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Cab-a-Dyke Pink Taxi sexism

The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico's colonial city of Puebla are driven exclusively by women and don't stop for men.

Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button.

Can you imagine that!!!!! What atrocious sexism!

As a bloke we can only wonder if stap-on toys are included in the back seat accessories..

more or cab-a-dyke..

A personal review of Blogads, a sinking ship in an ocean of advertizing potential

Blogads - love it or hate it? I gave them the huge benefit of the doubt, but after 2 years of a very poorly delivered service, the one question that comes to mind is simple is blogads a scam or is it just spam?

If you pay for a service and the delivering party can't deliver, any respectable company is willing to offer a refund - no questions asked. But not blogads. Recently we posted an ad for a blog which was rejected by the blogger himself. I can respect this right as it is each publisher's own right to chose his/her blog content. But what do blogads do with your already paid money when this happens? Wait and see. They will keep your money if it doesn't reach their 'threshold' and imply that they want more before they release your money to you - paid to them for an undelivered service!!! And did I mention that they will also keep it for 15 days because they're concerned that their poorly-handled customer will make a charge-back!!!!! After this quite ordinary incident...to our surprise there was no way to get a refund for the services never offered due to their sinister 'charge-back' policy. The 55$ dollars we paid to blogads is lost in cyber-universe (or in other words the blogads paypal account) because it seems that we have to pay for another undelivered service to reach their 'Paypal withdrawal threshold' which is $75 dollars. Joke!! This sounds a little complicated, I agree and my point is that it shouldn't be. The truth is that blogads look a bit to eager to hang onto petty change and force you to use it on their services further down the line. This is their bizarre interpretation of creating customer loyalty!!

It is one thing to be mal-treated as a customer and to have to search through pages of forms and weird rules to simply get a quick refund and move on.. but on-top of this to be suspected of being a bad customer or charge-back crook crosses the line guys. I wont have it. It is I who should be protected from scammy businesses, as a well meaning customer, not vice-versa.

I guess you could say that when we first heard of Blogads it seemed like a great idea. The advantage to advertizers are that you select from a list of blogs and advertising is inserted through one portal to many portals at once. However the disappointment has been greater on several fronts. In over 2 years of using the blogads service on and off, there has not been one significant upgrade to the tatty back-end and the service simply refuses to update itself. The back-end does look like a college project and there is far from any friendly interface.

If the result was good, a rigid back-end wouldn't matter. But its not. Those butt-ugly low-res jpg's and gifs stand out from a mile away and I personally don't click on them as a viewer because they have the word CHEAP embossed all over them. Visual integration into any site is poor because the image quality of blogads simply sucks. The blogads team have obviously never tried to reduce a banner jpg to a miserable 14kb (or is it 16K) to see the awful outcome for themselves, and thats no charmer for advertisers.

I'm afraid to say that I won't squabble with these amateurs for a 55$. If it means so much to them, they can keep it. But ain't it sad that they won't be seeing any more money coming in from willing customers which they have done everything in their power to piss off?

After all, I can always continue to do what I have done before, contact bloggers directly (who incidentally are usually much happier to cut out the middleman) and arrange for a banner ad with respectable image quality at less cost.

Beirut - Nantes

"Le Cock Ring III" : when luxury meets body jewelry!..

Esculpta proudly presents a brand new, stylish, body jewelry: "Le Cock Ring III" , inspired from the ancient Roman empire in true Byzantine rhythm, now available in two luxurious types:

• Imperator (meaning Emperor in Latin) is made of Solid 18K yellow gold and Sterling silver with real precious stones (sapphires and rubies)

• Senator is hand-made from Sterling silver and rubber with real precious stones (a choice between sapphires and rubies)

A fine piece of jewelry re-inventing the meaning of luxury from the waist and below!

Introducing:

• Le Cock Ring III (Imperator) 18K Gold / Silver with Sapphires / Rubies100% EXTRAVAGANT BRAND NEW DESIGN !! We're proudly presenting the 'Emperor' of Crings!

• Le Cockring III (Senator) Sterling Silver with Sapphires / Rubies
  

Le 'Cock Ring III ' (Imperator /Senator) is a cool innovation from the classic cockring
Every person has a slightly different anatomy, and we consider comfort very important. The advantage of this design is that it is smartly designed to be adjustable to a perfect fit without the hassle of measuring up or even knowing your size. This also gives the liberty of knowing that it will definitely fit your boyfriend ,making it the perfect gift for him!

Luxury & comfort at your services!!

Blog-post contest by esculpta jewelry

How sleek are your writing skills? Esculpta is offering goodies to the most imaginative post / review written about its jewelry. Bloggers to post the best stories (favourited by our team) are to win a luxurious Le Cock ring II from sterling silver to wear under their jeans - an item that your member will remember!
Hurry! There are 2 winners on the 15th of this month!



Rulez:
The post can be about the entire range offered by Esculpta or about a specific product
Photo's can be grabbed from www.esculpta.com (but please don't hotlink)

Prize:
2 sterling silver CRINGS (adjustable size) will be won by winners in 2 competition categories.

So what are you waiting for? Simply pull up your whitty post and submit the url to the esculpta bloggers competition page

Meet Michael Ching. Emotion in motion

Michael Ching is a toronto based fashion/fine art photographer. michael has travelled around the world from panama to alaska, and japan to new zealand. while developing his skillset, he is still working on his first big break into the world of fashion magazines.

Michael seeks do decipher and portray true emotion in his work by a minimalistic approach and by removing all elements of complexity. There is always a sense of motion in his is work which comes alive to 'breath' while creating a sincere dialog with the viewer. Bravo Michael!

Check-out Michael Ching's portfolio