I'm wondering when and why a person would need 18 inches of extension? To get into those hard to reach places? WTF??

For those unfamiliar with the Snuggie, it is an innovative powerhouse of a product, it's a blanket... with sleeves! Glorious. The Snuggie is designed to keep your entire body covered and "cozy" while you still retain the use of your hands.

The history of the Snuggie is an interesting one:

The product was first commercialized as the Slanket by Gary Clegg in Maine in 1998 using heavy fleece material. Clegg's mother made him a blanket with a single sleeve for use in his cold dorm room. Clegg later developed that into the Slanket with two sleeves.

If you can't visualise a Snuggie yet, here is an example as modelled by a seductive looking Harry Potter. Saucy!

As of February 2009 over 4 million Snuggies and 1 million Slankets have been sold worldwide. Perhaps the best part of the Snuggie phenomenon is the infomercial used to promote it. It is quite possibly the best piece of promotional guff ever created.

If that wasn't enough Snuggie for you, then here's the parody version. Whether or not it is funnier than the original though is open to debate.

Want a Snuggie of your very own? I did a quick search on eBay and turned up a stack of Snuggie auctions. Now I can be cozy and free to move my arms as well! Pure awesome.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS CAVS SNUGGIE GUINESS RECORD LEBRON

12 Bids

US $23.50

22m

Soft Comfy Pink Snuggie Robe Pajamas, Worn Once, LN VGC

0 Bid

US $7.99

40m

LOT OF 2 SNUGGIE BLANKETS LOVEYS PINK AND GREEN CUTE

US $30.00

1h 24m

Betfair are currently offering a free $50 bet for anyone the makes a deposit and bets at least $50. In other words you bet $50, and they'll give you $50.

All the details are here: FREE $50 Bet at Betfair

I have close to zero interest in horse racing so don't bother asking me for tips!

If that doesn't interest you would you prefer 25 free MP3's instead?

Go check out eMusic.

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.

Who is Shimon Sandler?

Shimon is a Search Engine Optimization and online marketing guru who has worked on a number of large programs including work for a number of Fortune 500 companies. That sort of thing looks very good on the resume!

Shimon's expertise and advice are obviously well respected, and chances are that if you've done a bit of reading on SEO then you may have stumbled across one of his articles. Besides that, his blog currently has over 900 subscribers (including me), so it must be good.

What makes Shimon Sandler's blog worth reading?

I have to be honest, my understanding of SEO is rather limited. Up until recently I had a very vague idea of what it entailed, however, even then it seemed to me to be all about tweaking a website and link building to ensure a site ranked highly in the SERP's for particular keywords. Not surprisingly, my knowledge of SEO was paper thin. Thankfully Shimon provides a solid overview of what type of service you should expect to receive from a Search Engine Optimization consultant.

Is it idiot proof?

As someone who knows very little about the subject, Shimon's SEO Basics and PPC Basics guides are handy resources. For example, his PPC Campaign “Kick-off” Templates post provides beginners with a template useful for anyone looking to start their first PPC campaign. It includes things you really should think long and hard about before diving into the PPC deep end. There is also an example PPC Strategy Document that you could use as the basis for developing your own PPC campaign.

Can't you just summarise it for me?

To summarise, Shimon's blog is well written, clean and most importantly, full of useful content. His blog would no doubt get the thumbs up from anyone looking to promote their site online, or even make some cash through online marketing campaigns. So take a look at Shimon's SEO blog and let me know what you think.

End note:

Thanks for ordering the review Shimon, you're a true pioneer!

If that sort of thing floats your boat, then luckily betfair have you covered. To be honest, betting doesn't appeal to me, call me risk adverse. Then again, perhaps the idea of having to step into a dingy TAB facility puts me off a fair bit as well. I guess that is the big appeal of online betting. You can lay your money on the line without having to walk into a smoke filled, sticky floored, betting place.

I guess the other benefit of football betting is that it is really only a two horse race. With the narrow field, you're more likely to back a winner, in theory anyway. Football fans have had a lot to drool over these past couple of days with the NFL Superbowl taking place yesterday. For me the interest isn't in the game, it's in the advertising. Companies always fork out cash big time to get noticed during the Superbowl in the US. My favourite of this year? Has to be Will Ferrell.

Like CarSales, Netcars.co.uk have positioned themselves as a 'one stop shop' for anyone looking to research a car purchase, find out about car loans, or even selling second hand vehicles.

The 'sell my car' feature could be useful for any brits looking to off load their old cars. For ten pounds you can place an ad on the Netcars site for a two week period. To put it into perspective, the site reports to receive over 250,000 searches for used cars each month.

Whether you are looking to by a new or used car I'd strongly recommend doing some research into the cars safety rating prior to purchase. After taking a look around the site, I couldn't find any safety rating information on Netcars.co.uk. In my opinion including safety rating information would improve the overall usefulness of the site, and would mean that users don't have to visit another site to gather that information.

Overall, Netcars.co.uk is a well designed site. It is simple and intuitive to navigate and features a lot of useful information for any prospective car buyers and sellers based in the UK.

So here's my comprehensive list of things I know about rehab.

1. It's a great place to meet burnt out celeb starlets. Case in point: Lindsay Lohan.
2. Perfect place to hook up with aging rockers to form a super group. Case in point: Any "super group" currently doing the rounds.
3. TV has taught me that high class rehab looks very similar to a day spa. Of course TV is always an accurate representation of real life.

Thanks to television and trashy gossip magazines that is all I know about rehab. I'm so enlightened.

From what I can tell www.borderbilliards.com is a relatively new site. It does not yet have a page rank, and its Alexa ranking is in the millions. Obviously whoever is behind it is out to create a quick buzz, and I'm more than happy to oblige.

The website itself is well designed, looks the part, and technically seems to function ok. The major problem is that the owner seems to have decided to 'go live' with the site, before all of the content was ready. So what you find is that when you click on some of the links, take the information page as an example, you end up with no content, just a white space where the content should be.

There are also a lot of blank areas where product images are supposed to go. Take this screen shot of the featured products as an example.

The testimonial section is another problem area. At the moment it includes, "TESTIMONIAL #3 HERE...". This gives the appearance that the site is only half finished and waiting for someone to come along and populate it with content. My other piece of advice is remove the 'Yahoo' icon as the sites Favicon. Makes me wonder whats going on.All in all, Borders Billiards looks like it has some potential, although at the moment it looks as though there is some work to be done before it could be considered finished.

Well, there was this one time, I was seated at a restaurant, for the sake of the exercise, lets call it 'McDonalds'. I had finished meal, but was still hungry. As I approached the counter the waitress smiled, and asked, "Another cheeseburger sir?”

It was as if she had read my mind. Was that even possible? Perhaps... but perhaps she had been alerted by the grumbling noises that my stomach had been making? So many variables, so many unknowns, but then, that is what romance is all about.

No doubt romance is important in relationships, but what exactly is it? Is romance never having to say you’re hungry? If Winona Ryder knocked on my door carrying a meat lovers pizza, I think I’d find that quite romantic. What can I say, I’m just a traditional, old fashioned guy.

I’m guessing my idea of romance won’t be showing up in any... wait for it people...

Ahhh... that reminds me of the ‘Peterotica’ episode of the Family Guy... “...and then he totally did her...”

So there you have it, romance need not be all gold chains, roses and champagne!