Site Maintenance
By John Cole April 14th, 2010
If you have noticed, I got rid of the Project Wonderful ads- they just didn’t make any money, and I got sick of answering emails from you delicate flowers who were offended by a cartoon or something else. I’m currently looking into another revenue stream, so I just canned project wonderful for now. I really liked them, though- very easy company to work with.
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Offended by a cartoon? LOL
April 14th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I liked the lesbian bondage comic ad. Made me wanna donate to Michael Steele, though, so I see your point.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
So Going Galt?
April 14th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
I wasn’t offended—but it did make accessing the site from work a problem; the Curvy ads, in particular, were clearly problematical from an HR standpoint. I’m not willing to put up an ad blocker, so I simply had to stay away at work.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Never mind about the complaints, it’s too bad they weren’t making money. PW does seem to act as a conduit for a lot of small-time independent artists. I hope they’re at least getting some traffic from the network.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
That’s sad. Maybe necessary. But still sad.
[Yes, I liked the cartoon.]
April 14th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I wasn’t offended by the ads per se, but seeing a manga upskirt drawing by Mario while discussing politics was causing me a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, like next week I’d be attending a Furry PAC’s conference.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I’m always surprised that I see very very few ads for regular everyday items on blogs. You may not like FDL but FDL is the only blog that I have gone to which had regular items. I believe they were advertising Wendy’s or some other fast food burger place and brand name soap.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
30-40 bucks a month- not worth the 2-3 emails a day, not worth constantly approving ads because someone upped their bid by 5 cents to beat someone else out for… three hours.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I never noticed. What was so bad?
April 14th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Site ads I never, ever paid attention to—the cilantro of ad blogging.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
No more Curvy… where am I gonna get my lesbian tentacle porn.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
The site loads faster, at least for me.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
A shame. That was how I found out about The Dreamer, which is now my fav online comic.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Meg Whitman could bankroll your site for, well, approaching the End of Days if you’re reasonably frugal.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/w.....ves-t.html
Bog help us she’s taking a
pagemargin scribble from Palin’s campaign playbook—no media beyond what you can buy outright. She’s a reptile, Jerry!Also too, ten Bachman quotes, for the kids.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538.....#responses
April 14th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
OT:
But John (and everyone) you will probably love this OpEd.
Stop Trying to Politicize the Army
April 14th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
The Steampunk stuff was interesting.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
heh. I’d rather lose the newsmax ads with the stupid Obama-in-a-surgical-hat picture but I’m not really that choosy.
Whatever makes John happy. :)
April 14th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I liked them, but I’m in a very loose work environment right now—read very under-employed
April 14th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Amazon obviously does that thing where it pulls the interest of the user. I’ve been cruising the swim outlet stuff and, sure enough, there it is!
April 14th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
While your at it can we lose the teabagger adds that BaRock add really annoys me.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I miss the old Pajamas Media ads. They were funny as in ha-ha funny. Just the thought of people clicking on to learn about a new Ann Coulter book, etc. would leave me chuckling in amazement.
April 14th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
How can I have an opinion? I’m beholden to whatever this blog dishes… wait a minute, I’m not a conservative.
I put up with it with it because I love ya’ll.
There, that’s liberal.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
@demimondian: Exactly. I had to be really careful about where my coworkers were if I wanted to read the site at the office.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I was looking for a solar powered shed light and found one. Ever since I looked at that light the same frakking add for that light has been popping up all over, includding this one.
That’s not going Galt, that’s Orwellian. ;-)
April 14th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
As long as we’re talking site maintenance, is there a way you could fix the center column to only collapse to a certain width? I like reducing the window so I can watch something in one window and read BJ in another. As it is, when I collapse the BJ window, the important part shrinks too thin, whereas the two ad columns maintain their width.
kthxbai
April 14th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Kitteh + iPad = Awesome but expensive cat toy
However, I think it would be very unwise for John to buy an iPad for Tunch. The shelf life would probably be about 30 seconds due to the sheer weight of Tunch’s paws.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
So where else can a lez go to get her fill of poorly-drawn semi-porn toons, if not on BJ?
April 14th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
They definitely added a certain, um, flavor to the site. Was Project Wonderful how Laura W.’s ads got here? I always liked those. Does Etsy do ads? Those might be kind of cool.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
@MK: I saw that this morning. Clearly, technology has advanced past the laser pointer.
dms
April 14th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
@HumboldtBlue:
Y’know, there’s a wave of pro-cilantro revanchism brewing. Just saying.
(A favorite—Indian Cabbage Salad. Chop bunch of cabbage, add diced onion, chopped cilantro, diced chili peppers of some kind (I like Goya pickled chilis, hot, but choose your own), salt, lots of lime juice, salad oil. Play with proportions, keeping lime and cilantro high.)
April 14th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
@MK:
That is awesome! I’m sending it to a friend of mine who has a cat who looks just like that.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
I’d like to make it clear that the unwavering editorial position of this website is of a pro-cilantro nature.
I love the stuff. Don’t know how you eat salsa, mexican, or thai without it. I look for excuses to use cilantro.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
@shirt: Overstock.com stalked me for weeks, haunting me with the items I had viewed.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
@John Cole: Soap Lover! Real Americans hate cilantro!
April 14th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Wut’s Cilantro? Is that like Arugala?
April 14th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I’ll pay you five bucks to advertise my book…
April 14th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
OT, but just got a chance to watch the Frontline HCR episode. As much as the bill was eventually watered down, given the crap the WH had to fight through on all sides, I’m still amazed that they got it done. Yes we can!
April 14th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
One of our own, Alicia Morgan of Hooterville, is getting evicted from her home in less than 12 days along with her husband and 3 kids. Here’s the kicker: IndyMac, her lender, is doing this with the aid of the FDIC and they never even missed a mortgage payment. We’ve got to get word of this out to as many people as possible.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
@freelancer:
The Times article which reawakened the smoldering cilantro debate noted that Julia Child disliked both arugula and cilantro.
Although my beloved younger son has always disliked it, I personally am in accord with the “unwavering editorial position of this website”—cilantro is essential.
And that cabbage salad recipe I included above is really great if you need some enormous dish to take to a pot-luck summer dinner or cook-out. (Except it helps if you live in an immigrant neighborhood like mine where limes can come ten to the dollar.)
April 14th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
@MK: Hilarious! Right up there with the cat playing a theremin.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
The text of this post completely offends me.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
How many people besides me thought that ad photo of ComicBookGirl, or whatever her name was, was unnaturally interesting?
April 14th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
@John Cole:
This, a hunnert times. Salsa sans cilantro ess muy muy malo.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
@Justin:
Ugh. Third edit. Why can’t we bold a section of a blockquote? Or underline it? Ugh.
Please notice now, in an unsurprising and unfunny way because I had to point to it, that I added an ending to Justin’s quote. Thank you. Sheesh. Whatever. Good day!
April 14th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
@trollhattan: “Salsa sans cilantro…”
No. Such. Thing.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
A little cilantro in salsa – OK. Can we please keep it out of the guacamole? It’s just wrong.
kthxbai.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
A little cilantro in salsa – OK. Can we please keep it out of the guacamole? It’s just wrong.
kthxbai.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
@arguingwithsignposts: Huh.
Someone rode the rec list of the GOS all day yesterday predicting how this program was going to destroy the Democrats and Obama when it aired.
So did the sun come up in the east where you live too?
April 14th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
@arguingwithsignposts:
I was seriously annoyed that they didn’t even mention the corporate backing of the TPs.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
@Cat Lady:
I’m pro cilantro, but even I don’t like it in guacamole. I’m all for simple guac – avocado, onion and lime only. Even the tomato is overkill. Certainly cilantro is a distraction in guacamole.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
@Allan:
Weird, eh? When I looked up after I finished watching, the sky was still above the earth, too!
I do think the end was sort of glossed over. There was no mention of Bart Stupak’s grandstanding, the assaults on the Reps. outside the House, or the Senate vote, just some ominous crap about “a heavy cost.” It seemed to me that they spent so much time on the front end of the drama that they didn’t have time to focus on the real last minute jockeying (even reconciliation, WTF?)
Maybe they’ll come back to that.
But Karen Ignoramusnani comes off as an evil harpy.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
@arguingwithsignposts: I watched it last night, fascinating stuff. That it was Max Baucus that actually torpedoed Tom Daschle made my head spin.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
JC, how about a click thru ad for Powell’s Books?
April 14th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
@Allan: it crushed my hopes under the bus wheels of despair and into the yawning chasms of no-change. Of course, I have no alternative but to denounce Rahm in a series of posts on GOS that combine the erudite yet comprehensive teenage gloom of The Cure with the subtle wit of David Sirota and keen self-knowledge of Corrente Blog in the concise prose style of Glenn Greenwald.
Update 1: Also the commitment to genuine dialogue that characterizes BTD
Update 2: Not that I’m overlooking the LIES of those paid to oppose me.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
OT- Mitch McConnell was just on the news whistling a very different tune about finance reform after getting bitch slapped today by Dodd.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
@rootless-e:
That is some high-grade snark-fu there, rootless-e. kudos.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
@John Cole:
Or Indian for that matter.. well rather south indian. I dont think it is used much in other parts of India. You have to have it in scrambled eggs with onions, cheese, green chillis (thai peppers), and a little cumin.. So.. good.
cain
April 14th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
@rootless-e:
Ha! Actually guffawed out loud at that.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
@arguingwithsignposts: thanks. had a very annoying argument at naked capitalism today. bad habit of arguing with these people.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Fucking cilantroists are going to be the downfall of this great nation.
As to the Frontline piece last night, the GoS diary was written by some firebaggers, and while we saw no sun this morning on account of the clouds an’ rain an’ stuff, we are pretty sure it’s up there, cilantro-free and sending down its rays for the true Americans to enjoy.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Any chance the iPhone/mobile phone formatting can be restored?
April 14th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
This is a weird thing I’ve noticed on the site for a while, but every time I try to paste a URL after clicking the “link” tag, it never lets me use the control+ command to do so. And it happens on every computer I try to post on, no matter what. I always end up having to right click and then paste the link. Now, this is obviously a small matter, but I figured this was the best chance I had to toss it out there.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
t and a ads on bj, and i didn’t notice them enough to recall?
having the man card suspended won’t be so bad, it will be the rates i have to pay once its reinstated….
April 14th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
@John Cole: Cilantro rules. It’s really the only reason I come to this blog.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
@trollhattan:
Bat shit crazy Bachmann. If a gay person writes a song for Lion King the indoctrination message to 2nd graders is the song writer is better at song writing because he/she is gay. She really is terrified of the gay.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Those were the first ads I’ve ever clicked on here. The ones pairing Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly with Taint were the least interesting.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
At 6’2”, this is the first time I have been called a “delicate flower.” I don’t know whether to feel flattered or pissed…
April 14th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
@John Cole: That’s why I love this blog, cilantro rules and so does Tunch!
April 14th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
@rootless-e: Yeah, I need to stay away from the GOS as well.
Or else people have to stop being wrong on the internet.
I would probably regain several hours per day if that came to pass.
April 14th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
@jurassicpork: Alicia needs to get a lawyer ASAP and file for an injunction (or whatever it’s called) to keep OneWest from selling the house until they can produce the note that allows them to sell a house even though the homeowners have met their responsibility.
Regardless of whether or not OneWest wants to foreclose, they have to abide by the original contract between IndyMac and Alicia and her husband, which stipulates the conditions under which they can sue for foreclosure. And if OneWest can’t/won’t produce it, they are legally screwed.
April 14th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Shame, I practically never click on ads, but I have to say the project wonderful ads were effective I clicked through several. I thought they complemented the blog nicely.
April 14th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Understandable, but a shame. Ryan North, who created Project Wonderful, is an absolutely great guy (even if he is Canadian.)
April 14th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Aww..Iiked the Project Wonderful ads- I am following one of the comics even now.
Yeah, the lesbian bondage one- its that vestigal Republican in me.
April 14th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
What?? No more Curvy ads? That sucks. Now I have to bookmark it…
That’s too bad. I didn’t see anything too offensive…
April 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@arguingwithsignposts: I agree. It also happens when you increase the zoom in the browser. The ads increase in size too and the center column gets way too small.
April 14th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
You have ads on your site?
With AdBlock Plus + Greasemonkey running, I had no idea.
April 14th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Pity re the Curvy ads. Fauna and Anais were just last week grousing about the deplorable state of Mexican cell phone ownership. And the pirate captain was hawt.
April 14th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
So the “Barack Obama Is A Badass Crackhead N—gger?” Yes-Probably-NotSure banner is going away?
Some of those objects that show up on your site are downright embarassing.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Baloon Juice RULES! What a lame thing to say, but seriously – the best thing on the internet -and everywhere.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:24 am