How big of a blog chain do you think can be made? Let’s find out:
Check out the trackback link on this entry to see who has linked to it. Keep following the trackbacks until you find a blog with no trackbacks. Link your blog to the end of the chain.
Voilà! Blog chain letter! Wasn’t that fun?
From the pages of the really really bizzare: the popular musician Pink gets her nipples tweaked before going on stage each night.
“I need my nipples squeezed before every show. It gets me pumped to go on stage. My assistant Jackie has it down to a fine art”
http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=36460&cat=Entertainment
When talking to strangers about Hotmail the most frequent complaint tends to be about Spam. This is often followed by the complaint that their block list is full and they can’t block any more Spammers.
Know what? The block list is terrible for blocking Spammers. Know why? Because each time a Spammer sends out a new piece of junk e-mail they change their address so you can’t easily block them. The block list does work, but it really just works for that annoying ex-friend who won’t stop sending you the latest e-mail humor (which happened to be the latest e-mail humor three years ago and you’ve already seen it, oh… about a bazillion times).
The best thing you can do to stem the flow of junk is turn on Hotmail’s Junk E-Mail filter. You won’t stop junk e-mail entirely, but you will slow it down (I’ll tell you later how to totally stop it, but the solution is not for everyone). To turn on the junk e-mail filter for your Hotmail account you can take one of two paths…
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From the Hotmail Home page (the first page you see when you sign in) click on the red “Junk E-Mail folder:” link. |
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If you have the Junk E-Mail filter turned off, you’ll get the prompt to turn on the filter. Set the filter to “Enhanced” then click the OK button. Why is there no “Off” you ask? Perhaps I’ll get into that some other time. |
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No, clicking on that one link on the home page is not the only way to access the Junk E-Mail settings. You’ll find, in fact, that once the filter is on, clicking that link simply drops you into the Junk E-Mail folder. To turn on the filter in options, or to adjust it at a later date, you need to start by going to options (the link’s at the top right of your Hotmail page). |
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Make sure you’re on the Mail options page by clicking the “Mail” in the left hand column. |
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Click Junk E-Mail Protection. |
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Click Junk E-Mail Filter. |
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Tired of clicking yet? Don’t worry, almost done. Now, just as in the first section, set your filter to Enhanced and click the OK button to save. |  |
One final tip: add your friend’s e-mail addresses to your address book to tell Hotmail you always want to get their mail. Hotmail will rarely (if I say never I’m sure I’ll be proven wrong :)) put mail from a friend in the Junk E-Mail folder.
I’ll be happy to get into more details later… but I think I’ve already tried everyone’s patience enough with 7 pictures in one blog entry. 🙂
Because every little kid loves building a fort out of couch cushions and sheets (I know, not “every” kid, but bear with me) there is a great market for grown ups who want a fort too. Enter 20th Century Castles, a real easte company specializing in decommissioned missile bases.
How cool would it be to have a house with thousands of square feet of underground space? You thought the basement was cool when you were a kid? You need a house that’s almost all basement.
Not to mention, this will be a great place to live when the whole world goes to hell because we’re doomed as a race and…
Oops, there I go again.
A cool Google feature (and there are many, perhaps I’ll post them later) is the ability to search for sites which link to a particular site. This is cool because searching for the text “little.org” won’t necessarily find me all the sites which link to me. To do a search for your site simply type “link:yourURL” into the Google search. Any site which links to your URL (you can type just the root, e.g. little.org) will be listed. Turns out Omar links to me a lot (Hi Omar!).
So… while stroking my own ego, I came across Mark’s site. I’m not quite sure why he links to me but I’ll have to ask (I hope it’s not someone I know and I’m just being an airhead, how embarrassing). At any rate… there’s a link to my site with the display of “calittleblog” but I wasn’t able to find any other reference to my site in Mark’s blog entries. Oh well, another Internet mystery. I suppose I could just wait for him to find my site…
Hi Mark!
…and Slate is here to help you choose your new Guru. Don’t just skim the article and move on, make sure you scroll down to the bottom and read their “handy guru guide”.
My favorite part: the assertion that if Deepak Chopra wasn’t a guru he’d be “Managing a Eurotrash Nightclub.”
Steve Stanzak had been sleeping in the basement at NYU for 8 months when school officials discovered his web log describing the experience. The student apparently had four jobs, a scholarship and was receiving no tuition help from his parents. The $15K scholarship would lower his tuition to around $16K a year but tack on the $7K to $17K a year for housing and he wasn’t able to make ends meet.
This story really proves how well our Universities are preparing our students for the real world. Steve’s major? Creative writing. Yep, prepare to work long hours, eat out of dumpsters and live in a cardboard box dude!
Travel John has the answer for the wandering coffee addict, it’s the disposable urinal bag. Rumor has it these handy gel packs are standard equipment in PacBell trucks.
It’s a clever idea… but did they have to make the page yellow?
… they’d have protection against mind control as well.
These guys have managed to protect their money from government snooping, but their brains are still exposed. Will they never learn?
As with many things in my life, I’ve mixed feelings about this one…
I’m not fond of killing animals… but blowing stuff up is cool!Â
Here it is… the Rodenator. Inspired by Caddy Shack, the inventor created a system that pumps propane and oxygen into the homes of burrowing animals… then ignites the mixture with impressive results.
Check out their videos page… then go make a donation to PETA if you feel dirty.
