Oh, How the 'Net is Changing Things!

If you’ve ever been part of a charitable group or start-up company, you’ll know one of the first items of business is a name, a mission statement, and a logo design. They can all burn up hours-upon-hours of time, which some may even call a waste. Yet, they’re important to differentiate, communicate, and position in the marketplace.

While I can’t help you today with name or mission, I can suggest a very useful website to help you with the logo: http://logotournament.com/

As the name suggests, it is a tournament in which you submit a little bit of information and freelancers will submit entries. Contests start out for as little as $250 for the winning design. And once you pay for the logo, it’s complete and totally yours to use. They even allow the prize money can be paid through credit card, bank account, or PayPal for ease of use.

What if you don’t get any submissions? If you don’t receive at least 30 submissions, they’ll refund your money, the site purports.

All I can think now is: why didn't I think of this?!

Wisdom of the 1800's

According to Wiki, this quote is attributed to Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859), who was a French political thinker and historian:

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

Very interesting.

Mexico is Angry!

Mexican politicians are angry that Mexicans are coming back over the border into Mexico. They blame new laws in Arizona, which penalize employers of illegals, which is forcing Mexican citizens back to their own country. One representative is quoted as saying that they don't know what they're going to do with this influx of people.

I'm sorry, but this is just plain funny. Mexico sees no problem with the U.S. supporting illegals, but they complain when their own people come back to Mexico!

Read more here: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/family/74193

Household Dangers

This post is off-topic from the usual here, but there's quite a horrific story out of nearby Evansville, which you can read here:
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/feb/25/teenagerburnedtryingto-kill-lice/

Picking up the phone to report a gas leak in your house isn’t smart either. A small spark is created in many phones, which can ignite the gas in your home.

People who put bleach in their toilet to soak is probably a bad idea, too, given ammonia in urine causes a poisonous gas to be formed. You may want to watch mixing cleaners in general due to this and other chemical reactions possible. For example, Windex has ammonia in it.

One Dollar is Enough

She’s not the first to try something like this recently, but it’s a very interesting project nonetheless: http://lessisenough.wordpress.com/

If a person did this longer than 30 days, they’d probably come up with some pretty good recipes.