The transformative power of online crowd funding is being poured into a bowl or two of potato salad.
A Kickstarter project with a simply stated goal of making the classic American summer picnic side-dish had raised more than $9,000 (Dh33,000) from 1,351 backers as of Monday and was attracting more support.
“Basically, I’m just making potato salad,” the project’s mastermind Zack Danger Brown said in an unabashedly succinct description at his page at the website where people pitch ideas in the hope that folks on the internet will pitch in with funding.
“I haven’t decided what kind yet.”
Brown blasted past his original funding goal so fast that he added “stretch goals” that include making twice as much potato salad, trying more than one recipe, upgrading the mayonnaise, and sending people themed baseball caps.
His funding campaign shot past those faster than a spud out of a potato gun.
Upon passing the $1,000 funding point, the Ohio man promised an online live stream starring him making the potato salad after the Kickstarter funding round closes on August 2.
Most of the pledges came in the form of one or two dollars each, with those backers to be rewarded in simple ways, including their names being said aloud while the potato salads is being made.
Bigger money backers kicking in $10 or more are in line for rewards ranging from handwritten potato-themed haiku and access to the kitchen during the salad making to homage T-shirts or a Potato Salads of the World recipe book.
“I love this project!” a backer with the screen-name Devorah Brehony said in a Kickstarter chat forum post on Monday. “It’s so insane!”
Series info
Test series schedule 1st Test, Abu Dhabi: Sri Lanka won by 21 runs; 2nd Test, Dubai: Play starts at 2pm, Friday-Tuesday
ODI series schedule 1st ODI, Dubai: October 13; 2nd ODI, Abu Dhabi: October 16; 3rd ODI, Abu Dhabi: October 18; 4th ODI, Sharjah: October 20; 5th ODI, Sharjah: October 23
T20 series schedule 1st T20, Abu Dhabi: October 26; 2nd T20, Abu Dhabi: October 27; 3rd T20, Lahore: October 29
Tickets Available at www.q-tickets.com
Stat Fourteen Fourteen of the past 15 Test matches in the UAE have been decided on the final day. Both of the previous two Tests at Dubai International Stadium have been settled in the last session. Pakistan won with less than an hour to go against West Indies last year. Against England in 2015, there were just three balls left.
Key battle - Azhar Ali v Rangana Herath Herath may not quite be as flash as Muttiah Muralitharan, his former spin-twin who ended his career by taking his 800th wicket with his final delivery in Tests. He still has a decent sense of an ending, though. He won the Abu Dhabi match for his side with 11 wickets, the last of which was his 400th in Tests. It was not the first time he has owned Pakistan, either. A quarter of all his Test victims have been Pakistani. If Pakistan are going to avoid a first ever series defeat in the UAE, Azhar, their senior batsman, needs to stand up and show the way to blunt Herath.
EMIRATES'S REVISED A350 DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE
Edinburgh: November 4 (unchanged)
Bahrain: November 15 (from September 15); second daily service from January 1
Kuwait: November 15 (from September 16)
Mumbai: January 1 (from October 27)
Ahmedabad: January 1 (from October 27)
Colombo: January 2 (from January 1)
Muscat: March 1 (from December 1)
Lyon: March 1 (from December 1)
Bologna: March 1 (from December 1)
Source: Emirates
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