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Here is another contest around the net and this time it is the focus of dental care. The contest will award the top 3 with $150 worth of wordpress theme coding. This is perfect for anyone who is starting a new blog or website or just wants a redesign. What this means is that your design that has already been done (in like a .psd file) is coded, cut up, and optimized and will then work with wordpress and be a new theme. If you don’t have a .psd file or a design you can also get one made for you. Along with this prize other prizes include receiving free banner advertising and listing on a website. In addition free web hosting is being offered. Head over to dental blogging for your chance to enter and win one of these … Read more

I keep up to date with website’s Alexa Rankings because they are indicator of a web site’s authority and reach. Today I noticed a major change in the way this site is ranked. It jumped significantly up in the 3 months ranking. Alexa says on there site… When Alexa began displaying rankings in 1998 it was with the goal of showing Alexa Toolbar users how popular any given site was within the Alexa community. We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, … Read more

So I just wanted to give everyone an update on how the winning the web contest ended up going for me. I did not win the Hummer H2. It turned out to be an April Fools joke, but I still made out incredibly well. I would like to thank Gyutae Park and all of the sponsors for helping make the contest such a success. I am not sure if I was supposed to win 3 prizes and if I will get to keep them, but I am  excited about winning. 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value) 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value) Custom Blog Design from Pixel Jig ($500 value)

It appears that the largest internet marketing contest I have ever seen is just about to close. You will want to head over to Winning the Web immediately (before Tuesday at 9 PM ET) to win a chance to win prizes valued at over $70,000. In case you have not heard of this contest Winning the Web is an Internet Marketing Strategies blog maintained by a recent Northwestern Industrial Engineering Graduate. Again you are going to want to head over to winning the web for a chance to claim these prizes.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 29, 2008) — An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State University, found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry “handedness” in a larger number than previously thought. Pizzarello, in ASU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, worked with Yongsong Huang and Marcelo Alexandre, of Brown University, in studying the organic materials of a special group of meteorites that contain among a variety of compounds, amino acids that have identical counterparts in terrestrial biomolecules. These meteorites are fragments of asteroids that are about the same age as the solar system (roughly 4.5 billion years.) Scientists have long known that most compounds in living things exist in mirror-image forms. The … Read more