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The funniest jokes are the ones that turn into successful businesses, like Antenn-Aid.NY Times: After Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference last week, Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers from Brooklyn, decided they would have a little fun with the iPhone 4’s antenna problem.They designed tiny bandages that fit perfectly around the edge of the [...]

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Gazelle turns your old electronics into cash. At their website, they ask you questions about your old cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, etc., and they immediately tell you what they’ll pay you for it. If you like what you see, they’ll send you a postage paid envelope and you send back the item [...] More: [...]

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Dig This, the construction theme park business I wrote about earlier today and first mentioned in August 2008 is now offering franchises.According to the company, the initial Franchise fee for starting a DIG THIS® Franchise is $75,000. In addition to your franchise fee, you can expect to invest another $100,000.00 to $200,000.00 in the [...] [...]

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A Nevada entrepreneur wants to open a theme park called Dig This outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, where people can operate bulldozers, backhoes and dump trucks. Sounds like a great idea to me, especially in the wide open spaces of Nevada. Unfortunately, the neighbors don’t agree.MyNews3 has more: The project has been envisioned [...] More: [...]

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David Warren’s father died in a 1934 Bass Strait air crash. Warren graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science.He became the principal research scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1952 to 1983. In 1953, Warren was involved in the investigation of the crash [...]

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