New York, 1917. "Washday on landship Recruit." Sailors doing their laundry on the Navy's pretend battleship moored at Union Square, used for recruiting during World War I. In back is the Automatic Vaudeville penny arcade, two of whose backers -- Marcus Loew and Adolph Zukor -- went on to found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures after a few years in the nickelodeon business.

Shipshape: 1917 | Shorpy :: History in HD

In an effort to give Florida startups a boost, Gov. Jeb Bush has proposed that the state legislature earmark $75 million to provide startup and early-stage funding for fledgling companies.

The $75 million is part of a $630 million economic development package that the governor asked legislators to include in the 2006-2007 budget. The package is aimed at helping diversify Florida’s economy and reduce reliance on tourism. The state legislature has 60 days to respond from Bush’s March 7 State of the State address.

I think this happened.

Florida Proposes $75 Million for Startups, Venture Capital Article - Inc. Article

Some Day I Will Be This Cool - dog'S faint!!

Jun. 16, 2008 | Jean Brochu was a respectable attorney in Quebec with a wife and two kids. That was before he first punched the button on a video slot machine in 2000. Within 15 months, Brochu says he was losing $500 a day to the machines. He plunged headlong into debt, and lost his car and his house. He stole $50,000 from his union, and was consequently disbarred for three months. He claims that in several dark moments he contemplated suicide. He also says it was all the fault of those slot machines.

Now Brochu is the lead plaintiff in a massive class action lawsuit against Loto-Quebec, the government agency that runs all forms of gambling in the province. Brochu's lawyer, Roger Garneau, says he filed the suit on behalf of the estimated 119,000 gambling addicts in Quebec province. Garneau says the slot machines dragged these citizens into addiction. "They have been conceived and constructed for trapping the mind," he says. The suit asks for almost $700 million in damages.

For Garneau to win at trial this year, he'll have to prove not only that Brochu and his fellow plaintiffs are gambling addicts suffering from a diagnosable mental illness, but also that their illness is a direct result of playing the 15,000 video slot machines scattered in bars and restaurants throughout the province. null

Funny.

Salon.com News | Gambling with science

Study subjects who spent just 20 minutes mixing sprints with jogging lost three times the fat off their legs and butt in 15 weeks, compared to those who jogged steadily for 40 minutes, research from the University of New South Wales in Sydney finds. Intervals may spark fat-mobilizing hormones, and they amp your cardio capacity so your future runs will actually feel easier.null

Exercise: Burn More Calories in Less Time with Interval Exercises

This video, which from the wealth of weapons used in its creation I can only presume is a sanctioned viral commissioned by Nerf, manages to break every rule of good internet video: it's over five-minutes long; it is a commercial; it's trying to be funny. Against all odds, it manages to be completely awesome. It's enough to almost make me wish I worked in an office.

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FANTASTIC!

http://www.break.com/index/the-great-office-war.html

Video: Amazing NERF office war - Boing Boing Gadgets

SOURCE CODE

MADNESS INTERACTIVE
There are two versions of the Madness source available. You can get the original, which requires nothing more than Flash MX, or the updated version, which is a little more complicated (if you can't figure it out from these instructions, please, don't contact me about it, just do something simpler).

The difference is that the updated version has more features and no mouse problems, and also can only be used to create Windows executable files. Here's how to use it: first, you need to get SWF Studio. Once that's installed, go to \Program Files\Common Files\SWF Studio\Plugins32 and copy the file generic32.dll included in the source code archive over the original. The SWF Studio documentation should help you from there, just make sure that when you're using it the FileSys2 and Generic32 plugins are selected.

Source to the best flash game evar.

flecko.net - Madness Interactive Source Code

The deal was in motion.
As he guided the BMW Z3 roadster onto Highway
280, Matthew Locke felt as though his mind were spin-
ning as quickly as the wheels that propelled him for-
ward.
Appraising his position, he quickly cut over to the
fast lane. He briefly wondered why the traffic was so
light, then shrugged it off. He had more important things
to think about. Bright sunlight and warm air rushed
through the open windows as he gained speed and set
the cruise control at seventy miles per hour.
Then Matthew noticed the clock, and realized that,
for the first time in as long as he could remember, he
was two hours ahead of the nightly 280 rush. His work-
day had ended sooner than usual. There was nothing
more for him to do except wait for tomorrow to come.

Deal, a cool book, being serialized on BoingBoing.

deal-01.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Startup Florida is a Venture Creation company that focuses on building high-growth businesses by providing capital, mentoring and a supportive community for entrepreneurs.

Startup Florida founded the first Angel Investment Fund and launched the first For-Profit Incubator in Florida.

Angel Investors and Venture Capital in Florida - Startup Florida Ventures

Basic Surf Forecasting - Reading a Synoptic Chart

Brasurf - Surf Forecasting