your five a day - day 2

1) myfiveaday.blogspot.com: you knew it was coming, following close on the heels of its more popular elder sibling. myfiveaday is almost identical to yourfiveaday except myfiveaday was made just for me, or rather you, or rather you reading my as me. Eventually myfiveaday and yourfiveaday will lock horns in heated battle. Smashing conventions and making many unsuspecting readers millions of dollars off our brain trust. Ah the joys of capitalism.

2) Lipstick Mirror: Credit goes out to Anna Beard for this one. Every have trouble applying your lipstick evenly without a mirror? I do. Do you find yourself trying to make out your reflection in the door of the subway while passenger look at you like you're some self obsessed freak? Yes. Well then, you should implement this idea. Produce a lipstick which has a little mirror on the end of the cap. Discrete, simple, effective, easy! Just uncap lipstick, turn it over and presto - perfect lipstick application everytime --- yessss! (I feel like this might already be an implemented idea, but it is certainly not as pervasive as it should be) - send us other ideas for things that need mirrors on them.

3) Iconoclast Fast-track: We all know your supposed to eat your greens, study hard, get immunized, go to college, get an internship, wear the suit and gradually work your way up the corporate ladder to blissful mediocrity...but what about the rest of us? The ones who got away, those thousands of inquiring bodies and minds who decided to become prep chefs in hilltop trattorias, midwives in palestine, or read joyce to blind business executives. Where shall they go when they want to dip their toe in the water? I propose a portal where these people can create profiles for themsleves replete with photographs of their exploits, audio reports, online journals, etc. and there would also be lists of places to work, collabroative ideas and even recruiting for people with leadership and creativity.


4) Anything involving Marquis de Sade: This much maligned historical figure has been in the shadows for two long. I say its about time for him to be brought back with bells on, why not make him a franchise! Movies, television, books and of course those little plastic figurines everyone loves...

5) Freebox: Welcome to NYC the world's largest outdoor fleamarket! Ever walk by piles of piled up street goods, mirrors, sofas, picture frames, chairs, used condoms all in perfectly reasonable shape going untouched and unloved. I know we all feel a twinge of shame when we walk past these engorged piles of perfectly good goods thinking, "if only that perfectly reasonable looking 'x' weren't sitting outside festering like a pile rotting fish guts in a vietnamese gambling parlor, I might consider taking it home with me and sparing the world yet another article of wasted crap." Well worry no longer FREEBOX envisions a series of municipcally sanctioned and publically accessible "goods stations" where people can put things in they no longer want and people can take them without fear of being mistaken for being homeless.