According to Reuters, the Togo art of decapitation is alive and well. 12 people dead.

It appears that the protagonists of recent ritual murders think that by removing other people's body parts, they will improve their own social standing and feel better about themselves! Each to their own. Read more of the gruesomeness

Imagine my excitement on Wednesday when I was alerted to William Shatner's horrendous 1978 rendition of Rocket Man. And even more exciting was the discovery of the Family Guy parody by baby Stewie. And it was stellar tele to see both versions juxtaposed on the same screen.

I was going to share this gut-wrenching experience here today, and we would all have lived happily ever after, a little more enriched by the stomach wrenching embarrassment. Alas, alack, 48 hours later, it looks like 20th Century Fox have spoiled the parody party and had the footage withdrawn from Youtube. Sorry, folks.

If you would care to go to 20th Century Fox store and spend umpteen dollars on a Family Guy DVD, be my guest.

I would have thought that since Apple dragged the music corporations kicking and screaming into the 21st century, there was ample evidence that an expansive on-line presence was all good for media moguls. But apparently, video fat cats still don't get it. Perhaps when another 30 million video iPods have been sold they will wake up? Who knows.

Personally, I am going to express my disgust by not buying any Family Guy memorabilia plus I will stop watching Family Guy too. What do you say to that TCF? Does it feel profitable to be so exclusive and out of touch with how the internet works to the advantage of those who use it properly? And what is it with a company that is so damn good at what it does that it forgot to buy the rights to 21st Century Fox. Next dinosaur for the chopping block, please.

In the world of blogging, there is always the next big networking idea to stir it all up. First MyBlogLog, then BlogCatalog, Wavumi, and now, Blogrush. Never slow to jump on bandwagons, I am there, bottom right sidebar, with my cut-off Blog Rush widget. I will just lean back now and wait to become famous!

I jest, of course, because networking success and fame take time to generate - unless you decide to kidnap the opposition and / or steal back your own material. Read the rest...

301 redirects, oooh, that sounds geeky. Indeed, it is, but 301's, as we call them in the game, are a part of blogmeistery that you need to be aware of.

The advert on TV from Gibbs, the career people, has a horrifying message, I think.


Wall St is smarting right now, but it was black too, back in February. The Chinese stock market fell 9% in a day and corporate America did as expected and panicked. China watched and smiled.

Garry Conn found a cool way to leverage some link love for the blog posts you Stumble. Look in my right side bar under "Recent posts" and you will see a link to the RSS feed on Ed's Stumble account. Clever, hey!

When you realise you have a voice for print, leave it to Odiogo to produce all your podcasts for you. Click and listen. It is quite something to hear what they can do with your RSS feed!

Roll up Sunday for another chance to visit MyBlogLog Sunday and win a mini review and a hat-tipping PR5 backlink.

The air will be full of 10 mini reviews of well known, unknown and little known blogs from the MyBlogLog network. Many online stars have been featured.

All you have to do to participate is be a MyBlogLog member, and if you visit here on Sunday morning and are caught in the side bar widget when I take a snapshot, you will be reviewed, like it or not! And if you leave a link to your best post of the week, regardless of being reviewed or not, I will Stumble the post too. (See the new sidebar widget that actually generates real link love for the Stumble posts!)

If you are reviewed, perhaps you might find time to link back to The Pisstakers in some simple way, just to keep the momentum going. See you later.

Bobbarama, a top notch humor blogger has awarded The Pisstakers with a Break Out Award. My first reaction was That reminds me of when I was called Pizza Face as a kid. Thanks for nothing, Bob.

On closer inspection, it is quite the boost to my spirits, and a great way to start a new week. Thanks a lot, Bob

Read all about the award and meet 5 lucky starlets who have been awarded the award too The one and only Lord Likely, Linda of Are We There yet? TechIT Easy, I Eat Snowman Poop and Wolf Bernz.

My oh my, it's MyBlogLog Sunday 24. None of us are getting any younger, and it is harder than ever to wake up on Sundays, but now I am up and at 'em, "YEEEEHAAH"

The good thing about blogging on Sundays is that instead of washing the clean car, mowing the manicured lawn or contemplating heaven in a noisy church, I can have fun on my own, promoting 10 MyBlogLog blogs that you may or may not be familiar with. Praise the blog world for such mercies.

In case you are thinking, "wtf is he blabbing on about", today's featured bloggers got snapped in the left sidebar widget and get a mini review for their troubles. With a juicy PR5, this will add to your link ranking, or at least consolidate your technorati rank if you already have a link from me.

Also, as it is Sunday, I will Stumble anyone who leaves a link in the comments to their best post of the week. You have till 6pm Eastern time.

Technorati troubles

Judging by the paucity of back links to MyBlogLog Sunday, I guess there has been trouble in Technorati land.

I just pinged the big T manually and they updated my account. Let's hope that evidence of past MBL Sunday reviews filters through Technorati to the reactions page of 200+ featured blogs.

In a perfect world, when bloggers check their Technorati account and see they have been promoted here, they should be motivated to mention the Pisstakers on their own blog in a good, bad or indifferent way? We shall see if this recent technoratical glitch is the source of a communication break down.

Meanwhile, would people be so kind as to join my Stumble network, currently populated by 2 friends. Maybe Stumble love may prove to be a more balanced indicator of the state of a site's health? We shall see

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All mini reviews from today will stay on the homepage (PR5) all week and are instantly added to the archives for a permanent back link to your mini review

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.