It’s your pet peeve. You lent your best friend Fred the Halo 3 disc (it’s your favorite game) a week ago and now you’re dying to start shooting some alien enemies. The game disc has returned to you, but with visible scratches and it suddenly does not play on your Xbox 360 anymore, at a time when you most want […]
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BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 55
Fighting the Saw-Tooth Effect Months ago you thought you were such a huge success, pulling in a large deal involving huge revenue for your business. How were you to know that at the same time you were destroying the very business you were trying to build? If this, or something less dramatic yet similar, has ever happened to you, then […]
PetSugar.com
EARTHtimes.org: Sugar Inc. announced today the launch of PetSugar.com, a new site geared toward pets and the people who love them. The site is celebrating its debut with a $500 Petco gift certificate giveaway that will be offered at PetSugar.com. With PetSugar’s launch, Sugar Inc. repeats its proven formula of combining incisive lifestyle and entertainment editorial with user-generated content. “The […]
Fragrances for those with Chemical Sensitivity
Realty Times: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) can be devastating for those who suffer from it. Fragrances drive these people crazy — sometimes to the point where they can’t perform normal, everyday functions. Perhaps few people understand this more so than Siri Amrit, the founder of an internet retailer called Tigerflag Natural Perfumery. Tigerflag specializes in fragrances, candles and other products […]
Vert
Los Angeles Times: Stores such as Barneys New York and Fred Segal Apothia have been adding to their stables of swanky, chemical-free beauty lines lately, but these brands are still in the minority at major beauty counters, sprinkled into a larger mix of conventional labels. Enter Vert – the first beauty outpost in L.A. to exclusively stock upscale beauty lines […]
Geek Tie
Think Geek: A few of us monkeys at ThinkGeek had this great shared dream a few months ago. In it, the whole world was 8-Bit, just like the video games we grew up on. We found ourselves having to leap from platform to platform, to search for pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom, and to fight scary mutated plants and […]
Vanishing Vending Machine
The Age: On a narrow Tokyo street, Aya Tsukioka demonstrates clothing designs she hopes will ease Japan’s growing fear of crime. With a deft motion, Ms Tsukioka, a 29-year-old fashion designer, lifts a flap on the front of her skirt to reveal a sheet of cloth printed in bright red, with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the […]
Beer Brick
Inhabitat: Upcycling is a 21st century term, coined by Cradle to Cradle authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart, but the idea of turning waste into useful products came to life brilliantly in 1963 with the Heineken WOBO (world bottle). Envisioned by beer brewer Alfred Heineken and designed by Dutch architect John Habraken, the “brick that holds beer” was ahead of […]
TownConnect Goes Local
TownConnect is an exclusive, private online service that organizes and connects families to people, activities and organizations in the towns in which they live. Because today’s families juggle full, fast-paced schedules, they can easily lose touch with the people and activities in their towns. TownConnect brings people together to create stronger communities and keeps people in the loop. From sports […]
Breakfast Business
Entrepreneur: While a bed and breakfast is by definition a lodging that serves breakfast as part of the room rate, there are several different types of B&B properties ranging from intimate family homes with less than a handful of guest rooms to full-fledged country inns with a dozen or more rooms. Part of the charm of B&Bs is that each […]