Its that time of the week again, the Top 10 out of my Google Reader:

1. Boulder Crushes Car.

   6/7/2007

   

   Today’s weird car wreck is brought to you by Wrecked Exotics - can you imagine the phone call to the insurance company about this car?

   Link - See more photos of weird car wrecks at Wrecked Exotics - Thanks Gregg!

2. Wheelchair Stuck to Semi, Man Got Ride of His Life.

   6/7/2007

   This 21-year-old Kalamazoo, Michigan man got his wheelchair stuck to the front grill of a semi and got the ride of his life!

   A 21-year-old Kalamazoo, Mich., man, unidentified by police, in this a motorized wheelchair, found himself stuck to the front grill of this semi truck and pushed eastbound on Red Arrow Highway near Paw Paw, Mich., Wednesday, June 6, 2007, for four miles (6.4 kilometers) at about 50 mph (80 kph), authorities said. The young man, reportedly unhurt, was quoted by police as saying, “It was quite a ride.”

   Link - Thanks virginie!

   Update 6/7/07: The man’s name is Ben Carpenter - Thanks Miss C!

3. Real Estate Investing Can Be Tough When Everyone Ignores the Market

   6/6/2007

   Yesterday, I made an offer on a duplex. When I submitted my offer, I was very firm with the agent.

   “This is the highest price I’m willing to pay for the property,” I told her, “I will not accept a counter offer of even $500 more. Please make sure your clients know that.”

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Here is this weeks list of the top 10 articles from my Google Reader!  Enjoy!

1. How Google Gears Will Change Your Life

   6/1/2007

   The announcement of Google’s latest development, Google Gears, was met with a lot of excitement over the last few days — understandably so. The ability of web applications to work even when off-line is a huge step forward for web software, and even if there aren’t a lot of apps that can take advantage of this yet, the beta release of Gears signals big changes in coming months.

2. Come see eBoost SuperStars LIVE in Concert!

   5/31/2007

   Web 2.0 “Conversational Marketing” in B-to-B

   Think all of the UGC (user-generated content) approaches touted with Web 2.0 don’t relate to your business-to-business marketing efforts?

   Johnny Chan and Danielle Baldwin from eBoost Marketing (I know them!) will show you how to take a conversational marketing approach in B2B to yield real bottom-line results. To implement some Web 2.0 marketing tactics of your own, Johnny and Danielle will talk you through:

3. Men Rules: Guide for Women (humor)

   5/30/2007

   “QUANTUM SHOT” #194

   In case you wondered, and are male - these are the rules we abide by. If you are a girl reading this, then you can just refresh your memory.

   MEN RULES: Now here are the rules from the male side.
   These are our rules!
   Please note… these are all numbered “1″ ON PURPOSE!

   1. Men are NOT mind readers.

   1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
   You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down.
   We need it up, you need it down.
   You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

4. Best Faces Ever

   5/31/2007

   “QUANTUM SHOT” #195

   Opening up our “Ugly Face Contest”! Vote in the comments!

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Every friday im going to compile a top ten list of the things I have starred on google reader that week. There is a lot of interesting stuff out there, and this can generate some traffic to a lot of cool sites you may not know about. So…here it goes. (Click on any title below to be taken to the full article at the respective website. List continues after the break!

1. Car & Plane Parts Furniture

   from Dark Roasted Blend by Avi Abrams

   “QUANTUM SHOT” #190

   Used cars - for design statement, not transportation

   Car parts provide great ideas for interior design. When your old rusty four-wheel monster finally kicks the bucket, you can still salvage some parts for pretty cool furniture pieces. Car Couches is an obvious design combination, which can be quite attractive when used with collectible vehicle parts. At Route66 store you can get many more.

   

2. Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB (Ionut Alex Chitu/Google Operating System)

   5/23/2007

   Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB — Gmail upgraded the maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases, but now it’s possible to send at least 20 MB in one message. — Of course, few mail providers …

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