Worms

[tealin]

Gmail is one of those things that's supported by 'targeted advertising,' in which it picks up on key words in the body of an email and provides links to sponsors that might have something to do with that, nice and unobtrusively, off to the side. Generally I don't mind – or even notice – but I ran across an odd one today. I was replying to a letter about using a pic on a forum somewhere (yes, I'm hacking away at the backlogged email again), and got three targeted ads. One was something about cute children, another a romance test, but the third was Find Pictures of Worms!

It led to this site, which is possibly even more bizarre.

Oh internet, you and your funny ways...

Comments

[mollierms.livejournal.com]

o______O

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

Wow! Not even earth worms, which is totally what I was expecting!

[fani.livejournal.com]

...so. Dungeon Dimensions creatures are out to get you are they?

WORMS! Oh the stories I have with worms!

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Is just it me, or does your GI start twitching at the thought of intestinal worms? I know that one in three people in the US and Canada have had them at least once and never even notices, but it still gives me these little ghost pains next to my navel! YUCK!

It does remind me of the time my mother volunteered a box full of bottles containing parasitic worms of all kinds suspended in formaldehyde (a la Snape) for my classmates' educational pleasure when I was in 4th grade. It was horrible: such things as 30' fish tapeworms and maggots pulled out of homeless people were sitting my my garage for a week! She works in the county hospital as a microbiologist, so she has access to all these specimens. One time when she picked me up from school and took me back to labs before she finished work, she called me to her station all excited because she had a thread-like worm floating in a petri dish that was retrieved from -- get this -- some woman's TEAR DUCT! Apparently she had gone on a tour in the Amazon and a mosquito bit her on the cheek when she felt something slowly crawling up her face and settling in her eye!!!


Anyhow... hope that wasn't too bad (but hey! it's nature!)!
On the internet and its weirdnesses, it still boggles the mind when I look up opera and get porn! I wrote about this a while ago: I remember looking up Carmen and coming up with... well it sure wasn't figure drawing!

[phonixa.livejournal.com]

LOL, I still only get spam about erectile dysfunction. I used to get "enlarge your penis!" But nothing else, which is odd. I don't know how to block them either (computer noob- still)

Say hi to Lauren for me!

[fani.livejournal.com]

...do you ever try to reply to them saying, "I do not have the organ you are describing"

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Oh, gmail ads. I had, side by side: "meet gay singles" and "how to warn your kids about the dangers of homosexuality on the internet".

Context is more important than people think :P

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE PINWORMS SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN! EVER THINK OF THAT, EH PINWORM-HAVER?!

That's . . . XD Wow. Oh, internets.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

LOL!

So you're saying ... the computer can read my gastrointestinal tract? 8|

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

. . . See icon? *shrug*