As the snow falls deep and crisp and even, I am looking at the feed reader and realise that Good King xFruits is slacking and some of the recent posts aren't shining out. Sorry folks, you can't escape that easily.

Ben Stein ripped into Goldman Sachs. I don't think he was quite on the money with his claims. Or, his tilt at GS is BS!

I introduced Link-a-Post yesterday. It is my bid to make a better world for bloggers and entrepreneurs in the Third World, well past Christmas and well into the New year. I hope to hear from you, at least to say whether you think it can work in its current format, or if not, give me some pointers.

SmartLinks say they like what they see and I feel a few SmartLink users calling by to take a look. Don't get caught in the rush!

Beacon Awards. I was one of 5 tiddlers caught in Debbie Dolphin's nets. It also seems as though Reuters are trawling the web for original posts and they found her. Good vibes for the small guys.

And for some reason, MyBlogLog Sunday 35 never appeared in the RSS feeder. I hope it didn't put the Breaking News team off their filming. Lights, cameras, action.

301 redirects, oooh, that sounds geeky. Indeed, it is, but 301's, as we call them in the game, are a part of blogmeistery that you need to be aware of.

The advert on TV from Gibbs, the career people, has a horrifying message, I think.


Wall St is smarting right now, but it was black too, back in February. The Chinese stock market fell 9% in a day and corporate America did as expected and panicked. China watched and smiled.

Garry Conn found a cool way to leverage some link love for the blog posts you Stumble. Look in my right side bar under "Recent posts" and you will see a link to the RSS feed on Ed's Stumble account. Clever, hey!

It is a big day in Ed land so enjoy a blast from last September that you may not have seen before.

Just when slimmers thought it was safe to eat out at MacDonalds again...

“We did not expect these new salad entrées to be so loaded with fat and cholesterol,” says Brie Turner-McGrievy, M.S., R.D., the clinical research coordinator at PCRM.

Brie continues

Americans thinking about getting in shape and heading to the beach this summer should steer clear of the heavily hyped ‘salads’ that are smothered with chicken, cheese and other fatty foods.

It burgers belief that MacDonalds' style of salad can be fattier and more cholestrol laden than the famed Big Mac, but it says so here.

Is it not just more honest of the vendors from hell to say

"If you are fat, that's the way we like you, and our salads will keep you that way!"

Good luck to all concerned, especially the Chinese currently in MacDonalds' sights. Just like Mickie D's execs study stats, so the Chinese should record their waistlines now and again in 2017. Compare the growth. It should be stellar results for all concerned.

A quick trip through articles from Ed in the last 48 hours. There are more in the right sidebar, and even more if you hit Browse at the end of any article.

Ed's brain and typing skills are too slow for a Mac Pro - or any other computer with two 2.66GHz Intel processors inside.


In the World of contests widgets and funny quotes, I recognise the pioneers who have installed or blogged about the assorted Pisstakers widgets on offer.


Fire everyone! According to the latest string of economic indicators, fewer workers are buying more stuff than ever. Maintain the trend and let your workforce go.

Postapoo clear up the true message of their controversial St George's Day campaign.



If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.

A quick trip through articles from Ed in the last 48 hours. There are more in the right sidebar, and even more if you hit Browse at the end of any article.

Classic cars are rusting away in a yard in rural France. A no top Fiat, a dead Bentley, everything for discerning car fans.

A Small Orange have been powering The Pisstakers for a while now. They rock as far as I am concerned and here is why.

They say John Lennon was killed because of one throwaway modest comment about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus. See if you are at risk from assassination!

Celebrity hair takes a mild swipe at Keith Richard who took a swipe at Swedish journalists who accused him of being drunk on stage. Er, yeah!

I managed to prise Mrs Ed into the Bourne Ultimatum and judging by the bruise on my arm, even she enjoyed the highly improbable action-packed trip round the world of CIA dirty tricks.

If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.

Photo overload tackles the problem of coping with the fuzzy photo mountain clogging up millions of computers worldwide.

Bonds steroids celebrates the fantastic achievement of baseball star Barry Bonds whose head has literally grown one size since "Training hard" to be the best baseball batter of all time.

Bear attacks highlights some grizzly episodes where grizzlies and polar bears have crossed paths with Man, usually with a gruesome outcome.

No stairs introduces the unsuspecting public to the high-flying world of architect cock-ups.

Naturist horseriding is not for the faint-hearted. Don't feel you have to look at the picture.

Work injuries How Ed copes with worn out body parts.

Cooking hell is a must read for anyone who cooks. That means about 14 Americans will read this article.

Webpage optimizer goes all Google eyed showing you how to test your design for a landing page.

1959 top! is about an obscure financial measure of pending doom and gloom in the stock market. Could it have saved you from recent plunges?

RSS magic points you in the direction of everything you need to know about Really Simple Syndication.

Naked keyword brings you the Tic tap and Amazon search results for the word Naked.

Impossible Quiz will have you tearing your boils out.

Infinity razors have the perfect product - almost. A must read for the tight wad shavers out there.

Time news skims through stories from the hallowed Time magazine.

Adsense stops scrolling Yes, how annoying is it that I can't scroll straight through an Adsense ad. Is it just me?

Unreal tech A virtual trip through virtualisation, the unveiling of the real Steve Jobs blog impersonator, and Amazon.

Videos and Vodpod is a section of The Pisstakers that is slowly drawing more interest. The embedded videos look quite snazzy compared to Youtube's utilitarian page layout.

Blog Interviewer interviewed Ed.

Archives is the one-stop drop into past Pisstakers posts.

A blogger's work is never done and over the last 24 hours I have introduced a Celebrity section (work in progress), added BlogCatalog discussions, sorted out the sidebars and experimented with the titles. If the site disappears off the radar, you know why!

Archives

I think the theme and sidebars look OK, but on the downside there is a small change in how you access the archives. Articles from way back when are now accessible from the left sidebar in the "Categories" section, or from here!! Thank you for your patience.

Blogcatalog

Blogcatalog is a "clone" of MyBlogLog, but it has a great Discussions feature which gives it an edge in the competitive world of networking for bloggers. So I am trialling a dirty great widget here in this post, and if it loads quickly, I will move it to a permanent and prominent spot in the sidebar

Celebrity news bashing

And please, don't be too cynical about celebrities. They all have something valuable to offer society and I intend to find that little something and highlight it for your delight and delectation. The posts will be happy humorous ones, and only when there is nothing inspirational to relate, will I resort to bitchy posts about twitchy eyes, alcoholism and knickerless debauchery.

Free implant girls continue to tease and tempt Ed with emails pleading for support of the financial kind.

Lo tech in hi-tech keeps complex things simple for us klutzes who get easily confused.

Amazon soars thanks to long-term investment in technology and stays well ahead of the curve even as Wall St stumbles.

Joe Guse analyses the theory of laugher. Read the Pisstakers to put the theory into practice?read more

A quick summary of the latest posts from The Pisstakers. All articles are by Ed and I try very hard to add an angle that makes The Pisstakers a bit different from what you read elsewhere. I doesn't always succeed, of course!!

Blogging software shows the simplicity and ease of use of Rapidweaver, the brains behind this blog.

Dour Music Fest. It may be dour by name, but the event in Belgium is far from dour by nature.

Tobacco Tabaco is an international trip around the word.

Icecream wars A sad story of gangsters warring over bizarre businesses such as ice cream vending, hot dog wagons and billboards.

Soccer madness highlights the heavily talented and the overweight in soccer.

Paris finds god and Ed finds lots to satirise.

Gates China cock-up Bill Gates may be the richest guy in the world with global influence, but he sure wasn't tuned into the Chinese market.

Greasy touchscreens Touch screens will be all the rage now the iPhone is out, but greasy fingers may spoil the user experience.

Police concert A tribute to old reggae rockers Sting and company who recently sold out Chicago.

Snort or fart OK OK, it may sound a bit juvenile at first sight but it is a deadly serious question: Would you rather snort marbles from your nose or fart confetti (from an obvious locale)?

Is Stumbleupon cool? Renowned for traffic spikes, Stumble Upon is viewed in a positive light by most, but is it really as useful and constructive as people make out?

Hard drive heaven provides a few useful pointers and tips to deal with a failed hard drive. Rule one, don't panic!

Software naming What's in a name? A lot if the title gives absolutely no clue as to what the software does.

TicTap funny quote Amazon has the database, TicTap tapped into it and a keyword generates relevant books and DVDs.

Help forum bluesProlific forum contributors tend to be authorities in their field. I knew enough to be dangerous and got in trouble.

For the visitors who like to see at a glance what has been posted throughout the site this week, eyes to the right. For a resumé of last week's posts, eyes down.


HungryFlix will feed your new iPhone with video content.


Interview CEOs I satirised a serious post from the France-based blog, Tech It Easy.


Hari interrogation is one of the best pisstaker interviews so far.


Funny truck sign When you are out and about, there is no telling what you will see.

The full list of last week's articles
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