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What You See Is Not What You Get

 Seth Godin captured what appears to be “The scary thing about blog ads” on Jeff Jarvis’s blog:

 

   
 

 

But this is the full picture from Jeff’s site:

 

 

Screen clipping taken: 8/30/2005, 7:31 PM

 

 

And clicking through reveals the “explicit” act

 

“the former Baywatch star and longtime animal advocate’s latest project is “Kentucky Fried Cruelty,” an undercover expos

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