I saw this on techcrunch, and thought I'd share it. It's quite funny, and very relevant to my recent posts on twitter, and frustration with the follow limits on twitter. Let me know what you think!

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It's a fact - people love lists, especially top ten lists, and so here we have it - my Top 76 Top Ten List List. These are pretty much random, and in no specific order, I must've spent 4 hours on this, so I hope you like it, if not you can kiss my <profanity>.

Why did I only pick 76? Because I got damned tired of looking for more lists - DUH!?

1. Top Ten Questions Not To Ask In A Job Interview
2. Top 10 mobile apps[java] for your phone
3. Top 10 Quirkiest Early Flying Machines
4. My Top 10 Internet Phenomena
5. Top 10 Norton / Symantec Secrets You Shouldn't Know
6. My Top 10 favorite Google Products
7. Tools of the Trade: Top 10 Tools for Social Media
8. Top 10 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces of All Time
9. Top 10 Mistakes Made in Business Plans
10. Top 10 Unwed Celebrity Parents
11. The Top 10 Coolest Olympic Mascots
12. Top 10 Printable Paper Productivity Tools
13. Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr, All Fresh and New for 2008
14. Top 10 Brain Training Future Trends
15. Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know
16. Top 10 Movie Roles Taken In Order to Make-Out With a Hot Chick
17. Top 10 Fantasy Worlds In Literature
18. DUI MA - Top 10 Mistakes in Drunk Driving Cases
19. Top ten: The world's most dangerous places
20. Top Ten Places To Visit In Egypt
21. Top 10 Things to Bring to China
22. Top 10 hottest Olympians
23. Top 10: Widely Believed Myths
24. PTV’S TOP 10: The Greatest Political Web Videos of All Time
25. Top 10 Strangest Hotels in the World
26. Top 10 Phones of 2008
27. Top 10 Most Overpriced Zip Codes in America
28. Top 10 Sites for Illustrator Tutorials
29. The Top 10 Free iPhone Apps for Young Professionals
30. Top 10 Consumer Headaches
31. Top 10 Songs You Must Turn Off (Personal note, I don't quite agree w/ the Evanescence remarks)
32. top 10: songs to primp to
33. Top 10 Countries to Make the Most of Your Dollar
34. Top 10 Mistakes Guys Make When Trying To Get A Girl
35. Top 10 Ways Gay Marriage Harms Straight People
36. Top 10 portable gadgets I take with me when I travel
37. Top 10 Reasons to Start a Business Blog
38. Top 10 Alternative Abstinence Slogans
39. Top Ten Conspiracy Theories, and sometimes a lizard is just a lizard
40. TOP 10 start up killers
41. Top 10 Free Things to Do in Paris
42. Top 10 Animal-Friendly Superheroes
43. Top 10 Template Generators for Blogs and Websites
44. Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
45. Top 10 Keyword Research Tips To Boost Your SEO
46. Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done
47. The Top 10 Star Wars Sounds
48. Top 10 Mac Freeware Applications.
49. Top 10 TV Shows Killed By College
50. The Top 10 Animated Films Ever Made
51. Top 10 Reasons Why I Haven't Bought an iPhone 3G
52. Top 10 Idiocies of the General Election ... So Far
53. Top Ten Dark Knight Scenes
54. Top 10 Punk Guitarists
55. Baseball’s Top 10 Trade Deadline Deals of All-Time
56. TOP 10 Worst Snack Foods
57. Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies
58. Top 10 Obsolete Car Features
59. Top 10 Bad Ass Movie Cars
60. Top 10 Movies for Kids who Love Dinosaurs
61. Storage Top 10 Best Practices
62. Top 10 CSS buttons tutorial list
63. Top ten things we like in tight economic times
64. Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
65. Top 10 Apple iPhone 3G tips and tricks
66. Top 10 Romantic Places in the World
67. Top 10 Command Line Tools
68. Top Ten Places To Have Sex
69. Top tips for marketing your web site
70. Top 10 Ways for College Students to Save Money
71. TOP 10 Unintentionally Funny Websites
72. Top 10 Busted Tees Nipples
73. Top 10 Websites You Probably Never Heard Of But Should
74. TOP 10 Worst Karaoke Songs
75. TOP 10 Things I’d Like To See In Theaters for 2009
76. TOP 10 Worst Movie Quotes To Say In Bed

Jason Calacanis, one of the most influential bloggers on the scene right now, founder of Mahalo, exploiter of twitter and facebook, has announced he is going to quit blogging. What has the world come to? Eh, maybe it's for the better.

I'm waiting to see a social network popup just around 'betting' whether or not he will come back to blogging. After-all I've quit blogging for a bit usually during the summer slow-down, but I always come back. For a true blogger, it's almost an addiction, I can't see how one can claim to completely give it up..but we will see.

After all Jason is known for link-bait scams, perhaps this is another one of his publicity stunts.

My personal message to Jason Calacanis: If this truly is the end for you, I tease, but I hardly know you, I regret not having the opportunity to get to know you better, or form any kind of relationship. I do however wish you the best of luck in any endeavor that you go to from here. Have a happy retirement!

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This is just too good.. Seriously, what will they think of next?

Etsy has started selling a Cat5 style his / hers wedding band set for geeky couples. My wife would kill me if I bought her one, she knows I'm a geek, and she's pretty geeky herself - but in total denial.

I could also see making some sort of necklace like this, as well.

Watch out though -they retail for $175!

More...(Gizmodo, Gadgetell, DVICE)

 

 

This sounds like something out of a spy movie or something.

According to ( Marketing Pilgrim via Mercury News) a 29-year-old UC Berkeley journalism student got out jail using Twitter.

Apparently, while in Egypt, he was arrested for taking a picture. Upon being arrested he quickly notified his 'Network' with the word 'Arrested', those who new his business and where he was immediately notified the right people, and before morning was up he had UC Berkley hired lawyer, and the American Embassy knocking on the door of the Jail.

From the Donkey's Mouth:

Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.

The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.

I always knew Twitter could take you places, but now it can actually get you out of Jail!

How sweet is that?

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Fool or Be Fooled!

Yesterday was probably the biggest April Fool's day Prank day I've ever seen. If you're trying to make money online, then you probably had your own April Fool's day prank - if not then you missed out on a great Opportunity. Some blogs have even launched or come out of obscurity due to a prank.

To follow success, you need to follow those who are successful, and Darren Rowse who says he's not a fan of April Fool's day - said he just couldn't pass up the opportunity. He calls it 'Opportunity Cost', which is the cost of passing up an opportunity.

April Fool's day in my opinion is a fun day, to build traffic and linkbait. But it does get old, remember April Fool's starts a day early in Australia - which is why I launched my pranks a day early, to get the most value..

Here's a recap on my pranks - one of which nobody caught..hehe..

• Free Hardware Downloads! Get your Macbook Air today!
• Shoemoney Arrested for Riding-A-Bike While Drunk!
• Problogger Darren Rowse - Is Filing for Bankruptcy! What are we to do?
• Google buys Microsoft for $1 Trillion Dollars. Bill Gates Craps Pants!

 

And now for the one that nobody called me on:

Wow, Twitter + Digg = 1755 New Subscribers over the Weekend!

The truth is I only have about 90 subscribers, which is still good for 2 weeks!

The one that got the most talked about, surprisingly was the one about Problogger, apparently he's more popular than Google buying Microsoft. (By most talked about I'm going by # of comments received)

Everyone who is anyone yesterday was pulling off some kind of prank.  There were many great pranks - the best though, would have to be my wife's.

We've been trying to have a baby for 2 years now, and haven't been that successful, in fact that's one of the main motivations for me - to become successful so that we can do some of the more expensive infertility treatments out there. She is on medicine for PCOS, a female disorder, that when she goes off the medicine she needs to take a Pregnancy test (she takes it for 10 days per month.)

So this morning I walk in the bathroom, and see a test and it's positive. I was like what the ____?! She's like oh..yeah I'm pregnant, and I'm like really? She's like - No.. Gottya!.. I must say it was definitely a good one, she had me for a minute..lol.

Around the blogosphere there were tons of april fool's day jokes.

 

Google had a great day of jokes:

1. Google's Scratch and Sniff E-Books
2. Google talk, in order to reduce chat-based CO2 emissions, is going to be cutting back on useless characters. EG: "As far as I'm Concerned" becomes "AFAIC".
3. Then there's Google & Virgin Mobile's plan to colonize mars called project 'Virgle'. Read the official blog post, or watch the youtube video.
4. There was also talk of OpenGoogle, which apparently lets you create a seach engine of your own, that has a custom ranking algorithm, and a personalized interface. You can choose from 100 different ranking criterion, including: Page's self importance, # of original ideas, IQ of Author / Webmaster, Number of links from Wikipedia, this was originally posted by ionut here, apparently Google's system also gave Ionut an IQ of 125, of which he says they're 50 off. He wouldn't state, in which direction they're off though.. So could be 75 or 175 - my bet is 75. 
5. Also on google docs if you clicked on the New tab, it gave you the option of creating a 'New Airplane', which would then create a document with a paper-plane layout design.
6. Gmail, utilizing a new eflux-capacitor technology, can now send emails to the future and the past. Their new initiative is called: "Custom Time"
7. According to Seach Engine Land, Microsoft - Google's biggest competitor is going to pay people $1,000,000/year NOT to use Google. If this is the case - count me in! LOL.
8. Google Calendar has a new "Wake-up kit", includes bucket of water mechanism. It uses progressively more aggressive approaches to waking a person up, starting with an SMS message, ending with a bucket of water in the face.
9. Virtual Tourism Blog found that Google Street View censors it's Competitors like Yahoo.
10. Google's myspace clone - Orkut, turned into 'Yogurt'.
11. Google added 'I'm feeling Lucky' feature to google Calendar, so you can add a random event, for instance 'Date with Anna Kournikova', (or George Bush, Lois Griffin, etc...)
12. The google sight-seeing blog reports new viewing options in google earth and google maps - xray and thermal energy. Now you can see inside buildings!
13. Google also launched "Adsense for conversations".
14. The french Abondance Blog announced that Google is the new sponsor of the Paris Saint Germain football club, they backed it up with photo evidence, as well.
15. ReadWriteWeb reported on Google's new 'Dream Ads'.
16. Google's Matt Cutt's apparently skipped April Fool's this year, and instead got a Firefox tattoo(Suspicious?)
17. Also on google earth, it was reported that if you zoom out far enough, you can view all the continents as one, as it might have looked a million years ago.
18. The sun discovered an UFO on Google Earth.

Some other notable Pranks:

1. Youtube rickrolled everyone big-time, and so did JohnChow. This apparently pissed off a lot of his subscribers / patrons. Chris Jacobson from Money Making Scoop states that he lost some work he was working on because of the javascript popups. John Chow even reported a lot of comments to the effect of people un-subscribing, because of the RickRoll.
2. Daniel at Daily Blog Tips, announced they were acquired for $168,000 - that was NOT true, he also announced on Daily Writing tips, that English was becoming the official language of the Internet.
3. Problogger Darren Rowse's launch of "Pay Per Tweet" was obviously a gimmick - admittedly I fell for it, and sent an email to the email address he had for it.
4. You can also check out Tech Crunch's lawsuit for $25 Million against Facebook.
5. Then there's John Chow Cola - the Official Soda of Bloggers everywhere.
6. WinningTheWeb added a hummer h3 to their huge contest.
7. Garry Conn got banned from Adsense and lost like $13,000. I knew this was a prank because he didn't seem as upset as he should've been.
8. Bloggingfingers, obviously copying my prank, hehe.. Broke into the 23k subscribers realm.
9. Digg to buy Microsoft as shares fall..
10. Darn Good Reviews announced soap made from frogs that washes away fat.
11. Chris Pirillo apparently got in fight with wife and quit job.
12. Shoemoney wrote a good post on how to make $100000 in an hour.
13. Discounted Airfare - if you're willing to stand.
14. Tech2 spoke of India banning foreign Social Networks.
15. Mahalo's interview with Steve Jobs.
16. New Music Mask, turns your face into a musical Instrument.
17. TimeTraVLr Builds your website yesterday, using Web3.0 Technology and 50% more Ajax!
18. Thinkgeek is selling a Betamax to HD-DVD convertor.
19. IRS considers giving bloggers  tax exempt status.
20. Njection is offering real-time tracking of police officers, and tells you what crime they're responding to.
21. E-harmony founder finds true love...At Match.com!
22. Ades' Blog is going RSS - ONLY!
23. Joel Comm finds way to totally get rid of Spam.
24. Trust Banners - Enforces Guaranteed Brand Loyalty.
25. Thinkgeek also has a new USB Pregnancy Test.
26. You can also check out Gearlog's Poop-brown Ipod, in support of those with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
27. You can also read about Apple's launch of I-phone Enterprise Infrastructure Server (IpEnIS for short).
28. Also Nintendo WII launches a new virtual peeing game called the super PII PII Brothers. I can see lawsuits saying the game is sexist, after-all males would seem to have an advantage...

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UPDATE!!!! THIS POST WAS ONLY A JOKE.

Apparently someone posted it on Darren's Wikipedia page, and all hell broke loose.

In order to keep seo continuity I won't delete the post entirely - BUT I do want to let everyone know that it was just an April Fool's day Joke. For all of those who say I was early. It was April Fool's day in Australia at the time. Remember not everywhere in the world is sharing the same day / time that you are.

Apparently some have taken offense to this post, I do apologize to those, including Darren. I did not mean to defame your character or person. I hope this addendum to this post will prove that point.

Problogger is Bankrupt!

Darren Rowse, probably one of the most famous and talked about bloggers in the blogosphere is filing bankruptcy. Apparently, his blog has been a farce, and he was 'faking it till making it'.

The truth is that he never was making it. The most he's earned is $1000 in a month, which went to bandwidth fees, and server hosting. His wife is threatening divorce if he doesn't call it quits.

He has spent his savings, and built up a lot in credit card debt, in order to be able to go to all the blogging conventions, and build up connections which he swore would make him rich, but never really delivered.

He states, that if I fail, then everyone does. Which makes sense since his blog is one of the most trafficked out there. He is the authority on making money blogging, and to find out the Authority is broke, is quite dis-heartening.

This truly is a sad day for blogging, as it - pretty much means that all of us trying to make money on this should give up and go home. Go back to school, or get a real job, at a factory or something.

Wait - why am I wasting my time writing this post then? I quit!

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A man struggling to put a hole in his ceiling, while installing a Directv system ends up killing his wife.

Talk about killing two birds with one stone....err Bullet.  (Satellite TV installed and No More Nagging)

Apparently, Ronald Long of Deepwater, MO thought it would be a good idea, as he was having troubles doing it the normal way, you know - with tools. Apparently he was having trouble breaking through the external wall of the house. The bullet went up - up -up arched and landed in his wife's chest who was outside at the time.

Patsy Long, 34, of Deepwater was rushed to the hospital immediately, but was declared dead on arrival.

Officials are determining whether they should file charges. Spokesman for the Sheriff's department said that a person involved in such a case, could be brought up on charges of manslaughter.

This guy - truly wins the Dumbass of the week Award!

*Personal Note: It's a funny story, definitely strange, some people really aren't the brightest bulb in the pack. But it's also a sad story, she was a young mother trying to raise her children, and now their father is probably going to end up in prison. Sad to see how fast so many lives can be ruined - because of one stupid mistake.

[KCTV5 via BoingBoing via Gizmodo]

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Either you're really good, and they gotta share the news with their friends, or you're really bad and just altogether bored. I'm hoping for the former, but texting during sex is actually a common thing believe it or not.

I know my wife would kill me if I did this, and I'd strangle her and blame the cat if she did.

According to a Mashable post, 10% - that's 1 in 10 people under age 25 think it's perfectly ok to text while having sex. I'm going to bet that these 10% are also the ones who would text during a funeral, wedding, while crossing the street, or driving a car.

Further 6% over the age of 25 think that texting while having sex is ok.

"A recent survey by consumer electronics shopping and review site Retrevo uncovered the disturbing statistic along with a few other generation gap metrics, including under 25s being far more likely to think it’s okay to text during meals or while in the bathroom." -mashable.

With the proliferation of mobile phones, and smartphones full of applications it makes sense that more and more of our 'private time will be devoted to our online lives, but is texting during sex a little too much, too soon? Or do you think that it's perfectly normal and ok?

Image Credits: Gawker and found_drama..

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Ahh national Boobquake day. A wonder of wonders... Oh what is this? You haven't heard of the newest national holiday?

Apparently a popular cleric mentioned last week that women's lack of modesty is the cause of earthquakes around the world. Now I personally find that hard to believe, unless maybe we had every women in the world jumping up and down (now guys don't get that image stuck in your head). Thanks to Mashable and Neville Hobson, I learned about this event, and a Facebook Page that has literally exploded around the term BOOBQuake, which was launched by Jen McCreight, it literally has had over 177,000 "confirmed" guests, and 57,000 "maybe's" who are going to 'test' the cleric's theory today, by wearing skimpier than normal attire.

I'm not writing this to start a Holy War, last thing I need is some terrorist chasing me around, however what I did do is come up with a way to monetize this holiday, as well as give something back to 'Boobies' everywhere for making this day possible.

Here are some fashionable BoobQuake T-Shirts that I designed. 25% of my commission on these will be going to the Susan G Komen foundation for Breast Cancer. It only makes sense that Crowd-sourced event surrounding boobies, go towards keeping our boobies safe.

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Apparently all those fun 8 bit games from Atari, that we all thought were cheesy and lame, have invaded New York City, and are taking over Manhattan as we speak.

Beware these are gruesome images of tetris  blocks falling on buildings, a giant frog hopping through traffic, Donkey Kong flinging barrels, and God save us from the space invaders!

Disclaimer : This is a parody, short film, and not a real warning. Some of my readers aren't smart enough to figure this out, so I have to include this disclaimer for those of you who are freaking stupid. Everybody else, move along please there's nothing to see here!

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Vote 4 Kenneth the Page - Your Next Commander and Chief!

Just announcing his Campaign is 30 Rock's own Kenneth the page. If you're undecided, and just don't know who to vote for - Kenneth is your manchild. Kenneth knows how to get things done. err - at least he's NOT Sarah Palin!

Kenneth the Page just announced his campaign today, and already he's leading in many polls. Kenneth promises furry bunnies for every little boy and girl. He also promises to have a free pudding day, where everybody gets free pudding - in lieu of tax cuts.

Vote for Kenneth, or at least Pedro. But for the love of everything holy, don't vote for McCain!

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