Finally - I should have thought of this earlier, instead of stubbornly hitting super-reload (with a shift) and leaving and re-entering that page, and all the other lo-tech tricks, I loaded it in another browser instead. Then the tree has flags and one may choose a languge...
Once you eat the funky fruit and take an Alice in wonderland style trip to the questionnaire you may answer three dumb Q's about Xbox 360 and might win something. *le yawn*

They removed the woman ages ago. Perhaps they got too many complaints. perhaps they just got too much traffic. (this article is dated in May as you can see and the man appeared sometime in July afaik).

hehehe, lets hope we don't see that many ads on the blogs networks as the about.com network became famous for. I recall an owl flying across the about.com pages once, scaring the bejeezus out of me. Never went back ever since.