Zazu, referred to by its creators as “the smartest damn alarm clock," is an application for smart phones. It is the brainchild of four young entrepreneurs, all under the age of 25, who despite busy schedules and school obligations have taken on the daunting task of launching a company. If the name sounds familiar, it's because it happens to be the same name as the famous bird from "The Lion King," who serves as King Mufasa's assistant.Read more
Elizabeth Rasmuson of Iowa created her high school prom dress out of gum wrappers. She and her boyfriend started collecting the blue and white wrappers from Wrigley's "5 gum" last August, but Rasmuson stopped counting after they hit 200. Her date even has a gum-wrapper vest match!
When I lived in South India, at 5:30 each morning my neighbor’s rooster or the guy hawking traditional South Indian breakfast foods or the guy offering to sharpen people’s knives from the back of his bicycle would wake me up.
And on the way to work, I walked past the banana leaf cutting station for the nearby resto, the guy selling fried chicken from a cart in front of his house, and the man who ironed clothes. Then I would be solicited by women selling jasmine flowers for my hair. Read more