BusinessWeek:
These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses-automotive, design, technology-unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world’s oldest professions: the funeral industry.
It’s a good time to deal in death. The first baby boomers are entering their […]

TIME:
Besides his glowing complexion, Shigeo Tokuda looks like any other 73-year-old man in Japan. Despite suffering a heart attack 3 years ago, the lifelong salaryman now feels healthier, and lives happily with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo. He is, of course, more physically active than most retirees, but that’s because he’s kept […]

Chronicle.com:
Youtube phenom ‘Hotforwords‘ raises the ante on the ‘teaching for love’ canard. In the process, she schools us on how teaching really can realize the administration’s dream in the form of the ultimate ‘quality’ process.
The 27-year-old Russian philologist is a former Ph.D. aspirant and high-school literature teacher with nearly 30 million views of her […]

DN Journal:
Dr. Kevin Ham - everyone in this industry knows the name but only a handful of people really know the man. When you run a domain business that reportedly generates well over $1 million a week from various domain-related ventures and a portfolio of approximately 300,000 names, it is easy for the statistics to […]

Okay, it’s not easy to name a business, split it up: Kids Exchange.
Now make sure you never display your logos like this

WSJ:
Adriana Serio is into celebrity fashion. She recently got a $28 pair of pink Mary Jane shoes by Robeez after the daughter of actress and former Miss USA Ali Landry was photographed wearing them.
Adriana can’t put her enthusiasm into words. She’s only nine months old. But her mother, Gina Serio, who bought the shoes, admits […]

Wired:
Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter. Donnelly, 22, and Munroe, 23 - graduate students at the University of Ulster-Belfast - dreamed up the Big Word Project while brainstorming a mass collaboration Web site that would let Donnelly use his […]

NYTimes:
There is something about ‘American Idol‘ that extracts intense emotions from the audience: devotion for the contestants, perhaps, or passion for the songs. For Dave Della Terza, it elicits utter disgust. But it also turns a profit.
Frustrated by what he called the manipulative nature of the televised singing competition, Mr. Della Terza started encouraging readers […]

NicheGeek:
For 3 years, a Bush-hating Vermont pipe carver has built a million-dollar business around the digits ‘01.20.09.’
On Jan. 20, 2009 - one year from today - Elliot Nachwalter and his company, ‘Bush’s Last Day,’ will have to find new inspiration.
That’s the day President George W. Bush leaves the White House.
‘I have a couple […]

Springwise:
‘Personal chemistry’ has long been a blanket term for all the things that make people compatible (or not), but until recently only science fiction films like Code 46 have taken the notion literally. As of December, however, Boston-based ScientificMatch is using DNA to assess personal chemistry for dating purposes.
ScientificMatch uses three components to match up […]

Crain’s Detroit Business:
What do you give the person who has everything for Christmas?
How about a casket?
Eternal Image Inc. is pitching its products as rather untraditional holiday gifts. The Farmington Hills-based company makes funerary products branded with logos from Major League Baseball teams, the Vatican Library, Precious Moments and ‘Star Trek,’ among other designs.
According to a […]

AOL News:
Brazilian schools realized they can’t stop children from getting into promiscuous activities, so instead decided to help kids make smart decisions when it came down to their sexual activities.
‘The health and education ministries and the United Nations sponsored a nationwide contest for students to design the dispenser. 3 potential models were selected on Friday,’ […]

G1:
A empresa 23andMe, financiada pelo Google e lançada oficialmente nesta segunda-feira (19), começou a oferecer teste de DNA feito a partir da saliva por US$ 999 por pessoa, o que ajudará usuários do site a aprender mais sobre seus genes, traços hereditários e árvore genealógica.
‘A missão do 23andMe é levar a revolução genética para um […]

New York Times:
Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the part-time job, which started out at $450 a week […]

AOL News:
Jake Wulf wants to keep the lid on it. The 9-year-old boy flushed out a plan for a foot-activated toilet seat lifter that is called the “Privy Prop,” designed to lower and raise the toilet seat.
While her son, who is in the school’s Talented and Gifted program, manages assignments with ease, he has one […]

Tattoo Designs:
Well… The outlook isn’t very pretty. Once you get a tattoo, especially a highly visible one, no one wants to hire you anymore. It seems that tattoos are not extremely well seen unless you are in the army or you are a sailor, in which case they aren’t that special to begin with.
Fortunately for […]

AmOnline:
A Japanese artist has invented a skirt that can be pulled up to look like a vending machine to allow Japanese women to escape attackers, according to scifi.com. Vending machines are pervasive in Japan.
For the full story click here.

O Holy Sepulchre, do Manicômio SA e o Fábio Costa, do Anarquia Rock tiveram a ’super idéia’ de montar um Orkut para a blogosfera: o Blogut.
Inscreva-se aqui, conheça os donos dos blogs que você curte, faça amigos, adicione o Virtual Entrepreneur.
Parabéns à dupla pela excelente iniciativa!

O Sampson Moreira do InovaVox é uma delícia!
Calma, gente, nada de conclusões precipitadas, o moço é casado. Mas é sempre muito gostoso estar ao seu lado. Enquanto alguns têm apenas limões a oferecer, o Sampson traz a limonada mais doce e geladinha à blogosfera. Confiram o sucesso de lançamento do Blogurinhas.

Por telefone, Edson Aran me informou que dará novo rumo às negociações entre as blogueiras e a revista Playboy.
A Playboy passa a se encarregar diretamente pelos contatos com as meninas pelas quais tenha interesse, evitando assim possíveis especulações e oportunismos.
A Playboy se responsabilizará também por todas as despesas relativas ao projeto.
Como eu esperava, bons ventos.
Depois […]