OK, kind of an odd topic, but I was looking at a website (http://shop.themountain.me/military/) to buy my mother a big faced cat t-shirt and stumbled across these. Thought they looked pretty neat and maybe some of you might be interested in them.
Here's a sample t-shirt (there are many others). Looks like they're all about $20.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi186.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx14%2Flangev%2Fjtac_wolf.jpg&hash=8673502960c8808a5489130651395c76b04b51d2)
p.s. I'm not affiliated in any way with this site (haven't even bought from them yet, but will pick up some of the cat faced Ts soon for Mom and wife).
And I thought wolves were scary looking before.
I knew they'd be cashing in on the Timberwolf theme !
Apparently this site knew I had hit it to look around, b/c when I jumped over to SWJ (in a new window, mind you... not from the same window or a link at the t-shirt site) there was an ad for themountain.com running.
Now, the bonus to you is that there was a discount code on the ad, so if you order anything, use "TK15" (no quotes) and save 15%. Treat it as their cost for stalking me online.
That kind of online marketing is really taking off. You'll probably see many other similar ads and offers. There's on company, Acxiom, that really specializes in it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quiet-giant-of-consumer-database-marketing.html?pagewanted=all
Here's the basics of how they track you:
QuoteSCOTT HUGHES, an up-and-coming small-business owner and Facebook denizen, is Acxiom's ideal consumer. Indeed, it created him.
Mr. Hughes is a fictional character who appeared in an Acxiom investor presentation in 2010. A frequent shopper, he was designed to show the power of Acxiom's multichannel approach.
In the presentation, he logs on to Facebook and sees that his friend Ella has just become a fan of Bryce Computers, an imaginary electronics retailer and Acxiom client. Ella's update prompts Mr. Hughes to check out Bryce's fan page and do some digital window-shopping for a fast inkjet printer.
Such browsing seems innocuous — hardly data mining. But it cues an Acxiom system designed to recognize consumers, remember their actions, classify their behaviors and influence them with tailored marketing.
When Mr. Hughes follows a link to Bryce's retail site, for example, the system recognizes him from his Facebook activity and shows him a printer to match his interest. He registers on the site, but doesn't buy the printer right away, so the system tracks him online. Lo and behold, the next morning, while he scans baseball news on ESPN.com, an ad for the printer pops up again.
That evening, he returns to the Bryce site where, the presentation says, "he is instantly recognized" as having registered. It then offers a sweeter deal: a $10 rebate and free shipping.
It's not a random offer. Acxiom has its own classification system, PersonicX, which assigns consumers to one of 70 detailed socioeconomic clusters and markets to them accordingly. In this situation, it pegs Mr. Hughes as a "savvy single" — meaning he's in a cluster of mobile, upper-middle-class people who do their banking online, attend pro sports events, are sensitive to prices — and respond to free-shipping offers.
Correctly typecast, Mr. Hughes buys the printer.
Quote from: mirth on August 30, 2012, 09:21:56 AM
That kind of online marketing is really taking off. You'll probably see many other similar ads and offers. There's on company, Acxiom, that really specializes in it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quiet-giant-of-consumer-database-marketing.html?pagewanted=all
I take great pleasure in seeing many ads that fail to offer any interest. Each time I do my faith that humans are smarter than machines is incremented up.
Unfortunately there is a downside. Lately Amazon has been a complete fail in offering me anything remotely interesting. That's the one place where I would actually like to have some decent books put in front of me.
Those shirts are nothing compared to this one...
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogcdn.com%2Fwww.urlesque.com%2Fmedia%2F2009%2F11%2Fthree-wolf-moon-1258076189.jpg&hash=f75a15ed6d4eecdb502d4ad778716e531511a95e)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 30, 2012, 08:56:40 AM
Apparently this site knew I had hit it to look around, b/c when I jumped over to SWJ (in a new window, mind you... not from the same window or a link at the t-shirt site) there was an ad for themountain.com running.
Ever since I started browsing the Grogheads CafePress page it's been hitting me with banner ads all over tha Interwebz.
I'm also getting creeped out by some 'authentic WW2 Uniform/medals' site that keeps following me home from the bus stop...
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 30, 2012, 05:11:44 PM
I'm also getting creeped out by some 'authentic WW2 Uniform/medals' site that keeps following me home from the bus stop...
Yeah, researching the camo schemes of Panther tanks got Amazon to serve me up all sorts of uninteresting history of <ahem> infamous German units during the war. Not exactly what I want associated with my account, but I figure by now I'm already on DHS' radar for no good reason anyway, so it can't hurt to spam my electronic profile with more spurious crap.
Clear your cookies and browser cache regularly. And don't stay logged into FB and other crap while you browse. That's how they do most of the tracking.
Quote from: mirth on August 30, 2012, 06:30:12 PM
Clear your cookies and browser cache regularly. And don't stay logged into FB and other crap while you browse. That's how they do most of the tracking.
I stay out of FB almost altogether. The rest I don't really care enough about to worry. I just like ridiculing stupid stuff when the opportunity presents itself ;)
I am waiting for one of you guys to say you have ads following you for duct tape, industrial strength bleach, rubberized leak proof bags and chloroform :-X
Con
Quote from: Con on August 30, 2012, 09:25:09 PM
I am waiting for one of you guys to say you have ads following you for duct tape, industrial strength bleach, rubberized leak proof bags and chloroform :-X
Con
...and sewing thread and lotion and NVG?
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 30, 2012, 09:27:08 PM
Quote from: Con on August 30, 2012, 09:25:09 PM
I am waiting for one of you guys to say you have ads following you for duct tape, industrial strength bleach, rubberized leak proof bags and chloroform :-X
Con
...and sewing thread and lotion and NVG?
And 60 mm mortar rounds. That would be helpful.
Quote from: Con on August 30, 2012, 09:25:09 PM
I am waiting for one of you guys to say you have ads following you for duct tape, industrial strength bleach, rubberized leak proof bags and chloroform :-X
Con
I see those ads on the home page here.
Quote from: steve58 on August 30, 2012, 07:43:55 AM
OK, kind of an odd topic, but I was looking at a website (http://shop.themountain.me/military/) to buy my mother a big faced cat t-shirt and stumbled across these. Thought they looked pretty neat and maybe some of you might be interested in them.
Here's a sample t-shirt (there are many others). Looks like they're all about $20.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi186.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx14%2Flangev%2Fjtac_wolf.jpg&hash=8673502960c8808a5489130651395c76b04b51d2)
p.s. I'm not affiliated in any way with this site (haven't even bought from them yet, but will pick up some of the cat faced Ts soon for Mom and wife).
Reminds me of a RPG I used to play back in the late 20th century.
Justifiers? (http://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/53666/justifiers)
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcf.geekdo-images.com%2Fimages%2Fpic531183_lg.jpg&hash=3553821267a8002798b9f0f768c222a3d4e13c09)
Brant - Dark Lord of All Things Obscure
Nope. Agh... old brain!
I wanna say that it had something to do with GURPS ('cause I was playing a lot of Traveller and Twilight 2000 at the time), but I don't think that it did.
Maybe it was Gamma World....
Quote from: Centurion40 on August 31, 2012, 01:32:28 PM
Nope. Agh... old brain!
I wanna say that it had something to do with GURPS ('cause I was playing a lot of Traveller and Twilight 2000 at the time), but I don't think that it did.
Maybe it was Gamma World....
The image on that shirt makes far too much sense to resemble anything from Gamma World. ;D
Quote from: Arctic Blast on August 31, 2012, 10:56:59 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on August 31, 2012, 01:32:28 PM
Nope. Agh... old brain!
I wanna say that it had something to do with GURPS ('cause I was playing a lot of Traveller and Twilight 2000 at the time), but I don't think that it did.
Maybe it was Gamma World....
The image on that shirt makes far too much sense to resemble anything from Gamma World. ;D
Gamma World was awesome. Where else could you pick up an unknown artifact like an ink pen and end up killing yourself with it?
Quote from: LongBlade on August 31, 2012, 11:01:40 PM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on August 31, 2012, 10:56:59 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on August 31, 2012, 01:32:28 PM
Nope. Agh... old brain!
I wanna say that it had something to do with GURPS ('cause I was playing a lot of Traveller and Twilight 2000 at the time), but I don't think that it did.
Maybe it was Gamma World....
The image on that shirt makes far too much sense to resemble anything from Gamma World. ;D
Gamma World was awesome. Where else could you pick up an unknown artifact like an ink pen and end up killing yourself with it?
I absolutely love Gamma World. Where else can you play as a radioactive rat swarm capable of forming itself in to the shape of a gun that actually shoots?
Quote from: Arctic Blast on August 31, 2012, 11:04:21 PM
I absolutely love Gamma World. Where else can you play as a radioactive rat swarm capable of forming itself in to the shape of a gun that actually shoots?
OK, I never quite made it that far. You win.
Quote from: LongBlade on August 31, 2012, 11:16:51 PM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on August 31, 2012, 11:04:21 PM
I absolutely love Gamma World. Where else can you play as a radioactive rat swarm capable of forming itself in to the shape of a gun that actually shoots?
OK, I never quite made it that far. You win.
This was the new version from a couple of years back, so they may have changed things. So delightfully weird. I don't think I'd want to play it regularly, but it makes for a decent change of pace from time to time.