Get Cynical

I was at a film fest and this preview comes on and it looked amazing. I guess these guys are having a hard time getting the funds to complete the movie, and it is sad to me that the internet can build buzz (as much as I am part of it) for Snakes on a (Got-Damn) Plane, and this film may never see the light of day. And it is Ballooning Nazi Zombies. Do you NEED anything else?

Auschwitz concentration camp, Dr. Josef Mengele carried out medical experiments of this kind. These included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing various drugs on them, freezing them to death, and various other usually fatal traumas. Of particular interest to Mengele were twins, gypsies, dwarves, and infants; beginning in 1943, twins were selected and placed in special barracks.

Almost all of Mengele’s experiments were of dubious scientific value, including attempts to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children’s eyes, various amputations and other brutal surgeries, and in at least one case attempting to create artificial conjoined twins by sewing the veins in two twins together; this operation was not successful and only caused the hands of the children to become badly infected.

Irwin Allen’s hit TV series, “Lost in Space”, had captured the imagination of future “space colonists” across America. Every boy dreamed of being William Robinson… and why not? Never before had “Space” been so cool.

It is now 40 years later and we still dream of having our very own Robot!

It is with this same enthusiasm that B9Creations is excited to announce our production and sale of Full Size, Limited Edition, Fully Licensed Replicas of this amazing TV Icon!

The idea for this mission was submitted by a stranger via email. Agent Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy or a group in red polo shirts and khakis to enter a Target. Wearing clothing almost identical to the store’s uniform, the agents would not claim to work at the store but would be friendly and helpful if anyone had a question. There aren’t any Targets in Manhattan, so I decided to go with the two-story Best Buy on 23rd Street.

There are some things that we own that are just so sad. You know what we mean. Sad. It seems likely that these sad things illuminate our vulnerable places, one way or another.

The Saddest Thing I Own invites people everywhere to share the saddest thing they own. What are these sad things? What makes things sad? Do things start off sad? Do some sad things begin as happy things that then become sad? Are some things only sad because for some sad reason we kept them? Are some things just plain sad no matter what? This is what we want to know.

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) – When the DVD first came out, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings had a key insight:

The plastic disc’s light weight and small size would make it cheap and easy to send through the mail, letting him create a cross between Blockbuster (Research) and Amazon.com (Research). By taking advantage of the U.S. Postal Service, it could send rental DVDs to customers through the mail – and accept returns the same way.

But before Netflix (Research) became a dotcom darling with millions of subscribers, it had to figure out the details of how to mail DVDs cheaply and economically. Learning the ins and outs of the post office’s operations was key: Every ounce of weight in the mailer added to postage costs – but if the mailer was too flimsy, DVDs broke in the mail.