Ok, ladies and gentlemen, here it is! The contest was over at midnight last night – we still had a few entries after midnight so I decided to count them anyway, because what the heck, right? Well, it was an interesting morning today to say the least. I’ve been trying to contact winners for the…
Amazing New SeaWorld Coaster “Manta” Opens in 22 Days
SeaWorld, the family-friendly and awesome oceanic life theme park, is opening a brand new roller coaster called Manta just 22 Days from now in May. You might remember a while back an ad that ran on this site and a contest I wrote about for “Manta Mania,” – well here it is, folks! Manta Mania…
Online Music Stores Amazon & Wal-Mart follow Suit After Apple in Pricing Schemes
According to PC Magazine, corporate giants Amazon and Wal-mart have likewise changed up their pricing schemes to include tiered pricing, much like Apple’s new pricing scheme for DRM-free music. This is a loss for the consumer, because Amazon at least already offered DRM-free tracks usually between 79 and 99 cents and often offered deep discounts…
Free Legal Music Alert: Kerchoonz Pays Artists for Your Free Listening
Okay, so we’re not talking about Rhapsody or Napster, or Lala.com where you hear all the big RIAA-controlled artists and the artists receive a tiny portion of the profits. Today I was introduced to a site called Kerchoonz (sounds a little bit like Kartoonz, a rock/metal/emo music club that used to be open here in…
Got an Itch for HDTV? Scratch it With Charter
If you’re only recently aware that the 21st century has brought people into current technologies like HDTV, high-speed internet and internet-based phone service (VOIP, or voice-over-internet-protocol), you probably have been wondering what all the fuss is about. Perhaps you’ve just been confused, and not really been sure what you want, but you know that you…
Weekend Update: Ides of March
That’s right my fateful brethren, it’s March 15th, the Ides of March. I’ve successfully avoided this fated day by sleeping most of the way through it. I woke up today (the final time) around 2pm. I got up and got some microwavable breakfast and then tooled away at the computer the rest of the day.…
Win a Flip Ultra from AnyLuckyDay.com
Website AnyLuckyDay.com has a great contest from the folks at Flip – the easy to use personal camcorder now being used by tons of bloggers and vloggers across the internet. It shoots 60 minutes of video and has 2gb of storage space built-in. You can easily use this nifty camcorder to upload videos to your…
SocialSpark Stimulates Economy
As many of you know, I sometimes write and do advertising on my blog for a company called IZEA. Those of you not familiar, IZEA is a social marketing solutions company. In hard times, businesses are failing, advertising budgets are shrinking, and as a result, less people hear about your business. It’s not that people…
You Like-uh Da Juice, Eh? Juice is Good
I have been looking for this SNL sketch for forever it feels like. SNL is pretty good about sending out cease-and-desist orders to any site posting their material illegally without permission, so watch this while the watchin’s good. This is a classic sketch from a while back at Hub’s Gyros, based on a real place.…
Embarassing Myself for Money
@tedmurphy is giving away $20 PayPal to whoever sends him the funniest picture of themselves by 3pm EST today, with proof in the photo that it was taken today. Here’s my shot at the big money: EDIT: I just thought I’d mention, this is kind of a geeky joke. Packet Shaping explained by WikiPedia.