- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:22:21 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Warning: Reference to oral sex, lack of cross-platform design. (I don't know which is more offensive.) http://www.salon.com/tech/inbox/index.html Salon to AvantGo readers: We're sorry we called you "sex-starved losers." Chalk this one up to the perils of new media publication. Yesterday Salon published an In Box item critiquing an advertisement in the LinuxJournal. Since the ad itself was not online, we thought we'd do our readers a useful service and create a new Web page featuring the advertisement. Hey, we're a Web publication, we can do all kinds of innovative things. Unfortunately, we did not realize that Salon's publishing software would consider this page an actual Salon story. And we especially did not realize that readers of Salon who use the AvantGo service to download stories onto their PalmPilots would get, without any explanation, just the one sentence caption that we gave to the advertisement. We can only imagine, with great horror, the shock that thousands of avid Salon Technology & Business readers must have felt when they were informed, oh so bluntly, that "You are a sex-starved loser who can't get a blow job -- so buy our product." We beg forgiveness from our readers. We'd like to promise nothing like this will ever happen again, but then again, you never know what kind of monster is waiting around the next corner in unexplored cyberspace. We can assure you, however, that the senior Salon editor who was responsible for the fiasco has been sentenced to a year-long unpaid internship working for Matt Drudge. -- Andrew Leonard [5 p.m. PST, Nov. 29, 2000] Here's the original ad's URL: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/28/server_ad/index.html The copy reads something like "our servers won't go down on you either." -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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