It’s true. “Capital C” took my son and I out on our first GeoCache a couple weeks ago, and now I find myself addicted to it.

I never really took to outdoors in-the-woods type activities, they never really made much sense. Hiking, for instance, always seemed like such a pointless thing. Traipsing around the woods, ticks and mosquitos all over the place, dirt … And for what? Just to do it?

So, now — introduce a little technology and a purpose — I can’t get enough. Hiked at least a couple of miles through some pretty thick brush to discover 6 caches yesterday.

For those of you that aren’t in the know, Geocaching is basically a treasure hunt. You get yourself a GPS, head over to a site like (duh!) www.geocaching.com and look up a cache, get coordinates, program your GPS and head out on the hunt.

The goal is to find the cache, usually an ammo box or some sort of waterproof container hidden somewhere out in the woods, sign the log book and trade trinkets. There’s also GeoCoins and Travel bugs — these are trackable via website — that you try to keep moving from cache to cache.

So dorky … But somehow I can’t get enough. If the weather was a bit better today, I’d be out doing it again. Perhaps I’ll try an urban cache — being that I’m a die-hard city kid. I’ve heard some pretty weird caches exist in parking garages and various other areas of downtown Chicago. Might have to pickup a handgun or some mace first though.

So, we’re seeing more and more “secret” viral marketing going on these days, and after watching tonights ep of Heros, I decided to join in the fun…

Primatech Paper, the corporate facade of the “big brother” organization on the show has it’s own website, including job application, working 800 number, and some cool secret pages. They’ve also gone through the trouble of creating blog sites for some of the characters where you’ll find a bunch of passwords that allow you to access profiles and images. Check out http://activatingevolution.org/ to see what Suresh has to say, or swing over to http://www.samantha48616e61.com/ to participate in the conspiracy.

So, there is a SMALL chance I’ll keep motivated enough to update this with more fun secret squirrelly shit as I find it, but … I’m already getting a bit bored with it, so maybe you guys can do it in the comments.

Capital-C mentioned this video a few posts back… Couldn’t get to the site for a while, so I decided to mirror it here when I finally got a chance to watch it. Enjoy.

The Sopranos ended on a high note for me… The music.

This track is actually from back in 1980 by John Cooper Clarke from his album ‘Snap, Crackle & Bop’ called ‘Evidently ChickenTown’.

And now, once again, I’m on the mad search for a track — the original version of this song. Replace the ‘Bloody’ with ‘Fuckin’ and you’ve got the original creation.

Whatever … the only people that are pissed off about this whole thing are the people that are trying to manipulate it …  Reality — And yes, I am a part of the reality — Doesn’t matter.  Sites like this one will always end up on top; not because we try to fuck with the stats — because content is king.  Even though what I say matters to very few, it matters.  Trying to be anything but real will eventually stop you in your tracks…

Be real, have something real to say, and the SEO stops making all that much of a difference.   Deal with it.

No, it’s not another ‘top-ten things to do to give you a (false) sense of accomplishment and draw thousands of (useless) hits to your site” type article . All of those are mostly bullshit anyway.

Sure — you could try link-building, link-baiting, doing that “real content” thing or hundreds of other things to build your site popularity. But why?

Why not just find a really disgusting photo of Courtney Love being ever-so-unsexy, post it to your site with some amazingly interesting copy, and prepare to upgrade your server.

It really does seem that all you have to do to get thousands of fresh new visitors to your site every day is to post this image on your site.

It’s become so popular here that it’s by far the #1 most viewed article on my site — logging nearly 10,000 hits a day.

So the next time you’re sitting around and thinking to yourself, “I really wish I knew how to increase my unique daily visitor stats”, think: sick picture of heroin addicted bitch-from-hell flopping her tits around on stage.

Although I’ve only had the time to review a few of the tracks on the new album, I’m already a fan. Due to be released on the 23rd of this month, I recommend it — if you’re into that purposefully under produced brit-indy-rock thing.

So far, my favourite track is ‘This House is a Circus’ followed closely by ‘If You Were There, Beware’.

If you seriously need a preview, rumor has it ::ducks out of sight of the web sherrifs:: that you might find it by looking here. Please don’t send me another cease and desist letter; my trash can is full.

… But I do like the band quite a bit …

A big fan of the band, Karen, saw that I was looking for an unreleased track and was kind enough to provide it to me; along with 20some other unreleased and demo track from the band.

Enjoy!