Side business

If you were to start a side business what would you do? Would you develop a new product. Research, development, a business model, marketing and more variables could be critical in the success of the company. An established product or series of established products have a greater likelihood of selling but would it be profitable to sell them. Would it become a grind to make a sale? If so, how do you plan to move forward when you are grinding every day?

Video game rentals by mail

Games

3's and 7's

Watch out - there's boobies in the video

Louis CK

For more of this guy check out Louis CK

Queens of the Stone Age Live in Boston Acoustic

Check out the link for 3 QOTSA acoustic videos (QOTSA)

Queens of the Stone Age - Redefining sharing

There's a video after the link
Rolling Stone : Queens of the Stone Age Talk Radiohead, VMAs, Playing a Salt Mine (Plus Bonus Six-Pack Q&A): "They’re playing a German salt mine in November"

Hotel Chevalier - NSFW

Wes Anderson's short that was supposed to show before the Darjeeling Limited. Natalie Portman gets nude in it though.

Hockey

You're supposed to be able to get preseason NHL games for a limited time from NHL centre ice. I'm not sure it's worth it though.

The most recent pic of the baby

We heard the heartbeat on Monday. It sounded like a freight train!

Silver from ore

Extract silver from ore, win $10,000,000 - Boing Boing

The problem is the silver particles are tiny and they are fully encapsulated in the silica. It may be worth thinking about though for $10,000,000

The wingman

Fireworks: Japan's Weather Experiment to Shame the Moon - Gizmodo

Lithium balls of light. Sounds great.

Fireworks: Japan's Weather Experiment to Shame the Moon - Gizmodo: "In its never-ending quest to out-Sci-Fi the world, Japan is treating its citizens to what they're calling a 'space fireworks show' - resulting from an experiment to study the atmosphere. On Sunday night at 7:26 PM (in Japan) an S-520 rocket will be launched into the sky and release lithium vapor into the ionosphere, creating three huge red balls of light - both as big and bright as the moon -- to be seen in the sky for one and a half minutes."

Build a mini CNC for prototyping

Instructables 3-axis CNC

Digital Photography: Rename your digital photos in bulk - Lifehacker

Digital Photography: Rename your digital photos in bulk - Lifehacker: "Digital Photography Rename your digital photos in bulk You've got 342 pics from your trip to the Grand Canyon. Do you have about 3 extra hours to name them something other than 45929_23.jpg? Me neither. Digital photography guru Derrick Story has a workaround: * First, open the folder and select View > Thumbnails. * Click the last picture in the folder you want to rename, hold down the Shift key, and click the first picture; this will select them all. * Right-click the first photo, and select Rename from the drop-down menu. * Windows XP will highlight the filename for the first photo, enabling you to give it a descriptive name. * After you type in the name, click the white space outside of the photo and watch as Windows applies the name with a sequential number to each picture in the folder."

Ring Road opens up August 31

Good news - Ring road will be open again. Now I can walk straight from the parking lot to the engineering building and back to my car each day. This will probably mean that I won't make it to the gym as often as I won't have to walk past it on the way to the car. Also I won't have to put up with all the nature that I walk past everyday and I'll probably start drinking the sub par coffee in Nibbles and Bytes. Actually I think this sucks. I'm going to start a petition to permanently close Ring road so I am forced to enjoy all these things. Who's with me?

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

This movie won't be out until August of next year but I'm already getting psyched about it every time I read about it.

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS!: "What I loved about this movie was that, very much like 'Hot Fuzz', it spoofs the action genre (specifically, Tarantino movies) while still managing to be a pretty great action movie itself. And not only that, it's funnier than most straight comedies could ever hope to be." - Ain't it cool news

Lifehacker Firefox tip - don't type www or http:// or .com

Tricky old Firefox

You already know you can use Ctrl+Enter to avoid typing http://www or .com when entering URLs in the Firefox address bar. Along those same lines, you can even go to a web site's subpages without typing the protocol or top level domain. Try it: type apple/trailers into the Firefox address bar and press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter for Mac users). Her Foxiness will fill in the http://www and .com in all the right places and zip you right along to Apple's Trailers section of the site. Same works for lifehacker/software/downloads, too. Nifty!

Todt exploring Brawn 'options' - Planet-F1 News - from planet-f1.com

"Ferrari boss Jean Todt has revealed talks remain ongoing with Ross Brawn with regard to his potential return to the team. In his role as technical director, Brawn was the mastermind behind Ferrari's return to dominance in Formula One."

QOTSA General Admission

Due to the closure of the Orpheum Theatre the Queens of the Stoneage
show has been moved to the Bill Copeland Sports Centre located at 3676
Kensington Ave., Burnaby, BC.Doors: 6:30pm

All tickets purchased for the Orpheum will be hounoured at the Bill
Copeland Sports Centre. The show is now general admission. Orchestra
Level tickets will be allowed to access the general admission,
non-seated floor area. All Dress Circle, Upper

Circle, or Balcony seats will have access to the stand seats only .

The mayor isn't optimistic

It's not looking good for the QOTSA concert at the Orpheum. We need a new venue I think. The article I read says the mayor isn't optimistic about a deal before labour day. I guess that's what you can expect when people drop garbage outside his condo.

Inside staff respond to offer: "But Mayor Sam Sullivan said he was disappointed the union rejected the city's two offers -- both modelled on the deal that brought down picket lines in North Vancouver -- and did not share Faoro's optimism about when a deal might be reached. 'I was hoping we would achieve labour peace by Labour Day, which is what would have been the result of acceptance [of one of the two city deals],' Sullivan said, adding that from what he has seen, that no longer looks possible."