love.com

AOL Instant Messenger has been showing animated ads for love.com, a personals site for AIM users. According to this news.com article, love.com will launch in a few weeks.

I noticed this strange HTML on prelaunch love.com:

<select name="gender" value="" class="txtfield2" style=width:80px;>
<option value=""> - Gender -
<option value="monday"> Male
<option value="tuesday"> Female
</select>

Why is male represented by "monday" and female by "tuesday"? Kate Monday and Pat Tuesday were both female.

6 Responses to “love.com”

  1. elvelind Says:

    my first guess would be to give spambots a hard time.

  2. Joe Grossberg Says:

    And where’s “other” or “transgendered”?

    Geez … how 20th century of them.

  3. Helen Says:

    OMG someone else who has watched Square One TV! Yay! (How old were you when you watched that??)

  4. Jason Scheirer Says:

    Not to mention that HTML is hideous.

  5. depression blog Says:

    the real queston is, what are their intentions with wednesday through sudnay?

  6. Ryan Loebs Says:

    Hi, I’m an amature 15 year old PHP programmer and I noticed that this site runs CGI. I understand that you are a ‘Mudder’ as my Scrippsie sister calls you folk. But I think that since you are a Mudder you’d understand that PHP is the way to go with dynamic webpage-ing! I know this sounds a little stupid and I’m aware that it isn’t exactly in a good place for posting but hey, I need to get it through somehow! Well I hope you take this into consideration for your site.

    Regards,
    Ryan