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A Little Metainfo Could Go a Long Way

When Pat Eyler mentioned Glark without a link, I decided to find out what it was. Instead, I stumbled across a perfect example of context insensitive advertising. I can't help but think it should have been possible for the reporter to tag the article tragic_death and the ad server to evaluate rules like:

ad = ads.find_random_ad()
while article.tags.contains(ad.tags_to_avoid) do
   ad = ads.find_random_ad()
end