What does it take to run a successful business in NYC?

The Profit Calculator - New York Magazine

What does it take to make a profit in New York City?

It's tough to run a business in the world's most competitive city, New York. New York Magazine has 21 mini case studies on a wide range of successful businesses in NYC, where success is often measured by just having the resources to pay the rent. Some of the businesses are legit, some are illegal, but this information is intriguing.

Direct links to the case studies are posted here:

A Yellow-Cab Driver: Samuel Pekoh
A Four-Star Restaurant: Nobu
A Drug Dealer: 'Nick'
A Private School: Horace Mann School
A Private Investigator: Michael McKeever
A Department Store: Macy's Herald Square
A Diner: Silver Star
A Drug Company: Pfizer
A Soup Kitchen: Yorkville Common Pantry
A Financial Firm: Goldman Sachs
A Yoga Studio: Joschi Body Bodega
A Midtown Building: 666 Fifth Avenue
A Sex Shop: Babeland
A Baseball Team: New York Yankees
A Discount Store: Jack’s 99¢ Stores
A Museum: Museum of Modern Art
A Pizza Place: Nina’s Argentinian Pizzeria
A Clothing Store: H&M Flagship
A Copy Shop: Copyland
A Publishing Company: Random House
City Government: The City of New York

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!

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New favourite band.

Ankle Injury video - Fujiya and Miyagi

It's official.
I normally keep the music posts to Tuesday's, but today is an exception. I saw the insanely great music video for Fujiya & Miyagi for the first time last night, and made my decision. I've hyped them a couple of times before, but their music has such great grooves and is so smooth. Their video is brilliant, and their song is named after a medical condition that I have a lot of personal experience with.

Fujiya and Miyagi are my new favourite band.

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The best source of Web 2.0 news

Mashable

Mashable is a comprehensive news site covering the events of Web 2.0.

In their own words, "Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks." In practical terms, some of the news stories in the past couple of days have been about:
- a wine review site (Snooth Launches Basic Wine Reviews Site),
- new Facebook applications (SmartTravel, NewsCloud and Jaiku Facebook Apps),
- an online music collaboration site (JamNow Launches Music Collaboration Site),
- a new advertising medium for bloggers (Wize Launches Affiliate Widgets for Bloggers) and
- Web 2.0 finance and aquisitions news (ThisNext Raises Round of Venture Debt).

In true Web 2.0 fashion, you can create your own profile Mashable including friends, tags and messaging.

Today's Link source: I have no idea.

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Guides for preparing an Emergency Survival Kit

With a heavy snowfall in the mountains last winter and a warm spring, parts of British Columbia are starting to experience rivers that are flooding over their banks.

This is a good opportunity to give you a few resources to prepare yourself, your family and your home for emergencies. Today's links are different ways that you can be ready in advance of an emergency, such as: floods, earthquakes, power outages, storms, terrorist attacks, nuclear accidents or landslides.

Government of Canada - Emergency Preparedness Guide (pdf)
American Red Cross - Disaster Supplies Kit
US Homeland Security / Ready America - "Get a Kit"
72hours.org- Are you prepared?

Hopefully, you'll never need to use it, but it's better to keep safe.

Classic Police, Pixies & Bowie concert recordings for download

RELODA MUSIC DAILY


RELODA is another great mp3 aggregator for legal independent music. RELODA has albums, EPs, singles, demos, webmixes, Sessions, and compilations of miscellaneous material.

While some of the other mp3 aggregators such as elbo.ws and Hype Machine have more tracks available, RELODA is a bit more like a high output music blog. It has a good search feature and I really like that there are direct links to all the downloads. Grouping tracks by artists also helps keep things organized.


I think the coolest feature of RELODA is the mp3s of live concerts (bootlegs?), such as: Pixies in Melbourne 2007, Pavement - Peel Session, Kid Koala doing Solid Steel in 2000, The Police in 1979 and 1984, Wolfmother on XFM, Talking Heads - Demos 1975, David Bowie in Santa Monica 1972 and NY in 1976. New and old concerts are represented here.

Global Festival and Event Listings

Worldwide Events Guide and travel inspirations - Whatsonwhen

What's going on?

Whatsonwhen answers this question wherever you are, whether it's Japan, London, Turkey, Bali, New York, Vancouver and Whistler, Costa Rica, San Francisco, Barcelona, or Hong Kong.

Whenever you travel, a great way to experience the local culture is to check out festivals, concerts, parades, matsuri, or whatever events are going on. You can search by city, country, date, and by the type of events. They have loads of country guides, city guides and listings, and it can be a great source of inspiration for your next vacation.

Today's Link source: Rick Steves' Europe: Favorite Links

15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbour Ever

15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

Even though I wasn't a big fan of Mister Rogers as a child, this article from Mental Floss really changed my mind about him.

Mister Rogers saved American public television?
He was an ordained minister? Who knew?

He's an easy target for derision from the cooler-than-you kids, but maybe those "boring" children's shows about respecting other people are better than the "exciting", violent 30-minute commercials that sell expensive toys.

The world will miss him.

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The Ultimate Guide to folding Paper Airplanes

The world's best paper planes - Guardian.co.uk

Everything you need to fold the world's best paper planes. It includes step-by-step guides for 12 different folded planes (in html and pdf), 24 printable patterns in color for folding planes (or used as origami paper), and top tips from paper airplane experts. It's the perfect way to spend a sunny weekend.

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Fun online Brain Training games

Lumosity

Linkjockey has invited you to try the brain training games at lumosity.com. The Lumos program is a set of online games and exercises scientifically designed to improve memory, attention, brain speed and other important cognitive functions. The idea is similar to Big Brain Academy and Brain Age from Nintendo, these games are web-based, and are fun, effective and free.

You need to create an account to get started. Improve your mental acuity:
http://www.lumosity.com/account/sign_up?invite=ff1af8a6373a

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