July 2009
39 posts
Hot or Not Live →
Bizarrely captivating site to visit at 3am…
Frankenstein by Edgar Winter Group
Listened to...
WatchOMGWTFBBQ.
WatchOMGWTFBBQ.
Watchstreeter:
I am robot…
Pleeeashhhe rehpeet…
Taking a vision from concept to franchise →
Tariq Farid didn’t start out trying to become a franchiser. He just hoped to start a successful retail business selling bouquets made from cut-up fresh fruit. But from its earliest days, Farid’s business had at its core what every successful franchise needs: a concept.
For a year before opening the first Edible Arrangements, in 1999, Farid worked on perfecting his idea of edible...
The Quiet Passing of a Park Slope Landmark →
“About a year after World War II ended, Peggy was the sole woman among hundreds of men who went to the Concord Hotel in the Catskills to hear a sales pitch on a brand new concept: self-service laundries. She came back to Park Slope and convinced Benjamin that they should sell their building and the five-and-dime and buy the building for sale up the street, the one with a storefront space big...
Weird design experiment #2543: Combining js + html5 to attempt an elegant video background for a page (similar to what a lot of flash sites do). Getting pretty close…
Anyone have any thoughts?
Bank of America accused of anti-consumer practices →
“People, who said they were former Bank of America employees, alleged that their supervisors drove them to burden consumers with needless debt and fees, to fatten the bank’s earnings and the paychecks of senior executives, and threatened to retaliate if they complained. Some complained their salaries had been too low and that they had to hit quotas to earn needed bonuses.”
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MGMT - Electric Feel (Live in Prospect Park,...
