Wednesday, December 03, 2008

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Great moments in advertising


In the Way Back, during a rare moment of clarity, I observed that the wall-to-wall Hitler content of the History Channel (which prompted me to coin the term "Hitler Channel") had a downside.  Acceptance, and rebirth. Yup.

12/03/2008 08:33:00 AM 11 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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Anonymous said...

Rodge ... embedding that multi-media file on your masthead is killing me.

The damned page insists an fetching the file, even if I don't want to play it ... the page takes forever to load up.

I never embed video on my blog for that reason. I'll post a screenshot pic of the video, and link that to the video's play page.

12/3/08, 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...

9 different scripts trying to run including the movie.

Between noscript, adblock image and a flash blocker any site on the web can be made a lot less obnoxious :-).

Blocking the first screen of images below the movie helps too.

Something about too much of a good thing?

12/3/08, 1:17 PM
Anonymous said...

No problems here Boss

Spanky

12/3/08, 1:48 PM
rockville said...

NoScript now includes its own Flash blocker.

Using NoScript isn't as simple as "install, tweak a few settings, and leave it alone". You'll have to build up a whitelist of sites as you go.

Still, I won't surf without it. I haven't seen a popup in several years, annoying ads don't run, pages load faster, and Google Analytics isn't tracking everything I do.

12/3/08, 2:53 PM
Anonymous said...

I have an on and off affair with no script ... it does screw up a lot of pages I like.

It also fixes a lot of insanity.

I think the culprit here is a result of windows media player updating itself without permission on my work PC, and trying to load itself on the page ... I need to take that piece of software out and shoot it.

I still think embedding media other than pics is a bad idea.

12/3/08, 6:31 PM
B....... said...

Well, I liked it.

12/3/08, 9:32 PM
Wabano said...

Must be some sort of virus or whatever in the pic...

Downloaded it, Photoshopped it
(hey, a must!)
Uploaded to a forum
http://www.fuckfrance.com/topic/3285397/1/Flames/Time-this-git-was-given-his-marching-orders-but-for-good-this-time-CaptainCrackpot-go.html
and the whole post and comment self-DELETED!!!

Second try, it was OK though.

12/3/08, 9:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Rog- Nice new header. Is that Silian Braille?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

12/3/08, 10:09 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

Very very good Jodi ... BTW, I just realized that this is your double .. or is it you?

12/4/08, 12:47 PM
Anonymous said...

Ole Ernst Röhm would have gotten his starched brownshirt all wet from drooling over a pic like that, no?

12/4/08, 2:46 PM
Anonymous said...

All better now ... took windows media player out and shot it.

Had to unload WMp -11, reboot, unload WMP -10, reboot, and then removed WMP from installed Windows components.

They really don't want you to pull this one out, apparently all of their digital rights crap depends on it.

12/4/08, 5:01 PM

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