Posted in Fun, News on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
The phrase “Don’t Tase Me, Bro”, spoken by a college student getting kicked out of a John Kerry speech was named the best quote of 2007 by the Yale Book of Quotations.
Some runners up included Don Imus’ now infamous reference to the Rutgers women’s basketball team, the South Carolina Miss Teen USA contestant who gave [...]
Posted in Google on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
In Google’s attempt to diversify its business outside of search they recently announced an ambitious effort to develop cheap renewable energy in part to offset their own massive electricity needs to power one of the world’s largest computer systems.
Google wants to build a 1.6 Megawatt solar panel array to help power its Mountain View California [...]
Posted in Economy on Dec 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Congress passed a new energy bill that would require automakers to increase the fuel economy of their vehicles by 40% to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
Included in the bill are stipulations requiring a six-fold increase in ethanol use to 36 Billion gallons annually by 2022. Other requirements include new energy efficiency standards for appliances, [...]
Posted in Fun on Dec 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
This post over at Midascode will make you chuckle and look at every website you visit a little more closely. It turns out even the most benign domain name could have an unfortunate, albeit hilarious alternate translation.
Here’s a sampling of the full list:
ExpertsExchange.com –> ExpertSexchange.com
WhoRepresents.com –> WhorePresents.com
TherapistFinder.com –> TheRapistFinder.com
PenIsland.net –> PenisLand.net
ChooseSpain.com –> ChoosesPain.com
GoTahoe.com –> GotAHoe.com
So [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google on Dec 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Following up on my previous post about commenting your way to a higher PageRank, I would like to share an amusing and informative tool I came across today.
SmartPageRank offers a free online tool to analyze several statistics about your website. Some of the metrics you can analyze include PageRank from up to 67 Google datacenters, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google on Dec 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
JohnCow.com, that parody blog of a popular Internet entrepreneur had a post recently about a free product called Comment Kahuna. This software helps you uncover blogs with high PageRank and do-follow enabled comments.
Leaving do-follow comments has long been used as a means of increasing your own site’s PR. The only problem has been in finding [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Internet, Making Money on Dec 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
During the process of updating the blog I have redone the Google Adsense code and noticed a new feature that will make the lives of web publishers a whole lot easier. That feature is called “Manage Ads‘ and enables publishers to change the ad parameters on their website without altering a single line of code!
Once [...]
Posted in News on Dec 16th, 2007 No Comments »
There is a report that came out listing the salaries of some notable world leaders. It’s interesting to see such a large disparity between these presidents, prime ministers, and other dignitaries.
Salaries of World Leaders
Country
Title
Name
Approximate Salary
Bolivia
President
Evo Morales
$21,600
Great Britain
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
$375,222
France
President
Nicolas Sarkozy
$346,000
Germany
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
$318,000
Ireland
Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern
$434,000
Japan
Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe
$248,500
Russia
President
Vladimir Putin
$81,000
Singapore
Premier
Lee Hsien Loong
$2.05 million
United States
President
George W. Bush
$400,000
United States
Vice President
Dick Cheney
$208,575
The [...]
Posted in Blogging on Dec 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I decided to shake things up around here and launch a new Wordpress theme for Shaun Carter dot Com. I found this new theme, which is called Mr. Techie, at FreeWPThemes.net. It is a three column rather than the two column Mistylook theme I was using before and while it looks rather empty right now, [...]
Posted in Google, Internet on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Many people (including me) thought it was crazy when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $750 Million buyout offer last year. At the time, analysts were saying that Zuckerberg and Co. were seeking around $2 Billion for the company - or about four times as much as MySpace was purchased for by News Corp [...]
