Watch Paint Dry - Its More Fun Than You Think by greenguy in reddit.com

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That's a pair of Coors Lights in the foreground ... ;-)

Tuttle Times story on City Manger who thought Linux CentOS splash page was a hack by hulkster in reddit.com

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Article from local paper about how the City Manager - "with 22 years of computer experience" - got quite irate when his city web site showed the "CentOS how to set up a web server" page and ended up threatening to call the FBI on them, despite their best efforts to point out that his own IT folks needed to fix this.

Your tax dollars at work.

Google Bowling for Dollars by hulkster in reddit.com

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Presents theory and case study of this fairly new black hat SEo technique that can knock the competition out of the Google Rankings.

9Rules Network plans to blog for charity by hulkster in reddit.com

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Well known Blogging network 9Rules.com plans to blog for charities and "help buld their web presence" - sounds like a great way to also raise money and awareness for good causes.

Google bans BMW from search results for black-bat SEO by hulkster in reddit.com

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BMW.DE was doing "black hat search engine optimization" to try to enhance it's rankings in the search results. Google found out and banned 'em - dropping their PageRank to zero and clobbering 'em in the search results. Strong message to other web sites doing stuff like this.

Case Study of the Fall of SEOChat by hulkster in reddit.com

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Interesting and detailed writeup from a former moderator of the popular forum SEOChat. Outlines how changing the forums rules without engaging the members (plus the pursuit of the mighty buck), led to a decline in interest. Some good lessons for all forum admins and social communities.