It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and what better time to have a write-up about a ridiculous website that has only one offering. When I first heard this on the radio, I couldn’t stop laughing. When James Yu first visited the site, he couldn’t start laughing. I guess it will only be funny to some.

Write someone’s name into “Da breakup song”, and give them a couple reasons why you’re breaking up with them. Maybe they’re cheap, fat, have bad breath, talk too much, have no car, forgot your birthday, blogged mean things about you? All are included in the customizable breakup song. The song is sung, or rapped, by Lady Raptastic, who I think is really a white guy trying to sound like an uneducated African American woman.

While waiting for the song to load there are some funny one-liners such as: “Hold on, I be doin’ my nails”, “OK, I be getting up”, and “Hold on fo’ one sec”. Warning: the beginning of the song, whether you like it or not, will be stuck in your head if you hear it more than twice. I have 3/4 of my family, not including myself, singing the beginning. “Dees song is especially fer you…Jo-el, Jo-el you about to be broke up, Jo-el, Jo-el you about to be broke up.” Catchy, ain’t it?

My interest was sparked when I saw a solitary ad from PayPerPost, the service that pays bloggers to write nice things about companies or products. Upon further research, I found the group behind Da Breakup song, MindComet, is also tightly connected with, if not the parent company of, PayPerPost. Ted Murphy, the Founder and CEO of PayPerPost, is also the Chariman of the Board at MindComet.

Interestingly, the people behind PayPerPost also created Disclosurepolicy.org, a disclosure service that helps bloggers generate a statement that will disclose any conflicts of interest they may have. Ironic. It reminds me of the tobacco companies who pay millions in advertising to tell kids that smoking is bad. I don’t believe the tobacco conglomerates are really opposed to kids trying cigarettes and subsequently becoming addicted to smoking; nor do I believe that PayPerPost wants bloggers disclosing that they are paid to write a favorable post about a certain company. Consumers are more likely to try a product a blogger recommends if they don’t think the blogger was paid to write about it– PayPerPost knows that.

MindComet is an interactive marketing company, and while they have some diverse offerings, I find a lot of what they have to be quite strange. For instance, they have a lot of blogs about different forms of online marketing such as emailmarketingvoodoo.com, cgmvoodoo.com (cgm is consumer generated marketing), and behavioralmarketingvoodoo.com. I’ve studied a lot about marketing, and I think associating voodoo with marketing lessons doesn’t leave a good taste in my mouth. In my mind, Voodoo provokes images of one devious person trying to manipulate or control another.

One good thing that can be said about MindComet is that they are highly productive.

I’m wondering if MindComet were the ones who sent the site to the radio station. And if so, was the station paid to do so or did the DJ just genuinely like the site and song?

Here’s a couple of my favorite lines from Da breakup song:

“I am suspect, when you give a gift to me, because everything you buy is buy one get one free
You so cheap the only time you use Grey Poupon, is when you have a free Grey Pou-pon cou-pon”

Also check out Monkey Mail which is on the Career Builder website. I enjoy the text to speech feature where I type in my Mom’s dog’s name several times and watch the dog look around very bewildered.

Have you ever hosted a house party and needed some cool drink ideas to serve? Have you ever been at a bar, and asked for a chocolate cake, only to be looked at with complete bewilderment? Right now I have a bottle of Vodka in my freezer, and my cranberry and orange juice is gone. I know there are other drinks I can make, but none immediately came to mind. Does vodka go with ginger ale?

So I visited BuzzShout and typed “drink” into the search box. One of my results was a site called Extra Tasty!, which helps you find great drink recipes and figure out what you can make from the different ingredients you’ve got. I felt I was meant to find the site tonight since the “Drink of the Day” on the front-door to the site was made with my favorite soda, ginger ale. A tag cloud on the sidebar makes it easy to find drinks with your alcohol or ingredient of choice.

With the “My Bar” functionality you can list the ingredients you have available and figure out what drinks you can make with them. I did experience a problem with the site when I went to the “Full ingredient list”, where I was supposed to be able to add a lot more ingredients to the list that the site already provided. I wasn’t able to click on the plus icons next to different items to add them to “My Bar” because there were no icons there to click on. That might have been due to my browser, but I did see plus icons on the sidebar under “People’s commonly added items”. I’d like to know if others aren’t able to see the icons on the full list.

The coolest feature is the SMS search which I haven’t tried yet. However, I was able to try it from a demo on the site to better understand the use. You can type a SMS text keyword such as “Vodka” into your cell phone and send it to 82789 (fees may apply). Here is what you’ll get back:

” 68 results for vodka. The top rated drink is the Malibu Sunset : Prepare a glass full of ice then add the Coconut rum, next add the Cranberry juice.”

A very useful function if you want to impress a certain somebody at the bar by sharing some drink ideas. So if you drink, and you’re looking for some new ideas, check out Extra Tasty!, and tell us what you think.

Here’s one for those lazy Sunday mornings: someone has made a Google Maps flight simulator mashup, complete with a 3D biplane. It’s a simple little game where you fly your plane above the landscapes of New York, London, Paris, Washington DC, and Tokyo. Just make sure not to fly too low, or you’ll go up in a fireball.