Did You Get Your Club 939 2010 Calendar Yet?
Why not? Here’s a sample from the popular selling calendar.
Passion
Did Perseus Have Blistered Feet?
Is that how Perseus felt riding atop the winged Pegasus? I surely doubt it, but for me, I am getting blisters from running in my new Nike Air Pegasus 26+ shoes. I’m hoping this is just part of the break in process.
With the 26th model, the Pegasus line has a long history of running, and it is a no frills runner’s shoe with the right amount of tech in the right places, no more, no less.
Rod’s New Colorful Kicks Are Nikes?!
University of Hawaii basketballer, Rod Flemings, has his unique sense of style with his kicks. In 2010, he’s at it again with a garish display of every color in the rainbow and then some.
The kicks are custom made and molded to better fit Rod’s dogs, but my question is how does Rod get to don the Swoosh when the team is sponsored by the three stripes of Adidas? Is there some kind of medical clause? Does Rod (or the school) pay a fine or something? Hope these rainbow Nikes lead the Rainbows to victories.
Top Songs of 2009 by The Hype Machine
This list of top songs of 2009 was compiled by users of The Hype Machine which aggregates info from music blogs. I haven’t sampled all the songs, but they look like dance music or mashups. Even better, you can listen to the songs online then buy them from iTunes or Amazon.
Oh wait, after listening to a few songs, I was asked to sign up for a free account to keep listening to the music. Not a bad tradeoff.
New Year, Need a New Calendar?
2010 is officially here, and to celebrate the new year, you need a new calendar. The calendar, of course, comes from Hawaii’s premier gentlemen’s club, Club 939.
And the club has a new shirt design for this year. Here are teasers of the calendar and shirt.
Calendars are available at 939 Keeaumoku Street for only $10.
Transformers Is So 2009…
In 2010, check out the kids toy, Magformers.Â
A fun and educational toy using magnets and geometric shapes. Who knew squares and triangles could be used to build so many things?
New in the URL Shortening World
Keeping up with the world of URL shorteners, bit.ly has just announced bit.ly Pro which does custom URLs now (like what YOURLS is doing for Pulpconnection). Then there’s the gorilla in the room known as Google which has goo.gl for its own internal URL shortening of Google-provided services.
I like me my pulp.ly.
Amazon’s MP3 Daily Deal: Alicia Keys
The Daily Deal at Amazon’s MP3 store is Alicia Keys’ newest release, The Element of Freedom. Only $3.99 on December 15, 2009 only.
When You Need Aural Pleasures
Sometimes you just need aural pleasures in your life. When you do, here’s an oldie mix of songs from back in the day.
Sadly, it’s only a subset because of the lameness of iMixes in iTunes 9. Missing aural pleasures are:
- One Week, Barenaked Ladies
- Mary’s Prayer, who sings this?
- Father of Mine, Everclear
- Hooch, Everything
- Fire Escape, Fastball
- I Think I’m Paranoid, Garbage
- Flagpole Sitta, Harvey Danger
- Can’t Get Enough of You Baby, Smash Mouth
- West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys
Eminem Is the Artist of the Decade
Marshall Mathers had the most album sales for this past decade? Really? It doesn’t matter if Slim released Encore in 2004 and five years later, came out with Relapse. I own both of them.
The decade’s most streamed track is Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie. Don’t watch the lies in this video!
6 Blogging Lessons Learned from New Moon
The Twilight saga’s New Moon is having such a profound impact – on the perception of Young Adult books, on movie sales, on life lessons, on perturbing thoughts, on the rise of the Twimom phenomenon, and yes, even on blogging. For me, here are six blogging lessons learned from New Moon.
1. Have a dreamcatcher
What’s happening in the dreamworld of your blog? Do you know? Have a dreamcatcher ready to really see what’s going on with visits, referrers, keywords, popular content, and much more. With popular blogging dreamcatchers like Google Analytics, Sitemeter, and Lijit, you can capture and analyze the unseen dreamworld of your blog.
2. The importance of image(s)
Even the eternal, almighty Volturi know the importance of protecting their image, and you shouldn’t discount the power of images for your blog. Pictures, images, and videos are a great way to make your posts pop and are a valuable traffic source. From the top 25 traffic sources for Pulpconnection, nine of them are referrals from image search engines.
3. “You know you’re sorta beautiful?”
In the blogging business, you’ve already heard the phrase “content is king.” That’s still true, and the content of your blog is extremely important. But almost as important is the appearance of your blog. If readers are transfixed by the beauty of your blog, they’ll stay longer and take in more of your beautiful content.
If you’re not an artist or designer like me, get a theme that’s beautiful to begin with. Head on over to DIY Themes and admire Thesis. Thesis is a beautiful starting point.
4. Communicate with your pack
How do you talk with your pack, your blogging community? Sure, all blogs allow comments but for wolf-like telepathy, try another commenting system like Intense Debate, Disqus, or Echo. Improving on notifications, spam protection, and integration, these systems constantly keep you connected to your pack.
5. Ready for the chase?
Be it an onslaught of wolves or a rush of network traffic, are you ready for the chase? Will you be unprepared and suffer the fate of Laurent, or will you be cunning like Victoria and have WP Super Cache installed? With WP Super Cache, your blog will be able to keep up with the pace of fast attacks and survive to fight another day.
6. Rock hard abs are hot
Plain and simple. Young or old(er), guys or gals, werewolf or vampire, rock hard abs are hot. No blogging lesson from this other than rock’em while you got’em!
So, let’s visually review six blogging lessons learned from New Moon.
Got that?
A Favorite from 2006
Wow, three years already since the debut of Corinne Bailey Rae. A great collection of mellow pop music is Amazon’s daily special, going for only $1.99. Definitely can’t go wrong with this purchase.
And while you’re at it, get Amazon’s free Christmas song of the day, Christmas Tree
Then enter to win Lady Gaga’s shopping cart at Amazon.com. What’s in the cart? I don’t know, but it’s valued at $2000 and you can enter to win it.