Members of Google’s AdSense network now have options to go “edgy or bubbly” with their ad units, assuming they display corners at all.
PageRank Panhandlers Beg Links on Street Corners – Get a Job!
I get a steady stream of link requests for three of my own sites and a half dozen others that I manage for clients. For about the last year, I’ve had a standard template reply that I send to all link panhandlers.