At last, I understand.
(Episode CCLV: Lack of affect.)
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Lookie there…Jen McCreight of Blag Hag has moved in to the commune, and she’s already complaining about the kitchen responsibilities and bedroom noises. She better keep her hands off the cartons labeled “PZ” in the refrigerator.
This video makes me wonder who taxidermized Chuck Testa.
(Episode CCLIV: The worst song ever recorded)
Have you been wondering what the deal is with the advertising here? Ed Brayton summarizes the situation.
Also, several people have suggested putting up a PayPal donation button or something here. I’m a little reluctant: there has also been talk of using donations to replace the ads, and I don’t think that is easily done — let’s not add any headaches to the process by trying to get some kind of variable approach to ad revenues. I can’t say that you’d be able to donate and I’d make the ads magically disappear for you. Also, one of the ways that we’d like to get better, targeted ads that would benefit the whole of the network is to be able to use the overall traffic as a draw…and if the single biggest traffic generator finds a way to cut himself out of the ad cycle, that would hurt everyone else.
It’s weird. I’m taking a socialist perspective to advertising.
Every day, I get a few dozen emails telling me that there are inappropriate ads splattered on the site: people love to send me screencaps of that “Christian singles” ad.
I know.
You can stop telling me now.
They’re bad ads, we all know. Setting up this network wasn’t cheap: it took investment in a server, and most of all, paying out money to people who knew what they were doing in order to set it up. We’re currently in a small financial hole and Ed Brayton is scrambling to get us out of it as quickly as possible, so we can be at least a little bit profitable. We got what we could to bring us some return, while Ed is off shopping the network as a platform for more appropriate advertising. We’ve only been live for a bit more than a month! Be patient. Tolerate (or better yet, ignore) the noise on the sidebar as we try to grow.
But you can stop telling me what I already know, OK?
I don’t want you to play this video, it’s that bad. It’s a song lauding rape.
Perhaps instead of listening to it, you’re better off reading the Manboobz thread about it.
Now talk about something else. Anything.
(Episode CCLIII: Losing my edge.)
Yes, I got one the other day, and several observant students noted that I was less shaggy and bear-like.
But did you notice the FtB site revamp? Various things got juggled around, partly in preparation for a new ad service that will be stepping in soon (hopefully, with more appropriate ads), but also to make everyone else’s site almost as pretty as mine. I’ll be tinkering further with the site appearance in the future, but it’s got to wait a while — I’m neck-deep in teaching and also a major grant proposal that has to be done before the end of the month.
Someone on twitter complained that I was losing my edge. Then Rebecca Watson mocked me and posted this video.
If I weren’t so creaky and crotchety and feeble, I might stir myself to fight back. But no…there’s a beautiful woman in the bedroom who needs a massage. I have better things to do.
Rev. Big Dumb Chimp gets a big thumbs down from me for this one: he posted this video in a comment, and then once I started playing it I wasn’t able to turn it off because I was clinging white-knuckled to my chair and desk, and kind of moaning and gibbering. I managed to make it to the end without throwing up, but I think this would be my nightmare job.
This is the promo video for CFI’s “Living without religion” campaign — nicely done!
We await the communicators who will complain that it is unscientific and destructive.
