A Plastic Surgeon for under $10
Charles Leonard Inc., a Hauppauge-based distributor of office and art supplies, has picked up some national attention for its latest device, The Plastic Surgeon. Clamshell packages, which secure things...
View ArticleThis news is for the dogs
Why bother writing a witty and irreverent intro to an announcement as zany as this since the writer of the following press release has given us so much to chuckle at. We’ll just say, congrats Cinder....
View ArticleHuntington’s silly use of time
Consider this your local government working overtime. According to an Associated Press Story, the Huntington Town Council will tonight tackle the problem of Silly String. Apparently, the gooey strands...
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Pity the poor pornographer. Reuters reported today that the Boogie Nights of the mostly California-based DVD grunt and groaning business is waking up spent in a cold and lonely dawn. Now, with a...
View ArticleScrapbooking scandal has artists scrapping
The front page of Saturday’s Los Angeles Times tells us this: There is a wacky world out there, where scrapbooking is beyond serious and a Ronkonkoma woman is the art form’s Public Enemy No. 1....
View ArticleA real-life Clockwork Orange
When young Alex, in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange, is brainwashed so that every time he hears his beloved Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony he gets violently...
View ArticleMusic in the workplace, way beyond iPods
It starts out with a pretty positive claim, that incorporating music in the workplace can make the environment fun, and therefore more productive. But when LI Biz Blog read the rest of the press...
View ArticleAn honest mistake
The lesson here: If you find a mysterious spray can, don’t press the nozzle. A worker at a Valley Stream Wal-Mart was suspended from work this weekend after finding a spray can, discharging it, and...
View ArticleRemembering Robert “Rosebud” Butt
Charles Foster Kane wasn’t asking for his boyhood sled at all. He just wanted a stiff drink to go out on. Maybe not, but today we remember Robert “Rosebud” Butt, the inventor of one of Long Island’s...
View ArticleLI’s dumbest laws: Sometimes laws are proposed from left field
From Sag Harbor to Albany, from the time of the horse and buggy to today, lawmakers and justices throughout our fair state have passed laws that prompt some serious head-scratching. Most are ignored...
View ArticleA Plastic Surgeon for under $10
Charles Leonard Inc., a Hauppauge-based distributor of office and art supplies, has picked up some national attention for its latest device, The Plastic Surgeon. Clamshell packages, which secure things...
View ArticleThis news is for the dogs
Why bother writing a witty and irreverent intro to an announcement as zany as this since the writer of the following press release has given us so much to chuckle at. We’ll just say, congrats Cinder....
View ArticleHuntington’s silly use of time
Consider this your local government working overtime. According to an Associated Press Story, the Huntington Town Council will tonight tackle the problem of Silly String. Apparently, the gooey strands...
View ArticleReuters apes LIBN
Pity the poor pornographer. Reuters reported today that the Boogie Nights of the mostly California-based DVD grunt and groaning business is waking up spent in a cold and lonely dawn. Now, with a...
View ArticleScrapbooking scandal has artists scrapping
The front page of Saturday’s Los Angeles Times tells us this: There is a wacky world out there, where scrapbooking is beyond serious and a Ronkonkoma woman is the art form’s Public Enemy No. 1....
View ArticleA real-life Clockwork Orange
When young Alex, in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange, is brainwashed so that every time he hears his beloved Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony he gets violently...
View ArticleMusic in the workplace, way beyond iPods
It starts out with a pretty positive claim, that incorporating music in the workplace can make the environment fun, and therefore more productive. But when LI Biz Blog read the rest of the press...
View ArticleAn honest mistake
The lesson here: If you find a mysterious spray can, don’t press the nozzle. A worker at a Valley Stream Wal-Mart was suspended from work this weekend after finding a spray can, discharging it, and...
View ArticleRemembering Robert “Rosebud” Butt
Charles Foster Kane wasn’t asking for his boyhood sled at all. He just wanted a stiff drink to go out on. Maybe not, but today we remember Robert “Rosebud” Butt, the inventor of one of Long Island’s...
View ArticleLI’s dumbest laws: Sometimes laws are proposed from left field
From Sag Harbor to Albany, from the time of the horse and buggy to today, lawmakers and justices throughout our fair state have passed laws that prompt some serious head-scratching. Most are ignored...
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