I’m a super villian, thanks to Linux.

Be the ball… be the ball.. OH SHITS!

I wonder if those x-ray glasses Ted is wearing really work…

“If the size of my wang was relevant to the size of this gun, I wouldn’t need to be on this soapbox!”

Submitted by BlondLogic in our LlamaTails caption contest.

In the last 4 weeks I have banned 5 people from this site. They all pissed me off in the exact same way.

Google loves us. GoogleBot indexes our site several times a day. Anything posted on this site is, for the most part, is immediately available on Google via a search. It’s a nice treat to know that Google loves us.

A perfect example of our search engine friendliness happened right after September 11th. The day of the 9-11 attacks, we posted some of our thoughts and feelings about the attack. That week, whenever someone typed in something about the World Trade Center, we ranked very highly, above most news sites such as CNN. It wasn’t until two weeks later that we were out ranked by Yahoo News.

But that very success has led to some frustration. Evidently others are figuring it out, too. Other webmasters are coming here and spamming our comment area with product links for all kinds of elixirs that promise one thing or another, or products that you wouldn’t possibly buy for anyone you actually care about.

Since Google bases part of its ranking algorithm on how many sites link to yours, people are in search of popular sites to get a link (or semi-popular ones like ours that happen to be whored by search engines across the globe). If they fail at finding a site to give them a link, they find a site like ours to somehow spam, in the hopes that we won’t notice. We do notice. And it gets that person a ban.

Yes, Google (and many other search engines) love us. Partly because part of my job is Search Engine Optimization and I know how to build SE friendly sites. The real reason is we’ve been doing this for four years now, and search engines love real content. We have four years of posts and columns - practically the length of a set of encyclopedias.

So here is the point of my post. Good SEO requires patience and good site content. Spamming links on other sites gets you banned, or at least it will here. We are not here to help you sell your products. (Though we are all web and marketing professionals, so if you want to hire us?). We are here for intellectual conversation about current, and sometimes not-so-current, topics. All we ask is that you join in and have fun.

Take your time, like I did, to learn about SEO and become a student of that technology. Don’t spam us thinking we won’t notice because we do. And we’ll ban you for it.

As an added feature to help make our lives here easier (and spam free) we have added a BlackList spam filter to the site, built by Jay Allen. Check out further info here and donate to the cause.

My favorite part is that it allows us to web publish any porn spammer that decides to hit our site again. Yes, that’s right, you porn spam us and we can spread the word to other blacklist users quickly.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.

Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss this week joined a bipartisan coalition of senators who want Iraq to pay back the billions President Bush wants for reconstruction.

This is the same Chambliss who while running for the senate compared then-incumbent Georgia Senator Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

Why did Chambliss paint such a traitorous portrait of a man who lost an arm and two legs in Vietnam? Cleland voted to give labor rights to employees of the then-planned Homeland Security Department, which Chambliss somehow spun as opposition to national security.

Now that Chambliss is opposed to these rebuilding grants, I suspect he’ll soon compare himself to France because he clearly doesn’t support America’s efforts to turn Iraq into a democracy. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he hated democracy and spent hours a day dreaming of a communist regime. (See how easy it is?)

The Dawgs go four in a row over Tennessee. This says it all. Made by yours truly.

See Earth from 10 million light years away and move gradually closer until you’re deep inside a single tree leaf. This is certainly the coolest thing I’ve seen today.

Well, sports fans, we are one day away from the California Recall Election. It’s down to the wire between California Gov. Gray Davis and chief challenger Arnold Schwarzenegger.

While the polls are too close to tell, this election provides an interesting moral dilemma for Republicans.

The California Republicans funded and pushed for this recall election to take place, all the way to the courthouse. But now it seems their main candidate has a worse track record with women than Bill Clinton did ? and they tried to impeach Clinton for having an affair.

It puts the Republican Party in a bad spot. We?ll see how they respond tomorrow when the voting takes place.