BadAds.Org Is Dead

BadAds.org, a site launched in 2000 to serve as an online dumping ground for complaints about advertising, died a while ago (it's last Blog update was in November of 2003), which is too bad, given how bad many ads are. Still, in its time, BadAds.org got plenty of good PR, which proves that when you poke Madison Avenue, you're likely to make a lot of friends. Anyone with a strong desire to pick up Badads.org's torch can do so easily: the domain name is up for sale on the site's home page. In the meantime, if you're looking for bad ads, both adrants.com and adfreak.com do a fairly good job of critiquing them.