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Where do Ticket Scalpers Get Their Tickets?

Nine Inch Nails’ lead singer Trent Reznor has not been shy in the past about airing his opinion about other musicians or the music industry in general.  More often than not, he’s been the one willing to talk about the elephant in the room that everyone else ignores.

So it should come as no surprise to anyone – let alone Nine Inch Nails fans – when TRENT POSTED A MESSAGE ON THE OFFICIAL NINE INCH NAILS MESSAGE BOARD explaining exactly what happens when NIN goes on tour with regards to what they do to minimize ticket scalping.  As part of Trent’s post, he includes a number of links to ticket scalping-related news articles that offer additional insight to the problem.

It’s refreshing to hear a band’s opinion of the whole mess. Here’s what Trent has to say about how the whole thing works:

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10 Most Expensive Domain Names

ABC News has reported the TOP TEN MOST EXPENSIVE DOMAIN NAMES EVER (based on cash purchase amount):

  1. Fund.com, $9.99 million
  2. Porn.com, $9.5 million
  3. Diamonds.com, $7.5 million
  4. Toys.com, $5.1 million
  5. Vodka.com, $3 million
  6. CreditCards.com, $2.75 million
  7. Computers.com, $2.1 million
  8. Seniors.com, $1.8 million
  9. DataRecovery.com, $1.66 million
  10. Cameras.com, $1.5 million
  11. Tandberg.com, $1.5 million

Based on the listings shown at DOMAIN NAME JOURNAL‘s year-to-date sales charts, if you have a domain name that you’re trying to sell – the place to do so appears to be SEDO.COM.

Some of this year’s highlights:

  • wife.com – $100,000
  • FineWatches.com – $40,450
  • peeing.com – $30,000

Big money from 2008 went to FinancialAid.com – $480,000

And if you own your own name’s domain name, keep it.  Last year, pete.com ended up selling for $18,000.

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Disney’s New Membership Club: D23

Those of you who follow Disney business news are already aware of Disney’s new fan club, D23.

For those of you who don’t follow the business side of the Disney company, D23 is something that the Disney marketers have put together to compete in the value-added, information marketplace that was left with a giant void when the various Disney Club, Magic Kingdom Card, Disney Magazine, and other promotional programs closed down.  They’re calling D23 a “fan community”.

For $75 a year, D23 members get 4 glossy, high-quality magazines a year, along with some extra doodads and opportunities.  Other websites have done a wonderful job dissecting the D23 program announcements, so it is unnecessary to repeat the bulk of the details here.

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Book Review: Family Words, the Secret Language of Families

Remember Rich Hall? 

He was the comedian known for the “Sniglets” he presented on Saturday Night Live.  A Sniglet is a made-up word that he used to describe something that didn’t already exist in the dictionary… but should.

An example:  “bugpedal” – the act of speeding up or slowing down your car in order to use the resulting passing wind to remove a dead bug from the windshield.

But Sniglets are made-up words. A comedy act.  Nobody expects to use those terms in the real world.

Except in the real world, people do make up words in their families for everyday use.  The remote control is a “clicker”, “remote”, “controller”, “switcher”.  A wheeled trash bin is a “herbie curbie”.  Some of these terms may be obvious to the casual bystander who overhears a family conversation, but other terms may need some explaining.

FAMILY WORDS: A DICTIONARY OF THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FAMILIES is a compilation of all those terms that may be familiar to one family, but unheard of elsewhere.  Some examples include:

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Improving Disney Shopping

Just read the latest post on Progress City USA, TEN WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR #8: OVERHAUL PARK MERCHANDISE.  I completely agree with the points raised about the depressing increase in  homogenization of merchandise available throughout the Disney parks.  

I too, remember a time when the Orange Bird was found at the Tiki Room, and where land-specific merchandise was available.  A time when Main Street, USA’s Emporium shop didn’t run the full length of the street (when Center Street was an actual street separating the two show buildings instead of what we have today).

I want to buy a “Walt Disney World” sweatshirt, not a “Disney Parks” sweatshirt.

I have found myself visiting both Disneyland and Walt Disney World on numerous shopping missions over the years, only to walk away empty-handed and with a full wallet.  There is no doubt that there are plenty of things to buy at the Disney parks, especially if you are a once-in-a-lifetime visitor — but there is often nothing new of interest to the Disney Fan to buy beyond pins.   (Pin collecting and trading is a wonderful hobby, but it does not appeal to everybody.)     And really, how many Duck Butt hats does one family need?

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Found Item Clothing

Have you found yourself watching a TV show or movie and wonder to yourself where YOU could buy a gorilla-faced t-shirt like Val Kilmer was wearing in the film Real Genius, or maybe you want a pair of his bunny slippers.  If so, then FOUND ITEM CLOTHING should be your next stop.

They seem to cover all genres, with a focus on the classic films of the 80’s, like TRON (“Flynn’s Arcade”), Beverly Hills Cop (“Mumford Physical Education Dept”), a “Camp North Star” shirt from Meatballs, and even Cameron’s “Caduceus” t-shirt from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.   If you order now, you’ll be ready for Halloween a few months early, even.

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The Bra Strap Police

Do you suffer from “Ugly Bra Strap Syndrome”?

Once regulated to mere underwear, never to be seen bra straps have been peeking out from celebrity clothing more and more over the past few years.

And Margarita Reis, owner of bra company Margaria Couture, says that all these exposed bra straps are, well, getting a bit out of hand.

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Ecoist – Gum Wrapper Handbags and Other Recyclables

Remember how you and your little sister would sit outside on the porch steps and fold empty gum wrappers into a super-long gum wrapper chain?

THE ECOIST has taken this concept one step further, and folds all sorts of different candy wrappers, gum wrappers, and magazines into useful handbags and other accessories. 

The Internet is full of entrepreneurial folks like this, taking your childhood pastime and making money off of it.  Bastards.

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