All posts by Tony McCollum

  • What Can You Do with $5? A Lot!

    With the way the economy is going you might feel that five dollars isn’t much these days but five dollars can buy you tons of cool stuff if you just know where to look.  Don’t believe it? ...

    • Posted December 10, 2010
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  • Have You Run Out of Stuff to Say?

    You’ve got a great blog, an amazing facebook profile, and a twitter account with a bazillion followers but you’ve got one major problem…you’ve run out of stuff to talk about.  What should you do?  Well, mosey on...

    • Posted December 10, 2010
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  • When Culture Erupts [video]

    This video is very interesting.  The idea evidently was to have a flash mob sort of thing but with a bit of culture involved.  Check out what the Opera Company of Philadelphia (with some additional help) was...

    • Posted November 11, 2010
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  • The Force is Strong with… Your Pumpkin

    The official Star Wars site has made available some great pumpkin carving patterns.  With this option available, why would you want your pumpkin to look like anything other than Yoda or an X-wing fighter?  Of course, there...

    • Posted October 30, 2010
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  • Handy Zombie Danger Graph

    The fine folks over at Yahoo movies have put together some of the best zombie research I’ve seen with this entertaining graph.  It will tell you in a flash how dangerous any zombie you encounter really is. ...

    • Posted October 30, 2010
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  • Super Creepy Umbilical iPhone Cable

    On our quest for the oddest and strangest gear this week, we can across this creepy “umbilical” iPhone cable.  When it’s connected to an iPhone, it starts squirming in a most disturbing way. In other words, it’s...

    • Posted October 26, 2010
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  • Dance Vader? [video]

    Sure, you know that Darth Vader is a snazzy dresser and that he knows his way around a light saber but did you know he could dance?

    • Posted October 25, 2010
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  • A Four Minute Sabbatical

    Highly successful designer, Stefan Sagmeister, likes sabbaticals.  In fact, every seven years he closes down his entire business and takes a year off to travel the world.  At his amazing 2009 TED talk, he suggested that every...

    • Posted October 25, 2010
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  • Sears Goes After the Lucrative Undead Market

    You don’t often see a large American corporation like Sears taking bold new marketing steps but their latest efforts to reach the virtually untapped zombie market are astonishing. Check out this ad from the site. Okay, seriously,...

    • Posted October 25, 2010
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  • Jobs Tells Nike to “Cut the Crap”

    When Mark Parker stepped into the role of CEO of Nike, he got a called from Steve Jobs to congratulate him. During that call, Parker asked Jobs if he had any advice...

    • Posted October 21, 2010
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