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Jason Dunn
05-18-2010, 10:51 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theonion.com/video/new-google-phone-service-whispers-targeted-ads-dir,17470/' target='_blank'>http://www.theonion.com/video/new-g...-ads-dir,17470/</a><br /><br /></div><p><object width="480" height="430" data="http://media.theonion.com/flash/video/onn_player.swf?videoid=17470&amp;embedded=true&amp;host=http://www.theonion.com" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="src" value="http://media.theonion.com/flash/video/onn_player.swf?videoid=17470&amp;embedded=true&amp;host=http://www.theonion.com" /><param name="flashvars" value="videoid=17470&amp;embedded=true&amp;host=http://www.theonion.com" /></object></p><p>Leave it to The Onion to come up with an utterly brilliant spoof! Ultimately this is the kind of thing that Google wants to see happen though - every experience you have using a Google service and devices (a la Android) is paired with a corresponding ad. Let's hope they never try anything quite this obnoxious though. ;-)</p>

David Tucker
05-19-2010, 09:55 AM
I dunno...after that horrible accident he SHOULD be taking her on a nice getaway... :D