New York City Opera jumps the shark.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
I couldn't believe it.
Here I was, putting up a nice new Google Adsense banner on my blog, (from the New York City Opera, no less) when I took a closer look at the animated art unfurling in my (hopefully) valuable cybernetic real estate.
"Powder Her Face by Thomas Ades" it blurted.
OK. They spelled Mr. Adès' name slightly wrong but that's forgivable. A font error or a case of whoever made the banner doesn't know how to use the option key.
"The Turn of the Screw...by Benjamin Bitten."
Bitten? BITTEN?
Don't believe me? Here's a screen-shot, taken earlier this evening. This is NOT an ad banner in the middle of the article (although it's frame-grabbed from my site.)
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| The image speaks for itself. Photoshop by Marcus Grundahl from the blog Infrequent Updates on Things You Don't Care About. Original elements © ABC Television and Universal Pictures. |
Here I was, putting up a nice new Google Adsense banner on my blog, (from the New York City Opera, no less) when I took a closer look at the animated art unfurling in my (hopefully) valuable cybernetic real estate.
"Powder Her Face by Thomas Ades" it blurted.
OK. They spelled Mr. Adès' name slightly wrong but that's forgivable. A font error or a case of whoever made the banner doesn't know how to use the option key.
"The Turn of the Screw...by Benjamin Bitten."
Bitten? BITTEN?
Don't believe me? Here's a screen-shot, taken earlier this evening. This is NOT an ad banner in the middle of the article (although it's frame-grabbed from my site.)
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| I can't make this up. Framegrab from Superconductor. (Wow, that's so meta!) |
