This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.

Gmail has a built-in RSS reader, which sometimes will list advertisements. After viewing an email regarding the upcoming UN-Habitat Conference on
Sustainable Urban Design (pdf), I noticed the RSS reader had the following advertisement:

Just for good measure (and for google), the ad says: Bofill Architects – The most prestigious architectural studio in the world.
My, we think highly of ourselves – and pay google to tell it to the world.