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We’re going on vacation next week and things are pretty hectic around the LeStourgeon household this week as we try to get things in place to get our bathroom remodeled while we’re gone. So for the next few days I’m just going to be doing a few short posts on stuff I’ve been checking out around the net or some interesting happenings.

Well, the world managed to survive the initial test of the Large Hadron Collider today, but if you read my post yesterday, there was some concern that we all might get sucked into a black hole when the LHC fired up. If you have nothing else to do, check out some amazing pictures of the Large Hadron Collider.

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I’ve been blogging about PPC Coach and how it has helped me get on the profitability side of pay per click marketing. The owner of PPC Coach, Will Haimerl, was interviewed yesterday by the director of search engine marketing at ClickBooth.com and it is a fantastic insight into the world of pay per click and another form of advertising you may not be familiar with, pay-per-view or PPV marketing. The interview is an hour long and is well worth listening to, so get yourself a cup of coffee, a snack and listen to the PPC Coach interview.

Next week we’ll be vacationing at Grayton Beach in this house my wife found online in 5 minutes when I searched for 3 hours and found nothing. I won’t be doing much blogging next week at all, if any. Hopefully I’ll get in a couple of posts of us having some fun riding a Jet Ski or lounging on the white sandy beaches in the Florida panhandle.

Cheers.

Could the world possibly end tomorrow? Well sure it could, I guess it could end any day if you think about it. But what has a few people alarmed at least for tomorrow is that the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, known as the Large Hadron Collider housed at CERN Labs in Geneva Switzerland is coming online Wednesday September 10th.

The Large Hadron Collider is the most expensive single machine ever built by man at a cost of $10 billion and is massive in it’s scale. It consists of 17 miles of underground tunnels and a collection chamber with machined steel plates at either end 30 meters in diameter (3 times higher than the tallest diving platform at the Olympics). The purpose of the collider is to discover fundamental particles, specifically the theorized Higgs boson, that will help scientists take a step closer in their search for The Grand Unified Theory which will basically explain all of physics.

Where the problem comes in, is that the experiments conducted by the collider can produce mini black holes which some scientists predict can end up at the core of the Earth and eventually consume it (yes, the Earth) like you do your grandmother’s special blueberry pancakes. For some ultra-geek reading, check out professor Otto Rossler’s paper on how this may happen (get out your scientific calculators). He has also filed a lawsuit trying to stop the collider from becoming fully operational.

The world probably won’t end tomorrow because the LHC is only being fully powered up and accelerating a beam of particles around the ring without crashing them into an opposing beam which would produce the mini black holes. However, you never know what will happen.

If you don’t know what will happen to you if the world comes to an end, you can check out this site.

Or if you’d like to watch as the world possibly ends tomorrow, CERN is having a webcast of the days events and you can watch the world end live right here. If the world does end, Google’s ad revenue is sure to decrease a bit.

If you’d like to read some geek tech and science news, you can check out the KurzweilAI.net newsletter where I first discovered this story. I hope you enjoyed our field trip away from affiliate marketing today.