Tattoo database puts 12,000 designs online
If you thought tattoo artists – those fiercely independent types wielding their talent with needle and ink – were among the last industries to move their business to the Internet, you can think again.
Denver-based TattooFinder.com is offering tattoo artists and their clients an online database of tattoo designs that they can download and permanently etch into their flesh. Customers can search TattooFinder’s database of more than 12,000 designs, which they can download and take into the tattoo parlor of their choice. The company also offers accounts to tattoo studios.
“We believe TattooFinder.com is providing an important step in the future of tattooing,” Lou Bardach, managing partner of TattooFinder.com, said in a release issued by the company. “The generation that’s getting tattooed today grew up in the information and computer age and they are completely comfortable searching online to find their perfect tattoo designs.”
Just in case you were wondering about variety, a quick search by The Denver Post revealed that the company’s database includes 996 butterflies, 296 fish, 96 frogs and 222 fairies.
Wheels of the CEOs? Practical, not posh
Want people to think you’re a high-powered executive? Try driving a black Mercedes-Benz.
A new survey commissioned by CareerBuilder.com and Cars.com found that 59 percent of people think CEOs drive luxury vehicles, with the Benz named the car most associated with power.
But the survey found some interesting truths, including that the average CEO paid less than $25,000 for his or her primary vehicle. One in four executives said they spent less than $20,000.
Respondents working in banking and finance were most likely to drive luxury and sports cars, the survey found, followed by engineers. Not surprisingly, construction workers were most likely to drive pickups.
Ramsey house now just another mansion
Houses where scandal has occurred, sometimes referred to as “stigmatized properties” are a challenge for real estate brokers, reports The Wall Street Journal. But the stigma fades over time.
“Case in point: the Boulder home where 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found strangled 10 years ago,” the newspaper reported. “Despite an avalanche of sometimes gory press accounts, the home has sold three times since 1996, appreciating 60 percent over the three transactions, public records show. That is nearly three times Boulder’s rate of appreciation in that period, according to Colorado real-estate data.
“The home’s current owners, Tim and Carol Milner, paid $1.05 million for the 6,866-square-foot, Tudor-style property in 2004. They are relocating to California and recently put the home back on the market for $1.7 million.”
From meditators’ lips to stock market’s ears
A lot of events can move the stock market, including earnings reports, oil prices and words from the Federal Reserve.
But what about meditation and prayer by some 1,200 so-called yogic-flyers?
The Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, announced last week that the good news on Wall Street during the week ending July 28 was the result of people practicing yogic flying, a type of transcendental meditation, in both Washington, D.C., and Iowa.
“This unshakable national psychology is due to the stabilizing influence of the Yogic Flyers on the collective consciousness of the nation,” Dr. John Hagelin, director of the university’s Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, said in a statement.
Since the announcement July 29, the Dow Jones industrial average has climbed 21 points.
New Samsung phone crams in the features
In the old days, the on-the-go guy or gal would theoretically have to lug along a telephone, TV, stereo, computer, a camera and a few USGS topo maps to duplicate what fits in your pocket today.
Qwest Wireless last week introduced the new Samsung A920 wireless handset. The features: high quality streaming video, global positioning, Bluetooth wireless technology, satellite radio, music-on-demand download capability and a 1.3 megapixel camera.
Oh, you can make a phone call with it, too.
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