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Well, it's complicated.  You may have noticed that when you mouse-over some links in the front part of the site, a little call-out box appears that describes the destination.  That's the result of a script that calls on the bookmarks database for information about the link.  There wouldn't be a practical way to migrate that to the forum.

Google sets something called "pagerank" based on the number of inbound links to a site.  Google also penalizes sites when they have lots of outbound links.  Amaz0ns' pagerank dropped earlier this year when I did a good bit of necessary housecleaning on the site, which pissed off Google because it changed the URL format of pages.  You probably never noticed that it happened, but Google did.  Amaz0ns pagerank dropped by about 10% and has yet to climb back up.  Eventually it will, but I'm impatient.

The amount of money a site can make from Google Adsense is affected by pagerank.  For reasons I won't go into here, it's much harder to make money from online advertising in the summer than during the rest of the year.  So I am trying to get a pagerank bump by reducing the number of outbound links on the site.  Make sense?

Also, most of the sites in the bookmarks database have never linked back.  So I am a little tired of throwing some of Amaz0ns pagerank to them, when they don't reciprocate.

Another reason I've been stripping down Amaz0ns features is that Amaz0ns is too big for its hosting plan, and it's using the largest plan the current webhost offers.  What this has meant over the last few months is that Amaz0ns crashes several times a day, for a few minutes at a time.  By cutting down some of the non-core features, I've got the crashes down to a handful per week instead of five or six per day.

Another tactic I've tried to make this work is to spawn new sites, such as:

http://muscularmedia.com
http://shulkie.com
http://brawna.org
http://buffvideo.com

That way when I have an idea for a new feature, I can roll it out on one of those other sites, on a different hosting plan.

I'll see what I can do about coming up with a solution to the bookmarks problem.  I may just make them available to logged-in users.

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I removed the tab, but you should still be able to see them at http://amaz0ns.com/bookmarks.  I'm not really sure what to do with them – they've never seen much use relative to the rest of the site, and Google penalizes sites that have many outbound links. 

I may launch a separate site that would make them available to everyone.

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Google tailors the ads to the viewer.  So maybe somebody else who uses your PC sometimes searches for gay porn on Google.

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You forgot Cable.

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The problem with Stan Lee is that he's over-promoted himself so much that his actual, substantial contributions seem minuscule next to what he claims to have accomplished.  And so the result is that people who are in-the-know about American comics tend to have a fairly low opinion of him. 

Through Marvel, Stan Lee owned Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, etc., which means he ultimately benefited more from those creations than their creators.  That's in the nature of running a business – Kirby, et als, were paid for their work at the time.  Stan bought their work product from them.

Stan Lee should be credited for identifying the best talent and giving that talent an environment where it could be phenomenally productive.  What's genuinely obnoxious about Stan Lee is that in addition to getting most of the money, and the credit for turning Marvel into what it was/is, he also insists on being credited for inventing the characters, when his direct role in that was relatively small.  His need for recognition is monstrous.

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She _Tetsuko looks _Tetsuko great.  Good _Tetsuko work, _Tetsuko Dave!

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We're gonna need pics, dude.

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She's gorgeous.  Very nice photo.

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The government has always allowed people with criminal records to join, if they can acquire what's called a "moral waiver" – basically they have to show repentance and be considered a low risk for recidivism.  Then and now such people make up a tiny fraction of the enlistees.  Less than a thousand enlistees last year had felony convictions prior to being granted a moral waiver.

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