Aught Empire

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The next time you're feeling gross and ill-humored, I dare you to eat some leafy greens. Some really good ones like collard greens or ka...

Do you something in particular as a ritualized activity every single day of your life ? Like meditate, watch Seinfeld reruns at 6pm, hold yo...

I just had a flying dream last night. Do you know what that means? Somewhere in my subconscious, I have at least a grain of happiness. Proba...

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and tomorrow Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. To celebrate ...

This idea owes gratitude to my friend Sarah who got me thinking along these lines. In the past people in society used to have all these filt...

I think it would be really cool to make a really giant (or at least pretty big) picnic blanket out of the stuff you'd lay down on the gr...

You know how you can get tax credits or something for putting up solar panels? I think we should also have subsidies for other kinds of gree...

There's one thing that's always a good idea - vacation. Speaking of vacations, we here at Aught Empire will be taking a little pause...

Slow road back from death. We'll get back on pace eventually. (My current thought right now btw is just to have posts for every day no m...

In keeping with New Year's types of things, lets think today about being nice to ourselves. Maybe this is the opposite of the New Years ...

This is probably a terrible idea, but one can afford to be a little reckless in honor of New Year's Eve. We all agree that sparklers are...

I will be the first to admit that this idea is dated maybe 15 years and made kind of (but not entirely) obsolete by NetFlix, but I would als...

How about a little bit of floss stashed in the bottom of a chapstick tube? I think that would be pretty easy to do and that way I could only...

I was originally thinking about some kind of super heated shovel for the snow...but that seems a little silly. And like maybe you don't ...

I SWEAR I posted this before. Sorry for repeating that (cuz I know I've written that) but I feel like I should let you know that I'm...

This is clearly a mistake, but I'm writing it anyways. I want people to have their own access to basic doctoring supplies. I'm envis...

Sorry for two video game posts in a row. Oh, and sorry for a video game post on Christmas. I realize it should be something about loving you...

I was talking with Hot Sauce the other day and I realized that I learned a lot from video games. Seriously. I learned what flag went with wh...

Did you know segways balance themselves? Yup. You don't even really have to do anything. You just kind of rock your feet if you want to ...

Obviously music is always evolving. And there are sounds we can't even imagine that will be commonplace in our lifetime. I'd like to...

My favorite subject. I think I must have been some sort of burrowing animal in another life 'cuz I love me some hiding stuff. Either a b...

My brain is weird. Or maybe it isn't. Maybe it works just like normal. But anyway, here is a way I process things. Maybe you do it the s...

There are two ways I envision this happening. 1. The first would be to establish a list of things to scavenge for and then rifle through any...

I like to think that if people had shit to do all the time, and weren't ever bored, they'd eat a lot less. Of course not everyone ea...

Someday we'll be so organized around here that we'll have theme weeks. Like, we'll do a whole month of Christmas ideas, or a wee...

The way we use words is important, right? Your kindergarten teacher was wrong in telling you that words can never hurt you. Words are powerf...

Snow globes get a bad rap. I think, in general, people aren't so fond of them. Not that they hate them or anything, but given the choice...

So a friend told me this is basically like Google. Ok, true, one feature is no different than a search engine. But the second part is more l...

Hey! It's an idea that I've actually done and can personally speak to. Pie Night is like an idea for a party. You can guess, I'm...

Slightly Better Than Average Citizens Brigade. Yup. So the idea here is to get a bunch of people to do good stuff. Not the kind of stuff tha...

Pavement, yes. Good eye indy jerks. This post is about grading papers. But it could just as easily be about any project you're taking ...

Slow down there, chief. It's not what you think. Yeah, I do want to get couples together, but not like your dirty mind is thinking. Perv...

I know it is a myth to think that one can be totally self-supporting and solve all the worlds problems by rejecting the mass produced world ...

I don't know about you, but I lose my keys all the time - ok, not like really lose them, but manage to set them by the sink in the kitc...

What would this place be if it wasn't just a repository for the things we intended to do but may or may not ever do. I'm going to ...

I was having one of my internal debates about whether or I believe in copyright laws especially as they pertain to artistic production. And ...

I was trying to think of a way that to solve the problem of popular plays needing to be in giant venues so that everyone and their mother ca...

Today's idea to learn more about the Associated Press. What do they do? Who are they? How come so much news comes through them? Do we th...

I've asked that question. Out loud, but to myself. And I haven't gotten a response believe it or not. This may have happened to you,...

I was thinking about this in my half sleep so I can't be sure which parts of it I thought were really good and which parts were only goo...

So obviously this hinges on some pretty arrogant people putting aside their egos...but let's just agree that it's possible. The idea...

I listen to a lot of classical radio. It's nice because it rarely has obnoxious sound effects and screaming commercials. Indeed, usually...

This might qualify as a bad idea, but it's interesting, and interesting is good , so I'm going for it. The idea: Test how truly awe...

Why is it that people can't decide to be citizens of a place or not? Here's an alternate system: Until a person is of age (the age...

I'm 99% sure I posted this idea already. But suck it up because you're getting it again. My idea is for a huge open lands project in...

I have to give partial credit to my friend Jeff on this one. We're both very concerned about the state of childhood obesity in this coun...

Every so often it's cool in Hollywood to do these period pieces where you do some kind of dramatized/romanticized re-enactments of histo...

This is something I might find a good way to try once I have a class of my own to abuse with my inane ideas. When you read something there...

That title is likely to have been misleading by the time you get to the end of the post, but really sounds to rad to have passed up. That an...