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Total Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post, but I do stand to benefit if you click on my referral link.

A couple of people have asked me about paid to surf programs after I posted about CashDuck.

So I did a little research, and most of the people I’ve talked to haven’t been scammed by their paid-to-surf/paid-to-click, it’s just they didn’t really make that much money. At only a few cents per click, you have to click twenty times to make $1. If takes quite a bit of time to make money, but there’s no capital investment. Still, do research on each site before you join.

The secret to paid to surf or paid to click programs is that you don’t make your money off of doing the actual surfing yourself, you make your money by referring other people to the program and getting a percentage of their earnings. If you convince a few friends or family to join, you’ll make about 10% of what they make on the average. So if your mom is an overzealous clicker and makes $50 in a month, you’d get about $5 of that. Chances are, however, that most of your referrals will never click a single link or they will give up on the program within a few weeks.

Like CashDuck, you won’t be able to make a living off of Paid to Surf referral programs unless you have a large site with a ton of visitors or a massive newsletter. On the other hand, free money is free money.

Pay2Surft.net is my paid-to-surf of choice. The payout is between $.09 to $.40 per click and the referral payout is 15% I’m not making enough to quit my dayjob, but it’s enough to pay my hosting bills and domain registrations.

Team Fortress 2 Scout Cosplay/Costume. (If you are looking for the “Meet the Scout” video post, head on over here

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So… Katsucon 2008.
I went solo. Because Maura’s car caught on fire.
This is me:

What are you looking at, knuckleheads?

Anyway…
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Or as most of my wedding thought - Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, See no Evil. >_< Man, we are such geeks.

More pics after the break.
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…and I’m never doing it again.

It occurs to me that I never really actually blogged about my wedding. It’s been nearly a month now, so I guess it’s time to smother everyone with unnecessary details.

Just kidding! Everything pretty much went off as planned, so no worries there. We still haven’t gotten back our photographer’s work, so not many wedding photos yet, but you can see the honeymoon pictures (no, not that kind!) on my Flickr account.

When I finally stop being so @#$%ing tired I’ll post some sort of con report. In the meantime: Phoenix Wright cosplay.

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[via gizmodo]

From the same guy that brought you the Zelda Wii Mod, here’s the Metroid one.

The proceeds from the sale go to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity. [ebay auction]

I don’t quite understand the appeal of dangling things hanging from your cellphone, but who am I to argue with trends? This tutorial will explain, as simply as possible, how to make your own cellphone charm.

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This post will be seriously image heavy. You have been warned.

As always Maura and I were amazed that people line up for their badges early in the afternoon on Thursday. I took the 6pm MARC out of Union Station here in DC and Maura nabbed me at the BWI station on the way back from work. We waltzed in around 8, got our badges in 15 minutes and ran out again in order for me to finish my costume.

From past experience we learned that it’s not necessary to show up at the ass crack of dawn on Friday to set up our Artist Alley table. Maura and I managed to stagger in around 11:30 and Gerry got there at 1. They don’t let the monkeys in until 2, so we were happy not to have sat there for the full 5 hours Otakon recommends.

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