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I just got an email from AGLOCO [referral link] letting me know that the viewbar for their program has been released and is now ready for download. I figured I’d throw out the word about this site because it seems like an interesting idea. Here’s a blurb from their site:

AGLOCO™ is the first Internet based economic network, which enables you as a Member to ‘Get your share of the internet.’ Advertisers, search companies, online merchants and other businesses currently pay lots of companies to deliver people like you to them to get your attention and sell goods. With AGLOCO™ they will be paying YOU.

AGLOCO™ is also a global community of Internet users whose active Members can be paid for all their online activity. By downloading our proprietary Viewbar™ technology, members benefit from engaging yet unobtrusive content tailored to their interests. AGLOCO™ also pays its members to refer their friends to the community (and for those friends to refer more friends through four levels of extended referrals.)

I’m not really sure how the program will end up faring. All Advantage was popular years ago, but went the way of the dodo with the dot-com crash. Whether AGLOCO will turn out to be a decent way to make a few bucks while reading the daily news, we’ll see. If you’re interested, check it out.

Update: Just an FYI: their site seems to suffering badly from all of the folks who are trying to download the viewbar. I’m not even able to connect to the site right now. If you can’t get it working, check back later; I’d say it’ll be fine once it isn’t being hammered.

(As an aside… what’s up with the name Agloco? If anything, it’s memorable, I suppose…)

I just saw this on MetaFilter while digging through my feeds (which, by the way, I’m dreadfully behind on): How I Spent The War, by Günter Grass, on the New Yorker website.

I’ve not read it all yet, but I’m sure it’ll be an interesting read.

By the way, if you don’t want to click through thirteen pages on the New Yorker website, here’s the “to print” version, with all of the text on one page, without all of the extra crap around it.

I try avoid writing posts here solely to share a single link, but I’m going to break my rule for this: I Can Has Cheezburger?. I learned about I Can Has Cheezburger? when it moved onto the WordPress.com platform. The site is basically a funny picture site, specifically, funny animal pictures (the vast majority involving cats), with captions. I’ve been subscribed to it in Google Reader ever since I came across it. Here’s the latest one posted, to give you an idea of what the site offers:

If you don’t find that hilarious, you probably won’t like the site. (And if you don’t find that hilarious - what’s wrong with you? ) Here, I’ll try one more to sway you to the awesomeness of the site:

If that doesn’t sway you, I give up.

I just came across this while reading my feeds, and I must send out a thanks to Jason for sharing it: the animated Bayeux Tapestry. For those that don’t know (shame on you), the Bayeux Tapestry shows the events of the Norman invasion of England. See also this page which has a breakdown of the tapestry, scene by scene. (Trivia: The Normans were initially Vikings. The name Norman is derived from either Northmen or Norsemen.)

If you’re interested in the invasion and want to know more, I can recommend 1066: The Year of the Invasion by David Howarth. I read it a year or two ago, and found it to be a great read.

Working through my humongous backlog of feed items, I’m coming across some great stuff, and I refuse to not share it. So, here we are:

• A very large piece of graffiti, showing (scientifically incorrect) evolution in action. Scientifically correct or not, that’s just awesome.
• First, look at the beta version of AOL.com’s home page. Then, take a look here. See anything that looks, ahem, similar? Heh.
• Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface. Very, very cool. Of course, at this point, we don’t know if it does have water on it, but the estimated temperatures for the planet show that if water is on the planet, it would mostly be in liquid form.
• This video has convinced me to never, ever eat freshly sliced octopus tentacles. Yuck.

Update: I just took another look at the graffiti evolulution picture, and I’m not sure if it’s real. It looks too clean. Does anyone else get this impression? Or even better, can anyone verify if it’s legit or not? I tried going to the main Yonkis.com site, but it seems to be (mostly) porn stuff. It’s also in Spanish, so I can’t read much of what they’re writing about.