There's a weird textad in the sidebar with no title

April 30, 2004 12:30 PM

There's a weird textad in the sidebar with no title, just a blurb that says something about militiamen and no Unabombers. Since it has no title, it has no link.
posted by brownpau to Bugs at 12:30 PM (13 comments total)

I saw one of those too -- I'm pretty sure it wasn't the same one.

I viewed source, and the A tag was there with the address, onclick, etc, but the innerHTML space was empty.
posted by o2b at 12:47 PM on April 30, 2004

The Textad is supposed to be for Big Sky dave, run by davidmsc. I didn't find it in the full listing of Textads either.

I'll email Dave and let him know so that he can work it out with mathowie.
posted by Wulfgar! at 1:08 PM on April 30, 2004

It in the textads, sans link.
posted by hama7 at 1:19 PM on April 30, 2004

Are you suggesting that an emergent machine intelligence is trying to communicate with us via text ads? Is that what you're saying? I think it is.
posted by Capn at 1:36 PM on April 30, 2004

Whoa...well, now I now why my Big Sky Dave site hit a record # of hits today. :-)

BTW - thanks, Wulfgar!
posted by davidmsc at 3:47 PM on April 30, 2004

Are you suggesting that an emergent machine intelligence is trying to communicate with us via text ads?

are you suggesting that an ermegent machine intelligence would be stupid enough to attempt to communicate with such a duplicious, destructive conglomerance of carbon as us?
posted by quonsar at 3:58 PM on April 30, 2004

Hmmm...I've tried e-mailing User #1 to no avail...anyone have a better idea for contacting him?


posted by davidmsc at 4:18 PM on April 30, 2004

anyone have a better idea for contacting him?

Go to the New York meetup.
posted by timeistight at 4:29 PM on April 30, 2004

duplicious ain't a word, my friend. Perhaps you meant duplicitous?
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posted by ashbury at 9:27 PM on April 30, 2004

OK, what do you call a tasty deception, then?
posted by weston at 12:12 AM on May 1, 2004

no, i meant duplicious.
posted by quonsar at 6:18 AM on May 1, 2004

from the greek, duplo, literally "of big blocks."
posted by cortex at 9:06 AM on May 1, 2004

It was probably an unescaped apostrophe blanking out the link. Sorry about that David, I'll fix it as soon as I get back home.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:37 PM on May 2, 2004