Yves Rossy made world history today as the first person to self propel oneself across the English Channel…

Really! He did! Read about it here.

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It’s time for Round 2 of The AdSpace Contest and I’m proud to announce that I am one of 10 co-hosts again. This time we have even more ways to enter and win, so if you didn’t win last time, here’s you chance to gain additional entries and increase your chances!
 

Here are the contest rules:

The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, we’ll announce the winner.

The prize?
A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value! Last month’s prize grew to be ad spots on 45 blogs!

Who else is co-hosting?

• Jamaipanese
• Best of Stupid
• AxioBlog
• The Big Bald Blog
• Jason Boom
• Unconventional Marketing Blog
• GorillaSushi
• Geek Mom Mashup
• It Might Be Love
• Mr. Javo

 
How do you enter to win?

• 1 Entry - Subscribe to any one of the blogs above via email (if you subscribed last month, you’re already entered again!).
• 5 Entries - Twitter about the contest with a link to this post (new!)
• 10 Entries - Write a post about the contest (must include links to all 10 hosts OR use our suggested text)
• 25 Entries - Offer up an ad spot on your own blog for one month as part of the prize package (links will be listed above)

 Simply put, you could subscribe to all 10 blogs, write a post, twitter about it and offer up your own ad spot for a grand total of 50 entries! Fill out the form below once you’ve got your entries done. 

 
Contest ends October 15th. Good Luck!

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Drumroll please everybody…we have a winner for the AdSpace Contest!

It is Not Just a Mama and she will have her blog advertised on over 40 blogs for the next month! (You can see her ad right next to my entrecard widget in the sidebar!)

There was a total of 1272 entries so thank you to everyone who participated…and if you did not win, don’t worry…there will be more opportunities coming very soon!

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Everybody has widgets somewhere on their blog. Some are neat, entertaining, even useful. So what are the dumbest blog widgets ever? I think I found them!

Dumb Blog Widget #1: Wax On Wax Hoff

Go ahead - try your luck at waxing off chest hair, complete with sound effects and comments. If this doesn’t keep your blog visitors around, what will? You can see it here.

Dumb Blog Widget #2: Shave My Yeti

If waxing isn’t your thing, maybe you could offer to your blog visitors instead a Yeti to shave? Why not?  Check it out here.

Dumb Blog Widget #3: Flight of the Hamsters

The instructions were too small for me to read to understand the rules or the point of the game, but it has something to do with launching hamsters into the air and then watching them splat on the ground. See if you can figure it out.

Dumb Blog Widget #4: Happy Sex Hour

This widget allows you to spin the wheel and it chooses a position for you and your partner. I’m guessing if you’re spinning this wheel, you are probably too young to be spinning it anyways.

Dumb Blog Widget#5: MyDogSpace

A MySpace for Dogs!!! says it all with this best dumb blog widget. It really doesn’t even do anything, just links to MyDogSpace.com. See it here.

Dumb Blog Widget#6: Peanut Butter Jelly Time

If your blogging objectives are to annoy visitors to make sure they never return, this dancing banana is for you. It is seriously so bad I can only share the picture and the link, I would go nuts listening to this on my own site. See what I mean here.

Dumb Blog Widget #7: LeekSpin

Watch a girl singing and spinning a leek around. Over and over again. Forever. I have no idea what she is singing about, so hopefully it is not anything obscene! This one is not as annoying as the banana one, but still thought I would link to it here so you don’t have to be forced to listen to it.

If you don’t already have a blog, it might be time to get some blog hosting and start one just so you can have these dumb blog widgets on your site!

So what do you think? Do you like any of these widgets? Which one seems to be the dumbest blog widget to you? Have a favorite weird or unusual blog widget I may have missed? Comments are always welcome

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I’ve decided that knowing a hurricane is coming and choosing to stay there instead of going somewhere safe and out of the hurricane’s path is a DUMB THING TO DO. Those newscasters that stand out there all for the sake of having a story did a pretty dumb thing too. How could risking your life for that be worthwhile?

Last night we got some of the “after-effects” of Hurricane Ike which prompted my beliefs about this…50-60 mph winds, lots of trees down, missed the Steelers game thanks to our power going out…It was kind of scary - people with trees fallen on their homes like shown below and we slept in our basement worried a tree would fall on ours. And we are no where near where the Hurricane hit!

So while I genuinely feel bad that these kind of storms destroy people’s homes and everything else, I can’t help but think these people are nuts for staying somewhere when it is a KNOWN FACT hurricanes are dangerous. It is sad to see so many people lose everything and even their lives for something that could be somewhat preventable.

Anyways, everybody…if you are lucky enough to know that a natural disaster or potentially dangerous weather conditions are coming your way, please don’t be dumb! Get to somewhere that is safe! Your life is more important than anything else! They send out weather advisory warnings for a very good reason!

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