Site Of The Week: Part 1
So I was messing around on the internet instead of working…nothing new. But after I came across a bunch of really neat sites I decided to start doing a post every Friday entitled Site Of The Week. We all know that by the time Friday comes, we need a little something to get us over the 9-5 slump that our jobs seem to put us in. No real rhyme or reason for any of these sites. I just want to find something interesting, innovative, or just plain different, to prove that beyond popular belief, you have not surfed to every site on the web.
This week’s site is http://www.dontclick.it/. It’s basically an experimental site where all the navigation is controlled by just rolling your mouse over the item.
Get The New Yahoo! Mail Beta
Yahoo! Mail released their beta quite a while ago. I kept hearing all these stories about how great it was. I tried every hack, workaround, and trick I could find but I was never able to get my hands on it. Well, I finally have, and it is an amazing piece of software.
This blows Gmail and the new Live Mail (formally Hotmail) out of the water. The design is perfect and the functionality forces me to wonder why they didn’t just release the final version.
Here’s the good news for you if you want to test it out on your own Yahoo! account. I have the link that will allow you to sign up and get in on the action. After I signed up, it took a little less than a week for them to accept me into the beta.
See The New Freedom Tower Design
This is pretty cool. I like the fact that they are only going with one enormous building rather than two buildings. The story states the building will be 1,776 feet high (yes, 1776 was deliberate).
Maybe The Most Important Invention Ever
So I just bought a new cell phone from Cingular. I got rid of the Razr V3 because I had nothing but problems with it (I went through 4 of them). Now I have the Sony Ericsson Walkman, and it sucks. The phone will just turn it self off randomly and I have had people tell me that they called me and were told that the number was disconnected.
Survey says: Cingular blows.
Where am I going with this? I need to get a new phone and LG has produced the holy grail of all cell phones: A phone that prevents drunk dialing. There is a GOD!
Yes, the LP4100 has a built in breathalyzer that will display an animation of a car swerving and running into some traffic cones if you are above the legal limit.
Maybe The Funniest Headline Of The Year
A report by Fox News was released about a week ago. The heading?
“Man Robbed by Teen Girls, Thought He was Meeting MySpace Friend”
Give me a minute to stop laughing.
Ok…hahaaa…sorry. What an idiot.
The victim was a Jacksonville man who said he was chatting with someone named “Natalia” on the popular social networking site MySpace. He stated her profile showed sexy photos of her with the quote “just lookin’ for something fun.” They talked for about two weeks and she said she wanted to meet. The man went to the woman’s apartment and knocked on the door, but there was no answer. He then called her, still no answer.
Do You Know What The 4th Amendment States?
If you can answer “yes” to the question above, please send a resume to the NSA immediately.
If you haven’t seen the video, watch it first (less than 2 minutes).
…These are the people watching over me? These are the people wire-tapping my phone? These are the people who want the last two years of my internet records stored by every ISP in the United States? These are the people protecting me from terrorists?
America. Believe Me. We Are Screwed.
Squeaky Clean Apple Promotes “Slave” Labor
Well, maybe not exactly slave labor in its strictest definition, but Apple has finally admitted to breaking Chinese labor laws.
About a month ago stories started surfacing about what people were calling an “iPod city”. A place where workers slept, ate and worked (and from the admission of guilt, they didn’t do it in that order). This was their home, not just some building they came to work at every morning. Apple denied all claims as bogus and without warrant. Until yesterday…
…Ooooh, that sweat-shop. I thought you were talking about the other one. Our bad.
Yes, apparently the company that paints a picture of itself as the God-child of the tech industry is also the slave-master that forces Chinese workers to put in an extra 80 hours of work every month.
My Quest For Number 1 In Google
For anyone who doesn’t know what I’ve been up to for the past two years (most of that time, I, myself was included), I’ve been working for a small internet marketing company in Dallas, TX. I figured now that my site is up and running, I was going to put my skills to the test and see how fast I could get spidered, indexed, and climb in the ranking of the three main search engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Let’s start with a review of what internet marketing really is. Let me answer your first question. NO, I am not the guy who puts popups, spyware, adware, and viruses on your computer. That is your bad browsing habits or the “black hat” marketers. Internet marketers focus more on selling information products, or creating web pages that can generate income through different types of advertising.
CEO For A Day = You For A Year
A new CNNMoney report came out today letting the average US worker know they are worthless and taken for granted. They average worker makes close to $42,000 a year. The CEO of a *large company makes $42,000 a day!
This means that after one year of work, the “average” CEO makes 262 times the amount of money you or myself made, well, at least what you made. My equation may be closer to 500 times more…
I don’t have a problem with someone making a ridiculous amount of money, if they earn it. The problem I see with the CEO’s of today is that they seem to be more of figureheads, than strong leaders pushing their companies to the promise land. The way the world works, or at least what I have been taught, the harder you work the more you are needed and in return, the more you are paid. This seems to be a little backwards once you get to be a part of the higher-ups, especially in a large company.
“Not Everyday You Get To Play Basketball With Terrell Owens”
…Thank God
So I went to 24 Hour Fitness today to play basketball like I always do. The only difference is I normally don’t play with professional athletes. Terrell Owens and one of his buddies were in the gym shooting around when I got there. We ended up playing a couple of games which he dunked on pretty much everyone who wasn’t on his team, although given the chance, it wouldn’t surprise me if he tried dunked on one of his teammates.
He hit a few long range jumpers and even took the time to sign a few autographs…oh wait, it didn’t go like that at all. He took the time to belittle one of the players who was half his size and was just trying to get a little exercise in. That’s a good way to start your stay in Dallas.
