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Pleasant day outside. I even spent some time sitting around in the back yard. The downside: mud on my cast.

The economic model of blogspot.com, as I understand it, lets me trade space on the Big Thumping Server in return for ads at the top of my blog. I don’t mind. I’m also vaguely aware that the ads change, and sometimes have something to do with the content. I don’t mind that, either.

I like to think that unemployed dotcomers are working from home at all hours of the day and night reading these things — piecemeal work, that would be — and recommending ads to match the content. Of course, I know better. The Big Thumping Server at blogspot has help, but I’m fairly certain it involves other computers programmed to look for hot-button words.

So when I bloviated at length about Cat Stevens last Tuesday, that seemed inspire ads for “Al Hannah Islamic Clothing” and “Buy Al-kafi book,” the next day, perhaps because I used the term “Islam” and its variations a few times. Very interesting.

Incidentally, I wonder if the purveyor of “Islamic clothing” has a line of burqas. Imported from Afghanistan, very cheap. I don’t think women should wear them. Instead, they should be de rigueur for male hip-hop stars. That, and they should be confined to their homes, except in the company of female relatives. (Is that the plural of burqa? I don’t have an Afghan handy to tell me.)

This makes me want to play with the computer scanning my blog. How many times would it take me repeating “Buddhism” to get an ad, say, promoting prayer wheels used by the Yellow Hat Sect?

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We shall see.