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The Yahoo homepage tends to be my primary news source throughout the day, as I’m always checking email, or testing PPC campaigns running on the YSM network..

Today, they featured a video titled ” ‘Big Mother’ is watching “, and described it as “A new website lets parents track their kids’ grades, absences, and tardies.” (see below)

Being that I’m a data hound, and love business models which revolve around selling information - not products, I clicked the play button.

What came next, caused me to do a triple take..

Actually, take a look for yourself. Here’s the video:

did ya catch it?

The site they featured as the homepage for Parent Connect? Did the template look familiar?

It should, cause it’s Frank Schilling domain name, and it’s his website they’re featuring (incorrectly). See below screenshot:

The wordly-wise producers of this segment assumed their domain was ParentConnect.com - Which it ain’t.

It appears that the actual product name is ‘Parent Connect XP’..

And that’s not even the end of the story…

The originating company which owns and operates Parent Connect XP (Pearson Education), owns ParentConnectXP.com, but prefers to have the name resolve nowhere (currently brings up a ‘Server not found’ page’), and instead opts to provide all the product specs buried within their root site here. It’s so buried, a Google search for ‘Parent Connect XP’ fails to even generate this page..

That being said, I can’t halfway blame the producers… can you?

I wonder if Frank noticed any traffic spikes on his side : )

seems their design team decided to test their homepage layout in IE, and only IE…

now, Firefox is wreaking havoc, and re-written their homepage slogan to:

“You want a career that’s ORDINARY”

Ok, only if you say so..

and to think these jokers also own TravelNurse.com too… oye.

My wife recently got one of those Sonicare toothbrushes, and the darn thing made her teeth look like they were brightened by a dentist. So today I decided to do a little research to buy one for myself. Amazon.com was my first stop.

So I plugged in ‘Sonicare’ into their search box, and got the search results. The first listing featured the Sonicare replacement brush heads, but that wasn’t what caught my eye. Per the picture below, Amazon was quite proud of the fact that they had ‘9 Used and New’ Replacement brush heads..

Now, logic would tell me they aren’t selling used toothbrush heads. But the caption clearly says ‘Used & New’. So hey, who knows, they might be selling used one’s, right?

now, of course, they aren’t actually selling used toothbrush heads, but it got me thinking… what other items does Amazon promote as Used, that really shouldn’t be sold Used..

since toothbrush heads was #8, here’s #7

Number 7 - Q-Tips

simply, an overall gross level here. Imagine someone diggin some wax out of their ear, then passing the Q Tip to you.. na-hasty..

Number 6 - Mouthwash

I envision folks taking a swig, gargling, gargling some more, then fitting their mouth back over the bottle and re-spitting back in.

Number 5 - Baby Diapers

So many levels of wrong here. I guess you attack this problem with a tanker load full of baby powder.

Number 4 - Adult Diapers

Now, the fact that an adult would actually consider buying used diapers for themselves is disturbing.

Number 3 - Cat Litter

I can’t see a way cats would accept this. Sorry Amazon.

Number 2 - Toilet Paper

Maybe cause it’s 2-ply, you can re-sell the second layer?

Number 1 - Condoms

sorry, I had to go there. Actually, Amazon had to go there. They’re the ones selling ‘em. Oye..

  No, no, I haven’t sold out and placed mini ads on the site…

  I keep running across this weird hosting ad online, and It’s creepin’ me out….

  is it just me, or does this gal look like she’s a wax model of someone in the witness protection program?

  that, or she could be a recruiter for the Heaven’s Gate Cult

‘Cause I forgot it’s birthday..

officially started this thing on 3/30/07..

I’d like to share a special birthday song I used to sing with fellow counselors - to campers - while working at Camp Carolina during summers in college. Rather than the typical upbeat birthday song, the Camp Director (Cha Cha Thompson), would lead an intensely funny, morbid version of the track:

[sung in the lowest key possible, monotone, eyes toward ground, almost mumbling the words]

Ha-ppy Birthday

Ha-ppy Birthday

fear and loathing in the air

people dying everywhere

Ha-ppy Birthday.

happy b-day domainer’s gazette. Here’s hoping this brain dump of a blog is helping somebody out there learn this addictive and amazing business.

Directions to get to my friends house in Oxford MS:

Head down Old Sardis Road

Take a right on College Hill..

then, WATCH OUT FOR THE PLANES TAKING OFF

and go straight for 2 miles, his complex is on the left..