For years, long before the days of hanging chads and Diebold, citizens have been restricted by the political party system. For the most part, it has always come down to Republican vs. Democrat and if a person’s views didnt align with theirs (or if it was ”schmuck” vs “worse schmuck”), the only options were to abandon the vote or pick the lesser of two evils.

Well, someone in Australia has found a truly democratic way to bring the vote to the people.

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Have you noticed the mouse click sound of every single advertisement since 1992 is the same?

Every dot-com commercial or website promotion on television uses the exact same mouse click audio track. It’s as if we were all still using Apple IIes with mice the size of our feet that weigh 14lbs a piece! Here’s a recent Ask.com TV ad as an example. You’ll hear what I mean at 0:12…

There’s only one click in there but you know the sound I’m talking about. Apparently, no matter how many millions of dollars you throw into an advertising campaign, you can’t buy a decent sound engineer these days…

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Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting recently interviewed Matt Cutts of Google. In this interview, Matt discussed how Google handles disallows in a robots.txt file. The most interesting comment I thought was this:

“…robots.txt says you are not allowed to crawl a page, and Google therefore does not crawl pages that are forbidden in robots.txt. However, they can accrue PageRank, and they can be returned in our search results.”

Maybe this is common knowledge among the SEO old-guard, but I found it quite insightful. (more…)