Get Rich Quick, with no strings attached?

No way, is probably what you are thinking, and you might just be right, at least partially right. A few years ago I heard about the game Project Entropia (recently changed names to Entropia Universe). The game is similar to other MMORPGs in that you put in money to play. But here is the first advantage. The account and client are 100% free. You don't even have to enter credit card info for "security purposes," and the only time you ever have to pay is if you want to. Along with the first advantage comes the first catch. If you put no money into the game to begin with, you start out very bored with very little to do. The creators very obviously purposely did this to help encourage you to put in a quick 10 bucks just to speed up the game and make it more fun. Now the second catch. If you don't pay, you start with nothing. Literally all you have is your Avatar (your ingame character), and a bright orange jumpsuit. The game does let you collect sweat, which you can sell for extremely small amounts of ingame money. PEC are cents, and PED are dollars. 10 PED = 1 USD, United States Dollar. Here is the second advantage, and one of the big draws of the game. The cash goes both ways. Yep, you can withdraw the ingame money for real cash, at the 10-1 exchange rate, and deposit money back at the same rate. The obvious choice would seem to be not to put any money in to it, and build up until you have a decent amount of money, withdraw, rinse and repeat. A bottle of sweat sells for around 2 PECs. That's 1/500th of a dollar, if I did my math correctly. You start out only being able to collect sweat. Starting to understand why this game is still is business? You almost have to pay, unless you want to spend hours and hours collecting sweat to sell for 1/500th of a dollar. Not looking so good now, is it. But wait, there might be one last thing to change your mind. You can get a mentor in this game, someone to show you around and tell you what to do, maybe even give you a good weapon or some good armor to start out with. With something as simple as a pistol, the game is completely turned upside down, making the wilderness your playground. Also, having friends in this game is pretty much a requirement, especially if you aren't investing any money to begin with. So, here is the get rich quick scheme of the new millennium, a video game made by some guys in the Netherlands, or somewhere like that.

Pop Surfing

There is a gigantic user base already, and if you have heard the term "blogging", you have probably been to this man's blog more than once. Pop Surfing truly defines what a blog should be, with so much on it every day, you never get bored with the news. It is presented in a very humorous, dry demeanor which makes something you couldn't care less about a very interesting story. I met the creator, Michael Giltz, at a school program once during Career Day, and he is one of the few adults who will admit he likes some things that most might consider very nerdy, which is a big breath of fresh air for someone like myself. If by some odd chance you have not visited this extremely informative blog, I recommend saving it in your favorites, because if you enjoy interesting, light hearted news, rather than the bleakness of cable news and the burns, deaths and suicides that dominate it, pick up your head and head on over to Michael Giltz and Friends' blog, Pop Surfing, satisfaction guaranteed. :)

Have It Your Way...Whether You Like It or Not

I recently found a fun, and quite scary little toy on the WWW, and decided it was strange enough to make this blog. Now, Burger King has always told you to have it your way, and I bet you never really believed them. Well, prepare to believe. I don't know quite how old this is, or why Burger King employees were drunk enough to make this, but hey, it's on the internet and I'm bored.

Your Heart Is Red

You're a passionate lover - you always have a huge fire in your heart.
Too bad it's hard for you to be passionate about just one person!

Your flirting style: Outgoing and sexy

Your lucky first date: Drinks and dancing

Your dream lover: Is both stable and intense

What you bring to relationships: Honesty
What Color Heart Do You Have?

Unique

You are unique, everyone's unique! If you noticed, the only answer is unique. The point of this quiz was to show people how you can't judge based on simple questions such as 'What is your favorite color?' Because, as everyone already knows, if you like black that means your depressed. No, Maybe, I don't know, you just like the color black? Or how about the other question 'How many friends do you have?' Just because you have one friend does not make you lonely, maybe you like it that way. I do, and there's nothing wrong with that. Same apply's for if you have ten friends, that does not make you sociable. Maybe you are just naturally a people person, and people come to you. Maybe a 'friend' is just someone you talk to everyday, or if you get more in depth with it, someone you can tell everything to. The point of this quiz is to show the variables. I know that for the most part the results are true, but when I place 'black' down as my favorite color I already know to expect a depressing answer in the end. But, I will admit that I contiue to take these quizzes dispite me already knowing the outcome. Anyway, thanks for taking the quiz. Feel free to message if you have any comments :D And rate honestly please.

New year...

I hope the year 2006 brings peace and prosperity to this ridiculous country. I hope some politicians won't be concentrating on small issues in the court. I hope they should concentrate on how the country is suffering of poverty. I hope people will not only rely on rally groups for they don't do much improvement in our country. *sigh* I hope all of the people here should go on with their lives.

Christmas

At last, Christmas is already here. The idea of having a very happy meal with the family slowly comes to the minds of every people. The idea of having peace and tranquility are the ideas that every one of us would always like to have. Yes, those ideas are the ideas that every person wants to have, the idea of having an ideal Christmas. Good as it may seem, the idea of having an ideal Christmas is already impossible for some of the people. Yeap, many simple things nowadays are very impossible to attain.