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“Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in the business world, when you talk to consumers about protecting copyrights, it’s a dead issue. It’s gone. If you have a business model based on copyright, forget it.”
– Gerry Faulhaber, a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of [...]

“Moneygami is origami made from currency,” and it’s especially so much fun to do when you have boatloads of the filthy lucre.

More “moneygami” pictures.

The Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device has a 12-button keyboard, a microprocessor and an embedded alphanumeric display, which promises to provide unprecedented security in phone and online banking transactions. How does it work? Let’s check it out:
A user can enter his or her secret PIN into the card’s keypad to receive a numeric passcode for [...]

If you’ve been looking for effective ways to sell that Brooklyn bridge to stupid people, you should ask Gary Dahl. He happens to be the guy who “invented” the Pet Rock and sold 5 million of ‘em pebbles in the 1970s.
The pet rock sold for $3.95 and estimates state Dahl sold over 5 million of [...]

If even the country the US thinks is the lowest of the low (for harboring deadly nuclear things the US already possesses by the thousands) could shun the dollar, what, then, would Jesus do?

It has been called “the most astounding piece of sleight of hand ever invented.” The creation of money has been privatized, usurped from Congress by a private banking cartel. Most people think money is issued by fiat by the government, but that is not the case. Except for coins, which compose only about one one-thousandth [...]

The heartwarming presence of 13-year-old Anshul Samar, CEO of Elementeo whose mission is to make something as banal as the periodic table of chemical elements, is making geeks’ heads turn at the Sta Clara technology conference TiECON 2007. Anshul and his team of kids have the wits, ambition, and the beginnings of (quite possibly) weasel-like [...]

This monster gold coin, made by the Royal Canadian Mint, weighs 100 kilograms and the size of an extra-large pizza.

The new coins are both adorned with a maple leaf and boast 99.999 percent purity, a notch above previous purity peaks of 99.99 percent.
“Since the Royal Canadian Mint upped the ante on the rest of the [...]