photo credit: Eustaquio Santimano If you still haven’t made your New Years Resolution yet, a good one in business may be to become more creative for the new year. We are at the very bottom of an economic crisis so there is only up for us to go, and this can actually be a great […]
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Task lists are great, but sometimes you want a reminder that’s right in front of your face to be absolutely certain you don’t forget something on the way to the office. Use a dry erase marker to leave yourself a mirror-note. Lifehacker reader ayellen shared a great, if unconventional, use for dry-erase markers: I write
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Fast Company reports about an invention that might eliminate almost all of the wasted space in a cardboard box. How brilliant is this? Designer Patrick Sung’s Universal Packaging System is meant to precisely fit anything that needs shipping. The individual cardboard sheets are scored with a triangle pattern that can either be fitted to an
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Q: What’s got eight wheels and fries? A: A roller-skating carhop. USA TODAY reports that carhops – particularly skating ones – are making a mini-comeback in the ultracompetitive world of fast-food dining. Call it a cultural backlash to the ultratechy, assembly-line world of fast food and drive-throughs that spit out orders faster than you can
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Renee Oricchio at Inc.com is talking about those digital frames you buy at Wal-Mart or Target to load up with kid pictures and give to your mother-in-law. It’s not just for Mother’s Day, my friend. That’s a business tool! Here are four ways to make use of one: 1. In the reception area: Run a
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Street Level has put together an interesting collection of killer clever advertising billboards, check them out. adidas Samba Garden Billboard “Belt Up” Driver Safety Kill Bill 2 Movie Promo Bic Razors Bloom Supermarket Jumbo Muffins Photos by Street Level.
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The Web Urbanist has put together an interesting collection of items made of duct tape. Pretty impressive. Photos by Web Urbanist.
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Alyssa Ettinger at DIY Life discovered teacher and artist Liz Dickey, whose shop features curious clocks crafted from parts of old bicycle gears and reclaimed textiles. They’re so innovative we just had to learn more. She made her first clock quite by accident: her boyfriend had lots of bike gears hanging around and she was
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Matt Griffin was a young bachelor just trying to figure out how to bake some brownies when he hit on an idea that has really cooked, reports The Indianapolis Star. In this case, Griffin’s idea was a better baking pan for brownies. His goal was to cook every piece of the popular comfort food so
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Global warming and the recession may have delivered a one-two punch to many consumers’ travel plans, but that doesn’t mean people can’t still enjoy an exotic escape of a different kind. Enter Destination Dinners, a San Francisco company that offers a wide variety of dinner kits replicating dining experiences from around the world, reports trendspotter
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