(via mandalay):
the google link at the top of my gmail for this entire morning has been “top 10 reasons not to sleep with him.” seriously google, i love you and everything, and i know you read my email, but when i want your advice i’ll ask for it.Eerie.
They do parse people’s emails for keywords for targeted ads. Technically it would be possible to include words and phrases commonly used by women in emails to their girlfriends about the new guy.
I wonder what the male corollary would be. Condom ads?
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that’s a really good question, actually. this is what’s interesting - i have not actually discussed sleeping with this particular man via emails to girlfriends. i’ve definitely blasted off several slightly insane, anxiety-filled rants/questions/BS, but nothing literally about sex. it’s funny how google is now reading between the lines of my emails.
what WOULD the male corollary be? guys? -M
mills had some interesting comments in response to the bobby jindal rumor:
However, McArdle is absolutely right: while Bush, FEMA, and the unfortunate Michael Brown were less than respectable, there is no question that the state and local governments of the area were pitiful, disgraceful, contemptible in their incompetence and eventual venality. One need only look to Mississippi (Mississippi!) to see what able local governments were able to accomplish…..
I would note only that New Orleans had as daunting a task before its sorry government and impoverished and indolent citizenry as any in American urban history, and in this crisis I had expected that the federal government would do whatever it had to, would take command and lead, rather than shrugging and saying, “Damn, everyone there is corrupt and crazy!”
agreed on all points. mississippi was able to get their act together amazingly fast. louisiana, as usual, does things at its own pace. a century could pass and louisiana would only be evolved by about five minutes.
i’d add that my initial reaction in re-posting the article was from a political point of view: it’s still pretty shocking to think that the repubs would choose anyone other than a lily white male for VP. perhaps it shows that they’re starting to come around, or maybe it’s just a nice rumor. -M
“If a stay-at-home mom could be financially compensated, she would bring home nearly $117,000 a year.” - AP
More long-winded coverage here, plus the original survey at Mom.salary.com, including the Mom Salary Wizard.
In two truncated careers on either side of a decades-long period raising Sasquatch and keeping up a home, I doubt Mom saw more than a fifth of that - not that she’d complain.
boutofcontext, is your site the only one with the fun little pop-up bubbles when you scroll over a link, or is that a new tumblr thing? either way it was a nice little find for me. -M
(via obsessivecompulsive:A collective experiment in brand perception. (A NoahBrier.com project))
very interesting time waster. -M
Fascinating article comparing current US politics to the Corleone family.
On a slightly related note, one of my distant cousins was the former mayor of Corleone. Yes, really.
(via Andrew Sullivan)
“Ironically, his victory showed how much people in his district despised Washington. If he was a crook, well, send him back with the crooks.”
Louisiana logic, at its finest. -M
