Today is New Year’s Day, a national “day off”, a celebration of the New Year.  What is this celebration REALLY about?  What are we celebrating?  Sure, there are many things to celebrate, and you can read about all of those in most “New Year’s” related articles, blog posts, etc.  I’m thinking about the assumptions which [...]

Let’s say you’re at a dinner with 20 people, and there’s one piece of cake left. Who gets it? Normal social graces usually result in that last cake being split between the few who begrudgingly admit they would like it..as long as no one else really wants it more…
But this kind of “who [...]

Isn’t it about time that NYC movie theaters offered a VIP option?  For an extra fee (could be yearly/monthly membership fee or just a higher price per ticket), movie goers can reserve seats in a movie theater.  There’s nothing earth-shattering about this idea; we’ve all seen it done in many other businesses.  But seeing a [...]

Currently MySpace is ranked #6 by Alexa.  This one idea could increase their reach by a significant %.  A huge portion of myspace users (I dont know how many) browse in order to find new music to listen to.  Each artist on MySpace can upload 4 songs into their MySpace Player, and visitors can listen [...]

There’s this whole thing going on in the NYC School system, where parents want their kids to have cell phones in case of emergencies, and say it’s a security threat that the school wants to ban cell phones from school.  The schools argue that cell phones increase distraction and cheating.  Here’s one article on the [...]