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Mental Floss has put together an interesting list of foods that didn’t have a very long shelf-life.
Coffee-Flavored Jell-O (Celery, Too!)
Flower-Flavored PEZ
The Chicken Dinner Candy Bar
Funky Fries
Photos by Mental Floss.
Even as a kid, Krystle Walsh has always been creative. She enjoys doing craft projects, such as beadwork, jewelries, painting and other artistic creations, writes Women Home Business blog.
However, she never realized that her passion could be turned into a profitable business. It took the prodding [...]
The Telegraph is reporting that Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone, said the microblogging service would start charging companies for using the platform from next year.
Businesses are under no obligation to sign up to a paid account, but doing so will provide them with a “special layer of [...]
The hard hits our economy has taken over the past two years have left many businesses looking for ways to cut costs and save money without cutting employees reports Virtuosimedia.com.
1. Renegotiate Contracts
2. Credit Card Terms
3. Bank Charges
4. Time Your Payments
5. Property Taxes
6. Become Energy Efficient
7. Pay [...]
A Thanksgiving tradition?
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but dung is running a close second, reports Pantagraph.com.
The enterprising “gem”ologists at Miller Park Zoo now are offering necklace pendants from dried reindeer droppings, joining the explosively popular ornaments that debuted last year.
“We kept hearing from people who were [...]
According to a story by Mental Floss, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that 250 million turkeys will be raised in the US in 2009.
If recent trends continue, some 45 million turkeys will be eaten this Thanksgiving. Some of those birds will be outfitted [...]
Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn Chinese or French by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep, reports The New York Times.
If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, [...]
Most of us have done it at one point or another …You see something in a store that you just HAVE to have and no matter what. And no matter if you can afford it or not, and you buy it.
The consequences, and the charge to [...]
The Elderberry Tea Room is in familiar hands. The owner of the property, Pat Mannino, is running the business with her daughter Jennifer Davenport.
“It still looks wonderful after all these years. The house is just as beautiful as it ever was. We are excited [...]
Harmony Kaiser has a salon, but has been spending her days off driving to a lab in Beaver County and making deliveries to retailers, reports The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Kaiser is ignoring the economic downturn and pouring her extra funds and time into launching new businesses on [...]
Everything about the Hotdog Ez Bun Steamer seems easy, from the idea — a warm, steamed bun makes for a better dog — to the steamer itself, which looks like nothing more than a round, wire grate with a hole in the middle and some [...]
I just had to share this bit of wisdom I found on the 800ceoread blog.
“If someone asks you for money in exchange for the secret to getting rich, it means the secret is to ask people like you for money.” Dan Kennedy
Moms, some recently downsized, are finding niches in all kinds of unique areas. I met Joan Alini, a laid-off school teacher who sells aprons packaged in pie boxes. Crazy? You may think so, but she’s found her target audience in schoolteacher friends — and [...]
Like many great mom entrepreneurs before her, Michelle Brandriss’ business began out of frustration. She was looking for a customizable kids label that would fit her specific needs and found herself unsatisfied with the options available. Instead of settling for something that didn’t quite fit what she [...]
Unnerved by forecasts of grim holiday sales, malls are pulling out all the stops to try and get shoppers in the door. The Los Angeles Times reports at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, aerialists twirl 80 feet off the ground as escalator riders gawk.
The [...]
MySpace was doomed when the social network became overrun with obnoxious ads.
On the heels of newspaper articles alerting users that their friends tweets could actually be an ad, Valleywag predicts Twitter is following in MySpace’s footsteps.
The problem, argues Valleywag, isn’t advertorial content, but the [...]
RidgeBlade is a wind-power system that can be fitted to buildings with minimum visual impact and maximum energy conversion potential, reports trendspotter Springwise.
This micro-generation system employs discreetly housed cylindrical turbines positioned horizontally along the apex of a sloping roof. The slope of the roof naturally channels [...]
The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) released a study which shows that net employment losses are expected to rebound in the first quarter of 2010, the Associated Press reports.
The survey predicts that employers will start adding to their payrolls shortly after that.
But don’t [...]
If you have a child in daycare or in school then you know what it is like to label everything, from cups to clothing, that leaves the house. Traditionally that would mean the use of a permanent marker but now that is no longer necessary. Innovative parents, [...]
Firebox.com is calling all creative geniuses, visionaries, mad scientists, tinkerers, ponderers and garden shed inventors.
We’ve teamed up with Stuff, the World’s best-selling gadget magazine, to launch Firebox Inventor: a national search to find the next must-have product for 2010 and it might just be your [...]
SmallBizTechnology.com reports that if you accept credit card data you must be compliant with the credit card companies guidelines. This is referred to as Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. You can find a lot of information at the PCI Security Standards Council web site.
Of course one [...]
TIME’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting.
With the flick of a switch, Philips Electronics may have just dramatically lowered America’s electric bill. In September the Dutch electronics giant became the first [...]
If the recovery stays on course, next year the retailers who survived the recession will begin to reap its benefits such as the market share and real estate coughed up by competitors who didn’t make it. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, reports TheAge.com.
Even so, some of the [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar, reports Wired.
No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.”
Espinel is [...]
San Diego Business Journal Online:
Carlsbad housewife-turned-entrepreneur Stacey Ross has taken the informality of a neighborhood mothers group to the Internet to build a thriving new business.
Her enterprise, sandiegobargainmama.com, offers up a plethora of local bargains, discounts and handy tips, all targeting the market for nonworking [...]
In 2006, the US counted 37.3 million aged 65 or older. By 2030, the US Administration on Aging expects the number will have increased to 71.5 million. With this burgeoning market clearly in mind, Marbles: The Brain Store is urging the residents of Chicago to [...]
Dan Fenstemaker has beefed up his Web site, and he’s getting ready to be busy during the holiday season, reports CantonRep.com.
Why? Fenstemaker’s invention will be featured over Thanksgiving weekend on DIY Network’s “Cool Tools” television program.
Inteletool — interchangeable telescopic tool — is just that. The [...]
Who knew a doodle could make you a millionaire – and could land you on national TV? That’s what The New York Daily News asked.
It did just that for 18-year-old Rachel Segal, from Ashland, Oregon, inventor of something called “The Doodle Bra.” The high school [...]
The New York Daily News asks, what’s in a name? Maybe more than you thought.
A British translation firm will vet expectant couples’ off-the-wall baby names, ensuring their offspring aren’t saddled with monikers that mean something embarrassing in another language.
Today Translation’s new service might have come [...]
If you’re one of the surprisingly large number of Americans who follow the Tour de France every summer, you may have noticed massive, gorgeous printed messages on the route roads, reports Fast Company.
Nope, they’re not paint–they’re made of chalk, and they’re sprayed on the road surface by ChalkBot, [...]
This smart Upcycle Ottoman by Gus* Modern is made of repurposed jute bags that were once used to carry organic fair trade certified coffee according to Inhabitat.com.
Produced in a limited quantity, each piece is unique and shows the branding and markings of the bags used [...]
For many consultants, real-time collaboration with clients is extremely important. Setting up one-on-one phone calls is easy, but if you need to have three or more parties on the line, things get tricky — and expensive, says Small Business Computing.
FreeConferenceCall.com offers free private conference [...]
CNNMoney.com asks, short on cash? Join the new old economy and swap.
There’s no recession in barter,” said Debbie Lombardi as she navigated the crowd at the Barter Business Unlimited’s Annual Business & Holiday Barter Show, in Bristol, Conn.
More than 1,000 people affiliated with 100 vendors of [...]
Glendale mom Laurie Lupinetti opened Young Chef’s Academy in 2005 so she would be home more with her daughter Sarah, then 6 months old.
It was an opportunity for Lupinetti to blend her love of cooking and love of children while fulfilling the dream to own [...]
If you’ve ever been out while pushing a baby in a stroller, then you probably know what it is like to try and help them fall to sleep or stay asleep. While you could always drape a coat or blanket over the stroller to help keep the [...]
Toronto-based Sprouter is an online community that allows small business owners and entrepreneurs to share links, ask questions and share expertise with their peers, reports trendspotter Springwise.
Whereas most social networks focus on connecting users with people they already know, the premise behind Sprouter is [...]
Rich Whittle, Dane Carlson, Angela Shupe, Jaclyn Wells, Chuck Huckaby
