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Paul Zerdin Ventriloquist
Graffiti Laden Advertisements
Beautiful Israeli Women
Taiwanese Woman Marries Herself
Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 11
Shocking French Ad
The Evolution of the Geek

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:15 AM PDT

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:59 AM PDT

These billboards are made immensely humorous with the addition of some wit by local graffiti artists. The advertising companies were setting themselves up for a fall with some of their slogans. Like my Father said, never make a flat statement.

Beautiful Israeli Women

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:36 AM PDT

A set of photos that will surely make guys happy - the photos of girls, of course.

Here you'll see different girls from Israel. Another thing they have in common is that they are all very pretty.

Related Posts:
Girls of The Israeli Army
Girls from Israel
Israeli Beach Girls
Girls of The Israeli Army - Part 2

Taiwanese Woman Marries Herself

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:02 AM PDT

A 30-year-old Chen Wei-yih from Taiwan decided to marry herself because she just couldn't find a right partner. She hired a wedding planner and rented a banquet hall for a marriage celebration with 30 friends. The $5,675 wedding became a real top story in Taiwan.

Funny Demotivational Posters - Part 11

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:43 AM PDT

Shocking French Ad

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:28 AM PDT

This French ad was made by a 35-year-old graphic designer Tanja Kiewitz and who also posed for a photo. Let's see why this ad campaign was successful and captured so much attention.

LOOK ME IN THE EYES…

I SAID MY EYES…

Bottom phrase: So that a handicap no longer means that you are handicapped.

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Tanja Kiewitz was born with her left arm ending just below her elbow. She created the ad for CAP48, a nonprofit organization that highlights disability issues in France and Belgium.

"They see that I am above all a woman and can be beautiful and sexy, and that disability is secondary," Kiewitz said. "I wanted people to confront the ambiguity of beauty and disability."

Nice idea and a great statement!

The Evolution of the Geek

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:14 AM PDT

Here's a hilarious Infographic from the guys at FlowTown. I'm somewhere between Internet Geek and Video Game Geek myself. What about you?

Click to enlarge.

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

The PRO SEO London Face-Off: Rand vs. Will (2010)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:40 PM PDT

Posted by randfish

This week, Distilled's Will Critchlow and I held our 4th "presentation-off" battle against one another as the final session of the London PRO SEO Training Seminar. We both put plenty of blood, sweat and tears into our decks and I think it shows. Enjoy:

A few notes from Rand's Talk:

The Excel spreadsheet that I invite you to build off, expand and use to help predict the ranking elements for a given SERP can be downloaded here.

SEO Analysis Bar Chart

The full slide deck from my talk can be found online at Slideshare here.
While this process isn't foolproof, it allows any SEO to form their own opinions about the metrics and components that matter, then apply math to get a "best fit" based on that data. This methodology isn't foolproof, but for experienced SEOs who are deep in the analysis field and need to provide a roadmap of how to "beat the competition" and "earn top rankings" for particular keyphrases, it should be very effective.
Yes - we are looking into building a tool inside the PRO Web App to do this for you (though it's likely a few months off at best)
In my talk, I referenced Hubspot's growth. Dharmesh Shah wrote a blog post about it here, and you can find their Inbound Marketing Book here.

I hope you enjoy the talks and the Q+A. Feel free to cast your own votes in the comments, though, technically, I've already lost to Will by a fair margin in audience voting. I'll have to work harder next time!

Notes from Will

Firstly, I am never again going to try anything as crazy as auto-advancing slides for a 20-minute talk. It nearly killed me. I got the idea from the O'Reilly Ignite talks which I think are awesome - theirs are 5 minutes long with 15s slides - I went for 25s slides because I had some pretty complex stuff to get across.

Secondly, huge thanks to everyone who came, everyone who voted for me (those who voted for Rand; I saw who you were...), Rand for repeatedly being a great opponent and everyone who had a hand in the organisation (especially Lynsey - our superb events manager at Distilled). It'd probably also be remiss of me not to mention the awesome (and mildly NSFW) exclusive discount code from Christmas gifts site prezzybox.

Here are a couple of quick notes from my talk and the slides on our slideboom account:

The slidedeck
The Brylcreem ad in all its glory
The OK Go music video I meant to mention
The (now closed) Hacker News thread about fixing open source bugs that is the beginning of our soft-launch of our Hire Marshal web app for hiring (more on that soon)

Finally, we are going to be running more events including 1 day linkbuilding training sessions in London and the US. We'll have more information coming soon, but if you'd like to make sure you are the first to hear about these and our web training sessions, just drop your email address here:

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Daily Snapshot: Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence, Ending the Cycle of Abuse

Your Daily Snapshot for
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Photo of the Day

First Lady Michelle Obama waits backstage to speak before the Women's Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Oct. 26, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

Today's Schedule

In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks at an event in the East Room marking Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The President will highlight the unprecedented coordination and cooperation across the entire government to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence and enable survivors to break the cycle of abuse. The Vice President will also attend.

All times are Eastern Daylight Time

9:30 AM: The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

10:00 AM: The President receives the Economic Daily Briefing

11:00 AM: The Vice President delivers remarks at a rally for Congressional candidate Bryan Lentz

4:00 PM: The President delivers remarks at a Violence Against Women event; the Vice President also attends

5:35 PM: The President tapes an interview for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Indicates Events that will be livestreamed on WhiteHouse.gov/live.

Seth's Blog : I spread your idea because...

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I spread your idea because...

Ideas spread when people to choose to spread them. Here are some reasons why:

I spread your idea because it makes me feel generous.
...because I feel smart alerting others to what I discovered.
...because I care about the outcome and want you (the creator of the idea) to succeed.
...because I have no choice. Every time I use your product, I spread the idea (Hotmail, iPad, a tattoo).
...because there's a financial benefit directly to me (Amazon affiliates, mlm).
...because it's funny and laughing alone is no fun.
...because I'm lonely and sharing an idea solves that problem, at least for a while.
...because I'm angry and I want to enlist others in my outrage (or in shutting you down).
...because both my friend and I will benefit if I share the idea (Groupon).
...because you asked me to, and it's hard to say no to you.
...because I can use the idea to introduce people to one another, and making a match is both fun in the short run and community-building.
...because your service works better if all my friends use it (email, Facebook).
...because if everyone knew this idea, I'd be happier.
...because your idea says something that I have trouble saying directly (AA, a blog post, a book).
...because I care about someone and this idea will make them happier or healthier.
...because it's fun to make another teen snicker about prurient stuff we're not supposed to see.
...because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to avoid an external threat.
...because the tribe needs to know about this if we're going to maintain internal order.
...because it's my job.
I spread your idea because I'm in awe of your art and the only way I can repay you is to share that art with others.