I would like to take a moment to direct your attention to our second sidebar on the right. At the bottom of that sidebar you’ll see a small tombstone. Take a moment for personal reflection.
A few days ago we got an email from Google telling us we were in violation of the AdSense TOS. Google realized it had probably been a while since we’d read the terms and took the initiative to explain that we were not allowed to ask visitors to click on our Google ads. Fair enough. They gave us a few days to fix it.
If you’ll remember, the header of that particular sidebar portion used to read: “Help us out by clicking some ads!” Clearly a violation. So we thought we’d be clever and change it to: “We’re not allowed to ask you to click these 
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Google was not impressed by our cleverness and promptly shot our account right in the face.
Technically, we were no longer in violation of their terms but we all know there’s no sense in fighting. Of course, there are ways we can get our account back if we want to but for now, we’ll leave you with a pleasant reminder that Google has no sense of humor whatsoever. Looks like they found the evil room.
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