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  1. amateursurgeon

    Serving up a different site to different countries

    I run a Wordpress-based ecommerce site, for which we want to launch special offers which are only available outside the UK. We don't want our competitors seeing what we're up to easily (they're not hugely tech-savvy), so I was thinking of setting up two separate wordpress installs, one UK and...
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    RICO Class Action against Amateurmatch

    I stumbled across this recently. A class action against Amateurmatch, on behalf of all the schmucks who entered their credit cards in the "get laid tonight!" box. They are including affiliates, and people who advertise there, and trying to make a RICO case out of it. It's only at the...
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    Best PC game to play a couple of hours at a time?

    Sadly, I've had to uninstall Baldurs Gate due to the pressing need to actually get some fucking work done and not stay up til 3AM trying to kill lichs But I'd still like to play something at the end of the day to unwind. Any suggestions for something which is fun, but put-downable, and does't...
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    Baldur's Gate

    About 10 years ago, I got really hooked on Baldur's Gate 2 (an RPG game if you haven't heard of it). I was at uni at the time, and I just played it obsessively night and day. I eventually had to stop because it was destroying my ability to get any work done. Anyway, this year, I had some...
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    What's a realistic conversion rate for an email submit (no scrubs)?

    I'm putting together an email submit campaign for someone at the moment (as a consultant for an advertiser - this isn't an affiliate thing. Meaning none of the usual BS that comes with email submits) It's basically a "win an Ipad and get up 80% of your purchases of product X" campaign. I'm...
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    Reliable Wordpress help needed

    I'm looking for someone reliable to outsource stuff like, Blog setups, basic PHP / HTML site changes, wiring Mailchimp / Aweber up to blogs. If that sounds like you, PM me, or reply with your details. You must be someone who will be available consistently. I've had people before who have...
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    PHP string / quotes problem driving me insane

    Please can someone point out what I'm missing here - I'm sure it's something obvious.... I'm trying to get my page to set a javascript variable based on form input from previous page (so that I can do user tracking in Clicky) My code reads: $ClickyUserName=str_replace(' ', ''...
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    Holy shit, my wife has made a new person!

    Just enjoying my first day at home in with our new baby girl. Thought I'd post cos it's fucking awesome (even though I know babies are generally of no interest to anyone except their parents :) ) A few observations: -Babies are really freaky. I mean, she's lovely, but they are like weird...
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    24 Hour Startup - is that it?

    This has been getting a bit of press coverage in the UK - today 24HOUR-STARTUP.COM Basically, 2 webdesign companies got together and spent 20K worth of man-hours to build a business in 24 hours. What did they come up with? http://drhue.com/ A fucking affiliate datafeed site that sorts the...
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    How did he get this job?

    video How to examine your own breasts. - health advice, breast, dr chris steele - videos kewego This guy clearly has a passion for this work. I love the way he's justified feeling up a younger model with the line "yes, it mainly affects women over 50, but younger women get breast cancer too"...
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    The Rape Tunnel

    What. the. fuck. ? ARTLURKER THE RAPE TUNNEL By Sheila Zareno
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    Another weird niche (Kosher edition)

    I stumbled across this one today: someone selling Torah scrolls online. Only $40,000 for your very own word of G-D, apparently. I have no idea why, but the testimonial page here cracks me up: Sefer Torah, Torah Scroll written in Israel. New and refurbished. I can just picture those on a...
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    The Internet Never Ceases To Amaze Me

    I was searching to see if "the ancient art of listening" was a common phrase (because I was looking to use it in my copy), and I got as far as The ancient art of l.. When google suggest pop ups: In the interests of science, I took the second option, and number one was the following site...
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    Is secure.me.uk worth anything?

    I've just remembered I have secure.me.uk registered. It's a pretty obscure TLD, but a nice short domain name. Is it likely to be worth anything?
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    I'm confused - what's the difference?

    Ok, ever since I've seen this offer become popular on here, I've been scratching my head on this one. Please can someone explain the difference between scammy Get Rich Quick ebooks (bad and unacceptable to promote, apparently), and.... The Google Cash / Google Money System (good to promote)...
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    WTB - Social bookmarking setup

    I'm feeling lazy, and want someone set up an onlywire.com account for me, including a gmail account and accounts on the 27 (excluding twitter) social networks it supports PM me if interested... AS
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    Quiz software

    I'm after some online software that will let me do a quiz for users, using basic yes/no answers, that will score the test (up to 50 questions), and show them what they scored. If it can email the results, even better. It also needs to keep a record of the scores for me. Any recommendations ?
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    Freelancer help wanted - CSS /HTML

    I'm looking for freelancers with good layout, CSS, HTML skills to help deliver client websites for a business that we've just launched Projects typically take 2-3 days' work each. I'm handling them myself at the moment, but want to outsource soon. Work will involve hooking up an existing...
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    Stair dismount

    Have just remembered a phun game I used to waste a lot of time on back in the day: Games - Secret Exit Who would have thought that pushing a virtual man down a set of stairs could be so compelling.... My max score is about 104000 so far.