February 20, 2014

Trade Books For Beer

FastCo.Exist: The bartering economy is quickly ballooning with help from a growing number of time banks that allow participants to perform services and get their time “banked” in exchange for other services (i.e. a one-hour acupuncture session for an hour of dog walking). Now individual businesses are starting to recognize that bartering could benefit them. […]

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A Tailor-Made Business

Patrick Grant never realized that a discarded copy of the Financial Times would change his life. However, that is exactly what it did. He was an MBA student, eating his lunch alone at University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. While he sat there munching, he was drawn to an ad in the “Businesses for Sale”

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Supersizing The Rubik Cube

If you thought a normal Rubik cube was hard, Oskar van Deventer has created one so big that even he cannot solve it. Metro.co.uk states that the dimensions for this “Over the Top” product is 17x17x17. He said: ‘The puzzle has never been solved, although people have solved virtual versions of it on the internet.

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Immersive Theater

Cassandra Daily: Habit, an immersive production self-described as “The Real World meets No Exit,” opens this fall not at a theatre but at Manhattan’s Essex Street Market. Director David Levine conceived of the faux cinéma vérité show while transitioning from theatrical performance to visual art exhibitions, a change that motivated him to create a work

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