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Underground Sandwhiches

Marketplace: For years, if you wanted illegal drugs in New York City, you’d get the number of an anonymous dealer who would show up at your location with the goods. Now an entrepreneur who goes by the name of “Ronnie” is trying this technique with… grilled cheese sandwiches. Hungry customers get Ronnie’s number from a

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Cockroaches for Valentine’s Day

Flowers wilt. Chocolates melt. Roaches are forever. As a Valentine’s Day special, The Bronx Zoo is selling naming rights for their cockroaches. Can’t decide on what to get that special someone for Valentine’s Day? Sometimes the answer is all around us, and right where it’s been for millions of years—like cockroaches! How better to express

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Urns That Look Like The Deceased

Need some place unique to store your loved one’s remains? How about an urn that actually looks like them? Cremation Solutions offers just that: Keepsake sized Personal Cremation Urns are the latest in custom personalized cremation urns. They are created from one or two photographs with exceptional attention to details. With advances in facial analysis

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Incandescent Candles at Home

Political Calculations: We have a crazy idea. You know how some people make their own candles at home? What if we put together some kits with the components and equipment needed for people to make their own incandescent light bulbs, similar to the kinds whose manufacture is currently in the process of being progressively phased

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Cleaning Noses Makes Duo Money

Gross, but profitable! Cleaning out the snot-filled noses of children has become an entrepreneurial success story for Julie Pickens. She just wished her kids were more impressed. “It’s kind of gross,” confessed Pickens, 44, who launched Boogie Wipes with fellow mother and co-founder Mindee Doney, 35, in the spring of 2008. “It’s kind of a

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A Hotel for Chickens

This has to be a joke: It’s a hotel — but with a major difference. Instead of booking in guests in human form, Cornwall’s newest hotel only takes chickens. The aptly-named Chicken Hotel recently opened for business at Boskenwyn, Helston. The venture was set up to give chicken owners a place to check-in their birds

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