The Institute for Amphibian Biology in Japan have come up with a genetically engineered transparent frog!

Apparently this helps research in the same way that see-through oven doors help cooking. Judging by the picture, it looks like frogs are made of skin and peppercorns.

The Institute that came up with this mutated freak is based in Hiroshima. I wonder where they get their ideas from?

Today's task is from the August 27th entry. I have to FIND A SPONSOR FOR MY BLOG.

Frankly, it's a little hard to imagine why any company might want to sponsor me. It's not like I'm going to write nicely about their products. Oh, I'd start with the best intentions. I'd praise their doughnuts to the skies, and the first backhanded compliment that came to mind might seem safe enough, like the court jester who's allowed to make jokes about the king. Unfortunately, backhanded compliments lead to sly digs, and sly digs are the gateway to altogether harder material. Before you knew it it would be all fuck these doughnuts in the arse, and that would be the end of my glittering commercial career.

So instead of doing that, I'm going to ask your advice about adverts on my new project. I've finally solved the mindbending technical problem that is Google Ads, but I'm thinking of ways to make more than 3.7 pence a month, and I thought local advertising might be the way to go.

I'm going to be doing more Bristol material, and I thought I might get some joy from advertising local services - restaurants, etc, and combining this with reviews of them. I thought that it would be interesting to try and develop a different charging system, where instead of charging per click, I charged per customer generated. So, if I bring in a 5 person booking for your restaurant, you pay me 50p per customer, which makes £2.50. If I never bring you a single customer, you never pay me any money, so there is no element of risk for the business.

The problem is that I have to identify customers who come to the restaurant (or whatever) through my site, in a way that both I and the advertiser can accept as honest. I need to come up with a mechanism which makes this work, so I'm turning to you, my loyal public. Any ideas?