Haven’t posted one of these in a while. Usually, I tie it to a “what’s going on in my life” deal, but I think I’m going to make this article sticky in the sidebar, as a one-stop resource for ways people can help out the site, and hopefully some deals that’ll help them out as well.

Simply put, despite the fact that I occasionally talk about buying things on here (like the sneakers I got recently, which I paid for with part of some money that I got for a box of comic books I sold, and found at a huge discount), I am still totally hurting for money and essential goods. In addition, I’m also occasionally in need of some help with this web site and some others, mostly just in the realm of reining in the monster that is my Internet presence. Here are some ways you can help me out (and in some cases, yourself) on this two front war. I’ll update this piece periodically, as I come up with more stuff, particularly items which aren’t just totally self-serving, but also benefit you.

1. If you see any outdated links or features on this site or on any of the other 39492030284 sites I either run or have stuff on, email me and let me know about it. I already know that there’s stuff in the sidebar of this site that needs to be fixed, but having y’all remind me might motivate me to do it quicker.

2. Join Second Life, and use my Second Life username as a referrer. If you do this, and at some point get a Premium account with SL (which I am by no means trying to get you to do; that’s a personal choice, really), I get some moneys.

   Don’t know my Second Life username? There’s a few reasons for that. While I don’t totally bury it and keep it off the rest of the ‘net, I do like to make it a little challenging to find me. Also, the clever pun I used in my username could, at some point, get me a headache or two from Some People, so I don’t advertise it or market what I do with it. That said, if you’re joining Second Life, email me and I’ll gladly tell you who I am.

3. Click through my text ads in the top right hand corner of this site, if you’re so inclined. Annoying and boring, but always helpful. Even more helpful, if they’re actually ads you want to look at. If they’re consistently not, tell me, and I’ll try to push AdBrite toward targeting them better. Or, even better just clicking the ads, you can buy a text ad for as low as a dime a day, that says and links to pretty much anything (I do have to approve these things, so an ad that says “Scott Crawford blows lepers for unfiltered Luckies” and links to Sammy Hagar’s web site probably won’t be approved, but I’m pretty flexible otherwise.) This site gets a few hundred visitors a day, and you can pretty much tell what they like by what I write about here, so advertising here is worth a shot, I reckon.

4. Are you thinking of getting a web site, or switching web hosting? I’m on Dreamhost, and for the most part, they do not suck. If you click the link I used for Dreamhost back there, yes, this one, I get a referral bonus. You don’t need to enter any email address or promo code to name me as a referrer, just click this motherfucker right here.

5. I make music. Some of it is available for sale on Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, or Rhapsody if you’re looking for downloadable or streaming copies, or Lulu if you’re still buying CDs. Interestingly (actually kinda sadly, but this is why I press these things on a “made-to-order” basis), there’s only one copy of the CD in existence from Lulu so far. So, if you’re into rare collector’s items by artists no one pays that much attention to, this is the time to get one. =)

6. Do you record and release music? If so, are you on Tunecore?
   Sign up through here, and you hook the old man up with a commission. Tunecore are who I used to get my music on iTunes, Amazon and so forth. They’re good people.

7. This here’s my Amazon Wishlist. It’s mostly populated by things that I want rather than need at the moment, but expect that to change soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to contribute to my entertainment, feel free.

8. I know that a bunch of you comment over on the LiveJournal simulcast of this site, but I’d love to see more folks registering and commenting on the actual Cock site. I’d get a chubby.

9. If you use RSS anywhere (Bloglines, My Yahoo!, Google Reader, etc.) and you haven’t yet, add this site to your list of available feeds. I know there are a ton of different services that people use, but I’ve got a migraine as I’m typing this, so I’m not quite feeling like hunting for new ones or re-coding existing buttons that I have on other sites at the moment. If I don’t include a button for a service you use below, let me know!
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10. If you have a site yourself, and would like to link to us, by all means, feel free! If you want or need a banner, use the title logo in our header for now. I think I have a banner somewhere, but again, migraine! Likewise, if you’d like to be in our links section on our sidebar, drop me a line and tell me what you’re about, and we’ll take it from there.

11. If anyone’s looking to help a brother out in a way that’d directly support the actual web presence itself, I could really use a Flickr Pro Account, and promise to use it for incredibly evil purposes if I get one.

12. If you’re thinking of opening an ING Direct Orange Savings Account with $250 or more (and you don’t have one already), drop me a line with your real first and last name and your email address, and I’ll send you a referral code. You get $25 deposited directly into your account when you sign up, and I get $10.

13. And, finally, here’s our friend the ubiquitous PayPal donation box. Donations of any amount over a buck (below that, PayPal eats it all on fees) are welcome.
    
    
    
    

    I would also put up a donation button that’d let you pay for this site directly, but it’s the same deal, fees and all, as if you paid me directly via PayPal, only this way, I don’t have to explain to Dreamhost that this site has already passed the “Is this site a porn site?” litmus test that PayPal uses when they lock your PayPal account. Strangely, Google AdSense didn’t want anything to do with me, despite Google generally being way more liberal than PayPal is.

More will be added to this page periodically, so check back!

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