If you've ever thought you could come up with better stuff than what's out there, then it's time to get your Kluster on.

Just-launched Kluster.com was started by the founder of Mophie, an iPod accessory company that launched a successful product by asking consumers and retailers what they wanted and selecting the most popular design, Kluster takes the same approach to a broad range of other products and services from other companies.

After registering and submitting a profile of your background and areas of expertise, you choose projects to collaborate on with other idea people, working on the development of real products with real companies. With the potential to earn real cash.

Using electrical metaphors, members earn "watts" (which is Kluster currency), for giving ideas, participating in surveys, etc. You can then invest your watts in "sparks", which are ideas or proposed solutions to a problem. If the spark you invested in is chosen, you can earn rewards. Which may include actual real dollars. Not bad for putting your two cents (or two watts), in on a project.

Time will tell if having large groups decide on product development is an ingenious method of creating incredible success in the market, or if it will become, as anyone who has ever sat through a day-long marketing meeting will tell you, a cluster f*ck.

Register at www.kluster.com

I gotta say I'm a little surprised at the results of this poll. With all the hype over dating sites, and people trolling for dates on social networking sites - and the fact that this poll took place online with guys who obviously use the 'net - I couldn't believe how low the numbers were for finding Miss Rightnow online.

Just under 5% of you scan the MySpaces and Facebooks of the world looking for love, and about 6% use online dating. Which, I gotta assume, has something to do with an uncertainty regarding the person you are chatting with. And the authenticity of those photos.

The big winners, within a percentage point of each other, were "hitting the clubs looking for easy targets" with 38.8% of the vote, and "asking your buddy's girl to set you up with one of her friends", with 39.5%. Nothing like taking the path of least resistance, is there? And we all know how valuable the "recommendation" from another chick can be. Let her act as your agent and do all the heavy lifting. I like your thinking.

For this week's poll I'm curious as to which is more important to you: money or status. It's based on a question someone I worked with years ago asked a group of us. We were all waiters working for a well-known chef, either working our way through school (my reason for being there), actor/models working for extra money until the next gig, or professional servers. Most of us were miserable dealing with the usual demanding and pampered customer that frequents a celeb chef's place, but the money was unreal for the hours worked.

So I want to know: would you stay in a demeaning job if the money was great, or would you rather have a lower paying job with an impressive title. Answer in the poll box to the right.

Listen, not everyone is looking for the traditional releationship. If you've been rejected by eHarmony, or are looking for something more than the "long walks on the beach" and "romantic candlelit dinners" the girls on Match.com want, that's perfectly ok. (I'm not judging.) Fortunately for you, there are some places online where the term "dating" has a broader meaning. And strays far from the conventional.

Places where you can find that special someone to, say, tie you down to the bed and smack you with a ceiling fan blade. While dressed as Marge Simpson. Places where you can create a virtual version of yourself to have virtual sex with an endless number of virtual women.

So, if your tastes tend to lean toward something a little different, here are five places you may want to surf over to. Purely for informational purposes. ...There's more

Yeah, I know. It's a bit past due for the results on this one. Sorry about that. Too much holiday cheer, and a couple of technical difficulties.

So for those of you that still give a crap about it, the results of the Holiday Shopping Poll are in. Not surprisingly most of ya split your shopping between online and the stores, a third just deal with the crowds and suffer through it, and just under 20% do all you shopping online.

Now that that's done, let's move on to the new poll. In the spirit of Valentine's Day hitting tomorrow, I want to see where you are finding new girls when you are in need. (Say your old one dumps you or vice versa.)

Do you head to the local dive bar and check for stragglers? Go online and surf through the millions of hard up honeys looking for love? Or do you go for the low hanging fruit and fish for fun at the office, or ask your buddies' girlfriends to set you up?

Personally, I've always gone the "buddies' girlfriends" route, so click the poll in the right side bar and let's see which method is most popular for you guys.

With the Euro strong against the dollar, many Euro babes are hitting our shores to let loose and have a little fun. Since all the local girls are already wise to your pickup lines, why not try them on the visiting honeys in their native tongue?

And because you were too busy doodling hot cars in your notebook to pay attention in high school French, author L. Brook has written "Sex in Every City - How to Talk Dirty in Every Language", your guide to getting slapped around the globe.

Along with a slew of global sex facts, the book is filled with the best — and worst — pickup lines translated into several different languages, including the phonetic pronunciations. So you can be sure you're telling her she makes you hot, not that you have an eel in your lederhosen.

It hits bookstores everywhere March 10. So, until then, here are ten lines from Brook's book to help get you started collecting your United Nations of bed-mates: ...There's more