The following is a single post in my RSS Reader using Feedburner this morning with seemingly every possible option — actually, I’m sure there are more — turned on in the post:

This post reminded me of my experience with another post from a different blog in my RSS reader recently and there are Things Not To Do lessons from both posts for fellow bloggers: 10 (deadly sins) ads in a single RSS feed post, get out of here.

The above screenshot contains one picture and seven words. That’s all the content in the post. Now check out the other links, most of which are promotional, and which number nearly 20+:

1. 7 6 tag links: design, chair, library, books, made in Italy, Bibliochaise. Head’s up, tag whores: I can see this going under ‘books’ and ‘chair’ which probably lead to other posts, but why the other five tags for readers? ‘Made in Italy’? If we want to run Technorati tag searches this badly then we can launch them ourselves. Very few posts warrant more than three tags. There are almost more tags used here than words in the post. If you need that many tags, sorry it’s just tag spamming. Solution: hide that stuff so it only shows for authors.
2. email this
3. add to del.icio.us
4. Digg this
5. Find related feeds. What is going to be related to a post like this? It’s been sullied by a bunch of promotional links.
6. Add to Technorati Favorites
7. Meneame. How many readers will know what this actually means? For that matter what most of the “___ this” links are used for?
8. Subscribe by email
9. Seed this. Propagate, that’s the spirit.
10. Furl this
11. Spurl this
12. This item is from “Random Good Stuff” Should be titled “Non-random Unrelated Links.” Here is how you can run down the source of this post, if you are really interested.
13. Advertise in this feed. And become the proud sponsor of link #30+?
14. Alexa rank. So readers need to know this … why? What does it have to do with the post?
15. (not linked) This feed has 1187 subscribers. As readers, why do we need to know this? Congratulations on your 4 digit RSS penis. Yes, all your readers are envious.
16. Slashdot this
17. Add to blogroll
18. Blog this. Blog what, how many promotional links you have in this post? Ok, here you go.
19. Track co.mments. I’m sure a post like this will get tons of comments.
20. Include this in Outlook. What about readers who don’t use Outlook? Might want to add: Include this in (insert every email program). Why not?
21. Digg this. A second time! Are you freaking kidding? I guess Digg has become so popular that banging the reader with this request twice will increase the odds of getting dug.
22. Fark this. Need to replace the ‘a’ and the ‘r’ with a ‘u’ and a ‘c’.

How about one more for the road:

- Unsubscribe this. Done.

Ever have one of those days when … (warning: might want to turn the volume down a bit)

Ahh, the days when the Hulk raged. Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby. All 10 episodes of The Incredible Hulk - The Complete First Season (affiliate) available via Amazon for $27.99, but wait, if you are a Costco member then you can buy there for $25.99 as of this writing. We just did and you can tell how inspired I was on video.

Speaking of Bills, today another Bill and a mysterious, kind engineer helped me rescue a couple videos for viewing in my Grouper profile that wouldn’t allow viewing by anybody else, including me.

And while we’re in the old TV show mode, the show that defined courtroom drama with twists in all its black and white glory is available via DVD, Perry Mason - Season 1, Vol. 1 (affiliate). We paid $39.99+ tax and it’s available on Amazon as of this writing for $32.99.

Saw it a week ago and wanted to buy it then, but finally pulled the trigger tonight. Who needs a TV signal when you can get all the great old TV shows on DVD?

Speaking of being TV-less, it’s day 27. NFL Preseason starts soon and it’s going to be tough if I can’t get in on the NFL action. That might be the breaking point.

Back to listening to the Mariners, they might pull this one out in the bronx tonight.

[crossing fingers]

Cool mashup alert! Using the HotorNot API, the hotcaptcha challenges humans to pick the three hottest men or women out of the lineup:

Ok, yeah, it’s just wrong in our too politically correct world and flawed depending on sexual attraction bias, as Tim O’Reilly notes. I’m weary of an overly PC world though, so stuff like this doesn’t bother me. Beauty is skin deep and an increasingly overweight society needs to get their diet and health in order. And that’s coming from someone who knows he is a little overweight and doesn’t exercise enough (at all, really).

If there was a HotVoiceorNot for sight-impaired I’d add these CAPTCHAs to the comments here just to further the cause. Free idea for those in the audio business. Hook us up.

Thought I’d read the really good posts mocking Web Pooh-Point … Oh but thatedeguy’s archives have proven me wrong and opened the door to the ultimate next generaton website: Wankr.

Love the VC pitch:

If you’re an idiot VC or a Yahoo! acquisitions type who is willing to throw money at any website that features the words “collaborative”, “social”, “tagging” or “AJAX” then please get in touch with us …

The talking points:

- collaborative masturbation
- public zeta status
- Oh, and they’ve added a tag cloud!

Don’t know why but I think the word “wanker” is funny but to see it with the missing ‘e’ made me laugh out loud this morning. Hope I didn’t wake anybody up.

This is the type of borderline worksafe story I’d be more apt to put on our semi-imaginary sister site nakedyougohmm.com with much more detail.

Anyway, watch out for the Streisand effect with a domain, via Reuters:

Goldman Sachs last week submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) arguing the Internet domain name goldmansex.com would cause confusion and contained links to objectionable “adult” material. The NAF mediates corporate disputes including those over Internet domain names.

Purely for reporting purposes (of course!) I checked out goldmansex.com (don’t worry, it’s worksafe, screenshot of homepage above) and noticed it is billed as providing “the largest global directory for adult entertainment to business travellers.”

Conversely, a perusal of the Goldman Sachs site bears no similarities to goldmansex.com site other than the similarity of the first name.

Coming from somebody who has been around the web block awhile, I find it extremely hard to believe that somebody would mistype ’sachs’ as ’sex.’ Somebody should send the folks at Goldman Sachs this archived Hmm post: How to keep stride with typo squatters.

A good award for nakedyougohmm.com (should it ever become fully developed) instead of the Streisand Effect would be the Penis Effect. Actually I can think of an even better name, but I’ll stop now after disrupting all content filters for the day already.

Unlike the Adsense.com customer confusion discussed last night, this sachs vs. sex thing wasn’t an issue. It will be more so now. Doh!

Update 10:01am PST: Just saw this related tidbit at Valleywag:

Note2Dell: Before naming your blog one2one, check whether one2one.com is a porn site. Because, well, it is.

[via ZDnet] Good motivation for buying the domain names of products/services/blogs, even if you just redirect them to a third party location at first. Domain registration is cheap.

This, via Fox, gives all new meaning to AC DC’s song I put the finger on you. A Texas woman received a letter from her ex-boyfriend containing a severed finger and a message that said: “This is the last chance to touch you.” It would be creepy to receive such a ‘gift’ but on the outside it reminded me of that old movie where the severed hand goes on a killing spree. I didn’t Google this but I think Vincent Price had something to do with that movie.

The police haven’t connected with the man who now has a restraining order against him as to the origins of the finger. Not sure whether or not to hope it was his. Perhaps the eeriest part of the article is the last sentence which reads: “.. the finger appeared to have been cleanly severed and washed.”

If the RIAA doesn’t louse this kind of thing up, this might help spawn a niche for using real footage next to music. Imagine a video blog (vlog) entirely comprised of material like this?

President Bush “singing” U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (video) by stripping out various words he’s said and putting them in as the lyrics to the song.

I still don’t get the huge draw of Sudoku, but continue to see it everywhere.

At the time of writing, and current exchange rates, just a little more than 8 bones for some Sudoku toilet paper. This might be the most crappy version of Sudoku yet.

[rimshot]

Came across this page of useless stats in del.icio.us popular. Here are 17 of the list of 370+ that stuck out at me (my comments are italicized):

3. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. (need some years of your life back? Get rid of the TV signal)
321. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
31. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
32. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
41. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. (I didn’t believe this one, so I Googled it. It appears Crapper did create and hold a number of plumbing-related patents).
88. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
141. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
150. You breathe about 10 million times a year.
169. A snail’s reproductive organs are in its head.
214. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
221. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
222. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
272. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
283. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
289. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. (when I first read this, I thought no way and then I looked at the map, which is pictured along the right. Reno’s location is marked with an ‘x’)
297. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
341. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Probably should have held off on posting this because, well it has been dugg to connection fail status. Maybe by the time you see this and visit things will be somewhat improved. Pay attention to the lower left corner, circled in white, it’s kind of ironic with the “connecting” vs. the hanging test dummy image.

Are they telling all of us waiting to see what’s happpening something? When you do finally get connected, you enter your name and click the “try” link and then wait in the queue for your ball to fire. A numbered ball will be assigned to your name and then you wait for your number to come up. It’s fairly anticlimatic, see below:

A clever ad campaign for Super Bonder, however, which with a mere 5 grams of glue suspends the crash dummy to the ceiling as netizens click with their mouse and pelt it continuously with tennis balls. Pavlov’s dog, anyone?

Back in September they glued a monitor to the wall using Super Bonder. The Super Bonder folks could be the Golden Palace of glue.