Saw this at Jester’s via Twitter with the IE7 web browser on a Dell computer running Vista SP1 with the eyes my mom and dad gave me, sitting on an Office Depot chair eating a Rudy’s breakfast taco and drinking Pepsi (how much credit is good ‘netiquette?)

According to the web site, this is 89% less than all other websites who took the test.

Of course, by linking to Jester’s site with the URL he used, I think I just went up to 2%.  But I have to wonder - how does it do this so fast?  Is it just scanning the first page?

reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated…
                          - LOLcats

I’ll be upfront.  I want your vote.  I want to go to Vegas.

Sure, the Presidential Primaries are going on right now and people are tired of hearing about change, hope, promises, campaigns, and mudslinging.  Well, instead of worrying about which scumbag (or scumbagette) to vote into office, VOTE FOR THE FUNNIEST POKER-RELATED LOLCAT!  Even more importantly - VOTE FOR MINE!

The great folks over at icanhascheezeburger are running a Poker Cats contest, and I want everyone to pull for me.  The contest is - submit a funny poker-related LOLcat and the person with the most votes wins a trip to vegas (air, hotel and some cash).

Here’s what you do: I want you to click on one or all of the following submissions and VOTE for my submissions.  And then I want you to tell your friends to vote for me.  Consider putting a link for this post in your weekly summary if you have one.  Rent me one of those banner airplanes over LA.  Let’s ROCK this vote.

Below please find the ones *I* submitted - click on the picture to go vote on your favorites, or go all out and be my best friend by voting for all of them.  Then tell your friends.   Then go dig up some dead people and have THEM vote (hey, it works for the politicians…)

And if you’re feeling a little spunky, tell me if you like any of them.  If you decide to enter the contest, let me know in the comments and I’ll vote for you too.

UPDATE: How to vote:

• Click on one or as many photos as you like - you can only vote once PER PHOTO, but you’re free to vote once PER PHOTO; in fact, that’s my preference!
• When you see the photo at the icanhascheezeburger site, there will be five (5) cheeseburgers just above the photo.  This is how you “rate” the photo from one to five cheeseburgers (long story, don’t ask).  Just click once on the right-most cheeseburger to vote and rate it a “5″.  It should increment the total number of votes that photo has.
  

Here you go!

I did some Pay It Forward craziness this past week.  I combined a Guess The Movie theme with the PiF theme and then threw in some astrology, numerology, 11:11 phenomenon (unintentionally), Mr T-ology (unintentionally, Fool!) and comicbookology, all in one post!  I’m like the alchemist of the blogging era.  A blogchemist, if you will.

So here’s how it went down.  I asked the Universe a question, and that question was

Who should win the prizes from my Pay It Forward post?

And the winners are…. well, you’ll have to read it and scroll down (evil grin).

I’ve put all the interesting details below in the extended entry - click to read it all!  You know you want to!  (hint: there are pretty colors, fancy pictures and words that sound funny).

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Slap mah fro!

Avi said he unabashedly stole this “Guess the movie” idea from Dan.  However, that leaves me with two questions: 1) if this is unabashedly, what would happen if he abashedly stole it?  Would he still have mistakenly called Babel Fish a product of Google if there were less bashedness? 2) Why is Dan using Bable Fish instead of Babel Fish?  Or did he run the phrase “Babel Fish” through the translator a couple of times as well? (I keed, I keed!)

Dan’s method was to take a film’s synopsis and put it through Babel Fish translator to convert it from English to some other foreign language, and then take that result and translate it back to English.  Then people could guess which film is being described.  Avi’s tweak was to use AOLer Translator instead of Babel Fish, so he could have AOL-style (for example “OMG LOL TEH MOVEI SI 3XACTLEY DA LENGTH OF A DV TAEP”)  descriptions.

*My* tweak  is to use my all-time favorite translator, the Dialectizer.  I’ve used this tool since the mid-90’s.  I’m so glad it’s still up.  I’ve always loved translating things to Jive.  So that’s what I’ve chosen to do with some of my favorite movies.

Your job: Guess the movie.  I’ve translated the film’s synopsisses into Jive. 
My job: Pay It Forward.  You can win fabulous prizes just by leaving a comment on this post by Friday! 

To save space, I’ve put both of these wonderful pieces in the extended entry, below.

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Note: This concept was inspired by a post on Avitable’s blog, who referenced the start of a story on RW’s blog.  Family note: Avitables’ blog is *not* family friendly, but it is somewhat funny.

General rules:

In order for this to work, please follow these simple rules:

1. Read the entire story.
2. Add a comment to the post, continuing the story where the last author left off.  Don’t just start off wherever you want; pick up from where the last comment left off. 
3. In the case where two comments are published at the same time, the next commenter can follow one or both/all of the comments, perhaps tying them together.
4. I may also add more comments or story lines until I decide the story is done.

The story starts below.

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