So many people love South Park and now so many people can watch every episode online, legally!

You have South Park Studios to thank for that. They seem to be going in the right direction and certainly know what is going to get them attention.

The clips and episodes aren’t embeddable….yet. Thats not a big deal at the moment since everyone is going to be happy enough just to watch every episode for free.

There is a lot more stuff at the site than just the clips and episodes though. So if you’re a big South Park fan, you’ll want to check it out.

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A little while back Blogged.com launched and I really like what they have so far. There are tons of places to find new blogs and highly rated blogs. I’m still really fresh to the whole blogging world though and as a newbie, I really like Blogged.com

One thing I really like about Blogged is that each blog has a rating. People can review blogs in addition to the editor’s review of the blog. You can take your rating and put it on your blog to show off how special you are.

It’s easy to find new blogs related to your interests and blogs related to blogs you are looking at. When you view a blog profile you see the blog title, description, category, tags, important links to the blog, a screen shot, the blog rating, recent posts and blog reviews. It’s all the important information you’re looking for.

Blogged also adds a touch of social networking to the service. You can add your friends and share reviews. You can add your own blog to be reviewed and get it more attention in the blogosphere. I even added my blog stupidsucks.com

So if you’re looking for some new blogs to read, you just want to explore more of the blogosphere, or get your own blog reviewed go check them out.

While you’re at it you could write a review of my blog! Wouldn’t that be so nice of you! Be nice though

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Summer is on the way and I’m watching those gas prices start rising bit by bit. It won’t be long before it reaches, and probably passes, $4/gallon. Now I’m not driving right now (thank God) because of an accident awhile back and I just walk to work. It won’t be long though before I am back to driving, that means paying a heck of a lot more for gas that I’d like to.

My mom actually forwarded an email to me about getting your money’s worth at the gas station. I googled some more tips and thought I would share it with everyone else.

Tip #1: The best time to get gas is early in the morning. The gas station’s gas tanks are buried underground to keep them cool. Early in the morning they are nice and cool which means the gasoline is cool. When gasoline is cooled it gets more dense so you get more gas for your hard earned cash. When it gets warm the gasoline expands, meaning you won’t get as much per gallon.

Tip #2: When you fill up the tank don’t rush it! There are three speed settings for the nozzle. Use the lowest one so that the gas isn’t going super fast causing vapors. The pumps at gas stations have a vapor return so when you set it at the highest, the rushing gasoline hitting your gas tank makes lots of vapors which go through the vapor return. The vapor return sends the vapors back into the underground storage tank. Thats gasoline YOU paid for that YOU aren’t getting!

Tip #3: Fill up your tank when it is half empty (or half full ). When you keep your tank filled with gas, you prevent the gas turning into vapors in the empty part of the tank. Most gas tanks have a floating roof to help minimize the gas evaporation but it still happens.

Tip #4: If you see a gasoline truck filling up the storage tanks at the gas station DO NOT GET GAS THERE! When they are filling up the storage tanks the gasoline is getting stirred up. So when you get gas there is a chance you could get the impurities and dirt that normall settles on the bottom of the storage tank.

Tip #5: Gas stations you should buy gas from are the ones that don’t import their gasoline from the Saudies. The Saudis are boycotting American goods so don’t buy their gas. Here are companies that import oil from the Middle East:

• Shell - 205,742,000 barrels
• Chevron/Texaco - 144,332,000 barrels
• Exxon /Mobil - 130,082,000 barrels
• Marathon/Speedway - 117,740,000 barrels
• Amoco - 62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel) Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

• Sunoco - 0 barrels
• Conoco - 0 barrels
• Sinclair - 0 barrels
• BP/Phillips - 0 barrels
• Hess - 0 barrels
• ARCO - 0 barrels

If you go to Sunoco.com, you will get a list of the station locations near you. All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they areimporting. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It’s really simple to do.

Additional tips at gasbuddy.com

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Over the last two months I have accumulated more than 25 domain names for ideas that could be potentially great projects. I think I’ve figured out that…. I’m addicted to buying domain names. I just see so much potential in them that I can’t help myself.

Over the last few months I have learned more and more about making money online in so many different ways that I had to actually start a list. As I spend more time researching new internet media avenues I learn just how much potential domain names have.

Owning quality domain names is like owning a piece of digital real estate. You don’t even have to do much with it and it can accumulate value. Heck, you could register a catchy domain name and end up selling it to someone who really wants it for 100x (or much much more) than what you paid for it.

I pay $10 per domain name but if I grab one that an upcoming company might want (before they do), I could potentially sell it for $1000, or even more, to them if they really want it.

So if you can turn a profit from simply registering domain names, imagine what you could do if you invested a little time in a simple but effective idea to develop that domains value. One super simple way to develop your digital real estate (domain name) is by parking it at Parked.com

It’s simple. You have domain names sitting around for those ideas you haven’t been able to get to. They’re collecting dust and definitely not making you money. Thats where Parked.com comes in. You go park your domains there and they setup the website and content for you. If your domain is a catchy one or something commonly searched for, you’ll get visitors and in turn, you’ll get money.

Parked.com is one of the higher quality services and isn’t exactly the easiest to get into. You must have a minimum of 10 domains and they must be reviewed to make sure they are high enough quality to actually turn a profit. I recently applied and didn’t make the cut. Although I have registered an additional 5 domains since then so I may give it another go.

As time goes on, fewer and fewer catchy, creative, and genius domain names are being scooped up. With the domain extensions that are available today, people are getting pretty creative with their domain naming (like Ma.tt).

If you want to start getting in on the domain name real estate game you can get your domain names at tons of different places. I did some quick searching at webhostingtalk.com and found a quick list of 5 registrars to go grab your piece of the pie.

• www.namecheap.com
• www.domaincentral.com
• www.enom.com
• name.com
• godaddy.com

Some people aren’t big fans of godaddy.com and I’m not a fan of them either (as far as hosting goes) but lots of people say they do a good job with domain names. I would go with namecheap.com but I am currently with rapidname.com as a domain reseller and haven’t had any problems with them.

Given a second time around I would have went with namecheap.com or domaincentral.com

If you’re interested to know a few of my domain names:

• yourfilehub.com
• mypagestatus.com
• wikiwokwok.com
• mac4designer.com
• 20dollarblog.com

Those are just a few and were for project ideas but are currently collecting dust….
Soon I will have them parked and either ready to be resold or have a project started at them.

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Happy Easter everyone! Of course Easter wouldn’t be the same without an easter egg hunt! There are several sites around the web doing just that. I always remember going to my grandmother’s house every Easter and running around her yard to find tons of cool hidden prizes. Now that I’m older, I get more excited about cool things hidden in software or something than candy (except maybe donuts ).

Here are some cool easter eggs and the like (lots from Google):

• Lifehacker - they have a top 10 list of software easter eggs
• Google - egg catching bunny
• Google - in Klingon
• Google - in Pig Latin
• Google - looking at it in a mirror
• Google - Elmer Fudd
• Google - Hackers
• Google - Linux
• Google - BSD
• Google - Gothic
• Google - Answer to life, the universe and everything.
• Google - Find Chuck Norris
• Eeggs - Archives of Software Easter Eggs

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It’s nearing in on 3am and I’ve finished up some of the upgrades to the site that I have planned.

Of course the first thing you’ll notice is the new header (which isn’t even finished  ) and of course the 6 most recent posts will be in the header now. I still need to finish the logo (haven’t even started  ) and a couple other small things in the header image that are bugging me but… I wanted to get it launched since I had the majority of it finished.

You’ll notice a v 1.00 right below the header image on the left. As I make changes and improvements I’ll obviously change the version. 

So, aside from the header image and the recent posts, I removed the blog title from the top of the post area (used to be right above the home, about & contact links). So that area is a little different.

I’ll be adding a couple custom pages in the next couple months but those are classified “Top Secret” at the moment. 

Now for the small changes…. The post title text was scrunched more than I liked so I fixed that as well as for the title’s in the farthest right column (not that anyone cares about little text styling changes, lol).

Lastly, the images haven’t had a text margin since the day I started customizing this theme. That is now fixed for all future posts and any posts that I decide to go back and fix.

So, please let me know what you think of the new header!

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