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Gigantor papercraft (link roundup)

Download the Gigantor/Tetsujin-28 paper toy here.

And a few more links:

1. Dr. Manhattan-themed condoms. Relatedly, this site features a few Watchmen comic panels blown up to desktop wallpaper size. Via.

2. Washington Post profile of 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole. At least according to the article, he's unemployed, living with his mom, and losing money running the site. Via these sites.

3. Mark Cuban is soliciting business plans, and plans to fund the best ideas. Biggest caveat - - you have to post you business idea on his blog.

4. I didn't feel like registering to read the original article, but apparently a California judge recommended that a prosecutor be suspended for four years for various misdeeds including concealing evidence. His boss, the Santa Clara County District Attorney, says the prosecutor will keep his job.

*Previously: Gigantor figurines.

*Buy Gigantor toys at eBay.

Another poster for Pixar's Up (link roundup)

Another poster for Pixar's Up. Via.

And a few more links:

1. An absurdly labor-intensive promotion for Take Your Child To Work Day.

2. If you created a rss feed with Feedburner, you're going to have to switch to Google in about a month. I just switched over the feed for Toycutter. (It seemed to be easy and fast.)

3. More information on that weird 4Chan battle.

4. Reminder, milkshakes are astonishingly bad for you. Via.

*Previously: Retro-style poster for Up.

*Buy Pixar posters at eBay.

Hey, how are Google's Chrome and Knol doing?

According to Valleywag, Google's Chrome has 0.77 browser share (and falling) and Knol is a "barren wasteland of content." Photo via.

*Previously: Google spider bot.

*Find books about building web traffic at Amazon.

Desktop Wallpaper: A Silver Surfer for the modern age

"Silver Surfer" is available as a t-shirt, along with some clever Star Wars-themed designs, at RubyRed T-Shirt Designs.

*Previously: Silver Surfer animated gifs and desktop wallpapers.

*Buy completed Marvel Legends build-a-figures at eBay.

Hamlet, written as a series of Facebook entries

"Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)" by Sarah Schmelling for McSweeney's. Here's a sample:

Polonius says Hamlet's crazy ... crazy in love!

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.

Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.

Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.

Ophelia removed "moody princes" from her interests.

Hamlet posted an event: A Play That's Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family

The king commented on Hamlet's play: "What is wrong with you?"

Read the whole thing.

*Previously: "Shakespeare hates your emo poems" t-shirt.

*Buy Hamlet posters at eBay.

An interesting point about the internet

Keith Boesky at Deadline Hollywood Daily:

The undisputed eyeball champ on line is Evolution of Dance on youtube, which has garnered 87 million views over two years, but the thing is only 6 minutes long. After two years on line, it captured as many viewed minutes as 4.5 airings of Gossip Girl.

[snip]

Value on-line is created by consumer engagement and community, not eyeballs alone.

Here's Evolution of Dance, by the way:

$40 million later, NY Times finally able to use hyperlinks

Jackson West for Valleywag:

Last week, Publishing 2.0 noted that the New York Times was finally using hypertext links in articles in a meaningful way. Welcome to the 20th century, Grey Lady! The Times invested in WordPress, which is used for the site's blogs, but the rest of the product? That required an expensive upgrade to CCI NewsGate, which comes with a $40 million price tag and is "very time consuming to integrate, especially across multiple properties," according to an editor at another major market daily.

Today's impossible to decipher spam filter letters

Encountered when I tried to comment on Chris Haley's awesome illustration of George Washington as The Hulk. Is the last letter(s) kanji?

SpamBeast Desktop Wallpaper

Desktop wallpaper sized image here.

Facebook expected to lose $150 million in 2008

Link.

Adorable Firefox Art

High res image here. And don't miss "Fabio Rex Too's" Tony the Tiger.

99 percent of blogs receive zero hits a year

According to Technorati. Via.

PayPerPost?

I spend a lot of time online, and yet until a few weeks ago I'd barely heard of Google PageRank, and had never heard of PayPerPost until today. Apparently PageRank changed recently, dramatically affecting people making money via PayPerPost. This forum discussion about the change is fascinating reading. For example:

Oh. My. God. Oh my god! I can't believe this is happening. I NEED to earn money with my blogs, I'm going to have to take every single opp I qualify for every day in order to keep up with expenses.

When I looked at the 21 qualified, $5.00 opps, I actually had tears spring into my eyes. I don't know what to do.

Via.

Sleazy tricks to make a video popular on Youtube

There are tens of thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube each day (I’ve heard estimates between 10-65,000 videos per day). I don’t care how “viral” you think your video is; no one is going to find it and no one is going to watch it.

We start new threads and embed our videos. Sometimes, this means kickstarting the conversations by setting up multiple accounts on each forum and posting back and forth between a few different users. Yes, it’s tedious and time-consuming, but if we get enough people working on it, it can have a tremendous effect.

Plenty of users allow you to embed YouTube videos right in the comments section of their MySpace pages. We take advantage of this.

Titles can be changed a limitless number of times, so we sometimes have a catchy (and somewhat misleading) title for the first few days, then later switch to something more relevant to the brand.

Every power user on YouTube has a number of different accounts. So do we. A great way to maximize the number of people who watch our videos is to create some sort of controversy in the comments section below the video. We get a few people in our office to log in throughout the day and post heated comments back and forth (you can definitely have a lot of fun with this). Everyone loves a good, heated discussion in the comments section - especially if the comments are related to a brand/startup.

Also, we aren’t afraid to delete comments – if someone is saying our video (or your startup) sucks, we just delete their comment. We can’t let one user’s negativity taint everyone else’s opinions.