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Here’s a site that posts a new joke every day…a sure way to put a little more fun in your life. Comedy Central sponsors this site, and I think all of you will enjoy it.
“Laugh and the world laughs with you…cry and nobody wants to hear about it.
Enjoy today.
Freebie
I used to read this column in our local free newspaper, and now they’re online. If you’ve ever wondered if there is someone weirder out there than your relatives, this is the place to go. The weirdest part is that most of the strange stuff reported here is terribly funny (at least to me), and it also happens to be all true. Check it out at
Have fun,
Freebie
I’m not sure how anybody ever came up with this idea, but it’s pretty amusing. This site features a whole library of 30 second short films based on big ticket movies…all starring cartoon bunnies! It’s hard to explain, but funny to see. The amazing thing is that they actually get just about all of the movie’s main points out in just 30 seconds. Check out the “Bond series”…hilarious! Here’s the link
Enjoy,
Freebie
Free (or Really Cheap)Fuel
OK, I know this is a bit off the track of really free or cheap things, because this is initially going to cost you anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, but the pay back is HUGE, (you could actually wind up way ahead monetarily) and it really is fun. What I’m talking about is running your car, motorcycle, boat, motor home, generator or any other fossil fuel (gasoline or diesel or propane, etc.) powered device on water. That’s right, water. The technology exists, and has for quite a while, but due to many political and financial factors, it isn’t being publicized or utilized.
You have probably already heard about hydrogen powered vehicles. That technology is being used for some government vehicles, like buses, on a small scale, and a few auto manufactures have prototype vehicles using it , as well. This is a similar technology, but from the consumers viewpoint, very superior. There are several problems with hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) powered vehicles. First, the fuel cells themselves are exspensive to produce and refill, and there isn’t a network yet developed to distribute them. Second, the fuel itself is exspensive to produce and store, since the hydrogen has to be compressed under tremendous pressure in order to store it in reasonably sized cells. And finally, compressed hydrogen is very explosive and dangerous, so vehicles using it have to have specially reinforced storage ares to hold the cells, since a rupture due to a collision could create a huge explosion (think of the Hindenburg, on a slightly smaller scale).
Water fueled vehicles use the same technology, but without all of the problems. Basically, a simple device that uses the excess electricity generated by your current internal combustion engine converts water into it’s component parts, hydrogen and oxygen. H2O becomes HOH gas, when a properly aligned electric current is passed through it, and the volatile HOH gas can be burned in any internal combustion engine, which powers your alternator, which produces a small amount of extra electricity, that is used to produce more HOH gas. You only need the intial electricity to produce the HOH gas to begin with, and your existing battery can supply that. To prove this to yourself, You could simply hook an old (but fully charged) auto battery, (or one of those small square “lantern” batteries will work also) up to 2 wires hooked to a couple of small metal plates, that are immersed in water in a plastic bucket, but not touching. Within a few seconds, bubbles will start to appear in the water on one of the plates, and they will float to the surface. This is a gas composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (HOH gas), and it is extermely volatile. Basically the same stuff that launches the space shuttle, but in a much smaller quantity. So, please don’t attempt this, and don’t light a match near the bucket if you do, since you cause a rather messy and dangerous explosion. But there are several people working on systems very similar to the electrodes in a bucket prototype, designed to safely and economically produce this fuel.
It isn’t nearly as dangerous as HFC technology, because the gas isn’t placed under extreme pressure, and the amount in the system at any one time is very small, and actually poses less of a danger in an accident than the gasoline (and it’s fumes) that you currently haul around in your car. It doesn’t require any type of special container to carry it (its just water, although distilled water is the preferred fuel), and you can get more practically anywhere, except the middle of a desert. In fact, you can use tap water, lake water or even sea water as fuel with this system, you just have to clean the electrodes more often than you would when using distilled water. Plus, when HOH gas is burned by your engine, it produces practically no pollution. The main by-product is water vapor, and some trace amounts of NO, which your current fuel also produces. But all of the other polluting gases produced by fossil fuels are eliminated! One proponent of WFV commented that its sort of like turning your car into a tree. It takes in water, and releases water vapor, and small amounts of nitrogen and oxygen. As an added bonus, since the bonds in water contain so much energy, in a properly tuned engine, you get about 2-3 times as many “miles per gallon”!
There are some additional modifications that will need to made to your engine in order for this to work. You’ll need a fuel injection system designed for propane powered vehicles, which is readily available, plus a simple electronic device to control the fuel production and flow. It will also be necessary to install stainless steel valves, and to have your pistons and cylinders coated with ceramic to avoid rust. This can be done at a shop that specilizes in “high performance cars”, or “hot rods”, since it also improves performance and horsepower. Your internal engine components will be more subceptible to rust, since you’ll be producing water, not oily gases, during combustion. You’ll probably also want to eventually replace your exhaust system with a stainlees steel muffler and pipes, once the old one rusts out, which could be a few years down the road. There will be no need to install a exspensive new catalytic converter in the new exhaust system, since you won’t be driving a fossil fueled vehicle any longer.
The whole conversion will cost you anywhere from about $500-700 dollars (if you can tear down the engine and replace the valves, and send out for the ceramic work, plus build the HOH producing module from FREE plans, and mount it yourself) to about $2000-3000, if you have all of the work done for you. So, how is this free, you ask? Well, the average person drives about 12,000 to 15,000 miles a year, and gets about 20 miles to a gallon of gas, on average, with a fairly fuel efficient car. With gas at about $3 a gallon (or more) you would spend about $1500 on gas to drive just 10,000 miles. Or, $1800 to drive 12,000 miles, or $2250 to drive 15,000 miles. And that’s every year that you drive that car.
Distilled water only costs about 60-70 cents a gallon to buy in gallon bottles, and about 6-7 cents a gallon if you buy a small distiller for about a hundred bucks, and make it yourself out of tap water. If you don’t mind cleaning the electrodes every few thousand miles, (its easy, and only takes about 20-30 minutes to do) you can even run straight tap water in the system, at only pennies a gallon. Using the worst case scenario, paying 70 cents a gallon for distilled water, only getting twice as many miles per gallon, and only driving 10,000 miles per year, your fuel will now cost you about $175 a year, instead of $1500 for gasoline. Thats a worst case savings of $1325 a year. If the conversion cost you the max of $3000, you’d be at break even in 2 years and 3 months, and save over a hundred dollars a month from then on.If you get the conversion done for a more reasonable amount, say $2000 (a four cylinder costs less than an eight cylinder to convert), get 2.5-3 times as many miles per gallon, and drive 15,000 miles a year, you could break even in less than 12 months! Plus you’d save about $150 a month from then on.
This technology isn’t just limited to automobiles, it can be used in any vehicle or device that uses gasoline or any fossil fuel. It could even be used on a larger scale in power plants to produce cheap electricity. Even including conversion costs, it could cut the average electric bill by 60-70% in less than 3 years. And the power plants could eventually produce their own distilled water, using some of the excess heat produced by combustion!
If this is such a great idea. If this really is a cheap, efficient, safe and non-polluting fuel that we have the technology to utilize, and we’ve had the technology available for decades, why aren’t all of the major auto manufacturers already turning out water fueld cars? The cost would actually be about the same, if the cars were engineered to run on water from the outset. Why are we pouring billions of dollars into oil producing countries, and financially supporting cultures and people whose main complaint seems to be that they hate Americans and our “interference”, but have no problem taking our money? Why aren’t we building power plants that run on water, instead of oil, coal or nuclear power? For the answers to those questions, see my next post. In the meantime, check out this series of videos on YouTube, which shows an actual water powered vehicle prototype actually running on water. Search YouTube for “water fueled”, and see all of the other things people are working on. Then come back in a few days to find out why the government and big business interests are ignoring and supressing this technology with a vengance.
Freebie Jack
Sorry about the big gap between posts, but I found out my auto post to this blog wasn’t working! Anyway, it appears to be fixed now, so all I have to do is find all of my posts in My Documents and send them here. Here’s the first one.
Next, lets talk about adding a Wordpress blog to your website. It isn’t exactly easy, but it isn’t really difficult either. You just have to follow the (excellent) instructions at the Wordpress site. Now, you can just start your own blog on the Wordpress website, but you can’t customize it very easily or as much, and the content isn’t on your website, where you want it to be!
Your easiest solution is to use one of the web hosts that have “one-click” install of Wordpress. Some of them are listed here: Wordpress Affiliate Hosts . There are many others, and to find out if you are using one that does, simply go to your sites control panel and look for a Wordpress button on the main screen. Click it and follow the easy instructions, and you’ll be all set to blog in under 5 minutes. Unfortunately, my favorite cheap host, HostRoute, doesn’t yet have one-click available, but I have sent them a request to install it. However, they are capable of supporting your own installation of Wordpress. If your host doesn’t have Wordpress already set up to do one-click install, you need to go to the Wordpress website to download it (Make sure to get the zip version since you should already have the software to unzip it from when you got Filezilla). First, create a new file under “My Documents” called Wordpress to download it to. Then go get the software by clicking here: Wordpress Download. Make sure you also go to “installation instructions” on the same page, and download and print out the quick and the long instructions. Before you start, decide what you want to call your new blog area in general, i.e. blog, wordpress, rssnews, etc., and then think up a name and a description for your blog. For instance, if your website is about cats, you could call your blog “Small Cat Diary”, and your description could be ” The day to day antics of five nearly wild cats.” You might also pick a user name and password, although Wordpress will walk you through and give you your random password during set-up (Make sure to write it down exactly as it is on the screen!). Now, simply follow the instructions, step by step, and you will be up and blogging in less than 30 minutes.
When you first go to your log-in screen, save it in “Favorites” for future log-ins. If you lose it, the format is simply www.yourwebsitename.com/blog (or weblog, or rssnews or whatever you chose)/wp-login.php.
After you are set up, go back to Wordpress to download a new template and instructions for installing it, if you’d like. Check out the further instructions for modifying existing templates, and visit the forums to find out more info and research any problems you might have. I’ve installed Wordpress on two different websites, and so far (knock on wood) I haven’t had the first problem. If I can do this, so can you. So get started, start blogging for free, and remember to have fun with it!
Freebie Jack
OK, I know this is a bit silly, but I’m loving these Trunk Monkey ads. But hey, its fun (and funny) and its free! Here’s the link to the next one, I call “The Revenge”. I bet we all wish we had this feature on our car, at one time or another. To see the video, just click on the link below.
Trunk Monkey video - Click here.
Enjoy,
Freebie Jack
This isn’t the usual sort of thing I post here, but it is really funny and, of course, free. Its one of a series of commercials, supposedly for a new car protection system, and a trunk thats far from empty. I’ll post some of the others later. Just CLICK HERE to watch.
Enjoy,
Jack
I told you a few days ago how you can register a domain name for a really cheap price (see http://www.upaas.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/28/free-emailand-a-dirt-cheap-domain-name/). Now that you have your name, and probably a “keeper page”, you want to build your website. We’ll talk about getting some cheap (or free!) hosting, later.
Of course, you could just install WordPress on your site, once you have a good, reliable, cheap host set up, and make your website strictly a blog. The host I’ll suggest later, also includes email service and a forum message board in your site, along with other fun tools, so you’d have a fully functional site, without building any other html pages. There are hundreds of cool themes for WordPress here, and more on the WordPress site, so your site can be somewhat unique.
But, building your own site from scratch makes it truly unique, and using some good, free software can make it fun, as well. Now there are plenty of free ways to build your site using plain html (the Notepad software you probably already have on your computer is one of them) but learning to write html can be a bit of a chore, and we’re trying to make this easy and fun. You probably will want to use something like Notepad once your pages are built, just to add little things like a title, keywords, and other meta tags, or to check out how some of the code looks, or tweak a few things. Still to build your pages easily, nothing beats a good WYSIWYG software package. WYSIWYG stands for “What You See Is What You Get”, and this kind of software lets you drag and drop images onto your pages, insert text boxes and reply forms, put in text links and menu items, all without writing any code. You also get to see what your page looks like, while you’re building it. I tried several of these free website builders, both online versions and downloads, and they all had major problems, except one.
My suggestion is called Web Weaver EZ. You can download a free 30 day trial of it here. The best part about this trial offer is that after 30 days you can still continue to use Web Weaver EZ to change and update your pages, just some of the more advanced features are unavailable. You can also buy it after 30 days, if you’d like, and its dirt cheap at only $14.95. It has a tutorial, quick tips, and an easy to use menu system. You can learn to use it really well after just a few hours (at most). And it builds fairly “clean html”, well written pages.
You can build all of your pages from scratch, or use a free “template” (a pre-designed layout that you modify) to get started, if looking at the empty page intimidates you a little. A good source for a lot of free, cool templates is My Free Web Templates. You can find hundreds of free templates on their site here. Try to stick to the html section of the free templates when you’re picking one out. Some of the high tech and flash ones look good, but you usually need more software programs (not free) to change them properly, and its not easy or fun.
A few tips to remember when using Web Weaver EZ;
Those are the important points. Use the tutorials, play around with it, and have fun. Make your pages whatever you want them to be, not necessarily what the template says they should be. Hobbies, Pictures, etc. are generic but OK. But you could make the titles something like Golf, Tennis, Sailing, or Wedding, Key West Trip, etc. Don’t worry about everything being perfect. Your site will hopefully be changing and evolving as you go, and remember, its supposed to be fun, so enjoy it.
Freebie Jack
Well, I finally found out the scoop on the $50 in Free WebCash I’ve told you about, and it is a pretty sweet deal. There’s a new payment processor in town, called GreenZap, and they want everyone to become a member. They’re similar to the “Pal” or “Check” ones you’re probably used to. If you go to their site to sign up, you get $25 in free WebCash, but if you use the special link below, you get double that amount. $25 from GreenZap, and through a special referral offer, an extra $25 on me. No hype, no hassles and no credit card or other personal info required!
You can redeem your WebCash for real money, (that you can spend or withdraw, you can even empty your account once you’ve converted it all to cash) by making purchases at anyone of the merchants in their Storez listing. There are hundreds of merchants, and thousands of products to choose from, and all of them will give you rebates for purchasing through the GreenZap link, as well as special deals you can’t get anywhere else. I already converted $18 to cash by buying a $359 digital camera for $189 ($239 was the cheapest I found it anywhere else), and the site gave me $1 shipping, a 2 year warranty for $19.99, and an extra 5% off ($10.50), all as bonuses!
Do you like good coffee? Get it from Starbucks with free shipping plus cash back. Play golf? Get a golf discount card and $10 converted to cash. Need anything from Circuit City? Get 1% of your purchase as cash back, plus special on-line only deals! The list is endless, but this deal might not be. Hurry over to the link below and get your free $50 in WebCash before they stop giving away the store. Just click below to get access to the link, plus some more free bonuses.
If you’d like to say thanks, or tell me what you used your fifty bucks for, just come back and leave a comment. All feedback, trackbacks and linkbacks are greatly appreciated.
Freebie Jack
Well, I realized that when I was plugging Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/) in a previous post, that I was maybe getting a little ahead of myself. You do need a website in order to use the software version of Wordpress, although you can use the online version at http://wordpress.com instead. But if you’ve always thought it would be fun to have your own website, there is a nearly free way to get one.
This site will register your domain name AND give you free website space with up to 100 free email addresses…all for less than 2 bucks a month!
I recommend this fabulous service that gives you a FREE web site - FREE web tools - FREE web hosting - FREE e-mail when you register a Web Address (i.e. domain name) of your choice. This is the ultimate web package to tell family, friends and business associates the latest happenings. They will show you how building a web site - and it’s fun and easy. Get your own Web Address now with a low price and satisfaction guarantee at DomainNameSanity.com. I know you will find the service to be excellent, since I used this for my first web site, and still use it for my personal site.
I’m still waiting for an email with some more info on that free $50 deal from one website, but I’ll post something as soon as I receive a reply.
Enjoy,
Freebie Jack