This is a little bit freaky. Right now if you do a Google search for Weatherson you get in the sidebar two ‘sponsored links’, one for Philosophy Body Care, and the other for Philosophy the Gingerbread Man. (No I’m not making this up. Not even I have that twisted an imagination.)

I thought this must be because there was a lot of instances of the word ‘philosophy’ in my pages and the companies in question pay to be displayed alongside for any such search. But I can’t find a single other philosopher such that searching for them brings up the ads in question. Searching for ‘philosophy’ does, but that’s the only search I found that works. There’s a disturbingly high probability (i.e. >0.001) that the companies in question actually paid to be displayed alongside a Google search for my name, and as such to boot.

Thanks of a sort to Benj Hellie for alerting me to my new role in life.