These folks here RSS and News Aggregating Shit Splogs are trying to confound search engines by stringing together RSS posts and news posts and then using that to organically boost their page ranks.
These pages then link to pages like this one which certainly violates the terms of use of Google Adsense. Reported to the [...]

I was looking for a CMS that can run a typical software site, but ended up looking at Hot Banana. This looks interesting:
Landing Page Manager - All aspects of Landing Page creation and management is looked after by Hot Banana. Landing Pages have built-in lead tracking from multiple lead sources (search engines, affiliates, email campaigns [...]

This is the most creative use of a banner ad that I’ve ever seen. (That’s a gif file, posing as a text-ad appearing in the top fold of a major online daily newspaper)

Which then leads to this powersqueeze page.

I’m making little bits of headway with ASDF on Clisp (Windows).
Earlier I couldn’t get the asdf sources from Sourceforge via anonymous CVS checkout. The ASDF entry on CLiki is quite misleading in this regard. I suspect CVS has been turned off or never turned on in the project. The good news is that I [...]

So MySpace has to monetize their website.
And I happen to be listening to daughter of the late Ken Gidden on the System Seminar blog. Here’s Ken’s list of 11 Income streams for websites

Adsense
Display ads, newsletter ads - premium positional listing for a year
E-books
Newsletters
Subscription
Affiliate programs
Directory submissions
Tagged on to the content website, directory submissions

Three way linking A-B, [...]

Here are some notes taken during a quick session with CLISP.

The McGurk Effect. Now you’ve heard it. Go observe it. (Quicktime required)
If you’re a non-English speaker can you please comment whether the McGurk effect still works on you.

Gary Halbert was playing with Google Maps and pops out a few outstanding ideas of using it to do direct marketing.
Go read Marketing from Outer Space.

Use Master
GO
Select owning_principal_name, instance_pipe_name
FROM sys.dm_os_child_instances
GO

HOSTNAME\UserName \\.\pipe\4104C6A7-5175-45\tsql\query

Connect to
np:\\.\pipe\4104C6A7-5175-45\tsql\query