John Harvey Kellogg didn't invent corn flakes, that was down to unknown Seventh-day Adventists, but he did popularise them when he started serving them to his patients in order to reduce levels of masturbation.

Quote:Take a deep breath....It's just a bad day,not a bad life.

Oh no?

Quote:When I was one, I was dropped on the porch. When I was two, I had pneumonia. When I was three, I got the chicken pox. When I was four, I fell down the stairs and broke six ribs. When I was five, my uncle was decapitated by a watermelon. When I was six, my parents hit me in the head with a shovel. When I was seven, I lost my index finger to my pet rat. When I was eight, my dog Spike got hit by a tractor.

When I was nine, my mother lost her arm to a rabid Brahmin. When I was ten, my sister was torn to bits by a pack of dogs. When I was eleven, my grandfather killed himself because I was ugly. When I was twelve, my grandmother killed herself because I was ugly. When I was thirteen, my father poked out his eyes with a pitchfork in a drunken stupor.

When I was fourteen, my brother lost his hand to a wallaby. When I was fifteen, my aunt choked to death on a chicken bone. When I was sixteen, I lost my cousin to a badger. When I was seventeen, I cut off my left big toe with a hoe. When I was eighteen, my father lost his right leg to the same tractor that killed my dog. When I was nineteen...

-- Dave (Fallout 2)

Quote:Fun comes in many forms. I remember the day the race visited Lourdes not for the religious or spiritual feelings it generated but for the sheer amount of flashing, sparkling, plastic crap being punted to the tourists. I was so touched I felt obliged to buy a bottle opener in the image of the baby Jesus and then much to my dismay lost in the next hotel when I used it on a cider I'd shamelessly appropriated from some local producers that morning. Of course I had a bad head the following day but I can't be certain if it was the alcohol or the after effects of sleeping in amongst all the neon signs promising salvation and miracle cures.

-- Robert Millar

A year or two before you joined, Clixsense didn't have offerwalls, and tasks, and video offers. Nothing like that. They just had PTC ads. Most of the time, they just had one PTC ad.

They're referring to the addition of features like this, where clicks are minor part of your earnings, and most of the money comes from surveys and offers.

It is possible that one day they'll remove PTC entirely, but it's not very likely. It makes no sense to remove a feature that makes everybody money. Also note even the offerwalls have one click offers which are just a fancy way of saying "PTC ads". So no, they're talking about the continued evolution, not drastic revolution.

Quote:Our country has been so enriched by immigration. My mother was a Scot – my wife was an American of French extraction. One son married a Muslim. Another’s married someone of Jewish and Indian extraction. I mean I’m breeding a UN peace keeping force in my family

-- Tony Benn

If you went down The Nag's Head, and the dodgy looking guy in the corner said "For every quid you give me, I'll give you two back. It works, just ask my mate Jimmy over there", would you give him any money?

Why is it different because internet?

Use your noggin.

Aye, it's a slow one. There are offers there, but only the regular scheduled ones (Tesco/Walkers/Game etc),

I just use imagecreate()

Humans are god awful at probability. Weird patterns happen way more often than we intuitively expect.

I've won three times in one day, I've also gone six months without winning anything.

I make the average click worth around 0.03c (three ClixGrid are worth one Micro click). I arrived at this figure by collecting a bunch of stats posted in the forum, adding them all up and dividing it. 0.03c isn't a great deal, but it's more than some sites pay you to watch videos, so...

The real value is in unlocking your activity bonus. The winnings are just a bonus.

This sentence employs two a's, two c's, two d's, twenty-six e's, four f's, two g's, seven h's, nine i's, three l's, two m's, thirteen n's, ten o's, two p's, six r's, twenty-eight s's, twenty-three t's, two u's, five v's, eleven w's, three x's, and five y's.

If you tell the person who invented HTML email that whoever invented HTML email should be shot, he'll point out that it was him, and tell you that the first HTML email outside of the lab was used to purchase airline tickets during a product demonstration to shareholders. You will be compelled to apologise, but continue to secretly believe he should have been shot.

Quote:I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other prime minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say thank God she's gone.

-- Tony Benn

Oh, and since this is your first stab...

I'm colour blind, and there are dozens of banners I just can't read, and hundreds that are hard to read. Colour blindness is way more common than you'd think - about 8% of males.

Therefore, you should avoid combinations of:

green and red
green and brown
blue and purple
green and blue
light greens and yellows
blue and grey
green and grey
grey and black

You are twenty five times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.

Banners are just an image. Use paint.

Everybody hates animated banners, so doing something fancy may well come back to bite you on the arse - but given than 8 out of 10 websites are just teenagers posting gifs, I'd bet there are hundreds of animated gif creators out their too. Again, it's just an image.

You SHOULD save it as jpg or png, or gif if you do go the animated route, and MUST NOT save it as svg (which will be interpreted as a script in many browsers). Standard banner dimensions are 468x60

That's it.

Quote:The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

-- Brendan Francis

Lucia Y El Sexo. This is my favourite film of all time. It's an absolute masterpiece. It has quite a lot of sex in it - as the title suggests - but that's not why it's good. For all I talk the talk, and walk the walk, I'm not very good at being male, and sex on screen makes me uncomfortable; it's good despite the amount of sex in it. Though, while the sex is somewhat explicit, it's not gratuitous.

The film opens with Lucia entering a cafe, where she meets Lorenzo, and tells him that her boss has asked her to move in. She continues to say that she has decided to move in - but with Lorenzo, not her boss. Lorenzo has no idea who she is at this point. This is how I intend to meet my wife, but as often as I sit in cafes, it hasn't happened yet.

Lorenzo is a suicidal novellist, and the plot weaves through the past, the present, and the incresingly dark, depraved novel, blurring the lines between the three, to the point where the story ends in the middle.

Quote:The first advantage is at the end of the story. It doesn't finish, it falls in a hole. And the story starts again halfway. The other advantage, and the biggest, is that you can change course along the way... If you let me. If you give me time.

The film starts Paz Vega, but don't be put off by her abysmal performances in Hollywood - this was before she sold her soul and started making crap. She's actually very good in this.

Confession: I haven't watched this recently, I'm watching it as we speak, but I've seen it hundreds of times, so it's okay not to give it your undivided attention every single time.

Queen Elizabeth, Lizzie Armitstead, just won the world championships. This means the Skyrack has won more world titles than the rest of the UK combined, and the entire USA for that matter. Only five countries have won more world championships than our small administrative division. But the organisers accidentally played the British national anthem instead of ours, so I'm listening to our real national anthem.

Watched the 1979 remake of Nosferatu last night, because somebody (me) mentioned it, and it made me want to watch it again, so I watched it again.

One day, I'll learn German and watch it without subtitles.

Quote:I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.

-- Jack Dee