Archive for May, 2007

Spongebob Squarepants Sequel

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Fans of Spongebob Squarepants will be happy to here about his new film that is currently in development. As you can see from the screen shot below, this new movie marks somewhat of a departure for Spongebob.

Said to track his fall from grace, "Ghetto Spongebob Squarepants" is a much darker and grittier film than its predecessor. No word yet as to whether David Hasselhoff will feature in the new film.

Ghetto Spongebob

Zodiac (Movie Review)

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

****½

Don't see the new David Fincher movie "Zodiac" if you have a short attention span. Running just over 2 and a half hours, Fincher has crafted an interesting film, and does a good job of telling the story of Robert Graysmith and the detectives on the trail of the Zodiac killer. The film spans three decades, beginning in the late 60's, although much of the film is set within a 5-10 year period spanning the late 60's/early 70's.

The film does a good job of capturing Graysmith's obsession and compulsion to solve the puzzle and find the identity of the Zodiac. As a movie it is as much about how the case took over the lives of it's key investigators as anything else.

Whilst the killers true identity is still unknown, watching the film you aren't left wondering as to who Fincher's prime suspect was. It is pointed out that much of the evidence that Graysmith/Fincher present is circumstantial, compelling evidence none the less. Ultimately though, Fincher allows the audience to draw their own conclusions.

I read online that the case has been "deactivated", it will be interesting to see if the release of this film causes that to change.

Overall, this was a great film, well directed and well worth the price of admission.

The importance of keywords in AuctionAds

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Today I dared pose the question, what happens if you use "turd" as your keyword in AuctionAds ?

Well, the answer is simple, you turn up little nuggets like these:

Gotta love ebay. Happy bidding!

Park West Gallery

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Park West Gallery proclaims itself to be the largest collection of fine art in the world. Whilst I would have assumed that title would have gone to a French museum, there's no doubt that they have a lot of art. Park West Gallery holds fine art auctions in both the United States and Canada.

Personally I prefer street art, but if fine art is the thing that floats your boat, then you'll be glad to hear that Park West also conduct cruise ship art auctions around the globe. "Fine Art" lovers with dig the Park West web site, I was particularly taken bythe banner image on the Park West Gallery artist biography page. It would seem that to create fine art, you must forever stare off into space looking pensive. Don't believe me? Check out the pictures for yourself.

This post has been sponsored by Park West Gallery

I can’t believe they searched for that!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Three people visited swollenpickles.com after searching for "naked mole rat looking like a penis". I love the internet.

Would the real Kumiko please stand up

Monday, May 28th, 2007

I read this interesting "interview"/puff piece this morning. If you've been here before you may have read about the Kumiko identity saga. If this is your first visit and came here expecting to see pictures of Paris Hilton's camel toe then you can quickly get up to speed by reading this.

Anyway, Bob delved deep with this probing question, "There have been rumours that Kumiko might not be who people think she is and I would like your comment on this." We then get a paragraphs worth of dancing around the issue without addressing it directly. Perhaps the most telling part of "her" response is this:

In any case, I’m loving the exposure that the controversy creates!

The whole thing is starting to look more and more like a cheap crass gimmick to drum up a bit of quick web traffic.

Knowing the internet, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some enterprising young whipper snapper unearths the true identity of Kumiko. Misrepresentation has always been a problem with the internet, and is one of the reasons why some people are still hesitant to do business on line. Pretending to be something your not does nothing to help your credibility. Hypothetically, if you found out that someone had mislead you into believing they were something that they are not, could you trust them again? Would you look to them as a reliable source of information? I know I wouldn't.

If your reading this Kumiko, who are you?... I mean really?

About the author:
Swollen Pickles is an 18 year old virgin cheerleader from Ohio. She loves pillow fights with her pert friends, jelly wrestling and geeky guys.

AuctionAds and the results so far

Monday, May 28th, 2007

It has been less than a month since I signed up to AuctionAds, after a slow first couple of weeks, it seems that it has finally kicked in. I've placed it on my music recording site, as well as Swollen Pickles. In the past week I've earned just under $20USD from Auction Ads. All of this revenue has come from my music site. As of writing this, I've made nothing from the AuctionAds on Swollen Pickles.

This is pretty interesting and tells me that AuctionAds seems to work far better on a specific niche site, rather than a scatter gun site like this one. It will be interesting to watch how it performs in the coming months.

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