUSINESS! Rich Whittle talks with RunPee.com‘s Dan Florio, about making over $45,000 telling people about bathroom breaks.
