Thats right!! Last months contest was such a hit I’ve decided to do it again! However, this time, I’m using a cool new site to help me do it. ContestMachine is an online contest site that will host your contests for you. They offer free and paid accounts with the obvious benefits for paid accounts (more contests per month).

This month, all you have to do is register for the contest through the widget. Thats it. One lucky winner will receive a Pound of Carolina Morning Blend Coffee (whole bean or ground, your choice) and 1000 Entrecard Credits! A second winner will receive 500 EC Credits. How freaking cool is that??

Oh yea, here’s the widget!

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One of the perks of the internet is the endless ways to kill time while putting off the things that should have already been done. If I’m not busy stumbling around the net, I’m watching youtube videos, playing desktop towerdefense or catching up on the blogs I usually read. Well, that was until I added the hobowars game on facebook. The cool thing about HoboWars is that in addition to the facebook game, there’s a standalone web game as well, and its pretty addicting.

The point is to create a hobo and navigate him/her through the city. Get them an education (it helps in the fighting), join a gang, find cans, beg and other random hobo things. So far its pretty fun and it looks like its going to be a good way to pass the time. I’ve been playing for about two hours and my hobo is already a level two!

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Time magazine has named their person of the year for 2007 and this one comes as a bit of a surprise to me. Vladimir Putin (the former Russian President who managed to get his buddy elected as President and have himself installed as Prime Minister) is the lucky receipient this year and after reading the time article its easy to see why he was picked over people like Al Gore, JK Rowling and General Petraeus.

Putin started as a KGB agent and in 2000 became Russia’s President. According to time Magazine:

he has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power. For that reason, Vladimir Putin is TIME’s 2007 Person of the Year.

Time states very plainly that the honor of Person of the Year is not an endorsement, or a popularity contest, but more a view of who has had the greatest impact on the world in the past year (looking at some of the past receipients, Bush, Gingrich, YOU, Hitler) its easy to see how they can make that claim. Its always interesting to see who they pick and why they chose them. This might be one issue, I go and pick up.

Any way, here’s to you Putin, here’s your unflattering photo and your shiny gold cufflinks. You Da Man!

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