quickies
quick ideas
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Retro Depot
How about an office supply store which just carries leftovers from the past? Actual leftovers… old trapper keepers, Pee-Chees, etc. Would hit the nostalgia of all the Gen-Xers looking for some of their youth.
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Outsource This!
outsource glossary. provide the text for pop-up glossary terms forwebsites. they can brand. include text ads? upsell for branding? no ads? users can provide feedback and hone blurbs… faq too?
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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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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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The Dead Link Society
A site of just dead links. If the link becomes live again, it’s removed. Helping to “fight back” on PageRank hogs?
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The Onion Article That Wasn’t
Elementary school class shares the Nobel Peace Prize as they ended hunger in a small, developing nation with their contributions to the hunger relief program…with image of top ramen being delivered.
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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…