February 18, 2009
LinkBlip
From the website:
LinkBlip is very simple: it's a way to monitor when someone has clicked a link you sent them. Have you ever sent someone an email and never heard back? If you send them a LinkBlip URL, you'll automatically be notified by email when they click on it.
We'll also tell you what city and state they were in when the clicked the link.
How it works
1. You enter a URL and your email address into the above form.
2. We generate a special URL for you, which you can then email to someone.
3. When someone clicks that special URL, you are notified by email with the time they clicked it as well as the city and state they were in. The recipient of the URL never knows the difference.
LinkBlip
The Stimulus Explained
From the (recent) email archives:
Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers, knowing there were many monkeys, went to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.
He then announced that he would buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the villagers' efforts and they started catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf.
The man's assistant told the villagers, "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that my boss has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when my boss returns, you can sell them to him for $50."
The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.
They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys.
Now you have a better understanding of how the "stimulus package" works.
Jenny (867-5309) - Tommy Tutone
EDIT: Had to "bump" this up after reading the following article
Now you can have Jenny's number
WEEHAWKEN, N.J. - After five years fielding thousands of calls to one of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated phone numbers, disc jockey Spencer Potter is hanging up on Jenny.
Her seven digits are familiar to anyone who paid attention to pop music in the early 1980s: 867-5309, immortalized by the band Tommy Tutone.
Potter and his roommates requested the number on a lark for their home phone in northern New Jersey. They got it, along with about 30 to 40 calls a day.
The 28-year-old Potter says he's selling his business, A Blast Entertainment, and moving to New York. The business and the phone number are for sale on eBay, where the high bid was about $1,000 by Sunday morning.
I knew I had posted the video, but after finding the audio track had been disabled, had to go find another version.
(I think the music business is shooting itself in the foot with this stuff; after viewing the video last May when I originally posted it, I bought the mp3 from Amazon)
February 17, 2009
Free Album From The Damnwells
Download from Paste Magazine
Requires registration, so it might be a good idea to use a "throwaway" addy.
Back in the USSR - Paul McCartney
Red Square, Moscow 2003
Note: This tune was referenced in my last Russian spammer/scammer post "They Leave the West Behind"
