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Next post: Annoyances » Previous post: WordPress: Most Likely to Succeed? The Crunchies 2007 » Back to Off Topic main page 11 Jan 2008 Is you illiterate two? Can you spot the problem with this advertisement? I came across this ad while using gmail: www.EDIn08.com - 70% of 8th Graders Can’t Read at Grade Level. And Won’t Catch Up. Don’t get me wrong–the problem this advertisement addresses is real. Seriously, though, am I supposed to take this advocacy group seriously if they don’t know how to compose grammatically complete sentences? Share this post (what's this?) These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Posted by Adam @ 12:54 pm. Filed under Links. No Comments Yet Leave a comment Name (required) Email (required, but will not be shown; gravatar enabled) Website (optional) Comment Guidelines Yes, your comments will be visible to everybody. (Unless you use the private contact form.) Allowed HTML: <a> <b> <blockquote> <cite> <code> <em> <i> <strong> Code: Put code in `backticks` (above your "Tab" key) or it won't display well Gravatars: To override the default image by your comment, use a gravatar Links: If you include more than one link, your comment will go into the spam queue

What's this? I've got several blogs on this site, like my WP plugins blog and my course websites. I've also got a private blog for my friends and relatives to read that I'm not going to link to. :) This blog is a place for random things that don't belong in any of those other blogs. Enjoy. Recent Comments Kent Larsen on What do General Authorities Read? Ziff on What do General Authorities Read? Jef on Embedding PicasaWeb with PHP and JavaScript Terri on Photos of Hyrum Adam on Photos of Hyrum KB Spam Blacklist Since January 31st, 2008, KB Spam Blacklist has killed 9,212 spam comments--that's 5,125 more than Akismet has caught!.

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