Why do documentaries about terrorists always show them playing on monkey bars? Is this supposed to scare us?
Why is it an old man will pick his nose sitting five feet away from you in his car at a stop light, but wouldn’t do it five feet away from you while standing on the sidewalk?
Why is [...]
Adding in your head is easier if you do it from left to right
We were taught in school to add from right to left, but adding left to right is much easier! Take the following math problem.
186
+297
+394
Look at this problem this way…
100
+200
+300
We can all add that up easily, which is 600. Now we’re going [...]
There are no Myspace trackers that are very good. Most of them work as follows:
You insert a code into your page title. This code actually displays a hidden image hosted on the tracker’s machine. The tracker grabs the IP address and tells you that someone visited your page at a certain time. It is up [...]
Link building is still the lifeblood of a website’s success. Here are a few ideas to kick around that might help you get started in your link building efforts.
1. Build a “Top 10″ or “101″ list related to your site and submit it to Digg
2. Create an article debunking myths on your site’s topic
3. Send [...]
I still remember the date. It was the summer morning of August 15, 1987. I awoke from the most epic, vivid, and startling dream I ever had. I sat up in a daze, thinking of the images that had just marched past me. I knew this wasn’t an ordinary dream of random images. I knew [...]
Aside from blogs by experts or celebrities, have you noticed that the most successful blogs are the ones focusing on how to create successful blogs? And so many of them all say the same things, too. It seems there is a huge network of blogs that are popular because they tell people how to be [...]
I thought it might be a good idea to keep a simple updated list of the sites I believe are scams or misleading in some way, most of which I have either seen advertising on sites such as Facebook or Myspace.com, or are sites that I have found related to or linked to from these [...]
After my first posting about a phony ad I saw on Myspace yesterday, I thought I would be done with it. But then today I noticed a very similar ad, with similar promises. When I went to the site, it was all similar. Too similar.
Not only that, but it boasted the SAME check that “Kevin” [...]
A Cyberworld Full of Fakes
I am almost ashamed to admit that at 40 years old I still maintain a Myspace page. Almost. But anyway, today I noticed a huge ad with a picture of a 20-something cheesy guy claiming to have made over $5000 a month posting links on Google.
It reminded me of those Don [...]