ulcer-causing helicobacter pylori

Now that my mid-August/late-September family birthday season is nearing its end, I can provide a plug* for my new favorite thing to give people: GIANT microbes.

They've got all the oddly humorous pesky little cells you could ever want to give somone (and a few critters too), from bad-breath causing porphorymonas gingivalis to certain unmentionables to ebola. All these ailments look much cuter than you ever imagined—and they come complete with an edifying informational pamphlet on the maladies they represent.

Let's just say that 2006 was the year I finally gave my father the ulcer he always said I'd give him and my mother the mono she never expected.

*When I was putting this post together I initially had some snarky parenthetical here with the general gist that my plug was unsponsored but that if the nice people at GIANT microbes wanted to kick a few stomach-ache causing shigella cells my way, we could keep it quiet, wink, wink.

Then I realized they have an affiliates program, which I guiltily almost dismissed off-hand. But you know what? I have an obligation to kenspeckle.net readers to undertake important research into income opportunities for low-traffic bloggers. I do. Ad-heavy sites shouldn't be the only place to get such information. This is like a DIY MeCommerce and inquiring minds want to know if it'll do…um…anything at all for me.

So give your friends the flu already. I'll get a cool 10% (I'm planning my second home already) and report back on the outcome. I'm not holding my breath, but the results can't be any less inspiring than my brief experiment with AdSense.

initial report: They don't have tracked links for all the cells I wanted to mention, and their tracking code is unflexible and not instantly hackable (some sort of numeric representation of their products that I don't feel like parsing). So not all of my links will give me that awesome 10%. If you want to participate in my little experiment, try this one.