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Startup: Blame CompuServe

 

Yes that’s right, another picture of the future (from 1982) where everything is white. The electronic banking allowed identity thieves to empty out your kid’s college fund, instant newswires destroyed journalism, automatic High Frequency Trades tanked that stock you were analyzing, most of the electronic mail is phishing scams, and those three [...]

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Startup: Social Engineering

Usually the term social engineering is used in a pejorative manner for people doing bad things. However, properly harnessed, social engineering can solve all kinds of problems, like dirty floors in the men’s room. Granted, I still wouldn’t want to eat off of it, but I’ll be slightly less perturbed when I drunkenly pass [...]

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Startup: Safe, Alternative Energy

Wind power is one of the safest, cleanest forms of OHMYGODRUNFORYOURLIFE

 

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Startup: M113 Bar Counter

All you need is a spare M113 and an angle grinder. And paint. And wood. And a beer tap. Don’t forget to put the tread back on or it just doesn’t look as cool.

 

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Startup: The Future Is A Lie

In case you can’t read the date, that’s April 1988. First off, predicting a blue sky in LA should have set off somebody’s better judgement alarm. Second, did nobody compare LA at that time to 1963 and connect the dots in a sensible fashion? Here’s my forward-thinking prediction: the chrome and ivory future we [...]

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Startup: This Engine Is Not Invincible

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Startup: This Stuff Practically Writes Itself

And I thought only coffee shops were supposed to have annoyingly whimsical names. Punsters, start your engines.

 

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Startup: Chunky is the New Sexy

Nothing says “I’m cool” like a skin that makes your smartphone as easy to store and carry as a highway patrolman radio from the 80′s.

 

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Startup: Professional Trolling League

 

If you make a pictogram or say it with British elocution, people will believe you. Imagine George Plimpton saying “Cocoa, of course, comes from the coco-nut.”

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Startup: Cooking Class with The Summit

Good food doesn’t have to be complicated.