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by admin on March 4, 2012

Last week, I offered a copy of my book, Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul, to anyone who showed up for Dot Com Pho, and only four people showed up. This week, I offered nothing and got a record breaking 20 people coming out to Pho Ba Co. We took up five tables, including one from the Mexican restaurant next door. The lesson learned: sometimes, the best incentive is no incentive.

For this edition of Dot Com Pho, we have Sally Chow making more Fear Factor drinks, an average magician doing above-average magic, William the 365 Bow Tie guy teaches how to tie a bow tie (a real bow tie, not a clip on), and we find out how many Orange County blondes are required to make a batch of chocolate-chip cookies.

Anyone is welcome to join us for Dot Com Pho. Follow me on Twitter to find out the time and location of the next one. We would love to meet you.

This article courtesy of Dot Com Pho How To Tie a Bow Tie Edition

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A year ago, owners and operators of businesses along U.S. 70 East feared the demise of their establishments if the N.C. Department of Transportation carried out its plan to build a median through the middle of the corridor.

Those fears were not realized, however, as DOT officials announced in a letter last week they were shelving the proposal after further study of crash data.

With information now available to NCDOT, we do not recommend implementation of the concrete median at this time, Neil Lassiter, Division Engineer for the DOTs Division 2 office in Greenville, wrote in a Friday letter to J. Mac Daughety, chairman of the Lenoir County Transportation Committee. However, we do reserve the right to revisit this section of roadway for further safety improvements if the traffic crash rates trend upward in the future.

Officials with the DOT began seeking public comment in February of 2011 on a proposal to install the median between the intersections with N.C. 58 South and U.S. 258 South.

The department used data from a 2007 study, which reviewed five prior years of crash patterns, to show a median with a few openings could lead to a safer corridor than its current design, which consists of five open lanes, including a middle turn lane marked by yellow dashed lines that gives access to the restaurants, shops, gas stations and hotels from anywhere along the highway.

Business and property owners liked the existing design and immediately cried foul last year because they feared a median with only a few openings could hinder drivers access.

The project was expected to cost nearly $1 million; the DOT originally planned to let the contracts in May of 2011 and finish construction by the end of the year.

It didnt happen, though; the Lenoir County Transportation Committee passed a resolution against the project, as well as the board of the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce.

The matter also caused intense debate among the members of the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners and Kinston City Council.

Local Reps. Stephen LaRoque, R-Lenoir, and William Wainwright, D-Craven, introduced a local bill in the General Assembly to get the project stopped. The legislation did not pass before the 2011 session ended, though.

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William Shakespeare/Image from Macworld.comInternet users who want to add to the political discourse this campaign season by slinging mud while being civil have plenty of options with their computers, smartphones and other gadgets.

Peppering the insult landscape with jibes from William Shakespeare is the ticket, and the GOP candidates, themselves, could learn a thing or two from the "Bard of Avon."

For candidates who like to gamble -- Mitt Romney, for instance -- there are random Shakespeare insult generators. They randomly display revilements from Stratford's famous son collected and stored in a database or generated from words in those insults.

Chris Seidel has created such a generator. It has a nice clean Google search-type interface. Jibes are generated by clicking an "insult me again" button.

Think how much a candidate could raise the level of a debate, yet maintain his negative zest by looking his opponent -- say a Newt Gringrich -- in the eye and declaring, "Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade." (Measure for Measure) Or if Rick Santorum turned on the GOP field and spat, "There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune." (Henry V).

Seidel's generator mixes both insults quoted directly from Shakespeare's plays with barbs composed of randomly chosen words. The word cooker at William-shakespeare.org follows only the random route.

Results such as "Thou unwholesome sheep-biting worms-meat!," "Thou abominable half-faced codpiece!" and " Thou obscene beef-witted hag-seed!" lack the poetry of the Bard, but can still be effective.

Mitt RomneyIf a candidate wants to avoid leaving his insults to chance, he can go to the Shakespeare Insult Kit. The kit consists of three columns of words. By taking a word from each column and putting "thou" in front of them, ersatz slams can be brewed. "Thou puking knotty-pated measle," for example, or "Thou mewling fen-sucked canker-blossom."

Candidates, or their handlers, who have a favorite play by the Bard may want to milk it for prickers for their opponents. That's easily done at Insult.net, which has sorted Shakespeare's insults by play title.

Finally, candidates who prefer to defer to authority in the matter of Shakespeare dress-downs may want to restrict their digs of opponents to one found on any of several "top" lists on the Internet, like "20 Epic Shakespeare Insults Every Drama Geek Should Know."

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Internet Abounds with Insult Generators That Let You 'Go Negative' With Civility