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This post talks about some tips on how you can optimize your blog for traffic, as well as how to trick out your MySpace profile and get the most out of your Amazon.com picks. A lot of this is common sense for some, however, it might be a good idea to give it a look [...]

Blizzard and Xfire are sponsoring a fan video contest for World of Warcraft. The grand prize is $23,000. There are 4 categories for entries, short film, comedy, drama/action and dance/music video. The deadline for all entries is September 15.
Film Your Own Elf Porn, Win Big Prizes - Kotaku

Using some clever configuration with a dash of Perl scripting, you can have lots of fun messing around with their Internet experience. Some of the examples of things listed here are turning all of the images upside down, and blurring all the images. However, if you know enough Perl (or I suppose any other scripting [...]

Brand new CG trailer of FFIII for the Nintendo DS. Looks reminiscent of the PSX Final Fantasy games in terms of graphics. If I get a DS anytime soon, I might just have to pick this up.

YouTube - FFIII New Trailer [via Joystiq]

Thanks to the PlayStation 3’s high price (both manufacturing and retail), Sony will probably continue to lose money unless the console ends up being a wild success, exceeding all sales expectations. With a retail price tag of $600 that doesn’t sound all that likely, especially since both Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii (and in [...]

Do you have a MacBook Pro? Are you in need of a case, and don’t have money for one, or just don’t want to look like yet another member of the MacBook Pro owning crowd with one of those store-bought sleeves that cost $20 or more? Well now you can make your own, out of [...]

Private Infringer (a character in the story) has to deal with Major Restrictions (another character in the story) trying to stop him from committing the Digital Millenium Copyright act. This is the second chapter in the series, in which Private Infringer must assert his rights against stupid intellectual property laws and media companies. The series [...]

Over at MSNBC, they have an article on how people are making real money from online contextual advertising. Examples mentioned include:

PodCastDirectory.com, making $40,000 a year in advertising revenue.
Freeweblayouts.net, making $100,000 a month.
SeatGuru.com - $10,000 to $20,000 a month.

Google was also mentioned to be making $997 million from AdSense in the second quarter of 2006.WP: Ad [...]

1. Provide some information on bury actions
One of the biggest criticisms of Digg is the fact that stories keep mysteriously disappearing from the front page. There are conspiracy theories going around claiming that Digg is not 100% user driven because of this. Digg’s response is that people keep burying the stories from the front page, [...]

Have you ever read a complex research paper and couldn’t understand what was actually going on? Well, this handy little reference here can help you figure out more accurately what is being said.
Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases