PiltDown Fraud

Much as the word Edsel has become synonymous with lemon, Piltdown has become synonymous with fraud. Between 1911 and 1915, researcher Charles Dawson found fragments of a cranium, a tooth and some tools in a gravel deposit in Piltdown,

Sussex, England. The scientific world was agog with the findings — anthropolists believed that the fossilized remains of an ancient hominid had been discovered, a missing link between ape and man. It took 40 years for the discovery to be scientifically disproved. On this date in 1953, the Piltdown Man was declared a fake.
Quote: "Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it." — Samuel Johnson

Technorati Tags: Evolution,Darwin,Fossils

Google Turns 9

Google Turns 9!

Yes, today's Google's 9th birthday. Nine years may seem so short a time to create a giant company. But Google is an exceptional exception Google.stanford.edu in late 1997. Sergey Brin in 1999 says, "A perfect search engine will process and understand all the information in the world .... That is where Google is headed." Google.com, meanwhile, started as a search engine and it remains as such up until today. The........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 10/3/2007 5:40:38 AM)

FLVIX Free Online Video Converter

FLVIX is a free online video converter. It converts video into formats
FLVIX is a free online video converter. It converts video into formats like .AVI, .MOV, .3GP, .MP4, .MP4 for free, online.

Free online video converter. Convert and download videos from YouTube, Google Video or directly from .FLV file. Play it on your PC, Mobile, iPod, PSP and enjoy!


P.S : On the first look itself you’ll notice something .. youtubish

How to Make Money by John Chow

This is an article that discusses John Chow's thoughts on making money online.

The following is a list of all the ad networks and affiliate programs I use to make money online. They were chosen from this exhaustive list of 130 ad networks. I have used all the following networks at one time or another and can highly recommend them. They have proven to provide good service/support and most importantly, on time payments.

Kontera ContentLink

Kontera ContentLink allows you to make money from advertising without giving up any current advertising spots. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it. Normally Kontera requires a site have a minimum 500,000 page views per month before being accepted into the program. However, I have a partnership with Kontera that will allow smaller blogs to use their ContentLink service.

Fill out the application and enter “John Chow Kontera partnership” into the Comments field. The application is sent to my personal account representative. He will approve you based on your blog content and not your traffic level. This is a great way to use a service that is normally only available to high traffic sites.

Sign up for Kontera

Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads is one of my favorite ad networks. They help me make money online by selling those text links you see under “Featured Sites.” The links offer advertisers traffic and search engine benefits and readers don’t seem to mind them at all because they are not intrusive. Your link price is set by Text Link Ads and is based on Alexa, Google PageRank, number of RSS subscribers, and other factors.

Sign up for Text Link Ads

Google AdSense

If you don’t know what Google AdSense is then you’ve been living under a rock. This is pretty much a must have if you want to make money from a blog. Google display simple text and image ads on your blog that are targeted to what you’re writing about. Google has been a consistent money maker for this blog.

Sign up for AdSense.

Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser, a CPC ad network that competes with Google AdSense. It main advantage over AdSense is its low $10 payout. You only need to make $10 in order to be paid. Big publishers wouldn’t care about this but for many small blogs that are still waiting to hit that magic $100 Google payout level, getting pay at a lower level is quite attractive.

Sign up for Bidvertiser

AzoogleAds

AzoogleAds is one of the largest performance-based online advertising networks in the world. They offers some of the best and highest paying affiliate deals in the industry. No matter what topic your blog covers, you can find a deal that matches your site. The payout range from $1 to over $100 per action. Affiliate marketing is one of this blog’s biggest moneymaker and AzoogleAds is the affiliate network that offers us the best payouts.

Sign up for AzoogleAds

AuctionAds

AuctionAds is one big eBay affiliate. What AuctionAds does is put all their publishers into one big “collective” to go after the higher revenue share. Publishers can leverage AuctionAds’ creative delivery of eBay’s auctions and AuctionAds’ ability to achieve the higher performance incentive tiers with the aggregate volume of traffic to make more money than they could with their own eBay affiliate relationship. Right now, affiliates will get 100% of any money they make from the system. As the collective moves up the eBay revenue share tiers, AuctionAds will start to take a cut of revenues. The goal is for you to make more with AuctionAds than directly with eBay’s affiliate program, which will be the case as the network increases its volume.

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ReviewMe

ReviewMe is this blog’s biggest money maker, accounting for $2,400 of the $8,545.25 March income. ReviewMe allows advertisers to buy sponsored reviews on your blog. Review prices are based on your blog’s Alexa, Technorati and estimated RSS numbers. Publishers can set their own pricing if they don’t like the price ReviewMe set. Reviews can be positive or negative. The only requirement is the post must be at least 200 words long.

Sign up for ReviewMe

TTZ Media

This is my own ad network. It’s ideal for technology and shopping related sites. TTZ Media Network offers a comparison shopping search engine for its affiliated sites. Right now, we’re working on a completely new ad engine that will allow me to accept sites with traffic that is lower than the current 250,000 page views requirement. I’ll make an update on this blog when the network comes out of beta.

FeedBurner Ad Network

FeedBurner provides CPM ads for both site and RSS feeds. The CPM rate can be get as high as $10 and publishers get 70% of the money. However, the fill rate is pretty low. If you’re looking to monetize your RSS feed, then FeedBurner is probably the best of the RSS ad networks. To join the FeedBurner Ad Network, you must first have FeedBurner power your RSS feed.

Sign up for Feedburner

AGLOCO

AGLOCO offers a toolbar that display advertising. If you run the toolbar, they will give you a share of the ad money. They also pay you if you refer other people to use the toolbar. The more people you refer, the more you can potentially make. Currently, my network has over 13,000 people in it and it’s increasing by over 100 per day. AGLOCO is a startup and unproven. However, since the cost of entry is zero, you can’t lose anything for signing up. AGLOCO is also the only network here that doesn’t require you to have a site.

Sign up for AGLOCO

DealDotCom

DealDotCom offers a two-tier affiliate program. When you refer others to DealDotCom and they get a free account, they are marked in the system as having been referred by you. Anything that they buy will nets you a 35% commission. Unlike other affiliate programs that place a time limit your your commission (like AuctionAds’ 5% for 6 months), the DealDotCom commission is forever. That’s right, forever. It doesn’t matter if they buy something tomorrow, next week, or fifty years from now - you’re going to get paid. What’s more, anyone that they refer to DealDotCom goes on your second tier. Anything people on your second tier buy nets you a 15% commission, forever.

Sign up for DealDotCom

Thanks to John Chow for this wonderful Article.

Hybrid Cars

In a world where energy conservation has become a necessity, more people are opting for their newest car to be a hybrid. Now the hybrid car may have yet another use as a backup energy supply for your home. Recently, when tropical storms resulted in a power outage in Florida, enterprising hybrid owners plugged the car into the backup uninterruptable power supply in their homes to get the electricity up and running. As long as the car has fuel, it can produce about three kilowatts of continuous power, enough to keep the refrigerator running and the lights on in the average house.

"Car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers."

— Daryl Hannah

Michelangelo's David

Michelangelo's David was unveiled on this date in 1504. It took the sculptor three years to complete his rendition of the Bible's David posing with the slingshot he used to slay Goliath. David's slim stature is belied by the size of the sculpture. Originally called The Giant, David stands 17 feet/5.17 m tall. Over the years, the statue has faced challenges of its own: it was struck by lightning in 1512 and had its arm broken off in 1527 (a new one was made). In 1814, it was covered in wax and some 30 years later the statue had a hydrochloric acid bath, leaving it scratched and porous. And in 1991, a jealous artist smashed the David's toe.

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Michelangelo

9th July 1945... Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

On 9th July.

Even some of the scientists responsible for the work enabling the US to drop atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 felt regrets about the event and their part in it. The result was the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, issued on this date in 1955, which called on the world governments to avoid the use of nuclear weapons and to use peaceful means to settle future disputes. Composed mostly by Bertrand Russell and Joseph Rotblat, the document was signed by other eminent scientists, including Albert Einstein and Max Born. This spring's face-off between presidents Bush and Putin highlighted the continuing need for safeguards against nuclear war.

During Laal Masjid Operation

One of my colleagues whose home is in the lane opposite to Laal Masjid has sent me some thoughts on his experience.

Fourth day of the curfew, surrounded by bullets being fired from all sorts of guns, from pistols to sub-machine guns and feeling all the walls of the house tremble when shots are shot from marter guns is an experience one can only 'experience' to describe; and to add to it, having no gas to cook food.

He revealed that on the first day of curfew which was announced at 02:00 AM when majority of people were sleeping , two people were shot dead , one was mentally retarded

Laal Masjid Operation ....... 6th Day

Its 8th July , 2007 and this is 6th day since Laal masjid operation started. So far 20 security forces workers including leader of the operation Haroon ul Islam are shot dead. More than 50 students are suppose to be dead inside Laal Masjid. It was feared that tonight final operation would start to end Laal Masjid issue but now it seems that it is post poned again for a day or two.

Alice Wonderland History

In 1862, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson made up a story to help three little girls (including 10-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell) pass their time. On this date in 1865, his story — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — was published under the pen name Lewis Carroll. The book recounted the tale of Alice who fell through a rabbit hole into an underground world that was full of surprises. A few years later, Carroll followed it up with further stories about Alice in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

Quote: "'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where—' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat." — Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I hate Mondays

Many people hat mondays including Mondays. Below are few quotations regarding views on mondays.


Garfield often says, "I hate Mondays." The Carpenters sang "Rainy days and Mondays always get me down." The first day of the work week in many places around the world, Monday is many people's least favorite day of the week. Perhaps that's one of the reasons that US Congress passed a law on this date in 1894, declaring the first Monday in September to be celebrated as a workers' holiday, Labor Day. And maybe it was one of the reasons that on this date in 1968 Lyndon Johnson signed into law the proposal to celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the third Monday in February.


Quote: "Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be."

— John and Michelle Phillips, of The Mamas and the Papas

Starting English Blog

I took long time in setting up a blog and then never touched it again since ................ dont remember the exact time. Now i have decided to write regularly (no one can stop you from day dreaming).