Hobbit
11-16-2008, 02:06 PM
During my time away from the board, I made a little extra spending money by writing freelance for a website called Cracked.com. Here are links to the two ones that I've published:
The first one is 6 Great Martial arts for Killing a Man With Your Bare Hands (http://www.cracked.com/article_16595_6-great-martial-arts-killing-man-with-your-bare-hands.html).
The second is 5 Bizarre Ways the Weather Can Kill You Without Warning (http://www.cracked.com/article_16685_5-bizarre-ways-weather-can-kill-you-without-warning.html).
Both made the front page at Digg, and the second got me a $50 bonus for breaking 250,000 unique hits in a single week. While the editorial staff at the web site does modify the articles somewhat, these two are largely unchanged, other than having a few entries dropped (the martial arts one was originally 10 and included Savate, Pankration, Bokator, and Jeet Kune Do and I had to drop one from the weather article since it didn't really fit).
The first one is 6 Great Martial arts for Killing a Man With Your Bare Hands (http://www.cracked.com/article_16595_6-great-martial-arts-killing-man-with-your-bare-hands.html).
The second is 5 Bizarre Ways the Weather Can Kill You Without Warning (http://www.cracked.com/article_16685_5-bizarre-ways-weather-can-kill-you-without-warning.html).
Both made the front page at Digg, and the second got me a $50 bonus for breaking 250,000 unique hits in a single week. While the editorial staff at the web site does modify the articles somewhat, these two are largely unchanged, other than having a few entries dropped (the martial arts one was originally 10 and included Savate, Pankration, Bokator, and Jeet Kune Do and I had to drop one from the weather article since it didn't really fit).