Archive for October, 2008

Since many seem to be experiencing difficulty viewing the Have A Happy Friday blog link below, I have entered a Flash version of it. Let’s see how this goes.Hank

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Why you are @ Purdue link: Hank
PS: For some unknown reason, link seems NOT to work in Firefox, but DOES in IE. Here’s the direct URL:
http://www.thinkbeta.com/Friday/index.html

NYTimes last Tuesday had a great article about a very talented guy,  “Joel Moss Levinson always knew he had a calling in life. But it took cheap video cameras, YouTube and some desperate corporations to show him what it was.” Seems that Joel has won over $200,000 by entering contests for advertising. Take a gander [...]

When Water Is Not Just Water

According to wikipedia, “Mattoni is mineral water from Karlovy Vary, the Czech Republic.
The history of the Mattoni brand began in 1864 when Heinrich Mattoni (1830-1910) took over the mineral water production at the small spa town of Kyselka near Karlovy Vary in West Bohemia. Mattoni expanded the operations by building a modern bottling plant and [...]

Not All Gamers Are Weird!

Americans who play video games are more likely than non-gamers to influence their friends’ attitudes about pop culture and new technology purchases and are more social than commonly thought, according to a study from IGN Entertainment and Ipsos Media CT. Findings from the “Are You Game?” research study break long-standing stereotypes of gamers as [...]

Splish-Splash I Was….

Take a problem, how to conveniently dry baby bottles, add design brilliance, and come up with an ABS plastic device plus skillful marketing. That’s what skiphop.com did. Result: last year 50,000 Splash bottle dryers were sold @ $28.00 a pop.  Hank

No Post This Morning

Parallels on my iMac has a corrupted critical file and won’t start. I normally use Microsoft’s Writer to compose the daily blog, and obviously don’t have access to same. I tried the WordPress tool on the web site and it wouldn’t let me import pictures - server error. I tried something called Bleezer on the [...]

MissionMatchUp.com is hot

Last Thursday Kristeen lite off her new social entrepreneurship site, www.missionmatchup.com. Take a gander and spread the word to your friends who may be considering a trip to help others. Hank

Blabberize.com

Blabberize is a site that you can upload a picture, select the mouth on that picture, and then record some audio. The picture then talks. You can send your talking picture, which is called a blabber, to anyone. See below. Try it out - you might just have some fun. Hank