Freedom Clock (aka: WORST)

Imagine not having to ever wake up to an alarm clock ever again, being able to set your own pace, your own schedule, and work when and how you choose. Now imagine if you don’t make that happen you have to use this alarm clock.


Connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze!

For years the masses have told you that if you snooze you lose. You never believed them. You held your head high and slept in whenever you wanted to, always without fear of loss. Well, dear friends, the times have changed. The ingenious sages at ThinkGeek Labs(TM) have finally created the Ultimate weapon against snoozing - the SnūzNLūz(TM). People who enjoy sleeping in are cowering in fear all across the globe - it’s finally true, when you snooze, you lose!

ThinkGeek, it sounds great! But how does it really work?
Glad you asked….it’s quite simple actually. The SnūzNLūz uses the very complex psychological phenomemon known as ‘HATRED’. Basically it’s human nature to wish harm upon your enemies. Similarly, it’s human nature not to give your enemies gobs of cash so that they can grow big and dominate the world with their totally wrong, stupid and invalid point of view. ThinkGeek realized that. That’s why everytime you hit the snooze button, the SnūzNLūz will donate a specified amount of your real money to a non-profit you hate. The problem of sleeping in is solved.

And it’s easy to setup and use too! Just plug your SnūzNLūz in and either connect it to your network via the RJ45 jack on the back, or via WiFi (WPA supported) if available. Then simply configure via the embedded web browser configuration utility. From here it’s a snap. Simply select your online banking institution from the list of supported banks (currently over 1600 are supported). Supply your login information and then select your favorite HATED charity or non-profit from the included lists (over 6200 currently supported). Then plug in your donation amount per snooze incident ($10 or more), set the time, and alarm, and voila, instant time profit!

Common Usage Suggestions!
Are you a butcher? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to PETA
Are you a republican? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the ACLU!
Are you a land developer? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the Wilderness Society!
Enjoy your freedom? (Blue state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the GOP. or
Enjoy your freedom? (Red state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to MoveOn.Org
Are you a hippie? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the American Coal Foundation.

Found on ThinkGeek

A mugging gone right

Strong People Skills

Not only strong people skills but having the option to offer something more, I’m quoting this story from npr to point out that it is not a story about a Jacket, or a mugger for that matter this story is almost not even a story about being a people person and really knowing that we do not know when the benefit of our work will come, and it may be an unexpected turn of events that brings it to us.


-Jon

Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.

But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.

He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.

“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.

As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
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Quixtar retail sites up!

I am back up and running with both Quixtar’s and WWDB’s retail sites

If you take a look at them please let me know which layout you like better.

https://jpromo.wwdb.biz/

and

https://qhealthbeauty.com/

-Jon

e-mail me at: JPromoBiz@yahoo.com

A Thank You note to Google - Lunar XPrize


I am really happy to see that a company is doing something worth while with corporate sponsorship, These numbers are not huge in the world of big business marketing.

ie: [ http://www.everythingstockcar.com/nascar-owners.html NASCAR owners] operate on a very slim margin. Most top tier teams require $25million/year in sponsorship money to make ends meet.

It really makes me want to support a company like Google when they can make the decision to support human kind as a whole. Support science, discovery and the human spirit as opposed to putting shoes on some idiot Jocks feet.

Thank you Google!
-Jack

“February 21, 2008, Mountain View, CA – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google, Inc. today announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.

ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE
The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million Grand Prize, a $5 million Second Prize and $5 million in bonus prizes. To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation. For more information about the Google Lunar X PRIZE, please visit www.googlelunarxprize.org.”

Quoted from: Google Lunar XPrize
Originally posted on: OrignauxMoose

Quixtar IBO contact as an affiliate program.

I have recently been contacted through email by an individual wishing to become an IBO in a ‘non-traditional’ sense. The contact was recommended to me by a friend who knows that I actively show the plan online and do not require many or any of the ‘old school’ practices we have seen required of IBOs in the past.

This has really solidified in my mind that although the Quixtar business has matured and Many of us online are familiar and comfortable with affiliate programs, I have not seen many people entirely understand programs like the Quixtar IBO plan which are very closely related cousins, if not the same creature all together.

I am currently using a Amazon, Google AdSense, AzoogleAds, and Commission Junction as my primary campaigns in various places on the web, quite satisfactorily. There is a huge benefit to the Quixtar plan, in that it is the only affiliate program that pays me a significant amount of money to direct traffic offline. Although I do not require a suit, tie, and red felt tipped pens for my self, I am a proponent for the system. I am willing to build the Quixtar affiliate network at all hours of the day, and with tools like the personalized web sites that we now have available through World Wide Dream Builders, In fact, I am really excited that the Quixtar Independent Business Owner can be build just as simply online and off.

-Jon

e-mail me at: JPromoBiz@yahoo.com

Picante Authentic Mexican Food! In west HARLEM NYC!

So here is the recipe for sucess in a mexican restaurant:

1 12oz bottle imported Mexican beer
1 XS ElectricLemonBlast
Grenadine

Pour out a small amount of Beer in order to empty the neck of the bottle. ‘Blast’ the imported beer by topping off with XS and finish with a dash of grenadine.

In the next couple of weeks we will have our first promotion of the season at Picante Mexican restaurant on the west side in Harlem. we will be have sample and freebies. For information once we select the exact date and directions email us at events@Jpromo.Biz

Ten Teams Registered to Compete for $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE

I am really happy to see that a company is doing something worth while with corporate sponsorship, These numbers ane not huge in the world of big business marketing.

ie: [ http://www.everythingstockcar.com/nascar-owners.html NASCAR owners] operate on a very slim margin. Most top tier teams require $25million/year in sponsorship money to make ends meet.

It really makes me want to support a company like Google when they can make the decision to support human kind as a whole. Support science, discovery and the human spirt as opposed to putting shoes on some idiot Jocks feet.

Thank you Google!

-Jack





February 21, 2008, Mountain View, CA – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google, Inc. today announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.
ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE
The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million Grand Prize, a $5 million Second Prize and $5 million in bonus prizes. To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation. For more information about the Google Lunar X PRIZE, please visit www.googlelunarxprize.org.Original site: Google Lunar XPrize

Quoted from: OrignauxMoose

Irrational Financial Decisions

The Market Decides

The funniest part of arbitrary coherence is that the brain will hook onto random anchors.

In one experiment, Ariely had his students bid on a number of items listed on a sheet of paper — a cordless keyboard and mouse; a bottle of wine; a design book; and a box of chocolates. But first he had the students write down the last two digits of their Social Security numbers at the top of a page.

Weirdly, the students who had Social Security numbers that ended in high digits — from 80 to 99 — bid from 216 to 346 percent higher than students whose social security numbers ended in the lowest numbers (1 to 20).

The bottom line is that what consumers are willing to pay can be easily manipulated because we don’t have a good handle on our preferences, or the prices we’re willing to pay, Ariely notes. Standard economic theory suggests that forces of supply and demand are independent, and that consumers’ willingness to pay is what influences market prices. In reality, it’s the market prices themselves that influence consumers’ willingness to pay.

Thus first decisions resonate over a long sequence of subsequent decisions. “You can’t say, ‘Well, I’ll just try it once and see how it is,’” says Ariely. “We have to realize that the first decision we make actually matters a lot. And the second thing is to look back into our habits and say, ‘How did we get into this situation that we have this many cars or this size house? Do we really value things in the way we pay for them, or was it a random starting point?’”

Anticipating Irrationality

Moreover, be conscious about “trading up” to a new level of consumption, because it’s unlikely you’ll ever go back, Ariely says. And take time to occasionally inventory your anchors. Look at choices that once seemed completely reasonable; do they still make sense in your current financial situation?

In some money situations, thinking should be removed from the process — like saving for retirement, Ariely says. A variety of studies have found that forcing constructive behavior by automating a decision — such as having money taken out of a paycheck and invested for retirement week after week — solves the problem of procrastination.

Although irrationality is commonplace, Ariely writes, it doesn’t mean we’re helpless: “Once we understand when and where we may make erroneous decisions, we can try to be more vigilant, force ourselves to think differently about these decisions, or use technology to overcome our inherent shortcomings.”

Quoted from: Yahoo financeLaura Rowley

Another reason to retire on your own terms!

“A majority of American workers will not be able to maintain their current standard of living after they retire, according to a report released Tuesday.The Center for Retirement Research (CRR) estimates 61% of households are “at risk” of being unable to live the way they would like and pay for their health care when they get old.”

Quoted from: Yahoo finance

Spring Promotions

The new JPromo and XS Blogs are launching just in time for one of our most exciting seasons here at JPromo, We are currently ramping up for our spring promotion season in New York City. You will find our high energy promoters in some of the most high profile locations this season. Be sure to join our RSS feed for updates on free promotions, tastings and events. Pose with our Blast Girls and have the chance win free xs gear and appear on the XS blogs. We’ll see you out in your favorite bars and clubs soon.

-Jack