Meez Me

My Meez needs to gain about 20 pounds to be really accurate, but that's otherwise a pretty close simulation, especially since my hair's grown out.

I'm enough of a girly girl to love that my coffee cup matches my shoes.

Win a Date With Tad Hamilton....'s One-time Co-star!

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All right, boys: fire up those video cameras, polish off your best pick-up lines, and get ready to Seduce a Celebrity. If the audience likes your video the best, you could win a date with one Mirelly Taylor, an up-and-coming actress who's recently been featured on the likes of Las Vegas, Numb3rs, and the Matthew Perry vehicle, Serving Sara. So what's the catch? It's all for a new online reality show on GoFish that will feature a different celebrity each round putting in a plea for what they're looking for in a date. Then it's up to willing lotharios and lothariettes to upload their video responses, with the winners to be selected by audience vote.

If you think that's intimidating, just check out some of the competition:



Hee. Be sure to check out the other video entries. It just gets more embarrassing (and hilarious) from there.

And don't worry. If Mirelly's not your thing, upcoming "prizes" include Emmy Award Winning Producer Scott Sternberg, and The Bachelor's Andrew Firestone. This is, of course, a chance for much hilarity to ensue, and ensue it does. Check out the rest of the competition as well as other free videos at GoFish.com

eBay meets The Price Is Right

This seems to be a unique concept for a contest: Bid4prizes lets you place bids for prizes that are up for grabs, with the twist that the lowest unique bid is the winner. They have some pretty great prizes, including sports cars, giant plasma TVs, iPhones, vacation giveaways and up to a million in cash, with one grand prize given away daily. They have a paid, ad-free membership that allows you to bid from your cell via text messaging, but they also have a free membership that lets you bid on the web site in exchange for putting up with ads. I'd think if you have a cell plan that makes you pay for text messaging, the latter would be preferable anyway.

Jean Claude: Backgammon Master

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Did you know that recently a 5,000 year old backgammon set was unearthed in Iran? Talk about a classic. Despite the game's inarguably enduring popularity, mine and my husband's attempts to learn backgammon seem to be taking about 5,000 years. It would help if we could find rules that were written in plain English instead of badly translated Engrish. Rules that were recited by an adorable animated tiger would also probably get us a lot further in the game.

Thankfully, there's Jean Claude, the number one backgammon master, who also happens to be an adorable animated tiger, to help us through. And backgammon isn't the only subject on which Jean Claude is an expert. This interactive cutie can provide the answers to a plethora of life's quandaries, from how to chop onions to advice on following your dreams. Read all about him below, and then go check him out.

http://www.BackgammonMasters.com is using a ground-breaking and original approach to promote and establish their skill game software in the online game market. Introducing the #1 Player at BackgammonMasters, Jean-Claude the animated tiger. BackgammonMasters creates a new dimension in online backgammon branding in their 5 part interactive animation series titled 'Life According to Jean-Claude'. Jean Claude - Backgammon Masters Animated Tiger Movie BackgammonMasters brought this character to in a well-designed and cleverly scripted effort to illustrate to a wide audience the appeal of backgammon as a skill game truly loved and played by all people, from all walks of life from around the world. Jean Claude is BackgammonMasters' pioneering mascot who is setting a new standard in online game entertainment. Viewers win prizes for trivia questions after viewing, and are offered rewards for suggestion any script ideas used. Clips can be easily forwarded to friends who will create the viral marketing buzz that only a character like Jean-Claude is capable of generating. "BackgammonMasters creates a new dimension in online backgammon branding in their 5 part interactive animation series titled 'Life According to Jean-Claude'." In the series we are exposed to a hilarious explanation and comparison by Jean-Claude of how to succeed at everything from playing backgammon to chopping onions, to fulfilling ones dreams and make important life choices. In the opening clip we, find Jean-Claude, a tiger, humoristic, mafia type, dressed in 70's clothes (bell-bottoms and cream-colored shoes, a button-up shirt with a dice print and a large dollar sign chain around his neck) sitting in his trailer in the used junk car lot he manages. No, he doesn't feel pathetic or sad amidst the junk, on the contrary. He is full of street smarts obtained during his many years in the University of Life. BackgammonMasters has maintained a high profile in the news lately not only because of Jean-Claude, they also recently launched a 3-in-1 game lobby offering games such as Backgammon, Poker and Perudo (Liar's Dice), all in one download. To get a sneak peak at the animations go to: http://www.backgammonmasters.com/jc.html To download the BackgammonMasters 3-in-1 free software go to: www.backgammonmasters.com Report by Gammonish.com - online backgammon resource for news and information. To learn more about the backgammon game and online backgammon rules visit http://www.gammonish.com.

And it doesn't even have any Howie Mandel!

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I just won $108,000 playing Deal or No Deal! Okay, they were imaginary dollars on a web-based version of the game. But it was still fun to beat the banker and win. I'm playing the game at Winzy, where I could sign up to be eligible to win prizes every time I use their search engine—and it's totally free. Sounds like a deal.