As part of a campaign for my company’s new web site, CoolProducts.com, we are running a contest to help build our incoming links. The grand prize is Cruzin Cooler, which I posted about a back in July. Also available is a pretty cool Flip camcorder.

The contest ends on Monday and I have the inside scoop [...]

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The idea behind RYZ is pretty simple. Create a community of sneaker heads who design all the shoes you produce, but only make the ones that receive the most votes. In this sense RYZ’s business plan is really similar to the t-shirt community threadless.com and ensures that there will be an audience of willing purchasers [...]

Forget Guitar Hero, real rockers don’t need anything more than an active imagination and an outrageous outfit (see above). If you’re in the Kansas City area Wednesday July 23rd you owe it to yourself to check out Kansas City’s First Annual Air Guitar Championships.
Here’s the lowdown:
Come and join us for Kansas City’s First Annual Air [...]

The World’s first Internet Balloon Race is now over and everyone is waiting to see if they’ve won anything. As you can tell from the sidebar I finished in 124th place out of over 30,000 participants, which qualifies me for nothing of significance. Still, I thought it was a worthwhile event and a new experience [...]

As some of you might know we have been participating in the World’s First Internet Balloon Race, which brings people around the world through thousand’s of websites including The High Contrast. Apparently one of them found some of our content offensive and must have reported us to the Balloonacy officials. As a result we have [...]

Looks like WhatIfSports was right. With single shot from Mario Chalmers the Jayhawks grabbed the momentum from Memphis to win the Kansas’ fourth national championship 20 years after their last title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCrHKx-Lq4

This is easily the biggest shot in school history and will go down as the one of the best national championship games in the last [...]

There’s less than a day now to finish filling out those NCAA tournament brackets. If the stress 0f making all those decisions is preventing you from entering a pool than check out The Poologic Calculator (pool+logic not poo+logic).
The site features multiple strategies and tips to increase your odds of winning the numerous tournament pools that [...]

Mix the artistic styling of the skate boarding community with the business plan of threadless.com and you get Popdeck. The website sponsors regular contests to design skateboard decks that are voted upon by the Popdeck community. The winner’s board gets produced for sale on the site along with $200 and of course the board.

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Do you think you have the mental and physical fortitude to calmly sink a ping-pong ball into a cup that lies 8 feet away while two drunken frat guys are screaming obsceneties at you when you in fact are wasted yourself? Yes, well then you just might have a chance at winning the $50,000 up [...]