oh, internets.

[faceless_wonder]

i saw this ad on the new york times website today:



really? i can click on this cheaply slapped-together ad and read ann coulter columns? for free?

if i really wanted to read her colums as they came out, don't you think i'd have already signed up for an rss feed by now? seriously.

part of me thinks i might have clicked if the ad were slightly more professionally done, and offered to pay me large amounts of money to be one of the first people to read new columns by ann coulter. however, an even larger and more reasonable part of me thinks that i would have probably screenshot it and mocked it in that case, too, since such a thing would so clearly be a scam.

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and, speaking of weird ads, google just displayed a text ad for stopskunksmell.com in my gmail. this is probably because i'm getting responses to a thing i posted about teledus in wtf_stupid, but it just makes me inordinately happy that there's a website called stopskunksmell.com.

in fact, the website is extremely lulzy. it's for one of those twenty-some-odd-dollar downloadable e-books that scammers are always trying to sell via google adwords. i don't know why they would need to put together a whole book about how to remove skunk smell, but the description of why the book is so groundbreaking and revolutionary gets funnier and funnier every time i read it.

not to mention that the top of the website has one of the most entertaining graphics i've seen in a long time:



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yes, i'm easily amused. why do you ask?

Comments

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

If I had to come up with a way to reach out to Ann Coulter fans, it'd likely be in the form of a really gaudy banner ad. I don't think I'd trust them to spell RSS, much less figure out how to use it.

[faceless-wonder.livejournal.com]

...but if they learned how to spell RSS, they could use a feed reader and not have to click on banner ads in which ann coulter's eyes look like sunken holes.

then again, i'm sure her fans still think she's OMG HOT in that picture. *barf*

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

It's not the ad, sweetie.. her eyes actually are sunken holes.

And I like how the ad brings out her OMGSEXAY E.T. neck.

[faceless-wonder.livejournal.com]

well duh. i know her eyes are sunken holes. ;-) most pictures, though, at least seem to *try* to mask that fact.

NEEDS MOAR SHOOPING.

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

IT'S A FAIR AND BALANCED PICTURE.

We repulse, you decide!

[faceless-wonder.livejournal.com]

you're right. it is a fair and balanced picture, in the sense that Things That Are Not Shovelled At Us By Rupert Murdoch are fair and balanced.

well played. :)