Bloggasm

Here’s a list of the highest-paying Google adsense words.

$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
$47.79 what is mesothelioma
$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
$47.25 consolidate loans
$47.16 refinancing mortgage
$45.55 tax attorney
$41.22 mesothelioma
$38.86 car accident lawyer
$38.68 ameriquest mortgage
$38.03 mortgage refinance
$37.55 refinancing

I think you’ll find a common theme. I need to start a legal law-suit blog and watch the adsense dollars roll in.

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Speaking of Adsense, here’s an interview with someone who pulls in 10,000 dollars a day from Adsense:

As I reported a few days ago, Markus Frind, the owner of the free dating site PlentyOfFish.com has been pulling in $10,000 a day from Adsense. What is even more remarkable is that he is single handedly (with a little help from his wife) running one of the largest dating sites on the internet. I asked him if he would like to do an interview for the blog, and he agreed.

I found this article kind of humorous: How to Spot a Baby Conservative.

It talks about a 20-year study on children who grew up to be conservatives and liberals. Future-conservatives tended to be whiny and insecure and huge tattlers. The confident, self-reliant kids ended up being liberal.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn’t going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids’ personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There’s no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it’s unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.

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Here is a step-by-step process for Re-surfacing CDs so they work again.:

Take some of the brasso and pour it onto the CD. Please be careful with the Brasso, and only perform this in a well ventilated area. I was making this guide at at the office, and forgot about the fumes. I had to polish the CD in the stairwell as I would have fumed out my co-workers otherwise.

Use the paper towel pieces to polish the CD. Polishing is ideal in straight strokes from the center of the disk to the outside so you polish perpendicular to the tracks on the disc. Because I was short on time, I used small circular motions similar to how I’d polish a car. Take your time with this. Add Brasso when it dries or gets pushed off the CD. Continue this process for about 15 minutes.

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Feministing has noticed that many of the women who make it onto Woman of the Year lists made it on their partially because of their marriage to a man:

Not saying these honored wives weren’t worthy of recognition for other accomplishments outside of their marriages. But it certainly seems like the best way to be noticed for your achievements is to marry a prominent man… or divorce one

The Horse’s Mouth: I’m a 30 year old former major of International Relations who gave up politics after living in China and switched to International Business upon repatriation. I currently live in Indiana and I’m married to a beautiful Chinese girl from Sichuan. I also have minors in Asian Studies and Chinese language and I intend to return to China where I hope to help further US-Sino relations through business and cultural exchange.

Simon Owens: I’ve noticed a recent surge in Asian-oriented blogs that are quickly becoming popular in America. Do you think that as America and China become more and more dependent on each other, our citizens become more interested in each other’s domestic affairs?

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Usually, the New Yorker fiction selection is hit or miss for me, but this week’s selection is dead on.

Over here is a fascinating article on the different realms of suicide– its stages and the aftermath. It begins by highlighting those who attempt to aid people in suicide by publishing books detailing how to do so efficiently, and then moves on to suicide prevention networks and the emergency personel who get called to suicide scenes.

When a genuine myth rises into consciousness, Ursula Le Guin wrote in The Language of the Night (Spring ‘81 CQ., p. 54), the message is always: You must change your life. Each suicide attempt, I’m convinced, carries that message: to the person who tries it, to the people who are close to that person, and to the rest of us as a society. I think what happens after a suicide attempt is a sort of autopsy of what’s best and worst about our culture. Here is some of that story.

It ends with the author’s own shifting philosophical view on suicide. Though long, this article is well worth reading.

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