The good news is you can avoid seeing ads in gmail. The bad news is you have to end all of your emails with "ps: suicide death 9/11 murder."
I played with this a little to see how far it goes back, tragedy-wise. "Ps: the holocaust" works, but "Ps slavery" delivers ads. Google also thinks we've gotten over the triangle shirtwaist factory fire, the Hindenberg, and the sinking of the Titanic. (I could play this game all day, so I'll stop now. That link above is accidentally hilarious, though.)
I play that game in reverse, by typing, in white over white, some really filthy shit. It's pretty amazing what Google will generate.
Posted by: Syd | July 30, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Internet Game: Come up with the most inappropriate place to drop 9/11 into an email. Ex: "She was great. I almost got to second base but then 9/11"
Posted by: AbeLincolnSays | August 01, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Urm, how about adblock?
Posted by: Niamh | August 01, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Love it!!! Thank you!!
Posted by: merkinsocks | August 02, 2009 at 02:02 AM
accidentally?
Posted by: joe mckay | August 04, 2009 at 08:35 PM
What about the Spanish Inquisition? The Black Plague? The Sack of Rome? Nero?
Posted by: Andy | August 05, 2009 at 12:28 AM