More hotlinking humor

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I woke up to a great message today in my inbox, from my contact form here on the site.

SUBJECT: Your Gay
You SUCK BIG @#$!

||| This message sent via the contact form.
||| http://www.banemacleod.com/contact/
||| IP: 71.133.43.79

I couldn't help but wonder what he knew. I mean, I thought I kept that side of my life pretty well under wraps. (Sorry Rachel) So I looked into the stats and logs and things became a little clearer.

My reply follows:

Thank you for your valuable and constructive comment. It brought a little smile to my day just to know there are people like you out there looking in on my site from time to time.

Delving further into your visit to my little corner of the web, I see that you came from Google images and went directly to my MLB avatars page. I'm going to guess from here that you just picked up the Angels avatar and threw it into whatever forum you wanted to look cool on, Ignoring the large bold red text and illustrations of what would happen should you hotlink from my site.

Imagining the look on your face when your fellow forum-goers pointed out that your avatar didn't contain the logo for your favorite team, but a rather personal message about your sexual orientation, brings me yet another smile. I'm starting to like you now. It's not often people make me smile so much.

I'm going to bring this reply to a close now and thank you once again for the good times.

PS - Sorry about LA getting their ass handed to them tonight. What was the score? 11 - 3? Yowzers eh?

Congrats on the explosive closet exit,
Scottie

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Hotlinking

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An interesting discovery when glancing at my stats today. I've served an image 11.5k times so far in march. That's almost 6000 requests daily. (and it's still early on the second day)

The image in question? My hotlink image.

As you can see from the image anyone trying to use it should, upon reloading their page, note that something very very wrong has happened. Yet some folk continue to display it proudly, including this sterling example of everything that is wrong with MySpace, P@LI 4 LIF3, aka largedick, aka arab guy with "latinos stand up" as his theme song, aka some fucking tool that is obviously borderline retarded to have sat with that image in his 'who I'd like to meet' slot for about a month. (WARNING: this link is quite like a 1996 era personal page, if they had sucked a bit worse)

How do you NOT notice that?

My immediate thought on this is that I need to start having more fun with these people than the standard hotlink image as it doesn't seem to be working. Suggestions are, as always, welcome.

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