NYMag says:

In a burst of science-is-fun educational invention, a Brooklyn dad built a carrier for an iPhone (the current model) and an HD video camera, out of a takeout box, tied it to a weather balloon, and let it go with the camera running. It reached a height of nineteen miles, or about 100,000 feet, which is high enough to show the earth’s curvature and a black sky above the atmosphere. At that height, the low pressure means that the helium expanded and the balloons burst, whereupon the little cushioned capsule came down, down, down — and landed 30 miles outside New York, signaling to its owners via the iPhone’s GPS, whereupon they went and picked it up. The resulting six minutes of rivetingly weird film are sure to make Mythbusters fans weep with joy.

PLEASE stop converting your gigantic, over-designed, in-accessible menus into gigantic, over designed, in-accessible PDFs. Who wants to download all of that when you’re hungry and on the run? It really isn’t cheaper to link to a PDF, when you consider bandwidth. A simple Term Definition list would save tons of bandwidth AND its much more accessible with mobile devices(er, most non iPhone people).

B) Food > Flash

1. PLEASE fire your Flash guy. He sucks. I have nothing against Flash but a restaurant is just a restaurant.
2. Nix your site intros. Hunger doesn’t care about faux-3D animations, and background music. We want to know whats on the menu and in some cases what it looks like as quickly as possible.
3. Mobile Phones hate Flash. If we can’t see your site on our phones, you’re probably losing out on some new business.

! This is definitely one of those “I wish I had thought of this” moments.

Imagine, you want a pair of Jordan 3′s right so you go and draw/paint an image of the Jordan 3′s. Now imagine somebody buys this painting from you for the exact cost of the Jordans, sends you the money, and then you go out and buy those Jordans! Now imagine applying this concept to any and everything you ever wanted (emphasis on wanted) in your life. Well that’s what the couple who runs wantsforsale.com does.

Each painting shows one thing we want and sells for the price of the real item. So you can buy a “Slice of Pepperoni” for $3.00 or “Dinner at Nobu” for $152.00. When the painting sells we use the money to go out and buy that thing.

INCREDIBLE!

Just peep some of the images below for some of the outrageous things they want that are funded through the sale of these paintings. That’s some serious out of the box thinking for ya. The possibilities are limitless.