Add-Art is an ad blocker and an art show in one
Of all the unlikely places to curate an art show, the ad space on websites has to be one of the most unlikely. Instead of shocking a monkey or being invited to meet some "adult friends," how about looking at a selection of art that changes every two weeks? The Add-Art plugin for Firefox comes packaged with Adblock Plus, but instead of removing the ads entirely, it displays images from the current show.Replacing ads with art sounded a bit hokey to me at first, but its the curation that makes this idea brilliant. There's something uplifting about a campaign to take a space in a website's layout, that people were just going to throw away with ad-blockers anyway, and repurpose it to show them something new. Looking through the past exhibits, one of the more interesting projects was curated by having Amazon Mechanical Turk workers select their favorites: a clever, populist approach to art, made possible by the web.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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pr0vider said 11:45AM on 2-06-2009
Damn!! Why not on IE8, too?
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zkam said 12:48PM on 2-06-2009
OK, so I can replace the clutter and unnecessary bandwidth usage of downloading ads, with clutter and unnecessary bandwidth usage of downloading art? Um... no thanks.
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steve lambert said 11:30AM on 2-08-2009
Just to correct this, the art images are downloaded once every two weeks and then loaded locally, so using Add-Art will speed up your browsing.
xvcxcy said 3:48PM on 2-06-2009
This recommendation must have been some evil plot by Downloadsquad to generate some revenue for AOL, because Add-Art does absolutely nothing, not even HIDE the ads, and even fucks up your existing and working Adblock Plus installation.
Uninstalling Add-Art alone did not help, I had to reinstall Adblock Plus as well.
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Jorge said 5:07PM on 2-06-2009
My 13 year old reads Download Squad. Is the foul language necessary?
gonintendo said 5:47PM on 2-06-2009
I bet you he is 13 years old.
steve lambert said 11:33AM on 2-08-2009
if you're having a problem please use the add-art forums - forum.add-art.org - although because I haven't seen anything like this reported before, I'd recommend looking at our troubleshooting section and make sure you installed everything correctly - add-art.org/content/troubleshooting
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