Opening plastic packaging

Wikihow tells you how to open plastic packaging safely.
http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Rigid-Plastic-Clamshell-Packages-Safely

Economics of Pennies

Should the USA stop using/producing pennies?

clipped from freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com Pennies: Enough Already! Imagine my surprise at the recent announcement that the U.S. will be issuing four new versions of the penny, the first of which comes out in February, in honor of Lincoln’s bicentennial. What a waste of resources — and what a move inside the production-possibility frontier! Each penny costs much more than 1 cent to manufacture.

Coupons, online check out codes, deals

clipped from www.rd.com Get a Great Deal on Anything They're at retailme not.com, and it takes almost no time or effort to search-alphabetically or by category or store (there are over 15,000 stores listed). The site offers codes for home products, sporting goods, luggage, food, and even Halloween costumes. Dealcatcher.com is a good resource for coupons, rebates, and Sunday newspaper circulars listing weekly deals. The printable coupons don't require special software (some sites do). A recent check found a coupon for $10 off a $60 purchase at the athletic shoe store finishline.com and a printable coupon for 25 percent off a pair of jeans at Gap. You can also compare prices here. We searched for the 1.7-ounce bottle of Vera Wang's Princess fragrance and found the lowest price ($43.95) through DealCatcher, versus $55 at sephora.com and nordstrom.com. The Canon PowerShot SD790 IS ten-megapixel digital camera was $299.99 at bestbuy.com. But DealCatcher found it at dell.com for $243 (including free shipping).

EPA Letting Us Down?

American Drinking water

Ok. Let me understand this...I should not drink professionally bottled water because the plastic bottle is toxic...and now I should not drink the tap water because I could be ingesting pharmaceutical waste? hmmmm...feels like a "pick your poison" situation.

clipped from consumerist.com Update: 41 46 Million Americans Drink Pharmaceutical Waste investigation has revealed that another five million people, including residents of Reno, Colorado Springs, and Chicago, now sip the potentially dangerous pharmaceutical soup. Chicago, for example, found a cholesterol medication and a nicotine derivative. Many cities found the anti-convulsant carbamazepine. Officials in one of those communities, Colorado Springs, say they detected five pharmaceuticals in all, including a tranquilizer and a hormone.

OfficeZilla

collaborative workspace

clipped from officezilla.com With OfficeZilla your organization can share calendars, files, forums and more in a secure and private web place with no limits, ads, or fees. Anyone can use OfficeZilla! 1. No limits on the number of users you can have. Our largest OfficeZilla account has over 900 members! 2. No advertising anywhere and no email advertising. 3. No limits on disk storage, we don't even track your disk space usage. 4. We have been online for 6 years, longer then most other options out there. 1. A 1024bit SSL secure certificate protects your private data as it flows from your users computers to our servers. 2. "Group" security allows you to add users and assign them to "groups" that you create. Your users will not see group information in groups they are not in. 3. Our Privacy Policy insures your data is not viewed by anyone outside of your organization.

IVAA's 2008 Online Summit

Bookmarklets to add to your surfing

clipped from www.converstations.com Surfing Smart with these Bookmarklets Google Blog Search This Technorati This del.icio.us History There are three buttons I use often when visiting a company site or a blog that mentions the company I'm working with:

Seminar about Trademarks in Virtual Worlds

clipped from virtuallyblind.com SL Bar Association Offers Free CLE Session in Second Life on Trademarks in Virtual Worlds The SL Bar Association is offering a free California CLE seminar in Second Life Tuesday, September 9 at 12:00 Noon, Pacific, at the Association’s in-world headquarters (SLURL).  The seminar will focus on trademarks, and will be presented by SLBA President-Elect Stephen Wu (SL’s ‘Legal Writer’). Stephen Wu is a partner in the Silicon Valley law firm Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, and is Secretary of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law. He advises clients concerning e-discovery, electronic records retention, digital evidence, and legal matters relating to information security, privacy, and ecommerce. His litigation practice also includes trademark infringement, other intellectual property, and general commercial litigation matters.

Social Media value

Do we over think social tools because they are new?

Is it possible to just enjoy connecting with other people for the sake of connecting to other people.

clipped from www.conversationagent.com The Truth is 140 Characters So what is the truth? This is why I believe Social Media is taking off at rates unseen by any other form of media: it’s the people you know, fictionalized. These are people, stories, who are only as interesting as what they represent that you find interesting about yourself. A more vibrant reverberation of the boring everyday everyone. I cringe as I write this because I hold my social networks dearly, and feel as though I participate in them honestly. As much as I enjoy social networking, I also understand that it is not reality. It is only I choose to like best about reality. And people will be creating for social media just like people today write and direct and design sets for movies. The truth is 140 characters. Everything else is our own private Idaho.

MBA program has a class in SL

clipped from www.slnn.com Wright State University prof awarded for Second Life MBA program WRIGHT STATE -  Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio has nominated Shu Schiller for the Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology award.  This national award is presented by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and goes annually to faculty members demonstrating innovative approaches to student learning. Schiller’s class is anything but ordinary.  At each step of the way, students analyze experiences from a business and marketing perspective.  At one point they might be looking at a case study.  (For example, STA Travel had two islands and hoped to promote their real life travel business within SL.  They targeted newbies by offering them tours around SL.  Within a year, they had withdrawn from SL.  Why did they leave?  What can we learn from their experience?)   You need to think about the business and how to use your first life resources to promote your SL business,” Schiller said.