I noted that at the bottom of James Vargscarr's piece,"The Angle In The Room", there was an advertisement for "Neo-Angle Shower Doors".
I'm guessing the site is using some sort of contextual algorithm to determine which advertisements are displayed on which pages. Unfortunately, I sincerely doubt that James' story would make anyone want to run out and buy home furnishings with non-standard angles
Yes.. the ads are generated by Google's Adsense program. I am always hoping that they do not annoy people, as I did not create this site simply to put those links on They help me keep things running though..
I always do take donations of course for the server
But yes it can cause some strange ads sometimes based on what it thinks the page might be about.
Actually, I found that strange juxtaposition entertaining, rather than annoying. I would say that the ads are definitely not in the least bit intrusive.