I had no idea that Joe Francis was still in jail. I remember when the Florida thing was going down, and how he refused to go to jail, but I somehow missed the part where they locked him up in Reno on tax evasion. You might not agree with Joe’s morals or method of making money, but you have to respect him as an entrepreneur and marketer. He found a niche and slaughtered it. Sometimes I try to look at people for what they’ve been able to do. I don’t like Kanye much anymore, but he’s been able to market the hell out of himself and keep himself in the news by being so cocky. I actually like Paris Hilton, I don’t see how she’s ever done anything “wrong” other than be famous and use it to her advantage at every turn. The girl actually makes money by literally being herself, respect. Anyway I think its time for Joe Francis to cut and run. Calvin seems to think Antigua is pretty nice. Get bail, gas up the jet, and bounce dude. Maybe they’ll invite me down and I can show Calvin how to drive that Quattroporte.

I don’t know what to get for even one single person on my Christmas list. Therefore, I am declaring bankruptcy. Take that email-bankruptcy people.

This recording of a 911 call in Texas is fantastic. Justice served cold.

Having recently celebrated my birthday, I was talking about how lame 24 is. I mentioned looking forward to turning 25 so my auto insurance can come out of the stratosphere. I got to thinking, and this is what I imagine the actuary table looks like for me:

Hat tip to my insurance agent for beating the system to get me a decent rate.

As of Monday, our friends at SEOmoz have officially gone carbon neutral.. I’m so impressed by this and relieved to know that companies in the SEO community are doing good too!

Let’s see some fun facts from the SEOmoz blog:

* 73.7% of SEOmoz’ carbon emissions are the result of air travel! Jeez, all of those conferences add up!
* Our office energy consumption is surprisingly low. We’re virtually paperless around here and try to be really good about turning off lights and monitors at night (also, almost all of our light bulbs are compact fluorescents).

That’s cute!

The comments over on the thread are fantastic too. While “pro-carbon-neutral” comments are “based in scientific fact” any comment that is anti-global warming or anti-carbon-neutral are “political in nature” and are deleted as such. “Stow the negativity mannnn.”

Carbon neutrality companies are the biggest scam since Amway. They are convincing people to GIVE money to absolve their carbon-producing sins. Like SEOmoz’s enormous donation of $340 is going to do anything to offset the amount of pollution their whole company produces. I’m sure they produce enough pollution just making their lattes. In case it wasn’t clear I want to repeat. With carbon offsetting, you can produce as much carbon pollution as you want (Rand flying to a minimum of 7 conferences by my count) but since you’ve made a token donation that MIGHT have some indirect effect on pollution somewhere, you are free from any guilt. As soon as I finish this post I am going to make a $48.99 donation to cover the pollution my behemoth H2 produces. That way next time someone says something to me about it, I can smartly tell them that I produce less pollution than they do because my H2 Hummer is carbon neutral.

P.S. I’m going to use TerraPass so that I can get the “Fun!” recycled plastic bag dispenser. Reuse is fun now! I wonder how much carbon UPS will dump into the atmosphere to deliver my package of my “Carbon Free” certificate, CFL, and Fun! plastic bag dispenser.