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The Pick-Up Community

scr — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:54:05 +0000

Before someone finally figured out that one could sell eBooks on the Internet, being a PUA was really a rather underground thing. It was like Japanese tentacle porn on the Usenet. Limited exposure to a few obscure discussion boards and websites (like for example fastseduction.com), but a very dedicated and passionate following that constantly worked on introducing new angles and methods to the collective toolkit.

Forex 101: Charts

yella — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:39:07 +0000

The movement of any financial instrument over time needs some kind of graphical representation, mostly because humans are good at visual interpretation and suck at number crunching. In our case, we focus on the price movement of a currency pair in the forex market. The simplest form of graph (or chart) is to plot to [...]

Book Review: 50th Law [50 Cent, Robert Greene]

yella — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:29:54 +0000

So I read 50 Cent’s book over the weekend .. “wait what? 50 Cent wrote a book?” you might ask yourself. Yes, 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, teamed up with Robert Greene (author of 48 laws of power) and wrote the book 50th Law. The book itself is wrapped in a nice black [...]

APMID goes FOREX

yella — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:58:40 +0000

APMID is known to go where the money is. That’s why we decided to venture into the world of the foreign exchange market. This might seem crazy, and on some level it certainly is, but I think it’s the right thing to do. While we did quite well in Poker (which is some sort of [...]

UFO-loonies and snake-oil salesmen

sqpaa — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:23:25 +0000

I occasionally browse and read this wonderful and extremely amusing forum called AboveTopSecret. It’s perhaps the largest online forum devoted entirely to topics like UFOs, conspiracies, New World Order, telepathy and PSI powers or other such alternative/New Age stuff. The majority of the posts are pretty boring and follow the generic “Barack Obama/goverment is evil” [...]

Domains for sale!

sqpaa — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:42:16 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed already, APMID.ORG has a new “domains for sale” section. There isn’t much stuff, because we aren’t that much into domain flipping, but since we have a few two-word domains which might be interest to someone, they are now listed with their prices on the page. Page it kept up-to-date whenever [...]

Book review: Screw it, let’s do it [Branson]

scr — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:14:29 +0000

So I picked up Richard Bransons book at the train station on my way back from the UK as a final token of “something British”. Branson, of course, is an English entrepreneur who became highly successful with his record label “Virgin Records” that had their first hit with Mike Oldfield in the early 1970s. Bands like Sex Pistols, Human League, Simple Minds and Genesis followed making Virgin a huge success.

Don’t mind the men behind the curtain

yella — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:10:54 +0000

In the seemingly excellent and very compelling documentary Don’t Mind The Men Behind The Curtain, a speaker leads us, step by step, through (a/the) history where the Federal Reserve is a big conspiracy controlling the world. The men running the FED take more and more control over various aspects of your life in order to [...]

Storytelling – A Social Skill

scr — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:04:51 +0000

In this article I want to mention four points of good story telling I’ve learned in the seminar. And mind you, if you follow them you can easily capture the total attention of many people quickly. I tried it the same evening on a group of strangers I assembled in front of a bar and the results were astonishing.

The Penultimate Truth about Philip K. Dick

sqpaa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:34:04 +0000

Philip K. Dick is considered by many to be one the world’s greatest science fiction writers ever; as a sufferer from mental illness himself he had the ability to turn his hallucinations about the universe into an extraordinary writing career. During his lifetime, Dick produced an astonishing amount of prize winning novels and short stories, which [...]

Book Review: The 80/20 Principle - The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less [Koch]

sqpaa — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:20:38 +0000

Now this book is 11 years old, but I decided to pick it up anyway and it’s one of the best books I’ve read for a long time. The basic recurring theme is that 80% of results are almost always created by 20% of the effort. 80% of revenue from 20% of customers, from 20% [...]

I Grift - An Overview of “Get Rich Quick”-Schemes

scr — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:12:52 +0000

One interesting scheme for example is the "Football Picks Scam". Basically the conartist will take a group of people, say 100, and tell 50 of them that one team will win, and the other 50 that the other team will win. The 50 "winners" are split again in two groups of 25. And so forth until a small group of people is left that has received a series of accurate tips on football matches. At some point the con artists starts demanding money for his services.

Stupidest Web Business Ideas

sqpaa — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:51:41 +0000

Some point at our neverending hunt for the online fortunes, and after several failed web business ideas, someone made a note if we had invented Facebook here, we’d said “that’s like the stupidest fucking idiotic idea ever“. Instead of the coolest and best ideas, we should list some of the most dorkful, fucking idiotic stupid [...]

Decrease Your Procrastination, Increase Your Productivity

yella — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:54:41 +0000

Internet procrastination became a real problem, to me and probably to many other people spending a lot of time in front of a computer. Dozens of online news site, social networks, and social news sites (not forget about email) are very popular and at the same time can be very addictive. I’m not a person [...]

Failed Web Business Ideas

sqpaa — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:35:19 +0000

Ok. I am the first one to admit it. We, the APMID people, are greedy and lazy. I mean really lazy and REALLY greedy and vanglorious too. We dangle on dreams of luxurious limos, we plan to be some day relaxing on a 12 million dollar yacht sipping Singapore Slings and snorting cocaine from playmates [...]