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  • General Stuff
    • Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates is fascinating.
    • If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.
    • Top Ten Favorite Numbers
    • I guess if hanging out with beautiful women, on the beach, in Spain, drinking, on a Tuesday afternoon, while being ridiculously rich is your definition of “cool”, then… yeah, being Leonardo diCaprio is probably fun.
    • When you’re old, you have to have something to give you pleasure.
    • So what does all this mean if you’re ambidextrous?
    • I read Men’s Health and Sports Illustrated all the time. I never read Time or Newsweek. This is why.
    • I can’t see any special effects, but I find it hard to believe that this amazing waterslide jump real.
    • Coke vs. Pepsi: The truth about the logos.
    • About a decade ago I worked for a company that did “every-other-Friday-off” and I thought it was extraordinary.
  • Techie Stuff
    • The Smoking Gun catches a loser.
    • Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update. If you have a Mac, click the little Apple logo in the top left and choose “Software Update…” to update your system. (This means you, mom.)
    • To keep the Google Analytics code from interfering with page rendering you can use jQuery to load and execute the ga.js file.
    • PHP comes with a bunch of functions designed to help you manage URLs.
    • And speaking of URLs… Comcast will now send you to a crap spam page if you type an URL incorrectly.
  • Gator Stuff
    • Urban Meyer: This is it.
    • The University of Tennessee has some serious issues.
    • Welcome back, Riley!
    • College Football Preseason Top 25 Power Rankings: Cheerleader Edition

#aging #apple #coca-cola #dailydavid #death #domain names #google #mortality #numbers #sports illustrated #statistics #weblinks

A Look Back to the Future

This is sure to be wildly popular: Google 2001. “In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.” How cool is that? It’s pretty funny to do some searches to see what they’d indexed. I’m strangely proud to note, of course, that

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#archives #google #history #search #search engine optimization

Plaxo Is Stealing Comments

In which a tech startup gets sneaky

#blogging #email #google #outlook #rants #search engine optimization #software

Improve Your AdSense

An excellent tutorial from G: AdSense Optimization Demo

#advertising #blogging #google #search engine optimization

A Rant about Keywords and URLs

A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere

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#google #marketing #rants #scams #search engine optimization #urls #web design

Section Targeting

Whoa. I don’t know how I haven’t seen this yet. Google lets you target specific sections of your page as more or less relevant to AdSense. This should be required reading for all bloggers and — hell — should be part of the default WP install … What is section targeting and how do I

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#advertising #blogging #google #search engine optimization

Excellent Failure – Google Bombs Away!

US President George W. Bush has been Google bombed. A search for “miserable failure” on the popular search engine Google brings up, as the first link, the official biography of Bush provided by the White House. This can be done because Google does not only search the contents of web pages, it also counts how

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#google #government #politics #search engine optimization #search engines

Book Learning

“Google is beginning to have a subtle, but noticeable effect on research. More and more scholarly publications are putting up their issues in PDF format, which Google indexes as though they were traditional Web pages. But almost no one is publishing entire books online in PDF form. So, when you’re doing research online, Google is

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#google #internet #search #search engine optimization

Nutshell

If you haven’t installed the Nutshell Toolbar yet, do it today. This is one of the most useful things on my computer and I use it probably fifty times each day. (I linked to it many, many months ago. I just gave it to a friend today and thought I should hand out some extra

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#google #internet explorer #search #software

You Never Give Me Your Money

In which I rank highly for some odd terms

#google #paul mccartney #search #search engine optimization

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