Archive for the 'Weird' Category

Sometimes people fail to start a business because of their “never say can” attitude which could be a sign of deeper problems like clinical depression or something.
Evidently though that lack of entrepreneurial drive and “Get’ em Tiger” attitude may not mean you’re depressed at all… you may just be British according to this humorous post [...]

I really didn’t believe this when I saw it because I wasn’t under the impression the cows had to adjust to Daylight Savings Time… but now that the farmers are milking earlier, they don’t like adjusting to the farmers much.
I guess cows like sleeping in too…
“From our standpoint, it gives us an extra hour [...]

Are you on LinkedIn?
To tell you the truth, I only checked this because someone wanted to put me in their network. Otherwise I don’t exploit this system the way I might. I tend to use the “network” in my email contacts more.
But I was amazed at how my puny number of contacts lets me [...]

It didn’t take a Rocket Scientist to see that this was one work at home business that might be profitable but would eventually cause trouble.
FoxNews: Delaware Police Raid Home-Based Casino Dealing in Nudity, Illegal Gambling
William “Shane” Anderson, his wife Laurie, and Matthew Balotin are charged with advancing gambling, conspiracy, and endangering the welfare of a [...]

Via Dane’s Blog
BusinessWeek:
The high price of energy is driving bids higher yet in a Connecticut electricity supplier’s unusual eBay auction.
MXEnergy, one of several electricity suppliers in the state’s deregulated market, is offering homeowners and small businesses electricity rates that are locked in, similar to power purchases by large commercial and industrial customers.
To promote its business [...]

It used to be a joke: “Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”. That referred to a time when mattresses were lashed to the posts of the bed and the cords had to be kept tight and – you didn’t want bed bugs to bite.
The day of lashing mattresses to posts is [...]

Ok, this was strange. It sounds like a ponzi scheme really. But the thing that makes it weirder is that I actually know a school teacher involved in one of these weight loss pools at her work. The potential for gain, from what she said, was not worth the anticipated pain of loss.
From The Fast [...]

I had to start a new category for this one: weird! I gotta get one of these babies!
From Endgaget
the StreetWriter project stuffs a computer-controlled industrial spray painting unit into an extended-body cargo van, where it can then roll up to unsuspecting sections of pavement and drop all sorts of textual delight. Granted, the prints can [...]