Monday, October 31, 2005

Pet Strollers

You can now stroll your pet in comfort and style... will turn heads and make a statement as you enjoy an outing with your cat or small dog. Nevermind.

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Meals Ready for eBay

U.S. Looks into whether eBay sellers in Gulf Coast states are trying to profit from selling MREs. E-mails sent by The Associated Press to eBay's MRE sellers in Gulf Coast states went unanswered.

Friday, October 28, 2005

The Swiffer CarpetFlick

How Procter & Gamble conquered carpet.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

White is the new Orange

The albinos are called ghost, snowballs, luminas or Caspers -- presumably a reference to the friendly ghost. And the ones about the size of a baseball? Baby Boos. Still the same inside.

Photo printing on Flickr

10 Free 4x6 mailed, or pick up for free at your local Target.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Keep The Change

Slick new marketing campaign from Bank Of America. They round up every purchase to the next dollar, and transfer the difference to your savings account. 100% matching for the first three months, 5% thereafter.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Migraine attack art

A representation of the visual symptoms of a migraine attack. Won an award from the Visions of Science. More 2005 winners here.

Friday, October 21, 2005

BudgetTracker - online money manager

BudgetTracker allows you to track your Budget, Bills, Transactions and tie all these together in an easy to read Calendar that can send you reminders when Bills are due. You can also view most of the data stored on this site with your Cellular Phone so you can take all your data with you where ever you may be.

WestPoint interactive "smart" sheets

In an exclusive strategic partnership, WestPoint Home Inc., America's largest manufacturer of fashion bed and bath products, has teamed with T-INK Inc. to produce innovative, interactive products using patented "thinking ink" technology. An interactive Cinderella–theme comforter "that lights up like Broadway and makes the sound of a fairy godmother's wand sweeping through the air" is headed for Sears, Mervyns and Wal–Mart . via bookofjoe.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Is it time to hit the deck?

Robert Burns of Mauckport, Indiana, caught this shot. via AvWeb.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

"It" is coming Oct. 20

eBay's new advertising campaign. Scott Wingo of ChannelAdvisor, says his office picks: some kind of skype hype, the integration of ebay/shopping.com/skype, or a new way to shop on ebay (easier, more convenient).

Monday, October 17, 2005

Baby named Google

A Ph.D. in search engine marketing names his kid "Google". He has his own domain "google-kai.com". One day his Dad will say, "But ya ought to thank me, before I die, for the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye".

Saturday, October 15, 2005

WSJ top 5 books on dot commerce

The top books on what the Internet means for business.

Friday, October 14, 2005

Picasa 2.1 available for download

Print CD covers, BlogThis!, more RAW support and external drives.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

23 Ways to speed up WindowsXP

Concise list of tweaks to try.

Remember The Milk

A new ToDo list application. Remember The Milk is the best way to manage your to-do lists online.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

The personal global microbrand

A small, tiny brand, that "sells" all over the world.

eBay blocks stun guns to NY

Online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Tuesday it will block the sale and shipment of stun guns and other illegal weapons to New York residents under an agreement with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

The Ultimate Bed

And that's not even showing the optional integrated TV stand.

UFO's in West Chester

Google Maps hack for UFO's.

YahooMSN merged

I'm sticking with Trillian.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Create a palette with ColorBlender

Pick your starting color. ColorBlender builds a 6-color matching palette (a "blend"). via LifeHacker.

PayPal buys Verisign payment unit

The move was seen as letting PayPal, already the largest online payments company, expand faster beyond its core audience of eBay-based transactions and to compete better with credit cards as an online-payment system, analysts said.

Spam stock tracker

What if you purchased 1,000 shares in each of the hot stock picks you receive every day?

Monday, October 10, 2005

Workplaces

Lecture on open source discusses the effectiveness of workplaces.

Another thing blogs and open source software have in common is that they're often made by people working at home. That may not seem surprising. But it should be. It's the architectural equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. Companies spend millions to build office buildings for a single purpose: to be a place to work. And yet people working in their own homes, which aren't even designed to be workplaces, end up being more productive. The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Six Drinks That Changed World History

About one of these, Great Britain's Fleet physicians thought that this had doubled the efficiency of the fleet.

Friday, October 07, 2005

Google's NewsReader is out

Looks cool, but it's slow, I can't get my subscription OPML file imported, and it crashed my whole browser at least once.

American Diaspora

Sharp graphic depiction of settling Katrina refugees.

Monday, October 03, 2005

Blackmail Boxes

A public art peice by Chaos Studios in Colorado Springs. It's just randomly dropped in the middle of the downtown area.