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March 2008
Adsense has clevar
I’ve been using Adsense on my tumblelog for a while now. A pair of ads at the bottom of permalink pages; nothing more, nothing too drastic. Today I spent a few minutes inspecting the ads on some random old posts. I took notes:
- Lots of people want to help me lose stomach fat.
- Some people are willing to spend good money without checking their spelling beforehand. (Unless I’m mistaken; anyone know what a “theme fre wordpress” is?)
- My favourite quotes from Wikipedia supposedly have something to do with stud cat no-spray shorts.
- A post about the ridiculous Tumblinas vs. Testumblrone drama was accompanied by promises of “Free Love Advice”.
In fact, I only found one post with relevant ads: “eircom to fix Ireland’s broadband shortcomings”, which gave ads for broadband in rural Ireland. And what did I get for all of this madness?
- February: $2.13
- March: $3.69 (damn she fine)
- Last 7 days: $0.00
- Total: $5.82
Mmm, there’s a bounty to behold! Sadly, Google won’t hand over a single penny of it until I’ve passed the $100 mark, and it wouldn’t do my reputation any good if I were to end up spending New Year’s Day 2011 staring at the screen and shouting, “Hurry up, you little blighter, just 5 cents more!”
So, I’ve concluded that, for me, Adsense is just another way to slow down my tumblelog, and there’s enough of that crap in the wild already. Ads removed.
Wikipedia: Large Hadron Collider →
en.wikipedia.org
Strangelets are a hypothetical form of strange matter that contains roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks and are more stable than ordinary nuclei. If strangelets can actually exist, and if they were produced at LHC, they could conceivably initiate a runaway fusion process (reminiscent of the fictional ice-nine) in which all the nuclei in the planet were converted to strange matter, similar to a strange star.
Professor Frank Close has stated, with regards to (dangerous) strangelets being created in a particle accelerator, and destroying the earth, that the ‘chance of this happening is like you winning the major prize on the lottery 3 weeks in succession; the problem is that people believe it is possible to win the lottery 3 weeks in succession’.
Obligatory European destinations?
I’ll be passing through Europe in late June, early July, with no strict schedule. I’ve seen quite a bit of France almost nothing else in the ‘Rope.
Pray tell: where must I go?
This is less “what are some nice places to see and things to do?” and more “what is it a crying shame that I have not eyed in 22 years of eyesight?” Thoughts very much appreciated.
If you’re interested in stopping by Ireland, Newgrange is worth checking out; it’s the only place where you can stand in darkness inside a structure over 5,000 years old! There’s also Christ Church Cathedral, the Blarney Stone, and lots of old castles dotted around the country, among other things.
Oh, and there’s, er, a big pointy thing.
Wikipedia: Anglo-Zanzibar War →
en.wikipedia.org
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. With a duration of only 38 minutes, it holds the record of being the shortest war in recorded history.
