Archive for September 2008

I have to confess, I love to catch a glimpse of a celebrity mug shot. The dear in the head lights look is right up there with Magnum and Blue Steel in my book.

The latest celebrity to get the mug shot treatment? Heather Locklear.

The Age are reporting that:

Actress Heather Locklear has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance in California's upmarket Santa Barbara area, authorities have said.

Locklear, 47, was pulled over by a California Highway Patrol officer on the weekend after a resident reported seeing the actress leaving a parking lot and "driving erratically", patrol spokesman Tom Marshall said.

Here's the Heather Locklear mug shot, to file next to the Lindsay Lohan mug shot of yesteryear.

Even slightly disheveled and not at the peak of her powers, I have to say, she looks ok for a 47 year old.

Since I installed the WP-Polls plugin I've run a grand total of eight polls on this site. Generally, they aren't all that popular with visitors, with only 3 of 8 getting into double figures.

My most popular poll so far has been on Battle of the Battlestar Galactica Cyclons Round Two with 53 voters so far.

Of the two hot Cylons from Battlestar Galactica, who is hotter, Cylon Sharon (Grace Park), or Cylon No.6 (Tricia Helfer)?

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I just figured out (I think) how to list all the polls in the one post/page. So basically this whole post is nothing more than an excuse for me to see if it works.
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When I registered with Predictify a while back, I was a little sceptical, I mean to say, their tag line was "Make Money By Predicting Future Events". Were they for real?

Well, as it turns out, they are for real, and they continue to pay out. Don't kid yourself, you're not going to make a fortune with Predictify, but you will make some additional coin, and more than enough to buy a domain name and start your online empire from scratch. What's more, Predictify is actually quite fun. It's like a social networking site with a twist. Get a few friends on board and you could run your own little sports tipping competition. See who can pick the most winners. Bragging rights and bucks.

Here's a screen shot of the payments I've received in the last couple of weeks.

Note the payouts for correctly predicting the outcome for a couple of NFL games. I made $5.37 for predicting the correct outcome in the Patriots vs. Jets game alone. What do I know about NFL? Sweet bugger all. I can name a handful of teams, with one of them being the Dallas Cowboys, and I only know them because of their cheerleaders, so that shows you don't have to actually be an expert in anything to win, you just need to make a few lucky guesses.

Predictify pay via PayPal at the end of every month.

Click here to learn more about Predictify.

How would you feel if you were mistaken for being a member of the opposite sex? I can't speak from experience, but I'm sure it not the greatest feeling in the world, furthermore, it's not exactly the sort of thing I'd want to go to the media to talk about.

Britain's The Sun newspaper are reporting that a 59 year old, short haired, English woman was caught on a speed camera, and subsequently been mistaken for being a man by British Police.

The police wrote to the woman's partner to confirm who was driving.

The letter read: “From the copy of the photograph it appears that the driver was a male.”

Mr Watkins, the woman's partner is quoted:

“I am fuming and Pauline is very upset - any woman would be if they were told they look like a man. I want compensation for the misery and hurt this has caused.”

Here is the speed camera photo. Based on this image alone, I think that perhaps the British Police could be forgiven.

And here's a photo of the woman in question.

Poll time: What do you think, based on the speed camera photo, where the Police justified in suggesting that the driver appeared to be male?

Based on the speed camera photo, were the Police justified in suggesting that the driver appeared to be male?

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Following on from a post I wrote, 10 tips to becoming a make money online sheep, a couple of weeks ago, Dave from AffiliateBestPrograms.com has written his own list, the 10 secret confessions of super affiliates. Funny stuff.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SINCE I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS FREEBIES4WEBMASTERS SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED. THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE ACCEPTING NEW PUBLISHERS AND I AM STARTING TO READ REPORTS OF PEOPLE NO LONGER RECEIVING PAYMENT.

Since I posted about Freebies for Webmasters a month ago, I've had a few people ask if they actually pay, which is a fair question to ask of any newly discovered program.

I guess I felt that it was my civic duty to give Freebies4Webmasters a shot, and with that said I am more than happy to report that Freebies4Webmasters do pay!

For all the Nervous Nelly's out there, here's an edited screen grab of my PayPal account showing the payments I've received from Freebies4Webmasters to date.

So there you go, evidence that C.S.I Miami would be only too happy to stand behind.

Go join up Freebies4Webmasters now and start making easy cash!

In case you don't know what Freebies4Webmasters is all about, here's a quick recap. Freebies4Webmasters.com will pay you £5 per month (which is almost $11 AUD depending on the exchange rate) via paypal for displaying a banner ad on three individual pages on your site. Here's the description from their website.

You will receive your free £10 payment for joining when your first banner is live on more than three pages of your site. After that you will receive monthly £5 payments by email if the banners are still on your site.

You can choose the pages you want to have the banners displayed on, with the only criteria being that you need to have the banner on at least three separate pages in order to get paid. Whack them up on your 'about' page, your 'contact us' page, where ever. As long as they are up, you'll get paid.

If you missed last nights episode of Rove, he had Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on the show. Those two guys crack me up, and I'm super keen to get to the cinema to see Step Brothers.

When I saw the 'pole' I got ready to count the 'pole' jokes.

Part 1 of the Rove interview includes:
Australian Pole Vault Olympian Steve Hooker, Oscar Awards and the Logies.


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Following my previous flatulence flirtation, I decided it was time for some research. Three cheers for the internet!

Obviously combining science and flatulence was the holy grail for Dr. Michael Levitt, the American gastroenterologist who conducted ground breaking research in the odour of flatulence.

Dr. Levitt is a pioneer, and his studies on the potency of farts and gender should sit right next to belly button lint as research to be admired.

The study was the first ever attempt to provide an objective evaluation of the odour of flatus, Levitt explains. Volunteer judges, blinded to the identity of the generating gender, were asked to rank the potency of the end product.

Volunteer producers - primed by a diet of pinto beans - farted into aluminum bags via a rectal tube. The contents of the bags were measured for volume and for sulphur concentration. (Sulphur gases give farts their foul odour.) Syringes full of gas were withdrawn from the bags and wafted by the nostrils of the unfortunate judges.

"Some journal reviewed the worst jobs ever performed in science and this became the number 1,'' Levitt says with a chuckle.

"Now I might say the judges were paid well. Some of them complained of being dizzy and having a headache at the end of session.''

The conclusion: "Women had more sulphur gas and were judged to have more potent odour.''

Source: CTV.ca

Freaky Fun Fart Facts

Here's a collection of interesting and weird flatulence facts:

  • The English word fart is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary.
  • Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet (or a nudge over 3 meters) per second.
  • Generally flatulence is made up of five gases - nitrogen and oxygen, which are swallowed while talking, chewing or drinking fizzy beverages, and carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane, which are produced in the gastrointestinal tract during digestion of food.
  • Fart has been used to name cocktails, for example the 'Duck Fart'.
  • The term 'fart sack' is military slang for a bed or sleeping bag.
  • An Australian study that followed a group of men and women for a couple of months concluded men let rip on average 10 times a day, while women lag with eight emissions.
  • A 'nun's fart' is a French term for a type of sweet dessert sprinkled with sugar.
  • Cockney rhyming slang developed the alternative form 'Raspberry Tart', later shortened to 'Raspberry', and occasionally 'Razz'. This is where the phrase 'blowing a raspberry' came from.
  • Only certain people have bacteria in the gastric systems that produce methane and only methane-producers can perform the time-honoured frat house trick of igniting a blue flame when they hold a match to an escaping fart.
  • In the 1800s Frenchman Joseph Pujol apparently became so adept at controlling his flatulence flow he could sound musical notes. Called "le Petomane'' - the fartiste - he was reputedly the highest paid performer in France at his prime.