As any fule no, targetted advertising works by looking at keywords on a page and then serving up an advert related to those key words. Unfortunately that means you sometimes get a situation where, for example, an anti-islamic, right-wing fringe group display a prominent ad on their front page for… a muslim dating agency. (As [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Funny'
The perils of targetted advertising
September 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life, Technology
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Topical music
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, Politics
A bit of light relief amidst the ongoing furore about expenses… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
OMG Hitler invades Poland
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Life
If only this was true…Â I might have time to actually read the paper if all the stories were only 140 characters long. I suspect this statistic will outlive the story and by next month will be quoted as fact all over the world. Currently, 17.8% of all Twitter traffic in the United Kingdom consists [...]
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Gay scientists
March 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Thanks to Stroppybird for posting about this. It has been on Youtube for about a year, but I hadn’t seen it before, and it gave me a bit of a laugh.
Should have seen it coming
February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Life
It had to happen. Go to ruletheweb and you can make your own version of the atheist bus advert.  Hours of innocent fun. Well… minutes maybe.  Here is my attempt.
COULD BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS GIVE BRITAIN’S SWANS CANCER?
January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
The question comes from the remarkable Daily Mail Headline Generator (AKA The Daily Mail-o-matic) which I thoroughly recommend as a good way to pass a few idle moments.
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Hitler’s in the Charts Again
November 21st, 2008 · 7 Comments · Life, Politics
This is the funniest thing I have seen all week…Â thanks to the comedy genius who did and for Paulie and Damian, without whom I would not have been aware of it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I have now seen so many Downfall parodies I feel I [...]
A Different Point Of View
November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics
For election liveblogging with a difference, pop over to Chase me ladies, I’m the cavalry. Always guaranteed to have his own perspective…
Don’t Bring Me Down
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Wouldn’t it be fun if TV interviewers had a trapdoor button under their desk, like all good Bond villains, so that if they didn’t like an interviewee they could send them down to the crocodile pool? Looks like they do in South Africa. OK, they say it was just a collapsing chair, but has anybody [...]
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