And really, just how cool would it be to add Greeting Card Author to your resume?

To enter, performers can create and submit a video of a routine up to three-minutes in length. It can be stand-up, sketch, alternative or musical comedy, as long as it’s about taxes. The deadline is March 24, 2008.

Information and contest rules are available at www.TaxLaugh.com. Videos can also be submitted on www.YouTube.com/taxlaugh.

Full disclosure: The author uses a competing tax product to do his taxes, and has for about 10 years. Having never been audited, the author is just superstitious enough to fear the bad karma that could result from a change.

During January, taxpayers can get their most burning tax question answered by a tax professional – for free at www.FreeTaxQuestion.com

Whether taxpayers have a question about the recent tax law changes related to the AMT, or how big changes in their lives such as getting married or having a child will affect their 2007 taxes- they can now go www.FreeTaxQuestion.com through January and have a tax question answered for free. They simply submit a question online and a TurboTax tax pro will personally call them back at a time they request.

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Swiffer and Warner Music are hosting a contest called the “Swiffer Break-up Music Video Contest.” The Grand Prize for the contest is $15,000.

Here’s how it works:

Participants can submit a short video to YouTube that demonstrates how they “broke up” with their old cleaning products and now use Swiffer for all their cleaning needs. If you enter, you receive 10 downloads of “break-up” songs to use in the video (that’s one of the requirements). The top 10 videos will be posted to YouTube for the general public to cast a vote for their favorite and the video with the most votes wins $15,000.

You can find a complete list of rules, prizes and approved “break-up” songs at the Swiffer brand channel at http://youtube.com/SwifferBreakup

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On March 7-9th, Prilosec OTC is sponsoring the third annual Bunco Championship at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Naomi Judd, along with over 2,000 Bunco loving women, will be on-site to crown the next Prilosec OTC Bunco Champion. You can sign up for this year’s championship at the site below.

http://buncocentral.com

The Web site features a few tips from Naomi Judd on how to host your own “girl’s-night-in” Bunco Party.

Prilosec OTC has also teamed up with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to raise money for breast cancer through a Charity Challenge. Players can register online at Buncocentral.com and the group that raises the most cash will win a trip to Vegas to compete in the Prilosec OTC Bunco Championship and meet with country singer Naomi Judd.

Ellen DeGeneres recently recommended Oral-B’s Triumph With SmartGuide toothbrush ad a great gift for the holidays. Now, 100 people can win this item by entering a contest Ellen and Oral-B are holding.

The Ellen Show segment (which is really quite funny) can be seen here.

And you can enter to win here.

Contest ends 12/31, though, so participants have to enter soon if they want to win.

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Superbowl Tickets! The Prilosec OTC Giveaway

Participants can win a trip with a friend or family member to Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Arizona (February 3, 2008). You can get all the details and enter here:

Prilosec OTC is giving away a total of four trips to Super Bowl XLII. Each Grand Prize winner will receive two (2) tickets to Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008, one hotel room for four (4) night’s accommodations at a hotel of the sponsor’s choice and $1,000 in spending money. Additionally, more than one hundred instant winners will receive other prizes, including an autographed Brett Favre Mini Football Helmet and $25 VISA® Gift Cards.

To play, go to www.WinningPlayGiveaway.com. Once a day, you can enter for the chance to win, beginning on December 15, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. ET through January 15, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. ET. After playing, you can download the official “Prilosec OTC Winning Play Giveaway” widget to remind you to play daily.

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TurboTax is holding a contest called “America’s Cutest Last-Minute Tax Deduction.” Parents with children born in December 2007 are invited to upload a photo of their newborn to the contest’s web site, where their fellow taxpayers will vote for the cutest and most original photo of the baby that will win a $5,000 savings bond ($10,000 upon maturity). The site is

www.CutestTaxDeduction.com

The contest ends January 9.

However, if it’s too late for you, I do have a partial solution. Nothing can get your brows back to their carefree never need attention days. However, the Philips Ear and Nose Hair Trimmer does come with a couple of nifty eyebrow attachments that will let you keep your wife and her tweezers at bay.

Unless, of course, you are into that sort of thing.

I have no comment on the ear and nose capabilities as I don’t need to use them. And I’m not trying them out for this review for fear of causing a growth spurt like my wife caused for my eyebrows.

These are some videos from the Blue Shirts offering tips on the latest trends in kitchen appliances, how to save money and the environment and easy ways to upgrade your home.

Best Buy: The Eco-Conscious Home

Best Buy: Easy Ways to Remodel Your Kitchen

For additional information and useful design tips, consumers can also visit BestBuy.com (click the Home & Appliances tab in the top navigation). You or your readers might enjoy this, too: BestBuy.com’s Kitchen & Laundry Design Center creates a 3D picture of the ideal kitchen, laundry room or even wet bar. (You can lay it out, configure the colors and patterns, stuff like that.)

BTW, thanks guys. I really appreciate you showing up my meager birthday present

I ran the install CD, plugged in the USB/Bluetooth adapter, and it just worked. There is a very slight lag upon returning to the keyboard after leaving it for a while. I assume that is just the delay as the device comes out of power saving mode. Michelle found the angle of the keyboard (even with the legs out) a little flat for her preference, so we propped it up a little. That’s just a personal preference issue though. It seemed fine to me.

Overall, it works. What more do you want from a keyboard and mouse?

In return they promised to send some Bounty towels my way to help with the basement. I’ll be watching for the semi trailer with 28 pallets of paper towels