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obamanutpunch.com

poofilter.com

lawgician.com

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i would love to hear your monetization strategy. :)

mostly shits and giggles. the combinations of domains <$10 & alcohol has led to unintentional squatting of some sort for me the better part of 10 years..

lawgician was going to be a digg/reddit type of thing for legal news -- i don't think its gonna happen soon as doing this right would involve more time than I can give right now.

poofilter originally was intended to filter political news and somehow assess the bias level of the source from left to right, blue to red. someone else did this recently but I forget the name.

obamanutpunch was going to be a simple lolcat-type site of photoshopped photos of president obama punching people in the nuts (see chuck norris here http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitesh/3254005822/). Later, I found out that there were actually 2 definitions in urban dictionary for the term (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama%20Nut%2...)

You could have an automated site extracting whitehouse photos from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse and allow users to customize.

edit: "The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

maybe not.

That's what hosting in The Netherlands is for.

Bad idea. Since Obama's not only a Muslim but the second coming of the prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, he'll murder anyone who blasphemes his picture.

I think its fine as long is at doesn't in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President.. Public figures are pretty much fair game. The question is whether the "manipulated in any way" is modified by "that in any way suggest approval." The way this clause is constructed, I would read it as such.

actually played this card even further once with billboards of bush http://www.bigredwire.com/images/photos/bush_sign.gif and a quote we put in his mouth. some newspapers balked but nary a word from w. everyone else loved it.

I'm pretty sure any picture that looks like a "nut punch" will not suggest endorsement of the President.

Tito Jackson in the house!

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