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10 Killer Ways To Make People Click on Your Ads

February 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pm » Comments (0)

Today’s top Internet strategy is figuring out ways to get people to click on the ads on your website. Google AdSense is paying some huge paychecks to the people who garner the most click-throughs. So it makes good sense to begin creating strategies around optimizing the click-through rate, regardless of whether you’re posting […]



Three Foot Tall Woman Who Weighs 37 Pounds Has Healthy Boy

February 9th, 2006 at 10:48 pm » Comments (0)

A woman who weighs 37 pounds, stands 3 feet tall and uses a wheelchair has given birth to her first child.



Amazing Spider Photos

February 9th, 2006 at 9:47 pm » Comments (0)

Normally we think of spiders as those creepy little creatures that bad dreams are made of.  However, this is a photo journal of another dimension of the spider world.  Yes, they’re still kinda creepy.  And what the hell kind of creature are the soldiers playing with?  But join us as we take a brief journey […]



Scientists find another Intact Tomb in Egypt

February 9th, 2006 at 1:40 pm » Comments (0)

An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the
Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of
Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday.



Depressed Mice get Deleted

February 9th, 2006 at 1:38 pm » Comments (0)

Depressed loner mice get more sociable when researchers delete a
memory molecule from their brains, a finding that might help treat
human ills like social phobia and post-traumatic stress, scientists
said on Thursday.



Living a Second Life

February 9th, 2006 at 1:32 pm » Comments (0)

Jennifer Grinnell, Michigan furniture delivery dispatcher turned
fashion designer in cyber space, never imagined that she could make a
living in a video game.



Demo Wows Crowds

February 9th, 2006 at 1:29 pm » Comments (0)

As they have for 16 years now, bright-eyed entrepreneurs and
sharp-eyed venture capitalists converged in the desert this week for
Demo — a debutante ball for tech companies.



Internet’s Soul may need more Saving

February 9th, 2006 at 1:25 pm » Comments (0)

In some alternative universe out there, the world is using a very
different internet. It’s a network without sex and violence, devoid of
four-letter words and racy ideas, subject to constant monitoring by
censors and harsh punishment to those who cross the line into
controversy.



Yahoo! Leaks Reporter to Chinese Authorities

February 9th, 2006 at 1:20 pm » Comments (0)

The internet giant Yahoo has been accused of
providing China with information that led to the jailing of a second
internet writer.



Crackers Attack Danish Websites over Cartoon

February 9th, 2006 at 1:17 pm » Comments (0)

Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by
Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the
Prophet Muhammad.



NASA Plans Six New Centennial Challenges

February 9th, 2006 at 9:27 am » Comments (0)

NASA is drawing up plans for six new
Centennial Challenges as part of the agency’s series of contests that offers
cash prizes for technological achievements.



10 Hypnotic Sentences to Sell Your Products

February 9th, 2006 at 7:42 am » Comments (0)

Rojo Sunsen:  Tell your readers what they are probably thinking,
feeling or doing as they read your ad copy. This
strategy will usually trigger their own subconscious
mind to bring out these feelings or actions.



Instant Ice Cream

February 9th, 2006 at 7:31 am » Comments (0)

A new ice cream vending machine from MooBella isn’t a simple fridge packed with Eskimo Pies. It’s an ice cream factory that makes a fresh scoop in less than two minutes.



World’s Highest Outhouse

February 9th, 2006 at 12:16 am » Comments (0)

Sometimes you just have to go and you can’t worry what the fallout might be.  Amazing photo.



Invention: Exploding Ink

February 9th, 2006 at 12:00 am » Comments (0)

A very unusual ink-jet printer cartridge, containing explosive ink, has
been patented by Qinetiq, the commercial spin-off of the British
Ministry of Defense.