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Death in my News Feed

More fun with Facebook recognition software.

Drinking the corporate Kool-Aid

On this day Flickr, one of the last places online without a stupidly cluttery interface, joined the Bad Design crowd. It remains to be seen if over 12,000 complaints (to date) with a lot of those complaints from long-time paid users of this site will be heard. I don't hold out a lot of hope, unless it's some kind of New Coke/Classic Coke gamesmanship.

Facebook Recognition Software part two

Always with the cats, Facebook.

Fun with Google Ads (part three)

Dating Christian Singles...Mitt Romney Style.

Fun with Google Ads (part two)

In which The Stranglers serve as the background for hair transplant advertising.

Facebook Ads: Come Clean Like Sheen

Another Facebook sidebar ad. Usually the mugshots used in this series are of disheveled, normal looking people. Not sure where they got this one (mugshots_R_us, perhaps?) but I'm sure noted Canadian criminal Charlie Sheen is happy to know he can easily get his record cleared. In Canada.

Facebook asks a question for which I have no answer

More weirdness in my sidebar, but at least this time there's no Jesus.

Fun with Google Ads (part one)

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Dorothy Parker and the reversed images

Facebook image recognition software works its magic again. The Dorothy Parker quote was just icing on the cake.

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Facebooze

A bit of ad farming on Facebook resulted in 25 different advertisements for alcohol in one month. Drink up!

 

ETA: speaking of Facebooze, here is a genius bottle design from Helsinki, complete with "like" and "unlike" glasses. “Facebooze helps you disconnect from social media and share with the people in your life”.