Businesses Should be Planting Trees - These 10 Do

Planting a tree does not take a lot of money.  It doesn't take a lot of time.  Businesses who run promotions that plant trees can even pay others to do it for them.  There are organizations that will...

100,000,000 Views on YouTube - Avril’s “Girlfriend” is There

100,000,000 is a large number regardless of what you're talking about.  When it comes to YouTube video views, it's an extraordinary number.  This video, Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend", has surpassed...

Trends Point to Major Drop in Organic Food Prices

There is compelling evidence that we are about to see a drop in organic food prices.  This goes against what we see currently as food prices across the board are skyrocketing.  Despite first impressions,...

Avril Lavigne YouTube “Fan Cheat” Hoax Helps it Take Top Spot

The race to 100,000,000 views is on, and it seems like the cheaters are the ones who may win.Using a combination of creative viral marketing through "fake cheating" and actually cheating, one group of Avril Lavigne...

The Front Page Story on Propeller.com Shows Users' Thoughts on Site Redesign

"The reviews are starting to roll in. There are only two possible conclusions so far: either the community will need some time to get used to the new changes over at Propeller, or the changes were a bad move. The...

Why Democrats Love the Pickens Plan

Let's face it, the guy's an oilman. He can make money in way he wants. This plan wouldn't seem so bad coming from Bill Gates or another wealthy person outside of the field, but this feels like a tobacco company...

Tomatoes: After $500 million in losses, the FDA appears wrong

The Food and Drug Administration may have been wrong about the source of the 11-week old salmonella outbreak.  With 1,700 samples collected and all shown to be negative for salmonella, they are now looking at...

How Twitter can...

In a recent inquiry to dozens of online friends, I discovered one truth about Twitter. People either love it and use it daily (even hourly) or they absolutely hate it. Few people fit into the 'moderate feelings'...

Fake Hookers + Fake Credit Cards + Fake 13yr olds = Marketing?

What a virtual world we travel through sometimes. A (relatively) innocent marketing ploy designed to draw in backlinks for a financial services comparison website in London has stirred up media attention ranging from...

Oprah in Cleanse Mode: Going Vegan Temporarily

With some of the most famous dieting ups and downs in the history of entertainment, Oprah is going at it again.  This time, the idea is to achieve "Quantum Wellness" through a spiritual and physiological...

Hillary: Go Out Swinging, But Go Out With Grace

It is mathematically possible for Clinton to win the Democratic nomination.  For that reason, a Tuesday night exit is the best time to respectfully and gracefully pull her hat out of the ring and start helping...

10 Amazing URLs with Sites that Suck

In the real world, location can be everything.  On the Internet, a website's virtual location, its URL, can be just as important.Most URLs give you exactly what you think they will.  Money.com takes you to...

To Save Endangered Species, Create Demand by Eating Them

According to conservation scientist Gary Paul Nabhan, the best way to save more than 1,000 plants and animals on the edge of extinction is by creating a market demand for them.  In other words..."Slice them up...

The Best of Steampunk

Here are 4 images of items that were created to exemplify the "Steampunk" craze.Old meets new, yesterday's tomorrow, elegance applied to technology -- these images truly start to tell the steampunk story.For more,...

U.S. sees record world food crops easing crisis

In the first series of positive news that has come in recent months regarding the world food crisis, the U.S. Agriculture Department announced Friday that national and world production of wheat and rice will hit record levels this year.  Global crops of feed grain are...
 

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