This is my last Weekend Goodies post. It’s been fun, but takes up too much of my time. When I find things I like to share, I’ll just stick them up as I find them, rather than one whole post like this.
I recommend that you click on the RSS button, so you’ll get first wind of these valuable tidbits as they come up! And now, here are this week’s goodies:

ARE YOU REPLACING YOUR PLASTIC?
I know you’ve probably seen photos of the giant piles of plastic bags here and there on the planet, whether floating on the ocean or on the beach or in slums and dumps. But are you still getting plastic bags at the grocery store? Here’s a great replacement.
They are heavy-duty, washable and hold a LOT of stuff. I take three of them to market every week and fill ‘em up. Each bag helps me not use two to three plastic bags. I’ve been using mine now for 4 years–they just don’t wear out!
BEAT SPAMMERS!
Prevent Spam Harvesters From Getting Your Email Address! “The best way to beat spam bots as well as giving your readers a way to contact you on your website is to use a contact submission form. That way your email address is never displayed and a script handles the entire mailing process. This is a great option if you use WordPress (for people using Blogger, unfortuneately it’s not an option).
“You don’t know how many blogs I’ve come across and just rolled my eyes. There it is…their email address listed right on their site. Look out spam, here it comes!
“So my quick solution to protect all blogs (especially Blogger users) from spam bots is to replace your email address with….READ THE SOLUTION HERE.
DO YOU JUST HAVE TO MOVE TO THINK?
When I was a kid, my parents and teachers would say to me: sit down, shut up and behave. But I hated sitting still! I wanted to move around! I felt crazy when I had to just sit there.
Over time, I was trained out of wiggling. It was only later that I learned that there are some people who just naturally wiggle and squirm and move around constantly because it’s just part of the way they access and intake information!
How I wish my teachers had known…and don’t your kids wish their taechers knew about this one thing?!?
This TED presentation by Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? is stunning.
MUCKWORK FOR MUSICIANS (and others)
Derek Sivers
MuckWork: we do your dirty work. MuckWork is a team of assistants that specialize in doing your uncreative dirty work for you, so you can focus on playing, writing, and improving.
Not enough time to “Do It Yourself”? In this “Do It Yourself” music world, you’re expected to not only be a great musician, writer, and performer, but also promoter, designer, communicator, agent, and more. READ MORE HERE.
MAKE YOUR OWN!
Derek Sivers
Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one. Gary Jules was a musician in Los Angeles who wished there was a Hollywood venue more friendly to musicians. A place where people would come to listen, not talk over the music. A place to play, not showcase. Because there were no venues like that, he decided to make a new one….FIND OUT HERE.
SHUT UP!
Derek Sivers
Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others. This is very powerful. READ MORE HERE.
CREATING DRAMA
Derek Sivers
Our lives drift along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it’ll be told for a thousand years. But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story…FIND OUT MORE HERE.
IS IT TRUE?
“The rise of Michelle Obama challenges…centrism by following in the footsteps of female intellectuals and women of conscience like Anna Julia Cooper, who fought on behalf of women and all those who were oppressed. “The cause of freedom,” Cooper wrote, “is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” READ MORE of this thought provoking article by Rebecca Walker.
MARIJUANA CAFES IN THE U.S.?!!?
First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
“Our plans go beyond serving food and marijuana,” said Martinez. “We hope to have classes, seminars, even a Cannabis Community College, based here to help people learn about growing and other uses for cannabis.” READ MORE HERE.
PSYCHOTACTICS
Are you losing customers because you don’t know how the brain works?
Do you really understand how the marketing brain works? Are you harnessing its immense potential to make your business generate greater revenues? Wouldn’t your strategy and tactics be vastly different, if you understood these psychological marketing ideas?
If you don’t understand the simplicity and predictability of the brain, a lot of your business could be walking out the door. And you may not even realise it! Here’s your opportunity to learn the psychology behind what makes your customer’s brain tick. Then you can use this information, to keep them stuck to you like glue! READ MORE HERE.
IGNORE EVERYBODY
Ignore Everybody – by Hugh MacLeod
ISBN: 159184259X
Notes from reviewer, Derek Sivers: Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships.
That is why good ideas are always initially resisted.
Good ideas come with a heavy burden, which is why so few people execute them. So few people can handle it. READ MORE HERE.
HOW TO PLAN A BOOK
This is a great resources for you if you’re planning to write a book! READ MORE HERE.
HOW TO CREATE A TRASH-PROFF PREE RELEASE
TRASH PROOF NEWS RELEASES is a tool designed with one specific goal – to get you publicity in your target media that achieves a return on investment that rivals and even exceeds your best marketing. It offers media everything they need to run with the story using you and the resources you’ve arrayed and meet their needs in today’s fast paced environment and ever changing technologies.
Fabulous all encompassing guide to writing press releases that make sense and garner more media attention! Highly recommend…take a proactive approach to your local media. READ MORE HERE. Read the rest of this entry »

NO HONEYBEES, NO FOOD!
WRITING A BOOK?
GIANT JELLYFISH SINK JAPANESE FISHING BOAT
A 7-PATTY HAMBURGER? YOU’RE KIDDING, RIGHT?
WHY SMILE?
START YOUR DAY LAUGHING
I’ve been working with Marc, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was a year and a half old.
SOLAR-POWERED SHINGLES?
But here’s the important thing: I want you to go down and get a big box of those cloth hospital face masks and start wearing them when you go out. You might look funny, but who cares what you look like? I want you to stay well.
I work at Subway
TATS:
MORE FLU STUFF:
OOPS! (OR, STUPIDITY PERSONIFIED)
This is FASCINATING! It’s called the Cochrane Mural. Cochrane is NW of Calgary and east of Banff, in the foothills of the Rockies. This mural was unveiled last week at the Cochrane Ranch House. Each tile is 1 foot square and has its own individual picture. Each tile is by a different artist. All of them placed together form this huge mural. You can click on each of the tiles to see them in detail (check out the horse’s eye).
RIP Mary Travers
COURAGE RATING: 10/10
PRODUCT RATING: 10/10 PURE GREEN 24
OLD CARVING HAS CODE EMBEDDED IN ITS DECORATIVE BORDER
Are you this energized when you speak?
THIS IS A TRAVESTY
GOT MERCURY?
“Perceiving energy directly as it flows in the universe is a unit of cognition that shamans live by.
BELU.ORG: Check this out.













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