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Idea Number	Idea Topic	Idea Short Name	Idea Description	Idea Submitted By	Idea Expiration	Number of Articles Submitted For Idea	Idea Completed?
1	Art	Art Appreciation for the Novice	This would be an article discussing basic concepts of art and why those concepts are important. It would explain what is meant by topics such as Impressionist, Cubist, and Abstract, perhaps even show...	steveo	03/06/2006	0	No
3	Computers	Compare Linux to Mac OS X	Could Linux be a suitable replacement for Mac OS X? Could a Mac user find the creative design applications needed to function entirely in a Linux environment? Would there be a steep learning curve m...	mike	03/07/2006	1	No
4	Windows	Manually Removing a Corrupted Windows Application	Sometimes when you go to uninstall a Windows application, the uninstaller doesn't work or you can't reinstall the application afterwards. It's possible to remove an application manually o...	mike	03/07/2006	1	No
5	Blogging	Review of Various Ad Networks	There are various advertising networks bloggers and web site owners can use, such as Google AdSense and AdBrite. Some of these most likely pay better than others, and perhaps some don't	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
6	Gaming	Review of Fleets of Anarchy	I'd like to see someone review the web-based game Fleets of Anarchy found at http://www.fleetsofanarchy.com and comparing it to any other similar web-based games out there.	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
7	Linux	How to Automate the Linux Build Process	I'd like to see an article designed for a relative novice, someone who's installed Linux once or twice but is by no means a Linux administrator, which explains how to develop a process to comp...	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
8	Science Fiction	Top Science Fiction 'Zines Online	This would be an article about any of the online science fiction magazines that publish short stories and the like. It would cover the quality of the stories in the 'zine, discuss how often it...	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
9	Food and Drink	Recipe and Illustrated Steps for Pouring a Bloody Brain Drink	At a wedding some time ago, I was served a drink called a Bloody Brain which looked like a piece of brain tissue inside a clear liquid with a little blood on top. Although I've seen recipes for the dr...	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
10	Humor	Completely Non-Plausible Conspiracy Theory	There are plenty of conspiracy theories out there, like the ones that say the government engineered the 9/11 attacks to steal the gold at the bottom of the World Trade Center. I'd like to see som...	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
11	Movies	How to Do Stop-Motion Animations with a Home PC and Video Camera	This article would provide examples and how-to information for creating stop-motion animations using nothing more elaborate than a home PC and consumer level hardware/software (like Ulead VideoStudio ...	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
12	Web Programming	Flash for Beginners	This would be a tutorial for someone who's never created anything in Flash before, walking step by step through creation of a simple but decent-looking animation, synchronizing it with sound, etc....	mike	03/23/2006	0	No
13	Web Programming	Game Programming with Cold Fusion	The article would discuss how online games could be written using Cold Fusion. It would discuss how to preserve a user's game between sessions, how to prevent cheating, what has and hasn't wo...	mike	03/25/2006	0	No
14	Cars	What's the fastest mainstream passenger car?	A friend of mine recently suggested that a determining factor in speed and acceleration is the ratio of horsepower to weight. The more horsepower you have and the less weight you're moving with i...	davem	04/23/2006	0	No
15	Humor	Finding Humor in Spam	I used to read the "Spamusement.com" web site until the cartoonist pretty much quit updating it. I read "Spamtoons.com" to get my spam-inspired cartoon fix now. I know there must be logs of other sp...	davem	04/23/2006	0	No
17	Computers	Comparison of Free Anti-Spam Software and Services	I'd like to see someone compare the various free anti-spam services and software out there. This could include the spam filtering available through free email accounts like gmail and yahoo, but a...	djohanson	05/16/2006	0	No
18	Windows	Addressing PC and Mac Misconceptions	The current ad campaign by Apple (I'm a PC, I'm a Mac) contains a number of misconceptions and convenient omissions. For example, while it talks as though Macs get along with all digital camer...	djohanson	05/16/2006	0	No
19	Movies	Which living celebrities would you want to meet, and why?	Most of us have favorite celebrities, like singers, actresses, sports figures, politicians, or other public figures. We may love them, hate them, respect them, or admire them. And some of them we'd ...	steveo	06/23/2006	0	No

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