Cat Spent Over 35 days In Container On A Ship From China Without Food Or Water And Survived

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2007 4:29 AM EDT (madconomist.com)

China the cat had chewed through one of the boxes before it left Shanghai, China, on April 3 and spent at least 35 days on a ship inside the container filled with motorcycle gear.

news, odd-news, weird

Lost Wallet Returned After 55 years

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2007 6:22 AM EDT (madconomist.com)

A wallet misplaced during a romantic embrace has been returned to its forgetful owner after 55 years.

odd, news, odd-news

JetPens - Incredible Student Startup That Brings In $1000 For Every $20 Spent On AdWords

Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:09 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

As students at Stanford University, Lily Kim, Shu Lindsey, and Adrian Mak had trouble finding the precision pens they liked to use, the Japanese-made ultrathin ones with tips half the width of the average ballpoint.

business

How To Cut Costs And Increase Your Sales

Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:45 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

A lesson I've learned from the mail order business is that a buyer is a buyer is a buyer. It's infinitely easier and always more profitable to work at increasing the purchasing of your satisfied customers than it is to go out and add new ones.

business, kennedy, dan

10 Awesome Startups You've Never Heard About

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:58 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

Wow, the pet vending machine is totally cool! And the "borrow or steal" idea, too.

The End Of News As We Know It

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:26 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

When my father was drafted during World War II and dumped in Belgium just in time for the Battle of the Bulge, my mother and his first two kids (I wasn't a glimmer in his eye yet) waited days for even a trickle of news about the war… and waited months for letters from Pop him …

5 Online Millionaires You've Never Heard About

Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:44 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

Wow! These are the strangest online millionaire stories I've read in a long while

Haunted Places Spark A Spookie Business

Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:19 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

Two Minnesota men have found their niche in the travel market by taking groups to scary haunted places. Dave Schrader of Circle Pines and Tim Dennis of Burnsville are leading groups on trips to haunted hotels and spooky cruise ships.

odd-news

Legal Counterfeiting 101 Or Why ATF Agents Busted Into My Home Back In The 70's

Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:33 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

Back in the '70s, I got a surprise visit from some of the baddest badasses in the U.S. government: Agents from The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF). No, I wasn't printing sawbucks in the basement. But it seems I'd caught their attention nonetheless.

business

How To Make $50 Profit In 20 Minutes With Traffic Arbitrage.

Seeded on Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:54 AM EDT ()

Famous blogger Aojon shares his tips how to make 300% profit with AdSense arbitrage.

technology, adsense

7 Bizarre IT-ish Business Ideas That Succeeded Online.

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:07 AM EDT ()

A guy who teaches others to play Ultima onine for 65 bucks an hour, a guy who gets paid $50 to come up with a domain name, and five other IT geeks that make money in really weird ways (like blogging about hot sauces).

Why People Raised With A Silver Spoon In Their Mouth Seldom Develop That Fire-In-The-Gut Motivation.

Seeded on Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:49 AM EDT ()

A "right-on" post from John Carlton.

Person Who Maked $1Million Selling Butterflies ...ONLINE!

Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:10 AM EDT ()

Wow, if this isn't cool, I don't know what is.

business

How One Blogger Increased His Revenue From $300/Mo To Over $3000/Mo With Things Other Than AdSense.

Seeded on Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:50 AM EDT (nichegeek.com)

If you blog for money and you want to find ways to make money other than Google AdSense, John Chow has some excellent advice. You should listen to him too, because last month he made $7000 from his blog alone.

blogging, blog, john-chow

How Much Money Can A Newbee Copywriter Expect To Make First Year?

Seeded on Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:02 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

This is an interesting article written by a newbee copywriter, detailing how much such a neub can expect to make. I'me quite surprised it's that much.

business, writing

Blogger Who Makes $1000 A Day From His Blog

Seeded on Fri Mar 9, 2007 8:15 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

Steve Pavlina makes $1000 a day from his blog and he shows the dirty little secrets that let him make this much money from a single blog

technology

Your Time May Be Worth $225 An Hour ... And You Don't Even Know It.

Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2007 3:50 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

Let's say you pay 50 cents for a click and Barbara in Oregon goes to your website and spends 8 seconds seeing what you're selling... then leaves. 50 cents divided by 8 seconds is $225.00 per hour. Barbara in Oregon's attention is pretty expensive, wouldn't you say?

technology

How Called Off Wedding Resulted In A Million Dollar Web Business.

Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2007 8:20 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

The guy get's dumped, stuck with engagement ring, the jeweler won't pay more that 30%, life sucks, right? No, actually this gave Josh Opperman a multimillion dollar idea for web business.

technology

How To Make Six Figure Income, Coming Up With Cool Domain Names.

Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2007 6:44 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

Interesting story about a website that makes six figures by coming up with memorable domain names.

technology

Why I yelled '@!$%#' at my cable company's automated answering system or HUMAN problems require HUMAN solutions.

Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2007 7:51 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

Absolutely THE BEST anti automatic answering telephone system rant I EVER READ. This is so friggin true.

technology

Enough Bull@!$%#ting… Let's Make Money In 24hrs Or Less.

Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 1:52 AM EST ()

Aojon shares his tips on affiliate marketing and PPC.

business

10 Weird Businesses That Make Money Out Of Nothing

Seeded on Thu Mar 1, 2007 7:31 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

From bags made out of seatbelts to making $65 an hour teaching others to play videogames, this wacky entrepreneurs figured out a great way to make something out of nothing.

odd-news

How Old Baby Food Got Oprah's Attention And Led To A Hit Product

Seeded on Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:08 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

While feeding a baby, Debbie Stephens Stauffer and Kathleen Whitehurst came up with an invention that landed them a spot on "Oprah," an article in Good Housekeeping and a hit new product.

business

10 Very Unconventional Online Homebusinesses

Seeded on Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:05 AM EST (nichegeek.com)

10 very cool online businesses that people run from home and (sometimes) even make millions from. I love the story how a guy makes $1 million selling butterflies online. This is brilliant.

technology, homebusiness