In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)

Lately I've been listening to WMNF 88.5, a community radio station in Tampa. I've been listening to it partly because the news is a lot less biased (they don't have to kowtow to advertisers and such), but mostly because their music selection is quite eclectic. I'm always hearing something amazing that the corporately owned stations don't play.

And while driving home through a steady rain tonight the station played a song that I can't believe I've never heard before. At least I don't recall ever hearing it. The song is titled In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus) and it was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks back in 1969. It was performed by the Nebraska duo Zager and Evans (no longer together).

Now, I didn't grow up in the 60's, but I did go through a musical phase in college where I listened to 60's and 70's music almost exclusively. Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney. You get the picture. So how the heck did I miss coming across this song? Beats me.

Anyway, as soon as I got home I Googled it. All I had to go on was a few of the lines I had memorized so I could search and find out which artists sung it and what it was titled. Luckily, I even came across a really cool video that someone had put together on YouTube to go along with it. Check it out!

In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)

Pretty cool song, eh? Quite visionary for 1969. Now I'd just love to see someone do a really killer mashup of it! Maybe a little something like this Beatles vs. Jay-Z mashup. And check Ringo Starr on the turntable. Wicked!

The Grey Album Mashup

And while I'm on the subject of mashups, here's a cool one featuring Green Day and Oasis. This is one of my favorites.

Green Day vs. Oasis Masup

How To Filter Kontera Ads On Your Blog

These days many bloggers are using Kontera ads on their blogs. Kontera's ContentLink ads can be a great additional source of revenue and can be used in conjunction with other contextual advertising services like Google AdSense, etc.

But one common issue, even on some of the bigger blogs, is that many of them don't "filter" their Kontera ContentLink ads...at all. What do I mean by filtering? Well, let's say that you're writing the title of book or movie. You obviously don't want the ads displayed in parts of the title. It looks bad and is very annoying to the reader. Or if you're writing a sponsored post you certainly don't want any contextual ads showing up in that post. And neither will the company paying for it.

So how do you control where the Kontera ContentLink ads show up and where they don't show up? It's actually very simple. Just use Kontera's ContextLink™ Text Filter, otherwise known as Span filter tags.

For example, let's say that you've written a blog post that is five paragraphs long, but you don't want any Kontera ContentLink ads displayed in the third paragraph. Then simply add the Kontera ContextLink™ filter tags "around" the third paragraph like this:

Here's another example. Let's say that you really hate Aaron Cook. I mean you really, really hate him. And you don't want any Kontera ads getting in the way of your ability to express your severe and unmatched distaste for him. :P It would look like this:

It's as simple as that. Just put the filter tags around the words and paragraphs where you don't want the ads to display and voila! No ContentLink ads.

Will It Blend? - BIC Lighters

This latest Will It Blend video has got to be the funniest one in the series so far. At least to me. I totally cracked up...especially at the very end. Tom's hair and facial expression are...well, classic.

Now, some people might say that it's not too smart of an idea to throw six BIC lighters in a Blendtec blender and hit the smoothie button. Those people would be right. :P



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