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		<title>no, really. i won bacon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 22:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Food/Restaurant Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the email that came into my Inbox a few days ago:
If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know just how much better your life would be if you were pulchritudinous, rich, and a creative genius &#8211; it&#8217;s your lucky day. Sunshine Megatron, the creator of T-Shirt Hell, has started a twitter account and you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the email that came into my Inbox a few days ago:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know just how much better your life would be if you were pulchritudinous, rich, and a creative genius &#8211; it&#8217;s your lucky day. Sunshine Megatron, the creator of T-Shirt Hell, has started a twitter account and you can now partake in his latest 140 character rants, follow his daily activities and maybe even join him on his daily stroll down Hollywood Boulevard where he organizes high stakes chicken fights among the homeless.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">Plus, there will be plenty of T-Shirt Hell giveaways for twitterers only. And we’re not just giving away free shirts or coupons, Sunshine is going to give away cash, bottles of Cristal, sex and who knows what else. Follow the only real T-Shirt Hell/Sunshine Megatron twitter account at:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/smegatron" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/smegatron</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">And as motivation, Sunshine will give 20 random twitterers who sign up to follow us 5 free shirts and $100 cash each.  We&#8217;ll list the winners in a twitter post a week from now.  Start following immediately and we guarantee you that zit on your ass will disappear within minutes.  Shazam!</p>
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<p>That is it, no fancy artwork, no url to website (but here it is <a href="http://www.tshirthell.com/" target="_blank">now</a>), no 20% off if you order right now.   I immediately had to start following this guy.    I mean, I care enough about their t-shirt site to subscribe to their email blast, so following this guy on Twitter seemed like the next logical step.</p>
<p>The first tweet of his read: Tell me your favorite luncheon meat for your chance to win 5 lbs of bacon. RT this for a<img class="alignright" src="http://scienceblogs.com/pontiff/bacon_iphone.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="266" /> chance to win 10 lbs</p>
<p>&#8230;. of course I re-tweeted, asking if tofu was considered a meat.    This morning I awoke to find out that I won the contest and 10lbs of bacon!</p>
<p>Seriously&#8230;</p>
<p>As a vegetarian who knows the power that bacon has over people, I will be using my winnings to mock all my wine blogging friends who may be reading this.</p>
<p>Just wait&#8230;</p>
<p>The funny thing is this is not the first item I have won via Twitter.  A few months prior, I won a twitter contest from @NapaMarriott, the Twitter account from Todd at the Napa Valley Marriott Hotel &amp; Spa.  I won a Gift Certificate to their spa, the Amadeus Spa &amp; Salon which I haven&#8217;t used yet.</p>
<p><em><strong>U</strong><strong>pdate: </strong>I was actually sent an email with a Gift Certificate to Amazon.com saying I could actually purchase anything I wanted from the site&#8230;  So in true &#8220;Shana&#8221; fashion, I bought shoes.   Though I do have around $20 left on my gift card code, so if anyone has any suggestions on what I should get, maybe something <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=bacon&amp;x=17&amp;y=22" target="_blank">&#8220;bacon&#8221; related</a>, let me know!</em></p>
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		<title>HP&#8217;s Idolhands Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shana Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP is looking for the world&#8217;s most talented hands.  Entrants to the Idolhands contest could win $10,000 or one of four TouchSmart PCs. Contest ends February 28 by uploading a video of their hands doing, well, pretty much anything that they can do (keeping it clean of course).
Entrants upload their videos onto YouTube and then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">HP is looking for the world&#8217;s most talented hands.<span>  </span>Entrants to the Idolhands contest could win $10,000 or one of four TouchSmart PCs. Contest ends February 28 by uploading a video of their hands doing, well, pretty much anything that they can do (keeping it clean of course).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Entrants upload their videos onto YouTube and then they have to post the YouTube video onto the <a href="http://h50263.www5.hp.com/idolhands/index.htm?jumpid=em_r10518_au_en/idolhands/edm1/landing">HP Idolhands Contest</a> site. <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">The most “idolized” hands wins, so entrants can embed their videos onto their Facebook, Myspace, etc. pages to ask their friends to vote for their hands. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">My favorite: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZfK-_IHPms&amp;rel=1]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Interesting that HP doesn’t just have this contest on YouTube.</span></p>
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