I am moving my blog to my website, where I will be able to pay closer attention to it. Here is the new URL:

http://www.999ideas.com/blog

I am also renaming it "The New Ideas Blog." I have added seven or more posts and a couple pages since starting it there a few days ago, and I hope to keep it updated much more frequently. In fact, I expect to have new content at least several times weekly.

We just returned from a short vacation (two days) in a mountain cabin here in Colorado, and I even posted twice while we were there. Wireless internet service seems to be almost everywhere now, making this easy. I'll be adding a new post later today as well.

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I just ran across a new way to make money online. RantBlogger.com pays for you to complain about whatever you want to. Following the instructions, last night I sent a six paragraph rant about the exclusionary rule to them. It took me about twenty minutes to write it. An hour later they wrote back offering me $8 for it, and even would include a link to this blog.

I replied with my email address for my Paypal account, and they paid me shortly afterwards. This morning I noticed that my writing was posted. Not a thrilling amount of money, but it is one more way a person can make money online without investing a dime.

The least they pay is $5 (if they want your rant). They have the right to use your piece elsewhere, but it is a non-exclusive right, meaning you can still post it elsewhere, use it on your website, etc. More or less this is the same deal you get with a submission to an article directory, but in this case you get paid.

I'm not sure what their budget is or how many posts they'll take from one person, but it seems a smart commentator could spend an afternoon writing opinion pieces and make $50 or $60.

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I was looking through my notes today, and found an idea for a story that I had a year or so ago. It was about the origin of humans (and their religions). After noting that he has never gotten a woman pregnant despite taking no precautions to prevent it, a man discovers the truth: he is actually an ape, and he isn't the only one. In fact, there is a group of apes that have been around since before man, and they contact him to let him know his "heritage."

Originally, tens of thousands of years ago, a species of ape developed language, and they later taught humans to talk. Similar in appearance, they pass themselves off as humans, but cannot interbreed. Those living today are the keepers of the secret. The secret is that man has never been the most developed species on the planet. In fact, not only was he taught language by the more intelligent apes, but also leaned religious ideas from these apes, who thought of it as a useful tool for what they considered "children." It was a tool to be used and someday outgrown.

The secret was passed on through the ages, and now the battle had come between those apes who thought that man was ready for the truth, and those who thought the secret should be buried and that they should rule over humans, rather than live among them. Man is an animal and nothing more. Not only were the gods inventions, but they were not even his own inventions. The members of this species of ape are actually the most intellectually advanced animal on the planet, and were uniformly atheists.

Anyhow, those were the few notes I had on the idea. But there was another interesting aspect to my rediscovery of my notes. Upon reading them, I immediately recalled where I was when I had the idea. My wife Ana and I were in the hot spring pools in Ouray, Colorado. I can even recall which part of the pool. This is common for me. I strongly associate locations with the ideas I have there. I wonder if this is common with others or not.

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Just completed 30 mailing for the Unusual Ways Newsletter (On unusual ways to make and save money). Here is an excerpt from a recent issue;

Inventions And Ideas
Unusual Ways Newsletter

Inventions are easy - on paper and in your mind. In fact, if you know the right techniques, you can sit down tonight and have dozens of ideas for new products, services and gadgets. The real work is in the follow-through: making prototypes, patenting, marketing and distribution.If you think you can get someone to do those things, you're right. However, convincing other people or companies of the value of your idea may be one of the most difficult parts of the process. Who would have thought a man could sell a million "pet rocks?"

In any case, here are some invention ideas for things I haven't yet seen. If you want to take them and run with them - go for it. But be sure to do your patent research. Just because I haven't seen them doesn't mean they aren't out there somewhere, and if I can think up these ideas, so can others.

Inventions and Ideas For Children

Giant Children's Books

There are all sorts of kid's books out there. They have mirrors in them, holes that allow a picture to be continually seen as you turn the pages, pop-ups and more. What I haven't seen yet is a giant book. You can bet that little children would be fascinated by a meter-high colorful book.
Parents would buy it not only to make the children happy, but to be...

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I am in the process of having "secrets Of Lucky People" published in a paperback version. The ebook is completely updated as well, and with bonuses will always be the better deal You can find out more about that here:

http://www.goodlucksecrets.com/

In other news, here are:

The latest pages from RadicalNewThoughts.com:

How To Kill A Million People: Altruism Versus Self Interest - The real danger is...

Natural Selection In The Viral Spread Of Religion - A look at how bad ideas get perpetuated.

The latest pages from IncreaseBrainpower.com:

IQ Test Or IA Test? - Is the intelligence quotient that matters or the intelligence application?

Solving Problems More Creatively - By asking deeper questions.

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