Advertising: AdSense

Google's worst ads ever - when AdSense's contextual advertising misfires. The funniest is the non-Google "severed foot" one.

And this is old, but you can kill those sponsored links in Gmail by adding a few words about death and other tragedies.

Music: Storybook Lovesongs

Prompted by the death of Willie DeVille:

• Willie DeVille, "Storybook Love" (used in "The Princess Bride")
  
• The Partridge Family, "Storybook Love" (they say that only a few hundred people heard the Partridge Family at the time, but every one of them started a TV show family band)
  
• The Superbs, "Sorybook Of Love" (I had never heard of this sweet-sounding group)
  
• The Triffids, "Fairytale Love" (sadly cut short, and set to incongruous, if not completely inappropriate, scenes from "Finding Neverland")
  
• Sara Bareilles, "Fairytale" (inoffensive)
  
• Alice In Chains, "Fairytale Love Story" (included for completeness)
  

At least three of these singers are dead now, so David Cassidy should be worried.

Art: Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line" - what a card! And Dali in three commercials.

Documentary (part 1 of 3) about Glasgow's acquisition of "Christ of St John of the Cross".

Trippy Dali-influenced video of uncertain provenance.

It reminds me of visiting the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida with my parents. My mother dashed around the exhibition while I moved slowly from painting to painting. She came up to me and asked, "Do you think he was a bit mad?"

Film: John Hughes

RIP, John Hughes. It does make you wonder if there was a curse on "National Lampoon's Vacation". First John Candy, then Imogene Coca and Eddie Bracken, and now writer John Hughes. Not to mention Chevy Chase's career.

Great scene from "Some Kind Of Wonderful", with the hottest tomboy in movie history. "Break his heart and I'll break your face."

Design: "I Can Read Movies"

These fake retro book covers are fantastic.