For those of you that stop by here on a regular basis, you’ve probably noticed that over the weekend we’ve added a couple ad boxes to the site (hello, little ad boxes!). This was something we talked about a bit in our last Board meeting and in the end we set up Project Wonderful for the ad serving. This to me actually makes this more of a sociological experiment than an attempt at monetization. See, cool thing about this is that we’ll only serve ads that people intentionally bid to place here, which means that these sellers have something they believe a niche group like our readership will be interested in (actually, Neko’s been eyeing the wares of Etsy seller Sedruola all this morning). Net result? We all get to find interesting new things we may not have otherwise, the folks that advertise here get some exposure, and everybody goes home happy. And that was always our intent with this site; to celebrate the things we love and find interesting, and to find a way to bring that to an audience that we might not be able to reach otherwise. So by all means, check out the ads (I’ve already seen a couple cool ones crop up!), comment, send us ideas of note, and generally help us make this a space where we can enjoy one another’s art and oddities as it was always intended. We’re happy to have you, and we’ll all sleep better at night for it.

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