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Did something important happen today? Why, yes, Loew's is opening lots of new stores!
By adamg on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 4:25pm
Almost every single time some out-of-the-ordinary big news story happens, boston.com seems to do its best to hide it from us with an ad (dating at least back to last year's Emerson scaffolding collapse). They've done it again today: State Legislature takes historic vote and refuses to put gay marriage on the ballot and what do boston.com visitors see on the home page?
If you squint really hard, way down at the bottom, you can see about half a headline about something that happened at the State House today.
OK, if you wait, the ad "rolls up," but really, editorial folks, don't you have any pull with the advertising department anymore?
Via Spatch, who exults:
LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS ALL UP AND DOWN THE COAST! BRAND NEW STORES TO SHOP AT! HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH!
oh yeah and also our state's proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was totally defeated but that's just some picayune bit of news that goes on the front page under the BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG AD that says LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!1111 ...
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They most likely allow
They most likely allow dynamic ads from outside their servers, so when something big happens, and they get alot of traffic, someone on the ball somewhere changes somthing to one of these intrusive adds to force you to look at their crap.
It pisses me off, they need to dump these pop up ads...
Yes!
Wonderful! I thought the exact same thing today.
More Globe fun
Jason notices a rather unfortunate juxtaposition of a photo and story.
And when I first saw this graphic, I thought, wow, a feathered, beaked dinosaur like four times the size of a T. rex! In fact, the new dino is slightly smaller than T. rex; somebody at the Globe graphics department just thought it would be a good idea to superimpose an artist's rendition of the thing completely out of scale on a chart showing the relative size of the new dino and a T. rex.