Cancer: Brought to You by the Internets
So this morning I read, and then linked from Streetsblog, a story about how the mythologized "new car smell" is actually caused by a mixture of potentially carcinogenic toxins. A short while later the ad pictured above showed up at the bottom of an incoming e-mail.
By
Brad Aaron
2:32 PM EDT on May 3, 2007
So this morning I read, and then linked from Streetsblog, a story about how the mythologized “new car smell” is actually caused by a mixture of potentially carcinogenic toxins. A short while later the ad pictured above showed up at the bottom of an incoming e-mail.
Guess they’re still working the kinks out of that whole targeted marketing thing.
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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