From the monthly archives:

July 2007


MS13, the World’s Most Dangerous Gang

by John P.

MS13 GangDeviating from the funny videos from the last few days, this one is dead serious. It’s about a gang called MS-13 which has over 10,000 members in the US alone.

The video documentary is almost an hour long, so get you something to drink and get comfortable before watching it. Then be prepared to be shocked at some of the crap going on in our cities.
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What’s Next for Harry Potter

July 31, 2007
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Spoiler alert!!! Do not read this post if you haven’t finished reading the entire Harry Potter series yet! The following information covers the stuff that happens after the end of the final book, and it comes directly from J.K. Rowling herself. Ms. Rowling sat down with Meredith Vieira from the Today Show and talked about [...]

Confessions of a Circuit City Salesman

July 30, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I came across this article on The Consumerist written by an anonymous former Circuit City employee. Having had a friend who did time at CC, I will say that this seems like a very real article and I recommend that everyone give it a read. It sheds light into the [...]

HostWay ValueWeb – Worst Server Outage I’ve Ever Seen

July 29, 2007

I know there are quite a few regular HTMLHelp.com users that frequent the blog here, so I just wanted to provide an update on the unbelievably pathetic service we are currently receiving from ValueWeb, aka Hostway. We were notified about a month ago via e-mail that ValueWeb intended to physically take our two servers and [...]

Blogging vs. Journalism with John C. Dvorak and Om Malik

July 29, 2007

As many of you may recall, last weekend I was in San Francisco attending the WordPress user conference called WordCamp. Well, I had a brief chat with Matt prior to attending and we decided that it would be a good idea to capture the lectures on video, so I went ahead and took my gear [...]

Australian Comedy – The Front Fell Off

July 29, 2007

This is a little skit which was apparently first featured on the Taproot Blog. I have no idea who produced it or why, but it’s quite a funny parody of a politician explaining an oil spill. I’m guessing it is from an Australian comedy TV show, so if one of you knows a little more [...]

Incredible Choreographed Samsung Stadium Performance

July 28, 2007

This is really great. Take thousands of Koreans with colorful costumes, put them in a stadium and see what happens. Seriously, this must have taken months of practice – and I still can’t believe they pulled it off.

Buy Cheap Viagra And SEO

July 27, 2007

I bet that headline got everyone’s attention! No, I’m not starting up an illicit internet drug trade, but I am testing out a search engine theory. (By the way, if you want to help test this theory please link to this article.) Aaron Wall proposed the question, “How Easily do Authoritative Sites Rank for New [...]

Mike Myers Tribute to Sir Sean Connery

July 27, 2007
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In 2006 Sir Sean Connery received the AFI Life Achievement Award, and Mike Myers was there to give it to him! Now, a lot of other fantastic actors and actresses have received these awards over the years, but I don’t think anyone ever got a speech like this one!