Sher-ri, don't like it -- lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar

I was just searching for the internet link to the picture of "PandaMelon," one of the gigantic cement panda bears curently decorating the streets of Washington D.C. Unfortunately I can't find it, so if you want to see it really badly, you can e-mail me and I will send it to you.


Anyway, PandaMelon is pretty cool, so I wanted to set him as my wallpaper but I can't change the size of the photo at all, so basically what you can see right now of PandaMelon is the top 3/4ths of his head. Which is actually pretty cool, because PandaMelon appears to be peeking out of the monitor at me.


ANYway, I was doing a google image search and the obligatory side ads popped up. One of them said, "Discount Panda! Check out the deals now! aff http://www.ebay.com." This is disturbing for the following two reasons.


1) E-bay really should not be selling pandas.

2) In all likelihood, E-bay is not selling pandas, but is just plugging in whatever you search to their ad. This is disturbing, even more so than when you type in something you might actually buy from E-bay, because it's like that thing you do where when your annoying little brother is repeating everything you say, you say something like "[Name of little brother] is stupid and I hate him." And, of course, this would either result in an exact repetition, at which point you could say "haha, you just called yourself stupid," or it would result in him stopping. For three seconds.


So stupid E-bay isn't even smart enough to know when not to repeat whatever you've just said. Although in an alarming development, searches for some swearwords (because I really wanted to see an ad that says "Discount Crap! Check out the deals now!") and then some run-of-the-mill nouns, and the results were either no ads at all (apparently nobody's interested in cornering the crap market) or generic ones. Which leads me to believe...


E-bay is selling pandas on their website!