Archive for October, 2006
Death Sentence Island
Instead of executing killers, you send them to a remote island with no guards and no provisions. Good luck living off the land. Not exactly humane, but cheap. If they whack each other, well, that was meant to be their fate. If they don’t, maybe they learned something and deserve to live. Cruel and unusual punishment? No […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Free Cartoon
Feel free to use this cartoon if you give credit (by Peter Mucha) and link to stealmyideasplease.com.
Posted: October 5th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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The Candy Bar You Empty With a Straw
Once there was a Milkshake candy bar. I think it was your basic Milky Way like bar, a soft filling covered in harder chocolate. Bring it back, and carry the concept through. Instead of just tasting like a milkshake, make the inside so slurpable you can sip it with the included short fat straw. When […]
Posted: October 4th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Safer Malaria Parasites
If you can’t eradicate the mosquitos or eliminate the disease, how about genetically engineering the power out of the disease? Create harmless nontoxic parasites that outbreed the bad kinds … and make them so they are treatable. I’ve also heard that some micro-organisms can transfer DNA, so maybe the innocuousness could prove contagious to the bad protozoans. Even […]
Posted: October 4th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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The Free Association Association
Want to join? Join the Army. Army ants. Aunt Millie’s pasta sauce. Never sausage a mess. Mesopotamia. Amiabilty would be the aim, but with all the confusion, you’d never be the same.
Posted: October 3rd, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Disclaimer Builder
Disclaimers seem so formulaic, seems like you could build a form that generates disclaimers. It’d have a disclaimer, of course.
Posted: October 2nd, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Tree Root Radar
Or maybe it’s sonar. But if they ever develop tech for telling where underground mines are, maybe it can be applied to more suburban tasks, too, like detecting tree roots or gas lines or the former owner’s buried bullions.
Posted: October 1st, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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