This may be fixed by the time anyone sees this, but I've just happened across something Google/eBay related that I thought was at least worth a chuckle (Oh my god, it's Friday night and I am a geek!):

While skimming an online discussion thread regarding the ongoing search for an elusive McDonald's Monopoly "Boardwalk" piece (or is it Park Place that's rare?) and the questionable sale of "Boardwalk-ish" items on eBay, I decided to find out a little more about the contest (I've seen others play the game for years now, but I've never had the attention span).

So I typed "McDonald's Monopoly" into Google's

trusty search box, and clicked the first link that came up — which happens to be an Adwords link describing McDonald's Monopoly items available on eBay. No surprise so far… until the eBay results came up. Instead of "McDonald's Monopoly" I was treated to a listing of items "of or relating to 'Wango Tango.'"

Um, what?

…

For the record, the weird listing only seems to appear when you type "McDonald's Monopoly" (with an apostrophe), and not when one enters "McDonalds Monopoly," sans apostrophe. And it only works through the Google ad, not within the eBay site itself.

I'm often curious about what people are looking for when search engines send them to Turdhead.com, so I tend to look at the site's log reports pretty regularly. I was recently surprised — and a little alarmed — to find that more than a few people are ending up here after typing "Sites we hate" into their Google search boxes!

Even more troubling: Turdhead.com is the first thing that shows up when one enters the phrase on both Google and MSN.

It took me a while to

realize that "Sites we hate" is actually the heading of one of our less-used article categories, so it does in fact show up on every page of Turdhead, and we do actually have a lot of content filed under the header.

Maybe we should change our focus from "whatever the hell it is now" to "Sites we hate?"

Not that it matters: Whatever we decide to focus our sights on, we won't end up talking much about it anyway.

This weekend is your last chance to pen your winning entry in the First Annual ActionScript Poetry contest.

We've seen several entries so far, but we're hoping for more. If you'd like to take a stab at winning the contest (and the T-shirt), be sure to submit your poems

here by midnight (EST) on March 21 (World Poetry Day).

The better the participation, the better chance we have of making this an annual affair (with bigger, better prizes). So grab your favorite editor and have at it!.

For details (and to submit poems), click here. Thanks!