Brian Flemming:

By my calculations, if the blasphemy virus continues to spread at this rate, the Earth will be 100% atheist by the end of 2006, the entire universe will be atheist by March 2007, and God himself will be an atheist just in time for Easter.

I was looking for a new homepage, because for some vague reason my.mypage.com didn't cut it anymore. So I created a gmail account -- give them my name, my location (in the US), my cell phone number (a US number), that kind of stuff. At the end, I get my homepage at http://www.google.com/ig. Next, I go to customize it, and I add a sudoku puzzle from couttonine.com.
The puzzle comes with a small banner ad, about the width of the puzzle, and about 3/4 of an inch in height.
The absolutely astounding, mindboggling fact about this, is that all the ads are in Dutch. Counttonine.com itself is based in Scottsdale, AZ, so that's not the answer. Somehow, Google knows I know Dutch, and decides to target Dutch-language ads to me, even though I don't care about them -- many are from companies that only do business in the Netherlands or Belgium, and I live in frickin' Colorado.
It just boggles the mind. Somehow, They Know (tm). Google's software must have linked my account to my previous searches (easy, as they had access to my cookies during the account signup process), noticed I did some searches that resulted in click-throughs to Belgian or Dutch sites, and deduced from that that I not only understand the language, but that I'm there. And that's where they went wrong. The companies whose ads appear under those puzzles are wasting their money.