Recent public awareness campaigns advertising state-held unclaimed cash and unclaimed property have curious seekers with “$$” in their eyes searching internet databases for forgotten treasures.

It could be an old paycheck, stock note, utility deposit return, or inheritance that’s owed to you. People pass away, neglect to leave forwarding addresses, and documents slip through the cracks of the paper chain. When no one claims these valuables, after a certain amount of time, the unclaimed cash in accounts, safety deposit items, and property are turned over to a state treasury office and held until an undetermined date.

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Approximately 1,500 Venezuelans wore nothing but a birthday suit on a main city avenue Sunday, posing for American photographer Spencer Tunick by forming a human mosaic in front of national symbol statue of Simon Bolivar.

This kind of art reminds me of an image that would have ended up on a John Lennon Yoko Ono album cover if he were still alive. Instead of Two Virgins, it would be called Too Many Naked Venezuelans. With bodies of all shapes, sizes, and color, this photograph will never see an airbrush or Photoshop layer.

Here’s the Skinny

Spencer Tunick’s name is reaching a top ten search status for the biggest three day mover bracket. Upon further investigation, I discovered the most popular site listed when his name is searched showing in the natural listing of Google, is a landing page allowing visitors to sign up to be in Tunick’s next “sea of skin” artistic photo.

After the visitor types in his or her name, email address, age, sex, and location, there is a skin tone meter, in which you pick the color closest to your own.

I have to admit, I was little curious where his next event would be, so I signed up for an update. I am sure former art class nude model Dick Cheney would be proud.

Office pools, gambling, policy-breaking internet usage, maxed company bandwidth, and an overall decline in work productivity are predicted during this month due to college basketball.

CBS is offering a free online broadcast of the 2006 March Madness NCAA men’s college basketball tournament which, doomsday sayers will have you believe, will be the demise of this quarter due to productivity loss. They say the tournament’s millions of eight to five office dwelling b-ball fans will be replacing work with watching the game from company computers. A Chicago-based outplacement company estimated the tournament will cost the economy more than $3.8 billion in lost productivity.

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