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How to Opt-Out of Online People Search Databases

You know how you can just enter anyone’s name into Google, ZabaSearch, WhitePages.com, or other people-oriented search engine and be pretty much assured that you’ll be able to get their name, address, phone number, list of last known relatives, and birthdate without even trying very hard?  All that information is available for free without too much effort for practically anyone who bothers to go looking for it.

PrivacyRights.org has compiled a PRIVACY RIGHTS DIRECTORY OF OPT-OUT DIRECTIONS for those of you who would like to removed yourself from appearing in those online directories.  It won’t remove you from the original sources that these directories pull from, and the directories don’t make any promises that you won’t re-appear in the future – but at least most of these search sites offer some way to limit the amount of information that’s available about you online to the casual web surfer.

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Flash Fun: KENKEN, the new puzzle craze

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Now that you’ve finally figured out how to play SUDOKU puzzles, isn’t it about time to take your numbers grid skills to the next level?  Sure it is –
try KENKEN!
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A kenken puzzle is relatively straightforward.  Just like in sudoku, you have to fill in numbers in rows and columns without duplicates.   But there’s a catch….

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This Is Why You’re Fat

It’s no secret that Americans are called many names around the world: Fatty McFat, Lardo Plumpenstein, Big Assinator – to name a few.

This has not gone unnoticed by the people who run THIS IS WHY YOU’RE FAT, a photo essay on the crappy, yet tasty, food that we eat almost every day.

Yes, your favorites are here:  bacon, cheese, bacon-wrapped cheese, cheese-wrapped bacon, fried bacon, bacon fries, bacon on pizza, pizza on bacon, bacon-covered bacon, candied bacon ice cream, the bacon donut, and everything in between.  No, not everything shown is bacon-related, but it might as well be that way.

The real question is, how many of these foods have you tried yourself?

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Your Fonts

Sometimes you have a need to add some text electronically (whether it be in Microsoft Word or in a graphic of some sort), and you want to do it in your own handwriting.  Or maybe you want to electronically add your signature, but don’t like having it available as a single graphic.

Before now, your only option was to use your mouse – awkward! – or try to hookup with somebody who has one of those pen tablets that you might be able to borrow.  In other words, there weren’t a whole lot of options.

But now there’s Your Fonts. 

All you need to do is download their single sheet template and write on it with your favorite marker with your special handwriting style.  Use your scanner to scan the template into an electronic form, and upload the form to the site. Your True Type font will be ready for you in minutes, waiting to be used in whatever application you want to put it in.

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Become a World Champion Auctioneer

You’ve seen good auctioneers and bad auctioneers.  But now you can become a WORLD CHAMPION AUCTIONEER yourself, for the low low price of $2,750 for the multi-day course.

See, it ends up that a bad auctioneer is really bad.  We’ve all been to those auction situations where the host ends up saying stuff like “I’ve been bid $50.  Do I hear $100 for this?  Anyone?  100?  How about you sir?  In the back, I see $75. Okay, now we’re at $75.”   I mean, it’s a real bore.  No wonder amateur auctions never raise as much money as you’d think.  Heck, we all saw what happend on The Real Housewives Of Atlanta when they tried to run a charity auction with NeNe, who had absolutely no clue how to run an auction, and they ended up raising practically nothing out of a stated goal of $1million.

A good auctioneer has an auction chant that this course will help get down pat.  You’ve heard it — “fowty-now-fowtyfibe-now-fibe-wiyagimme-fowtyfibe-now-fifty”.  This World Champion Auctioneer school believes in their teaching philosophy so much that they tell you up front that if you’ve never been to an auctioneer school before, you should go somewhere else before trying to become a World Champion Auctioneer.

I know what you’re saying – they may have the course, but does it live up to snuff?  Hell, yeah it does.  Some of their past students include:

  • Jill Marie Wiles, the International Women’s Champion
  • Matt Lowery, the 2008 World Champion Livestock Auctioneer
  • Trent Stewart, the 2007 World Champion Livestock Auctioneer
  • Gene Claft, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Auctioneer Champion
  • Michael Imbrogad, the Pacific World Reserve Champion Auctioneer
  • …and countless other winners and finalists

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The 20 Male Poses of Facebook Photos

For all of you with a Facebook account (or MySpace, or Linkedin, or Friendster, or whatever the next new social networking site happens to be), you will be well served by checking out THE 20 MALE POSES OF FACEBOOK and being sure NOT to find yourself imitating any of these shots.

Of course, if you do find yourself posting a profile picture that fits one of those categories, your best bet would be to claim that it was done purposefully, in a jokey ironic “hey, look at how cliche I am” kind of way as opposed to the “Yo, I’m doing this because it’s cool and unique” way you had originally intended.

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Playboy’s List of Top Party Schools 2008

Playboy has released their list of the TOP 10 PARTY SCHOOLS FOR 2008:

  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  2. University of California, Santa Barbara
  3. Arizona State University
  4. Indiana University Bloomington
  5. San Diego State University
  6. Florida State University
  7. Ohio University
  8. University of Georgia
  9. University of Tennessee
  10. McGill University

For comparison purposes, take a look at who is on the Princeton Review’s list of the top ten party schools, based on a survey of 120,000 students:

  1. University of Florida
  2. University of Mississippi
  3. Penn State University
  4. West Virginia University
  5. Ohio University
  6. Randolph-Macon College
  7. University of Georgia
  8. University of Texas
  9. University of California-Santa Barbara
  10. Florida State University
  11. University of New Hampshire
  12. University of Iowa
  13. University of Colorado
  14. Indiana University
  15. Tulane University
  16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  17. Arizona State University
  18. University of Tennessee
  19. University of Alabama
  20. Loyola University-New Orleans

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Glamorati: for the Celeb-Obsessed Fans

The Glamorati blog has a few choice articles for you celeb-obsessed fans.

  • 20 actors that turned down big roles. Oh, what could have been… Alec Baldwin as The Fugitive? Molly Ringwald in Ghost? John Travolta as Forrest Gump?
  • 30 actors who didn’t get the part. And for this, we say “thank you”. Jessica Alba in Daredevil. Nicholas Cage in The Breakfast Club. Brad Pitt as Willy Wonka.
  • 45 celebrity dropouts – some you could have guessed, and others you’d be surprised at. Jessica Simpson, Prince, Simon Cowell, and Tom Cruise are all on the list

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