You are now a Facebook ad

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For the Facebook crowd:

Facebook just announced a new advertising scheme. You have, no doubt, already noticed the targeted advertising (Yes, I played water polo once; no, for the love of God, I don’t want to meet other water-polo-playing singles), but this new system is even more invasive. From their own website:

Social Ads are more likely to influence users when they appear next to a story about a friend’s interaction with your business [...] Facebook Social Ads allow your businesses to become part of people’s daily conversations.

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I discovered the most elegantly constructed sentence in the English language yesterday

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It was part of an advertisement for a new book, and goes as follows:

Not only that, but to the mind of the reader, the lines are dripping with wine from a fine vine, literally.

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