Greener Grass

Be careful what you wish for. I just got this powerpoint presentation this weekend. It's worth a look.

Canadian Ketchup

Star Wars

Thought this was a pretty good version. I might get the DVD if it comes out.

Bear Stearns

D'oh!

Wrong Caption?

Thought this was a little strange. Perhaps it's just my computer messing up but I was reading this article today on the Washingtonpost.com site and there's a picture of the Pentagon. But the caption doesn't have anything to do with the article, unless it's referring to CIA secret prison interrogation techniques.

How Not To Wash Relics

Shroud Of Turin Accidentally Washed With Red Shirt

VATICAN CITY—The damage occurred when Pope Benedict XVI, who was on laundry duty, did not notice a brand new bright-red Hanes Beefy-T in the Holy Whirlpool washer.

The Onion Movie

It looks awesome.

Human Giant

I happened to come across these guys the other day.  It’s a three man comedy outfit that has their own show on MTV.  Of course not having cable means I never knew about these guys, but luckily we have youtube.  They’re a little bit crazy and a bit disturbing, but I have to admit that they’re really funny.  Kind of like a comedy 2.0 version of Kids in the Hall if you remember those guys.  Here’s a sample, but they have tons of stuff out there.

 

Mother Son Moving Company:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xl6srDeOzO4

 

Viral Videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=krSLhhn_F1Q

 

Camping Weekend:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fGCmAM6Oafc

 

Shape Wars

It's like Night at the Roxbury meets Asteroid.

Check it out.

Top 10 Most Awkward Sports Interviews

These are pretty funny. Again, if you've already seen this, then refer to the post before.

Shaq is good. The Kobe fan is sad. Tyson never disappoints. Knight is right on par. And Joe Namath reminds me of a New Years Party.

Banned Super Bowl Commercial

I'll state this right now for all the subsequent posts.

These are all "old". That means they've been circulating the internet for weeks now so don't blast me if you've already seen this stuff. If you haven't, then consider yourself an internet cave dweller. If you have, then you should probably consider getting a real social life.

Here's the "cut the cheese" Bud light commercial which was evidently cut from the live broadcast.

The Cy Blog Is Back!

I know it's been a month since I've last posted but that doesn't mean I haven't come across lots of great stuff to post about. So here is a "post blast" of some items that I've come across that deserve mentioning.

First off, to spread the blog love, congrats to Mark and K on their wedding. It was cold, beautiful, tasteful and totally awesome. I love you both and wish the best for you in your new lives as a couple!


And I have to give a shout out to my beautiful wife who got into the spirit and was wearing a handmade dress. This was all the rage in the 900's I hear...

6 More Weeks Of Winter?

I really can't believe this many people come out for groundhog day.

We'll see. I hope Phil is wrong. Nothing against the guy, but clearly he doesn't know the first thing about global warming.

Busy Week

Well, it's actually been a busy couple weeks, but here's a basic run down of everything that's going on.

1. EconomyGuy.com has an upcoming tele-seminar this Wednesday evening which I've been preparing for. We've actually sold a couple mp3/cd sets of the yet to be recorded event. It's our first revenue for this site so I'm very encouraged. We initially we at about 70 subscribers right around Christmas and it seems to be organically growing at the pace of 1 person per day. I know, not much. But we weren't doing ANY marketing. Finally, this week I got around to promoting a giveaway. We going to give a free subscription to Economist magazine. The drawing will be held April 30th. All newsletters subscribers will be eligible....etc. etc. So far it's worked ok. I've added about 80 subscribers in the last few days so we've just about doubled. We really need to get our list to about 1000 members I believe, before we can really start testing other ways we can monetize the site. However, I think we will always keep the newsletter free.

2. Been working on a Clickbank product. My friend gave me some digital products and I created a sales page/delivery page last week and have just been driving traffic to it the last few days so see if I could get any conversions. The good news is I did get one sale on about 150 unique visitors which isn't terrible, but not that great either. It's actually pretty good when you consider it's my first attempt at putting something like this together. I'm going to redesign the whole thing and possible rename the product itself, but you can still see the experimental site for a short time here. Increased cash flow. By the way, if you sign up with clickbank (it's free) and you get your own link and make a sale, you get 50% as a commission.



3. I finally got around to monetizing my sweepstakes site. I didn't really do much, except throw in some affiliate links to other sweepstakes/prize sites that pay on a free registration. These are in the Welcome email that people receive after they register for my giveaways. Last night I had 4 people register and one played the other games which put $2 in my pocket. Not bad for complete autopilot but I suspect that it will get much more fun when the numbers get higher. Some days I have upwards of 50 people register, but I didn't have this offer set up yet.

4. Been working on other affiliate things that I'm still testing out. Hopefully more to report later.

So that's it. Hope everyone has a great week!

Rambo In The News

In case you don't remember my earlier post on Rambo I was surprised to see this review today in the Washington Post.

I still think Weird Al was better.