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Listing ID: 610
Title: Weird Odd News
Description: News that nobody wants to hear about. Kids behaving like brats, people doing stupid things, obnoxious politicians and an occasional techie post.
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listed on: May 15, 2008 07:57:08 AM
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| 10 Crazy Business Ideas That Made A Six Figure Profit - Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:45:00 +0000 |
Link of the day -If You Sell Links On Your Site, I Will Buy Them Off You 1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire. Hire another person to think of a cool domain name for you? No way people would pay for this. Actually, naming domain names for others turned out a thriving business, especially, when you make the entire process risk free. PickyDomains currently has a waiting list of people who want to PAY the service to come up with a snappy memorable domain name. PickyDomains is expected to hit six figures this year.Full Story 3.Doggles Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did they manage to become millionaires and have shops all over the world with that one? Beyond me. LaserMonks.com is a for-profit subsidiary of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, an eight-monk monastery in the hills of Monroe County, 90 miles northwest of Madison. Yeah, real monks refilling your cartridges. Hallelujah! Their 2005 sales were $2.5 million! Praise the Lord.Full Story You can’t sell antenna ball online. There is no way. And surely it wouldn’t make you rich. But this is exactly what Jason Wall did, and now he is now a millionaire.Full Story 6.FitDeck Create a deck of cards featuring exercise routines, and sell it online for $18.95. Sounds like a disaster idea to me. But former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black reported last year sales of $4.7 million. Surely beats what military pays. How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark. Christie Rein was tired of carrying diapers around in a freezer bag. The 34-year-old mother of three found herself constantly stuffing diapers for her infant son into freezer bags to keep them from getting scrunched up in her purse. Rein wanted something that was compact, sleek and stylish, so in November 2004, she sat down with her husband, Marcus, who helped her design a custom diaper bag that’s big enough to hold a travel pack of wipes and two to four diapers. With more than $180,000 in sales for 2005, Christie’s company, Diapees& Wipees, has bags in 22 different styles, available online and in 120 boutiques across the globe for $14.99. Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal address at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send to their kids? Well, Byron Reese sent over 200000 letters since the start of the business in 2001, which makes him a couple million dollars richer.Full Story Fake wishbones. Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop. Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones? A lot of people, it turns out. Now producing 30,000 wishbones daily (they retail for 3 bucks a pop) Ken Ahroni, the company founder, expects 2006 sales to reach $1 million. To see other businesses that have not made the top 10 list but came pretty close, visitUncommon Business Ideas Blog 10+ Unusual Ways To Make Easy Money On The Internet If You Love Writing Startups That Work: Surprising Research on What Makes or Breaks a New Company Start Your Own Business for $1,000 or Less Link of the day -If You Sell Links On Your Site, I Will Buy Them Off You  |
| Virgin School - Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:15:00 +0000 |
| Link of the day -I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me. Embodied in the figure of the goddess Athena or Mother Mary, the virgin state has inspired universal cults, national myths, personal passions and unsurpassed works of art; it has excited religious mystics to praise it as the highest ideal and fastest way to heaven; it has also moved many a titillating plot about the seduction of the innocent -- from the notorious Liaisons Dangereuses to teen soaps focusing on "the first time." As Hanne Blank points out in her vigorous and eclectic study, "Virginity has been, and continues to be, a matter of life and death around the world." For Blank, virginity is a social invention designed above all to control women; its connection to virtue flourishes in the fantasies of fathers, suitors, priests and pornographers. In the first part of the book, Blank gives a detailed account of the fetishized and numinous hymen. A puny ring or flap in the vulva, it remained unseen until the 16th century. But its appeal did not fade under the new scientific gaze; the anatomist Helkiah Crooke, for example, turned to the language of a love sonnet to describe his findings ("All these particles together make the form of the cup of a little rose half blowne"). However, even after physicians were able to inspect the interior of a woman's body, Blank is clear that sexual experience cannot be deduced from its condition, as some women have hymens that grow back after childbirth, while others have no obstruction to speak of and do not bleed during their "first time." The author therefore expresses her strongest indignation at the long, cruel story of virginity tests, when "women may not speak for themselves" and the one person who knows the truth of the case cannot make herself heard. Over the centuries, women have conspired to provide the evidence and stain the bridal sheets not because the bride wasn't innocent but because, as Blank makes clear, the dramatic rupturing of the hymen is a fable. Virgin: The Untouched History Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club new twitter gadgets Brad Pilon - the Only Protein and Bodybuilding Supplement Expert which You Can Totally Trust Link of the day -I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me.  |
| Krumbs - Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:03:00 +0000 |
| Link of the day -I will pay you $25, if you come up with a cool domain name for me. Tells the story of Adrienne Braxtons struggle to turn her Brooklyn bakery business from a weekend sidewalk stand to a real storefront. The film follows Adrienne as she chases the American dream of owning her own business while facing the demands of providing for her grandson and the difficulties of navigating New Yorks complex social service system. The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone: Easy New Ways to Make Money from Your Interests, Insights, and Inventions IdeaSpotting: How to Find Your Next Great Idea How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide by Dan S. Kennedy 101 Businesses You Can Start With Less Than One Thousand Dollars: For Stay-at-Home Moms&Dads Make Your Ideas Mean Business Eat Stop Eat: The Only One Realistic Way to Start Eating Less and Finally Lose Weight  |