I thought this was pretty creative placement of an Adsense banner: http://www.thefalseoswalds.com/ Look at the top banner. The site is odd, but I thought it was cool placement though.
Hmmm, I don't see anything different about where the adsense is... skyscraper, right column. But yes, the site is definitely different. I like the background.
The top banner is definitely interesting and a painful irony, but I wonder if that actually has a good click through rate and of course the question of TOS violation, which I don't really see, but I'm sure someone else does.
Nice placement! But, this could be even more effective with a header image that compliments the ads. Does anyone know if it is possible to put adsense code before the header image on blogspot.com blogs?