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12 Essential Apps for Tweaking Your Mac

Apps are big news these days, made bigger by the smartphone craze (iPhone apps, anyone?) And while Mac users still make up less than 10% of the computer-using population, they are among the most voracious consumers in the tech marketplace. Put the two together – apps and Macs – and you get link bait like [...]

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10 Gadgets with Mind-Blowing Moving Parts

The thing I most want to point out about this link baity list of technology turned on its ear is the comments in engendered. Notice how this pictorial inspired some readers to do more than merely jot down their thoughts on the subject but to submit their own picturesque contributions, in essence expanding the list [...]

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7 Bizarre Things (And 1 Bodily Fluid) People Use as Money

Cracked Magazine does it again, delivering valuable humor in an economical package, in this case a list of tokens certain peoples of the world use for commerce rather than commonplace dollars and cents (including: rocks, bottle caps, and - get this - urine). It’s tricky to find uncommon Trivia that matters to your audience. Money, being [...]

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100 Blogs that Will Inspire You to Be a Better Person

What makes this comprehensive and nicely organized list-oriented link bait post particularly special is its source: a massage therapy jobs site. What do the two have in common – the subject and the source? Self-improvement, of course. But this isn’t a lesson on writing link bait about self-improvement. It’s about expanding your horizons on what you [...]

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The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace

What have we to learn from an opinion piece in defense of George W. Bush? That it sometimes pays to go against the tide. Forget that this piece came from the Wall Street Journal. The point is that of all the opinion pieces the Wall Street Journal publishes every day, week, and month of the year, [...]

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Ultimate list to download free e-Books

The appeal of free stuff never goes out of style. Especially in rough economic times. Free movies, free music, free samples – as a culture (and particularly as a cyber-culture) we can’t get enough of all things free. The trick to making successful link bait out of a list of sources for acquiring a certain type [...]

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Beer That’s Good for You

“Did you know that science has now proven that -BLANK- is actually good for you?” or “…that science has now produced a –BLANK- that’s actually healthy?” These are sure-fire attention-grabbers (especially when it’s true). So are pieces on drugs and alcohol. Here we find an artful comingling of both devices. And it’s actual news no [...]

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15 Ways to Hack Your Brain

Self-improvement is a cornerstone of so many internet trends. From weight-loss to productivity to happiness, many of the most successful and enduring online ventures involve helping people to better themselves. We’re all desperate to be healthier, happier, richer, sexier, smarter, more effective and skillful and successful in our endeavors…and so on. Along those lines, here’s a [...]

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Creative Photo Manipulations by LSD s.r.l

Inspiration. It’s what this website – the Link Bait Hall of Fame, that is – is founded upon. Whether it’s web designers or interior designers, creative types of every flavor are always trolling the web for inspiration. This piece provides imagistic inspiration, specifically on photographic manipulation. If you can come up with similarly eye-catching inspiration for [...]

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You know! It’s a thingummy… Whatjermercallit… The everyday items with the forgotten names

This is fun: a rundown of some common items that virtually nobody know the names of. For example – “the little plastic or metal tube at the end of your shoelace” is an Aglet. Bet you didn’t know that? Neither did I. Fun little diversions from all that serious-minded web browsing we do all day is [...]

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