You all probably know that my Google Adsense account got reactivated, and that I’ve been running Google ads almost exclusively for the last couple of weeks.
Well, I was flipping through the last week of strips, and this page had an ad that read, I kid you not:
Dark Matter
Dark Matter for sale. aff Check out
the deals now!
www.ebay.com
I searched for Dark Matter on ebay, and I found lots of products that had Dark Matter in their names, and more than a few books about astrophysics, but I did NOT find actual Dark Matter for sale.
*sigh*
It’s probably a good thing. First they’d start selling clumps of the stuff, then there’d be Dark Matter chia-pets, and before long you’d have Dark Matter monsters in the sewer. That’d make the Paan’uri really mad, I bet.
–Howard “reading too much of my own writing lately” Tayler
There is no dark matter it’s all a conspiriakii of the intelectual elite!!! It’s all cookie dough!
This “conspiriakii” of which you speak… whence the creative spelling? It’s too pretty to just be a ty0p.
–Howard
Sounds like a Greek dish for paranoiacs.
Or something an idiot anti-semitist would think was served at passover.
It was someone on usenet who ridiculed conspiracy theories but everyone knew he was one of “Them”.
Who paid for the dark matter link? Was it ebay or someone who dealt predominantly with “dark matter”?
I get that effect in my email (Gmail) as well, and sometimes it’s quite freaky.
Like when someone sends me an email with my full name somewhere within it, and I see this on the side:
Matt Summers
New and Used Matt Summers for sale. Click
to see more!
http://www.ebay.com
… didn’t realize I was for sale, and what do they mean “USED?!?” {storms off affronted}
>Matt
eh. I gave up on Google Ads after the pile of “Free XBox360″,”Free PS3”, “Download Star Wars Episode 3 Here” ads. Until they get a responsible human going over the ads before they are posted, I’m blocking their server on my browser.
Dark Matter Cthia pets vs the Paan’uri – Who would win?
I still think my favorite is the ads for Navy Destroyers on eBay. 😉
There’s only two ways you can get Alternity Dark Matter (I play alternity but no the DM expansion) – electronically (like RPGnow) or used (Like eBay)…
TSR/WOTC discontinued the product line back in 1998 to focus on the D20 line – but it’s still very popular and the used books sell for good money.
Oh really? I once saw Spongebob Squarepants being advertized [on another site] for sale on eBay.
Argh… now I have the SBSP theme in my head… or at least the first couple of lines … over and over …
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Sponge Bob Square Pants!”