October 20, 2012

Google in 1960

If it was the 1960s and I started Google, it would work something like this: 1. I’d advertise in the back of Popular Science magazine. 2. Users would send in a self addressed, stamped envelope. 3. I’d send back a postcard, like the one above, on which they’d enter their search query, check the appropriate […]

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Cool Biz Idea: Postcarden

Pour water on a typical greeting card and you’ve got a soggy mess. Do the same to a Postcarden, and you’ve got the beginnings of a miniature garden. According to DailyGrommet.com, Postcarden creator Aimee Furnival had an idea to re-think the greeting card and in a way that is stylish, playful, completely unexpected and yes,

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Cooking Up A Cookie Biz

All new moms have the urge to stay home with their child right before they have to go back to work. Then there are some women like Sidney Miller that find a way to do it and still make a living too, reports 12 News. After she got married, and got a fabulous mixer, she

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Dancing and Coffee

It seems that you can combine anything with coffee and make a business out of it. A Oregon woman has started a coffee and dancing establishment: Darlene Chapman isn’t looking for Dancing with the Stars competitors at her new business, Jitterbug n Java. She is looking instead for music lovers who want to socialize, drink

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Gambling Away ATM Fees

Just like in Loonies in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, ATM users in Japan can try to gamble their way out bank fees. According to the BBC, Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is introducing slot machine games of chance which run while the ATM processes its more mundane transactions: Get three sevens, and your withdrawal

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Candy From Japan

When you are in a foreign culture, even simple things can be very interesting. Even grocery shopping. Candy Japan run by an Finish expat in Japan that is a subscription service where for a monthly fee you get a surprise envelope filled with random Japanese candy every two weeks. How It Works Every two weeks

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Write A Bike

You’ve probably seen a lot of variations of bikes already and even perhaps choose one for yourself. But this bike allow you to be absolutely unique! Swiss art director Juri Zaech came up with a witty and original series of bikes. Their frames are created in form of elegant inscriptions of names of their owners.

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