Heroin, like any product, relies on branding to tell its story. GOOD Magazine alum Liza Vadnai has teamed with the Stamp Collective to gather photos of heroin stamps (branded stamp-sized bags of heroin), blow them up to poster size, and eventually show them in an exhibit entitled “Edge Markets: Heroin Use, Stamp Aesthetics, and HIV.” According to the Collective: Blown … Read More

One of the most difficult parts of a salesperson’s job is dealing with purchasing departments. Whether you are a new salesperson or a seasoned veteran, you likely will agree that dealing with a purchasing department can create a tremendous amount of stress for a salesperson. Unless you are truly unprepared, there’s no reason for anyone to fear dealing with a … Read More

If you own, work in, or with a business that has more than two or three employees you will hold meetings. This is a fact of life. Just like death and taxes. However, unlike death and taxes, meetings are not out of your control. You can pretty much define the nature of your meeting, the way it is run, and … Read More

Photographer Josef Schulz has a game for all the semioticians out there. If Lacan and Rosenquist went on a road trip, they might come back with something like Dusseldorf-based photographer Josef Schulz’s Sign Out photo series . Schulz traveled the country photographing highway signs and then photoshopped out all the text, leaving only bright colors and clean geometry. Can you … Read More

If we had to pick one winner from last night’s game it would have to be the Saints, of course. But who won when it came to the $175 million ad game? With 62 Super Bowl spots valued at about $2.8 million each (and that’s just for the media buy), here are the five other winners and losers when it … Read More

Chris Jordan’s body of photographic artwork focuses on the startling statistics of American consumption. Numbers are translated into visual representations–what would all the pollution in the ocean look like? How much space would five seconds of waste take up? Some of these depictions take up whole walls of gallery space. Here are some of the images from Jordan’s latest book, … Read More

When you’re active on the Web, keeping up with all your online accounts can feel like a full-time job. You want your high school friends to find you on Facebook, your co-workers to follow you on Twitter, and business associates to find you on LinkedIn. But there are only so many hours in the day, and too many Web sites … Read More

One of the most important things a small business can do with its listing in the Google Local Business Center is choose the right category(ies). In fact, “Associating LBL w/Proper Categories” scored very highly in last year’s Local Search Ranking Factors survey (see image at right). Mike Blumenthal, aka Professor Maps , has just released a tool that he previewed … Read More

The Rocio octofasciata, or Jack Dempsey cichlid, is a fresh water fish native to slow moving waterways in North and Central America. The Jack is common in swampy, warm sand bottomed canals, drainage ditches and canals in Guatemala, the Yucatan, Honduras and Mexico.

Original Source of Jack Dempsey – Rocio octofasciata

I ’ve never really given thought about buying roadside assistance protection before as I considered it just another unnecessary cost. However, with an alternator failure the other day in our 8 year old car, it made me think about what it would cost to get a tow truck should I ever need one. Along the same line of thought, the idea of roadside … Read More