Didn't see that coming.

"Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks."

"The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. GlimmerBlocker is implemented as an http proxy, so the stability of Safari isn't compromised because it doesn't use any hacks. It is even compatible with all other browsers and other native Mac OS X applications which uses http, e.g. NetNewsWire."

If this comes to NetNewsWire I *really* hope they offer an option to pay for an ad-free version of the application. (If they don't I doubt I'd switch away though - NNW is so much better than the alternatives, especially when you take the iPhone client into account, that there's no app to switch to.)

Campaign to put nice adverts for atheism on London buses, reading "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.". (It looks like they reached their fundraising target in about an hour!)

"Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model." I wonder what model - no one (I assume) looks at Twitter on the web, and if they start sending advertweets to apps/via SMS, everyone will leave. Subscriptions, then?

“The sense of paranoia created the market.”

Fascinating profile of Pascal Dangin, who retouches photos for advertising and fashion editorial.

I'd add "You probably get paid | You probably don't' ;-)

Good for anything you want to display on older posts.

Absolutely wonderful advert for Dairy Milk.

Folk don't look at adverts on the web, unless you trick them into it.

Great ad - makes me want a product I know I have no need for. But, post-drool: I bet sending texts will be a nightmare on that virtual keypad.

The mayor of Sao Paulo has banned public advertising.

I love the current Guardian campaign, visually speaking (the text is too, um, Guardiany).

Mitchell & Webb star in the UK 'Get a Mac' ads. (Cunningly, unlike the US originals, 'Mac' isn't portrayed as a complete dickhead.)

It even looks like the telly adverts were made with Google Earth. Though that might be my bad reception.

That anyone believed the site linked in this post was real beggars belief.

Spoof tourism ad more accurately reflects Australia's public image.

I bloody love this advert for the Honda Civic (the one with the choir). Or, as they say in the world of advertising, 'Yah, great creative'.

It costs $100, 000 to get a text link advert on WordPress.org for seven days. Huh?

I like the posters better than the music, to be honest.

It appears that someone working to promote Cillit Bang left a spam comment on Tom's post about contacting his estranged father. A new low indeed.

Nice spoof of the iPod nano advert.

Google studies selling print ads to online clients

This camera phone road safety spot is fantastic.

Thank goodness for AIDS...

"Charlie Brown and Lucy fall out of a comic strip and into the arms of some unspecified dude who proceeds to give them a tour of the [newspaper] offices and printing plant."

Very clever advertising hoarding that changes according to whether the sun is out or not (and advertsises sun cream).

Use a styleswitcher. I'd like it if more sites with ads did this - I block (almost) all ads at the moment with a userContent.css thingy, but there are sites that I wouldn't mind giving a few clicks to.

Great collection of circus posters.

I liked this bit: 'His work is extraordinary, it's almost as if Vegas itself is self-representing what it thinks is most important about itself - using only the plastics and artificiality and neon that it has naturally at its disposal.'

The Peugeot 407SW: now with female human head!