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Running low on cash, but wealthy in gasoline gift cards? If you just don’t give a damn about them, why don’t you head down to Cincinnati and pick yourself up a hooker. This story tells the true tragedy of rising gas prices.

Police in Cincinatti (which is a little odd because the arrest report says it took place in Fort Wright, Ky.) are saying they picked up a hooker that accepts $100 dollar gas giftcards in exchange for a little ’sucky sucky’. Too bad! All I have is this $25 Shell card. Can I still get a quickie?

“When people are selling their bodies for gas, that’s pretty sad,” Ken Easterling, chief prosecutor in the Kenton County Attorney’s Office, told The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Sounds like the prosecutor can feel for girls that sell themselves for cash, but gas? That is just too low.

Meetings with the John and the prostitute were arranged via online ads? Google PPC? I wonder if they had a good ROI. The wonders of Google.

[via UPI]

In a totally uncalled for move Google and Yahoo’s affiliate programs have changed. And it isn’t looking good.

Let us start off with Google Adsense. For those using it in North America, Latin America and Japan, the pricing system on referrals is being completely rewritten. In the old system, if your referral made 10 dollars, so did you. You would get $250 for referring someone who made $100 (in 180 days), and if you refer 25 people who made $100 within 180 days you would get a bonus payment of a cool $2000. Say good bye to the old.. Read the rest of this entry »