So I registered the domain obambarded.com the other day. I am having fun putting together a totally static site for once. I made the logo in a few hours. I actually like it, but then I am biased.

I’m pretty much joking about selling the site for $9,999.99, but then I won’t be crying too hard if I actually get it. I’d be happy to get my $25 back and to see what someone does with the site.

Check out the logo:

Now click it to check out the site. You know you want to.

Add it to your site! Let me know if you do and I will link to your site from here (at least as long as this post is live and I own the domain).

I am going to try to coincide the sale of the site to coincide with the end of the Democratic National Convention.

A friend of mine, says I have too many domain names. I have more than I can name off the top of my head, so he might be correct. I registered two new ones today.

puppypotpie.com and obambarded.com.

I don’t really plan to do anything with the puppy site, but once I get the cease & desist letter from MTV (or Jackass the show) for my jackassletters site, I want a URL waiting in the wings to fail over to. I’m sure I will use it for something until then.

The obambarded site I am planning on selling on eBay. I get good names for sites often, so be interesting to see how much cash I get off this one. Probably lose money, but the process will be interesting. And who knows, maybe I’ll sell it for enough to retire. Ha! the idea wasn’t mine, but registering the URL was.

Will be interesting to see how things play out. I also renewed fervorflower.com and one of my other sites, so they will stick around for another 7 years.

But then no one asked me.

Once I fired up jackassletters.com I decided I needed to come up with cheap and free ways to promote and market the site. I’m not sure what the difference is between marketing and promotion, but that last sentence sounds so much better if it seems like I am doing two things to drive traffic to the site.

I listed it with as many blog cataloging sites as I could find, put it in my signature file on all the forums I participate in, posted it to digg and reddit, and took out a full page ad in the New York Times.

Irony here is a friend put the jackassletters site in his stumbleupon.com bookmarks, and that did more to drive traffic to the site than anything I’d done. Yack!

I also created a twitter account for the site, since it seemed like a handful of people were already taking about it (I’m looking at you Joel Postman! Still don’t know why you didn’t write back. That hurts my feelings). And today I finally created a facebook profile, but mostly so I could have access to the APIs of their site to try to roll out a jackassletters web app.

I guess there’s still myspace to attack, and a lot of other ways to market and promote the site. I’ll get there eventually. Really I will. Well, unless I hit 38 years old and get too old for this shit.

Kids these days.

Full disclosure: I didn’t really take out a NYT ad.

I decided to revisit this post since I have been getting aa lot of comment spam on one of my other sites. Seems you write one little post about Cialis and you’re doomed to a lifetime of deleting comment spam. I finally gave up and closed the post to commenting.

Anyway, over 4 years ago I wrote a little essay about spam. Seems it still applies:

Sociologists or future Anthropologists are going to think we are a bunch of depressed people obsessed with penis enlargement, home mortgage rates, and gambling.

Spam. Hate it. First time I hear about a guy who goes off the deep end and hunts down and kills a spammer, I am going to hope I land on that jury. Or, perhaps I will hope my jury is indeed made up of my peers.

The only solution to Penis Enlargement LIMITED OFFER: Add at least 3 INCHES or get your money back!

I lived with a bi-sexual roommate (was going to write I had a bi-sexual roommate, but didn’t want the relationship misconstrued), he used to say all things being equal he preferred a big penis. So why stop at 3 inches? Why not charge by the inch? Why make it a limited offer? A foot? 18 inches? Where does it stop? Dirk Digler ain’t got nothing on me.

From a logistics standpoint, I don’t know why men would want to have something huge down there. I have enough trouble with mine getting into places it doesn’t belong. I have enough trouble getting comfortable, often requiring me to unobtrusively shift around just to get it to dress right (a tailor term).

Well, I’m still getting these emails (and more). On the day I was originally going to repost this, Eddie Davidson, convicted spammer, decided to escape and kill his wife and daughter, proving what I’ve suspected all along. Spammers are at the same level as child-killing cowards. The world is a better place without this waste of a human life. Too bad he didn’t come to this conclusion himself sometime back around when I first wrote about this topic.

Just once, I would like to track down the person responsible for one spam post and punch him in the teeth. But I know, if everyone did this we’d have anarchy. Oh, wait, I meant to write that we’d have a much better world to live in.

Have you punched a spammer today?

p.s. I have 24 new mugshots to post with these articles. Isn’t that great!

I have some things I want. I like to image I am not a materialistic person, but all the same, I have various items I would like to own. I thought I’d make a list of them, so I fired up iWeb, since I’ve never used it before, and threw together this website: asking4stuff.com. Doing this is always interesting to me. You can tell a lot about a person based off his desires or just the crap he’d like to own. These types of lists are fun in another way. In a year I can come back, see how many of these things I have actually purchased, and laugh at some of the items, thinking, Why would I have ever wanted that? And five years on a list like this can be even more amusing.

I remember doing this in college. I came across it like ten years later, and it had, “Get a computer,” as one of the items. At the time I think I owned 3 or 4 computers. I have no idea how many I currently have. Three for sure that I use on a regular basis not counting work machines, and a couple more that would function if I still had a use for them.

Anyway, here’s the first item on the list:

http://www.dodge.com/en/2008/magnum/models/se/index.html

I figure if you’re going to dream…dream big. I’ve pretty sure I will go the rest of my life without buying a car like this. Not because ever affording one is outside of the realm of the possible, but because I am too practical to ever pull the trigger on a purchase like this. Even if someone gave me one I’d probably end up selling it and buying something more modest. I am pretty sure I will always be able to find something better to do with my money than sink it into a car like this, but every time I see one go by I get a little twinge of jealousy. This car is just too cool. Like a stylish hearse. Oh so very Addams family!

But let’s come back to reality for a while, focus on something I can actually imagine buying.

Tibetan singing bowls of various sizes. Yay! I’ll be adding this to the site as soon as I get my laptop back from Apple. Guess that’s one bad thing about using iWeb. Anyway….

http://longplayer.org/

The first time I heard one of these I thought the tone that came out was so amazingly clean and soothing. I was, of course, hitting it with the little mallet thing, not at all how they are supposed to be played. Basically, you are supposed to run the mallet along the edge which causes the bowl to vibrate and the speed can be changed to change the note. I’d like to pick up several of these. I just like things that make noise, but I can imagine recording poetry over the top of one of these. It would make even my hack works seem cool.

I won’t link to any other instrument images, but I also want other analog noise making things. Maracas, drums, whistles, a metal or wood recorder. Pretty much anything that doesn’t require batteries. I prefer non-stringed things, but even these can be cool.

Let me make one thing clear. I do not play music, don’t know one note from another, and could never repeat something I did, but I still like creating soundscape to go behind spoken word pieces, and I have managed to create one or two recorded “song” that I enjoy listening to.

Rather than making this into a really long post, just keep an eye on the asking4stuff.com website. Updates will happen as soon as I get the access to my iWeb files again.