misc.
ideas that don’t fit into any of the categories I’ve come up with. don’t box my ideas in!
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Punk Entomology
While in college (1992-1996), I took a science class where our final project was a bug collection. We had to find, capture, and kill specimens of various types of bugs then mount them on pins. This macabre assignment dovetailed with the spikey, bleached hairstyle I had at that time. I had visions of creating a…
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No Bell For You!
In the process of updating this website, I reviewed all my old ideas and one struck a timely nerve (The Onion Article That Wasn’t) as it featured unlikely recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time I wrote it, it was considered something only The Onion would write an article about, but today, I’m…
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Dow Jones Industrial Soundwave
turn the stock performance graph into a soundwave that someone can listen to…for accessibility for the blind… also to allow people to tell a good stock by it’s sound… “that sounds like a winner!”
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Documemory
Re-enactments/Re-countings of things you remember happening (whether or not they actually happened). In effect, it would be the solidification of a possible life experience through the intentional recreation of supposed memories of said events. Possible tag lines: “An Alternative to History” or “How (I Think) Things Were”.
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To Do, More Done
There are a lot of sites that have tackled the “to do” list niche. Not sure if any of them is going into territories such as: Taking these factors into consideration could allow for Gantt chart style output that helps see when to do items can actually be done.
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Nag.me
This one should be a business… one that offers a web service/software app which is all about the opposite of “remind me.” So the nag.me system would allow you to enter websites, search terms, time amounts, times of day, etc. which trigger the system to hit you with a pop-up or warning asking “are you…
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Path of Least Resistance
You’re at work and you’re trying to locate someone. They’re not at their desk and you’ve asked the cubicle next to them to no avail. What do you do? I bet if you did some traffic analysis (fancy term for snooping on people by pointing cameras around the office and hitting record) you could probably…
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A New Kind of VC
As I’m in a new contracting role, I’ve found myself evaluating work and what are it’s worths to my life. One of the most obvious is money. And I actually commented to someone that “I’m doing it for the cash infusion.” That’s pretty frighteningly like what might come out of an entrepreneurs mouth as he…
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Probably a Bad Idea
Okay, this one is destined for abuse. But why doesn’t an online store have a shopping spree – you get five minutes to click anything you want at tremendous discounts. People would practice all sorts of ways to browse a site faster in order to get past slow download times. Or perhaps the site would…
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Useletts
Forget how I came up with the name (wasn’t there something like Figlets?) but my definition was/is little bits of information which is non-germane to the context, yet “seems to follow” from the topic. An example of this is when during a conversation which touches upon Latin and its use (or disuse) it’s inevitably mentioned…