The Blog of Justice

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Things you shouldn't click on...

But you inevitably do.

THE MOST TERRIFYING THING YOU'LL EVER SEE. ONLY CLICK HERE IF YOUR [sic] OVER 18!!!!!11

You hover over the link and you see that it's going to some dodgy ad-agency that just counts your click and presents you with one-hundred extra popups. You know where it's going to go. You've clicked a similar link before.

You're going to click it anyway.

Why?

I have no idea. I'm guilty of exactly the same thing.

Shoot 10 ducks to win a free ipod!!!!1 *

Where the asterisk refers to a hidden paragraph somewhere in the page where it "clearly" states that it's subject to you shooting all 10 ducks, then filling out a one-hundred page questionnaire and then referring 35 friends to the same page who must do exactly the same as you have.

You want to shoot those ten ducks.

Something is telling you to shoot those ten ducks.

If it's not ten ducks, it's squashing a spider with a boot, or something equally trivial.

If you're going to click something you shouldn't, at least make it a porn banner.

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