Damien Mulley

Seem’s Steven‘s Virginity For Sale post is getting him a good deal of traffic. His post appears on the front page of Google for the search phrase: Virginity for sale. It makes me smile that Steven has learned to pimp virginity. 🙂

Via boards.ie, It seems if you order a free book made by Hellmans, you can avail of free postage for anything else you add to your order.

Simply go here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/hellmanns, add the book to your cart, click on “Proceed to the checkout”, choose your postal address and on the payment page add the gift certificate code “HELLMANAMZN2” and click to continue. Choose a payment method for the rest of the order.

You should now notice that postage for the other items are free. Handy for Christmas shopping.

He beat the Irish Times to a story.

Send Steve Ballmer monopoly money. Funny. For about 5 seconds.

How to be a shit boss. How to be a good boss.

A new way to multiply. Just don’t use anything with the number 4 or higher in it.

Google’s WebOS?

Careful when posting pics of your desktop.

How cocaine is made:

And on the same theme, Withnail and I:

More Withnail and I fun.

So the Marketing Pilgrim blog is offering a prize draw for anyone that subscribes to their blog and as the amount of subscribers increases, the prize gets better. Oddly though there only appear to be 7 blogs linking to the blog post itself. Or maybe 8 now. You’d think there’d be more. This I suppose is very like the old competitions to get people to sign up to newsletters though subscribing and unsubscribing to RSS is much easier and there’s no fear of getting further spammed.

Still I wonder is this a way of getting genuine subscribers? Regular readers who do not sub might sign up but I guess the barrier to entry for RSS subscribers is still high or they would have already signed-up. Maybe IE7 will start changing that along with other common applications that start incorporating RSS reading technology.

How would you try and increase the number of subscribers to your blog? I’m not sold on something gimmicky like winning an iPod. I have an icon or two on the sidebar telling people how they can subscribe. Should there be an option in every post? Or on the most popular posts? But then what is the need to have more RSS subscribers besides the ego boost of seeing x dozen people have to suffer your links to YouTube?

Payback’s a bitch. Undermining 2.0.

Worst Internet Aquisitions ever.

Watch Arrested Development online on MSN.

Circumventing the water-damage stickers hidden in your mobiles.

“We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too”. Where’s Mel Gibson when you need him?

21 James Bond Title Sequences. One after the other.

Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds (live)

Final KLF video – KLF – What time is love?

Atheists are the new gays says Dilbert creator. Atheists are coming out of their closets ever since 9/11 he says.

Things you may not have known about AIDS in Africa.

Nintendo NES guitar.

Free ad supported mobile phones.

Michael Moore makes some supposed olive branch gesture to Republicans but it reads as totally condescending. Remember Michael, that it was a majority voted in all those Republican senators and congressmen and it was a large chunk of the country that voted in George W. Bush, twice. The Dems will do as they always have and righteously piss off many of those that gave them the chance to do good and alienate those that didn’t give them a chance by questioning their intelligence. It might be best to stick to making almost-factual documentaries and not rubbing the noses of millions into the shitpile they helped create.

Battlestar Galactica Clip set to Soundgarden – Blow up the outside world:

Original song and videof for Soundgarden’s Blow up the outside world:

Lyrics to Blow up the outside world.

A good few years back BMW did the BMW Films project. They got some gifted directors to create short films that featured the BMW product range. Each director created some great movies and the cinematography really showed off the BMWs. Below are some of those films. The driver in each film is Clive Owen.

Ambush – Directed by John Frankenheimer, he of Ronin fame and written by Andrew Kevin Walker, he of Se7en fame.

Chosen – Directed by Ang Lee, just before he made the really really awful “The Hulk”.

The Follow – Directed by Wong Kar Wai of “In the mood for love” fame. Possibly the best of the films.

Star – Directed by Guy Richie where he absolutely takes the piss out of his wife. Stars Madonna as a super-egotistical music star.

Powder Keg directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, he of 21 Grams and Babel and Amores Perros fame.

Beat the Devil – directed by Tony Scott and starring James Brown and Gary Oldman

JP Rangaswami is starting the tag idea of newtailblog which suggests that if you want to promote a blogger than isn’t greatly known, you blog about them and use the “newtailblog” tag.

Cool idea. Now speaking of which. The latest new blogs on the block are posted over on the awards site.