With LiveJournal’s new owners announcing that LJ will no longer allow the creation of new Basic accounts, lots of people are upset over the prospect of having to look at ads. For those of you lagging behind the leading edge of web browser technology, here’s a solution:

Step 1: Firefox if a free open-source web browser available for Windows, MacOS ( Read more... )

Y’know those Dove firming cream ads full of sexy women in their undies, the ones that have various moonbats howling because the cuties violate the ad agencies’ traditional zero-tolerance guidelines for plumpness?

Well, Majikthise points out that this ad campaign is brilliantly designed to obscure the fact that the product being sold doesn’t work.

I’m using Firefox on both my home and work computers. And I’ve got the Adblock extension installed. This means that I’ve got the power to delete annoying images from my web-browsing experience.

I find animated ads annoying.

There are lots of weblogs I read on a regular basis where I’m not seeing ads. On Making Light, I only see the text portion ( Read more... )

“Pope Loses Battle With Peace-Symbol Dove”
“Gowan, geddadaheah, ya symbols of peace ya!”
(AP photos, so check ’em out before they go away.)

“I Ate iPod Shuffle”
A poem. Contains much more humor than you’d think was inherent in the premise.

“Williamsburg Doesn’t Need a Space Elevator”
Sez you!

Goldfish RacetrackYes, it’s a racetrack for ( Read more... )

Ten Ads America Won’t See, from AdAge.com. Some are just JPEGs, like the cover of a Filipino skin magazine that admits it doesn’t know why it bothers putting any text in. Others are videos, like the amusing beer ad about a man explaining sex to a four-year-old using a sausage, or a woman who’s been reincarnated as a cockroach, or the world’s worst ( Read more... )