orphaned ideas

The Attachment Bot: Warns you if you forgot an email attachment

purrgirl — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:20:03 +0000

Here’s a simple million-dollar idea: A mail program plugin that alerts you when you forget an email attachment:

Warning: Your email message contained the word “attached”, however, there was no attachment on your message.

That is all. Simple and sweet… someone, make it for us, pretty please?

Stealing ideas from Silicon Valley

admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:39:47 +0000

Patenting ideas isn’t rocket science, take an idea that everyone already knows about, describe it in just a slightly different way (add a bunch of lawyers) and then turn around and sue everybody else for trying to do the same thing.

But what if that sounds like too much trouble…I mean stealing should be easy right. Well now it is! Because with the EZ Steal Eavesdrop machine all you need to do is be around people that are smarter than you but not smart enough to keep their big mouth shut. So go ahead and become a Silicon Valley big shot or at least eavesdrop on one.

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There’s money in aromatherapy

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:01:32 +0000

I really can’t tell whose rich anymore. The Beverly Hillbillies knew that if you looked poor at least live in a fancy house. But take for example Northern California: everything is expensive but do you really know who has money? That kid on the bike could be a Google heir. About those Yahoo punks over there. San Francisco used to have a lot of blue hair old ladies who walked tiny dogs on Nob Hill, now the telltale signs are gone.

What do you do when you don’t have it in you to look like money? The next best thing is smell like money.

Sure some people like that fresh pine forest smell or the ocean in the distance but there’s a magic odor every time somebody opens up their wallet and the cupboard isn’t bare.

Cash aromatherapy gives your overpriced crappy apartment that fresh from mint Tony Montana cash on the table smell that lets people know you reak of the green stuff and you can still dress like a slob. Now available in pump spray, hanging air freshener (with string) or essential oil.

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Sports drink ibuprofen style

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:07:09 +0000

I’m a sucker for sports drinks, sure you can just drink water but when thirstbuster tells me I’m going to feel refreshed, I believe them. But being close to 40, sports isn’t what it used to be and while energy and hydration are only a drink a way, I still need pop a few motrin after every workout. No longer, Motrin-aid combines two great feelings, relief from pain and the quenching rush of red number 5.

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Netflix Mood Ring

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:07:50 +0000

Imagine a hard day at work is done, the fridge is full of beer, and you have a commitment free night ready for the taking … too bad all you have from Netflix are art films and documentaries. It seemed like a good idea at the time, a documentary about documentaries. If only you knew what your mood would be by the time the movies actually got to your doorstep.

Well, now you can. Part psychotherapy, part online scheduling, part new age luck, the Netflix mood ring actually predicts what your mood will be before and after watching movies in your queue. Adam Sandler movies have a right time and a right place - but only if you plan ahead.

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Hey, you put your coke in my snickers!

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:58:21 +0000

My friend David (to protect his identity, let’s just call him David Beck) doesn’t seem to feel satisfied by a Snickers bar. So he usually chases it down it with a Coke and handful or so of Sugar Babies. Which is all fine and good - but why the extra step? When I want soda I don’t want to wait to put down the candy and lift up a whole other can - I want it now! And when there’s a will . . . imagine edible candy tubes inside your favorite bar, keeping your soda fresh, effervescent, and ready for that cola Niagara rush, where sugary fluids navigate the cheapest chocolate, caramel and nougat in a simple return to Eden.

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Capitalist Records

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:37:38 +0000

Jukeboxes are great. Great, if you like libraries and socialized medicine. So… what I want is a jukebox that only plays the music *I* like. How? By paying more. Hear a song you don’t like it, outbid it. I mean, what do you want more: That fiver in your pocket, or that Vanilla Ice song haunting your waking moments for the rest of the evening?

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Dude, where’s my resolutions?

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:16:36 +0000

It’s 2008, what’s your New Year’s resolution? Actually, what was yours last year? What about the year before? Do they relate? Have you made any progress? What have you learned from the experience? Well, we all want to lose weight, but what we really want is for Web 2.0 to save us from having to think too much. and that where My Resolutions comes into play. Welcome in 2008 with all the Tufte visualization goodness to keep off those unwanted 15 pounds and see how it’s inner-connected to staying up too late, not brushing your teeth enough and wanting to connect more with friends.

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Gimme Gimel, Driedal hi-powered slots

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:11:23 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered why driedals need to be made out of clay … then hi powered digital driedal slots should be right up your alley. Watch all of your Chanukah dreams spin before your eyes as your chances of a gorgeously gimel payday come round, and around.. and around again.

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conversation over the sink

purrgirl — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:50:51 +0000

me: How about hot dog flavored toothpaste?

him: Hmm. How about hot dog flavored condoms?

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