Google display ads like to offer me things for fat women or people with bad teeth.

Amazon display ads, however, offer me Husqvarna chain saws.


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Thanks akiko (and by extension kirinn) for the following video:

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It moved me to tears, remembering that history unfolding before my eyes, and my own visits to Berlin years later. (Original video here.) The cold-war paradigm of my youth shifted in transforming ways, and now, I can only hope that the current changes in the middle east may transform the ( Read more... )