eekim.com: EEK Speaks

Mon, Mar 19, 2007

Banana Hoarding Update #

Several people contributed some excellent solutions to the BananaHoardingProblem I mentioned earlier this month. The question was how to prevent people from hoarding bananas at works. Solutions included: (M03)

Andrew wrote in with his latest idea: Spray all the bananas with Aqua Velva as soon as they come in. T (M04)
LeeBryant of Headshift gave the UK take on this important problem. Check out the brilliant comment at the end of his post with this gem: The Banana Guard T (M05)
From GailTaylor: "TANSTAAFL ... keep the tarantulas with the bananas." T (M06)
JeffreyOsborne is seizing the business opportunity presented by this problem, and has implemented a banana intelligence initiative. T (M07)

MarielleBinken? wrote in last week with these excellent suggestions: (M08)

In addition to the idea to tag the banana's with an RFID, I suggest the banana's start to whistle if they're opened one day after the last banana delivered disappeared. (M09)

The now publicly-known whistling illegal banana-owners have to make paper out of the banana-slice and make an art-work on the recycled banana-paper with e.g. the subject, "Why monkeys eat bananas and people collect them." Each month the favourite art-work will be sold on eBay (unique collectors item), and the money raised with it will be given to some foundations... like the one related to the guy who proposed in Davos to develop long-term holding bananas without cooling needs. :-) (M0A)

What did I tell you? WisdomOfCrowds. (M0B)

/collaboration | Posted at 9:38pm

Comments

Comments disabled until future notice. If you'd like to contact me, use my i-name (=eekim).

EEK Speaks

A blog about collaboration, community-building, and the various goings-on at Blue Oxen Associates, with occasional digressions on food and other vital matters.