When The Internet Is Down, Do You Feel Like This?
Angela’s internet is down (and it’s her birthday) so posting will be light today.
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August 2014
Chinese Inmates Farm for Gold
Gold farming a series of monotonous tasks in online games like World of Warcraft that can be done to generate in-game gold that can then be sold for real dollars. This is the first I’ve heard of slave labor being used. The Next Web: Chinese inmates in Jixi labor camp are reportedly forced to slay
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100-Proof Turkey
Being trapped at the dinner table for Thanksgiving dinner with the relatives can be enough to drive anyone to the liquor cabinet, but there’s no need for the “Two Buck Chuck” or even a flask this year, so says Brand X. That’s because the nation’s first 100-proof vodka-infused turkey has arrived, and just in time,
Zoo To Sell ‘Reindeer Gem’ Necklaces
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but dung is running a close second, reports Pantagraph.com. The enterprising “gem”ologists at Miller Park Zoo now are offering necklace pendants from dried reindeer droppings, joining the explosively popular ornaments that debuted last year. “We kept hearing from people who were buying the ornaments, ‘Do you have any
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What Is a Franchise? And Is Franchising Right for You?
A franchise, in its simplest definition, is a business opportunity that allows the franchisee (possibly you) to start a business by legally using someone else’s (the franchisor’s) expertise, ideas, and processes. Is franchising for you? This post could guide you toward a decision.
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Motorcycle Design Disguises Trikes As Two Wheeled Bikes
Nashua Telegraph: Riders of a certain age sometimes switch to trikes, those three-wheeled bikes with a wide back end. Trikes provide greater stability, but at a cost: The loss of the sensation of floating as you lean into corners. For many aging riders, riding a trike is nothing like riding a two-wheel motorcycle, Young said.
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It’s Not An Incubator, It’s A Percolator
The Dayton Beach News-Journal: After a career in the travel industry, working for national companies and working as a management consultant for an international tour operator, it would be reasonable to expect that Ky Ekinci is always thinking big. But the Palm Coast entrepreneur and co-founder of Office Divvy — with his wife, Lisa Schenone
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Inventors Whose Inventions Killed Them
Inventing is a wonderful pastime, unless your invention also ends your life. Business Insider has pulled together a list of ten inventors and their inventions that killed them. Here are five of those stories. Winstanley – 1703 – Eddystone Lighthouse During the Great Storm of 1703, he and five others perished when they refused to
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Cube Bottle Concept
Packaging of the World: Designed to overcome the overly loss of space between the cylinders of beer, Heineken Cube optimizes storage all along the chain: from manufacturer to consumer. It generates a significant fuel economy during transport. Its minimalist form gives it a strong visual identity and integrates symbolic object as in consumer memory. A
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SparkTruck: An Educational Build-Mobile
BoingBoing: Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile†for the twenty-first century. Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space currently traveling across the United States. At schools and summer camps and libraries around the country, the SparkTruck team offers workshops to help kids “find their
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