http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/all/recent/rss Recent ideas submitted to ideablob.com Visit www.wendi4xstitch.wordpress.com. I want Coat Closet Designs to become a well-known business. I want to create patterns that aren't mainstream (ie. teddy bears, flowers, etc.), so they'll appeal to everyone. I have patterns ranging from nursery rhymes to Chinese characters. I'm not opposed to taking on custom patterns and am nearing completion of one such design for a friend ("Pillar" from "Oh My Goddess"-Japanese anime). I like to keep the patterns relatively simple because I understand how difficult and overwhelming some patterns can be personally and I don't want anyone to become dissatisfied with any of mine. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:34:45 -0500 Creative Services http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3157-Vote-for-Coat-Closet-Designs-to Instead of using black top on the roads, use a light reflective surface on the highways. According to Wikipedia, there are 160,000 miles of highway in the US. Assuming each road is a minimum 35' wide, if all roadways were covered in a white or lighter light reflecting surface, it would add 1,060 square miles of pseudo "ice" to the melting ice cap. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:38:22 -0500 Technology http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3156-Reduce-Global-Warming-by-making It is no secret that the internet connects people. Nor that needleworkers (NW) and industry professionals (IP) are using the internet to buy, sell, research, promote and find what they need. To date no singular site or business exists that unites the needlework industry and the needlework community in a centralized environment. LTS Objectives: • To ensure all web savvy IP, NW and Small Businesses (SB) can locate industry information in 1 place • To ensure all information is accurate and current • Create loyalty to shops, designers, brands within the industry • Create Buzz within the 6 subset needlework communities for new products/services • Make LTS affordable to all members Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:22:35 -0500 Creative Services http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3155-Help-MOMpreneur-save-the-needle My cousin served on an aircraft carrier and I had a good friend serve on a nuclear submarine. I understand their need for off hours entertainment of varying types. I admire the work the U.S.O. does but I wondered what about those that cannot make it to the show? What happens when the tour is over? These hard working men and women deserve top quality entertainment that was made JUST for them and is available to them 24/7/365. Over the last two years I have forged agreements and alliances with the actors unions SAG and AFTRA as well as the WGA. I have studios around L.A. willing to donate time. Post production is too lengthy to be donated. Finding material and scheduling require staff. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:44:56 -0500 Non-Profit http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3154-Audio-Theater-for-the-Troops Many students just don't know about available scholarships or don't have the self confidence to go after them. The program would help students identify scholarships that they have a good chance to get, and would help them with essays and projects that will earn them the award. While there are online programs that help identify scholarships, this program is for students that don't have the access or the support to help go after these scholarships. An after school program that helps push students to get these scholarships would go along way to boost self-confidence and get students into a college they may not of have been able to get into. This program once tested can easily go national. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:43:30 -0500 Education http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3151-Scholarship-Factory I want to create a movement to get a "None of the Above" vote on the ballot.Right now we are forced to pick between two parties. You can either vote or not vote.My dilemma is that right now i dislike both candidates, and to not be forced to vote between the two i am not going to vote. But by not voting you do not show your dislike. You do not become a factor in deciding. I want to create a movement to put "none of the above" to be a factor and help choose the best leader for America.The founding fathers said we are a country with rights, one of them the right of speech.This takes our right away.We as the people need to break this unfair control by both parties.Let us become a true Democracy. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:32:29 -0500 Non-Profit http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3153-Vote-for-None-Of-The-Above Our 4 programs target the following: 1) Sponsoring a new Sea Scout "Ship" for high school age kids that are interested in sailing and general seamanship skills. 2) We offer Training, equipment and funds to a Naval Sea Cadet Corp Division. These kids are highly motivated and enjoy the structure and discipline. 3) Offering no-cost "Kids Can Sail" one day introductory courses to existing Youth Groups such as the Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Many of these kids can not join the Scouts or Cadets due to social/economic reasons. 4) "VetSail" is also a no-cost one day introductory program for OEF/OIF Veterans and their family. Being a Navy vet myself - it's just my little way of saying "Thanks". Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:44:23 -0500 Non-Profit http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3150-Nutmeg-Sailing-Society-LLC-Wh On September 4, 2008, my wife, Donna 57 was diagnosed with severe Alzheimer's. It is really emotionally draining for me. I have been with her for 30 years and she is so young looking and beautiful (she looks like she is in her early 40's). According to her Neurologist, her life expectancy is from 5 to 7 years. <BR> I started a journal yesterday as an outlet. Living with a wife that has Alzheimer's, the journal has passages on how she is doing along with events and my inner feelings. I would publish the journal entries and publicly post them daily on a blog. This "reality blog" will serve to educate people on the affects Alzheimer's has on the patient and associated loved ones. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:57:27 -0500 Health and Wellness http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3148-Donna-s-Journal-Living-with-a I began inventing games since I was young. The most popular one I ever came up with has a medieval genre. The concept of medieval adventures has always been popular. Mine is similar, with all the fun elements of creating and building up a character, collecting cards, fighting monsters, hoarding treasure, making choices, and completing quests. There are some unique aspects that set my game apart. I have sat down with all ages from 8 yrs old to adult, and they pick it up quick, so it's fun and easy for all ages. The board layout is unique. The artwork on the board and cards rock, choices and details are given in a quest book, so there is no way that the game can be played the same way twice. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:54:41 -0500 Arts & Entertainment http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3147-A-Board-Game-With-Unlimited-Var www.consumersavingsnow.com Consumer Savings Group is an idea that came from a simple concept; Financial Advisors (Stock Brokers, CPA's, etc.) primarily want to help people who pay them the highest fee that they can justify! They are not in business to help the average family make ends meet, as there's very little profitability in helping at such a cash flow management level. Most Consumer Groups do a fine job of helping with budgeting and cash-flow advice, but you have to go to them, and the advice is generally generic. Consumer Savings Group was formed after the owner spent almost 20 years watching the leaders of Corporate America gain personal wealth for themselves. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:31:35 -0500 Finance http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3146-Consumer-Advice-for-the-Working Interested in improving your health & well-being AND your income? Join the Zrii team. Check out www.zrii.com and www.liveamalaki.com. Questions? Call me at 719-432-7240 or visit my website at www.integrativemassage.com. Zrii IE # 2703230 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:10:27 -0500 Health and Wellness http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3149-Zrii The Brag Rag (thebragrag.com) will feature fun for the entire family! This publication is about America's young people. It’s about character and being part of the solution! It’s about Kids Making a Difference! It’s about America’s Future! It’s about reversing peer pressure by giving kids the praise they deserve before an assembly of their peers! It’s about making it popular among kids to make good choices! It’s about utilizing good examples to encourage others to follow! It’s about investing in our future by investing in the kids that will be running the show when we’re too old! It’s about sending kids to College! It’s about Bragging on America’s Greatest Asset: Our Kids! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:11:34 -0500 Arts & Entertainment http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3140-The-Brag-Rag-Free-Publication It may be possible to control the weather by using extremely strong electro magnets and a chemical process of ionizing particles in the air, to allow us to generate pockets of high and low pressure in the atmosphere. One of the extreme applications of this idea would be the ability to redirect or destabilize a hurricane. Other more practical examples would be to assist with plane flight in turbulent skies, or to assist fire fighters in the control and suppression of wildfires, or the containment of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere. Even though the amount of energy needed to any of these things would no doubt be immense the benefits would be well worth the cost. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:39:40 -0500 Technology http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3139-weather-control Homeless people sign up for this. They have an account and are given scannable bags with their account information. They fill up the bags and leave it for the garbage co. When bag picked up, it is scanned and the account is updated with a credit to the account. Credit can be monetary or a place to live. The streets become clean and the homeless have a way to earn rather than beg for money. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:50:35 -0500 Non-Profit http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3137-Clean-OUR-streets-of-rubbish NourishInteractive.com is devoted to helping our children become nutritionally aware. Our kids are bombarded everyday with ads promoting empty calories and high sugar foods. We want to empower children to make healthier choices. Nourishinteractive is a website that provides parents and children with a variety of tools to learn the key elements of nutrition. We designed the website so that every tool and article has a parents’ version and a child’s version. This way parents and children can work together to make nutrition a key part of their everyday lives. Nutrition is extremely important for our children’s development and long-term health. Unfortunately, there are many indications t Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:49:35 -0500 Health and Wellness http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3138-NourishInteractive-Nutrition-E http://redstaplerconsulting.net/ Red Stapler Consulting provides full office management and administration services with a focus on the unique needs of freelancers, independents and small businesses. The services are offered in an a la carte manner so the client can select the service(s) that they don't have time for, aren't good at or just don't like to do. It also offers "crunch time" office management for those times when a project is going to require 24/7 attention but the business still needs to keep running. It offers the indie, freelancer or small business office management flexibility to free them up to be their most creative, productive, efficient and successful selves. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:30:45 -0500 Business to Business Services http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3136-Business-services-for-freelance The school issues all students a smart card that their parents can fill with money online or over the phone. For low-income students the cards can be filled by state programs. Every purchase the students make from the lunch lady or a vending machine is saved into a profile that parents and student can access. The child will be rewarded for healthy eating with points and coupons redeemable at participating retailers. The online program will have an avatar that reacts to the food the child purchases, like an online pet, to help teach nutrition. The purchasing patterns could also earn the entire school points and rewards as the healthiest student body. Many companies would love to participate. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:57:05 -0500 Food & Beverage http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3133-Smart-Card-School-Cafe-and-Vend By focusing the sun's rays, sufficient heat to rotate a turbine may be produced. A propeller with alternately colored dark and light blades will turn due to reflection and refraction of light. This turning motion can be linked to an alternator which will produce electricity in the form of alternating current. The alternating current will then be rectified into dc current so that it may be stored in a 12 volt battery. Then an inverter will redirect the current into alternating current so that the electricity may be used by home/business appliances. The current may be increased by adding a turbine for wind power as well to harness the movement of the air when the sun is not as prevalent. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:28:11 -0500 Engineering http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3134-Energy-efficiency-through-solar If you are as old as I am, you will remember turning on your stereo and having the television on without sound. My idea is a high-tech improvement. The idea can be implemented very quickly. There would be dozens of channels from a fireplace burning, webcams from around the world, travel photographs, babies, pets, girls, guys, racing, sports, a weather station for your area, geometric patterns and zillions of videos of all types. The only thing is that there will be no sound. Most of the service would be free. There would be premium sites paid by subscription. Funding would be by sponsors and advertisers with a small "Split-screen". Photographers /artists would have their own chann Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:17:09 -0500 Telecommunications http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3131-Internet-Silent-Television- As the recycling continues the school receives the cash as a client along with the community donating there recycling as well. The company who owns the portable machines (ME) makes there profit from maintaining these as would a normal recycling company would. Schools can have competition say against elementary and high schools. The money goes directly to each school participating. The portables get emptied when full and everyone makes some money. How much does your family put into the recycling bin. On average our family fills a 64 gallon bin each week. Mulitply this with a whole school of 1000 students you have 64,000 gallons of waisted potental money being collected by your waste Co. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:51:19 -0500 Non-Profit http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3132-Green-School-Fundraising-Recycl 'Smallville The Game' is based on characters and scenarios within 45 episodes from the first 4 series and is a mixture of puzzle solving & action gameplay. Clark should be able to Free roam around Smallville, use his powers whenever he wants & obtain information from other characters. Characters interact with the surrounding environment e.g. enemies use any available items to attack Clark. This game's combat system will be different - Clark never punches people he only pushes/backhands. Clark's abilities have been matched perfectly to controller buttons by myself. The graphics and gameplay should be based on the GTA game series where there are no loading screens. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:22:51 -0500 Arts & Entertainment http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3130-Smallville-The-Video-Game I don't know about you, but I am sick to death of <B>LOUD</B> commercials.<br> <BR> All I ask is that the volume stays constant. I would like to get a petition to the FCC to make it a rule that television stations can not increase the volume on commercials. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:25:57 -0500 Telecommunications http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3128-Petition-the-FCC-to-Mandate-Vol I want to create a program where anyone can go to a subject and watch professors give out their speeches on any given subject. This can be used to get ahead in school so when they get to his or her class they know what is going on. Or it can be used as a alternative to paying for classes and instead the learning is free and then you can take a test to get the credits. This will work great for all the basic classes. This could also work for highschool. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:27:58 -0500 Education http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3127-Free-College-Classes-and-help-f im just listing idea's but they're not in full sentences. -cars that run on gas are elegal you have to drive cars that ruin on vechtable oil or bateries insted. -no more gas -litering being elegal -no more normal light bulbs use the earth frendly ones insted. -no spray, body wash, shampoo ect. if it isent earth friendly. -everything is earth friendly. thats all. thank for reading i hope u vote for my idea.bye.this wont just help the earth we will be helthyer to. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:57:43 -0500 Health and Wellness http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3126-earth Biochar is simply finely ground charcoal, added to soil. It is not a fertilizer, so on poor soils it should be added with fertilizer -- ideally organic compost. It increases crop yields, so it can reduce food cost and help prevent famine. Biochar makes any fertilizer more effective, so over the long-term, less is needed. It also reduces leaching (washing-out) of fertilizing chemicals from soil, which reduces the pollution in our lakes and rivers. Combined with organic fertilizer, it will help reclaim unproductive soils. It retains water, so less irrigation is needed. Biochar is the only economically attractive means of reducing atmospheric CO2 -- large scale use could stop global warming. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:56:41 -0500 Agriculture http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/3125-Support-Biochar