There are great business ideas, and then there are half-baked ideas. This is where halfbakery.com comes into play. It’s a website that is solely dedicated to ridiculous, improbable, and naturally – hilarious business ideas.

To give you a sense of what the website is like (because, you know, visiting a link yourself is hard) take a look at this invention, entitled, “evil laugh activated hand dryer.” It works as follows: “instead of a button or infrared sensor, people sometimes rub their hands together in the airstream, activate this hand dryer by laughing evilly.” Look! There are even pretty pictures,

Now, this is my kind of humour!

To give the website some credit though, there are some serious ideas. For example, the “Panic PIN“ idea, which is ranked as the top idea on the website, works by “entering [an] alternate ATM PIN number [to summon] help.” The idea is that if you are forced to withdraw cash, you can alert the police without the robber knowing.

Look around, you might even find a solid business idea to stea- err, I mean, examine.

Peter Kao

Have you been bothered by those pesky telemarketers recently? I know I have. In fact, I remember several times when my dinner was interrupted by some college student asking me if I would like to lower all my credit card bills.

Well – as of September 30th, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will allow phone owners to put their number on a ‘Do not call’ list. Telemarketers will still have a grace-period of 31 days to “adjust” but any unsolicited calls thereafter will result in a fine up to $1,500 for individuals and $15,000 for businesses.

To put your number(s) on the list, visit www.LNNTE-DNCL.gc.ca after September 30th, or call 1-866-580-DNCL (3625).

Man, this is going to piss off a lot of telemarketers!

Source: CTV Canada

Peter Kao

Hey! Where are my images now? Do you ever get the feeling the files you upload on the internet get lost sometimes?

Take for example, your pictures. A few years back, it seemed like everyone had their pictures uploaded on photobucket. These days, they’re either on flickr or facebook‘s picture albums. In a few years further, who knows where you will be hosting your pictures. Worse yet, will you remember where all your pictures are? Because I won’t. Of course, this won’t be a concern to you if you are those kinds of people who spend their weekends managing and organizing your pictures online, moving them from one image host to another, but for the majority of us out there – we have no interest in wasting our time.

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