It's no secret that online dating sites make squillions of dollars.  Obviously, hundreds of thousands of singletons paying a moderate monthly fee will quickly add up to a truly ginormous sum. 

But what's interesting is that one of the most profitable dating sites of all -- PlentyOfFish -- is actually completely free to use. 

How does it make its money, then?  Adsense.

Amazing, eh!

Just a thought on the direction this blog is taking: 

It started off as a rant blog on a wide range of subjects.  But lately it's become focused on the grotesque behaviour of idiot entertainers.

I think I should continue in this vein. I quite like the thought of being a celebrity fixated internet muckraker.

Just had an interesting lesson in how search engines work ...

Recently I wrote about femme fatale Mechele Linehan, mistakenly spelling her surname Lineham.  Most others who wrote about her didn't make this error.  Being one of the few who did, however, my post ended up on page one of several major search engines for searches for "Mechele Lineham", and so I have received a constant stream of visitors as a result. 

Maybe I should make these errors more often ... 

Hmm.  Wonder what happens if I call her Michelle Linehan? 

Monks are certainly not famous for their sexisness, nor for their ability to nude up.  But a Monk called Sophie is determined to reverse this sad state of affairs. 

Yep, she's the latest celeb to go starkers for PETA. 

She's posed with a whole mess o' chilli peppers.  You've gotta ask, was that PC?  I suspect that plant liberationists might condemn her for objectifying and sexualising the harmless vegetables.

If this does become a problem for her and Monk wants to do another spread then I'm sure there are other red hot chilli peppers who'd be more than happy to oblige.

Not content to wreck her own life, Lindsay Lohan seems determined to wreck the life of another young woman by poaching her fiance.

Where does she find the time? 

If Australia is truly "the lucky country", then Mosman Park must be the luckiest suburb within it! 

Does art merely reflect the violence in the world, or actually cause it?  Here's the latest event related to that question: 

A sexy woman called Mechele Lineham has been accused of engineering the death of her fiance using the thriller The Last Seduction as inspiration for her diabolical act!

Whether she did or not one thing's for sure:  It's the kind of lurid story that's almost certain to inspire a dramatization onscreen somewhere -- creating still more fodder for that perennial question ...

Scum-sucking drug smugglers have used many techniques to conceal their cargo.  But this latest method is surely one of the most bizarre.  See, they've used a Mr Potato Head toy as a vessel for smuggling ecstasy.

I reckon a Kinder Super-Surprise might be next.