Monday, September 13, 2004
humor re n. korean blast
N. Korea: Nutritional Experiment Goes Horribly Awry
Monday, September 13, 2004 Posted: 1326 GMT (2126 HKT)
CINCINNATI (fractalnavel) -- 100,000 North Koreans involved in a compulsory bean eating program suddenly and without warning relaxed their sphincters in what is being called the largest environmental threat event of its kind this year. "This will put those yankee cow farmers in their places," one survivor is quoted as saying, apparently in reference to bovine methane release statistics.
Participants are being shipped to detox centers in China. Some witnesses recall that the last comment heard before the eruption was "someone light a match! no, wait - - -". There have also been rumors of rampant finger pulling throughout the experiment.
Satellite photos reveal a vague green cloud heading east with the jet stream. Washington denies any connection with hurricane Ivan. W. was reported to have giggled uncontrollably.
A White House source, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated, "This is a serious matter. No, really. The DOD has no credible response to such a threat. And it violates the conventions against chemical warfare." A Defense source states they are now looking into weapons of ass destruction.
South Korea, which has been pushing for reunification with the north, had no official comment. However, the ambassador looked mortified.
note about google ads on my sites
nah, not really. i just noticed that my google adsense search feature has made me a whopping $0.08, so i was inspired to put actual advertising here on my blog itself. oooh, exciting. i was surprised, some of the ads that come up are actually relevant. that usually only works when viewing a specific post that has a strong identifiable topic, not the main blog page. although i noticed there was an ad for expert witnesses for amusement park accidents. gotta love this world.
i also added ads to my wishlist page; have to wait until it generates overnight to see if all goes well. i figured that this was the most frequently hit page of the site (because it's one of the few static html pages, and because it's got that red herring thing going for it), so i may as well try and give people something “relevant” to look at when they land there. although that page also has a large percentage of aborted loads. makes sense for something 1.5mb in size that will look sorta ad hoc to most people who land there. i should put a note at the top of the page for folks like that, perhaps explain why the page still might be useful to them, and how to use it. or not.
well, if someone actually gets some use from the ads, great. i noticed that a couple of the posts have some interesting things about sailing and seafood that comes up. however, google doesn't want its ad users clicking on ads on their own pages, for obvious reasons.
their placement on the page is a sort of forced compromise. i really don't want to be bothered re-skinning, or working around it, or whatever.
just something to play with, i guess. until i get tired of it. it sure isn't a way to get rich ;-) although i should probably do something with that amazon associate program.
speaking of which (going off on a tangent here), amazon web services v4 is in beta testing now. that should make certain new things possible - like enabling people to buy me stuff from my wishlist with a minimum of clicks ;-)