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This blog is now read by more machines than humans: RSS robots, spam-laying insectopoids, echoes of blog-gathering .edu projects. This essentially is the state of affairs that all human activities w

Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Spartac.us

It Was Staged!

I was wandering around and found this observation about the pulling down of Saddam's statue in Firdos Square:

The pullodwn of the statue was a staged photo op by our propagandists. Still, if the ra

Bit of a change in the colors and layout here at Spartac.us. It was enough with the grey already. It's springtime up here in the northern temperate zone, so let's have a little color. It was a beautif

Cash for the Hard Goods

Thanks to the incredible traffic storm the Jean Brault testimony has generated, and to the tiny percentage thereof which has landed on my previous post, and to the tiny percentage thereof who have cli

Ottawa Freedom

Captain's Quarters has "blown the lid off" (as they say) the Canadian Liberal Party's Sponsorship Program scandal, which is now being investigated by the Gomery Commission. Basically, the Liberal gove

Pope Talk

So John Paul II has passed on. The media is airing the reports that they've been working on for some time. Actually they've been airing them for several weeks now.

I was raised in the Catholic Chur

Just Plain Mean

One day I noticed quite a lot of hits on a picture I posted with this post, most of which did not originate from this site. The pic has become somewhat popular with gay teenage bandwidth-thieves who run their own blogs or social-networking sites. Apparently there's a whole subculture of this sort of thing, and linking to pictures found elsewhere seems to be acceptable there.

So I changed the pic's filename on my server, and edited the post to point to the pic's new url. So my post appears the same. And then, just to be mean about the whole thing, I uploaded a new graphic using the old filename that these sites are linking to so that this new graphic now appears on these websites, mixed in with the paeans to gay marriage (which I support by the way). The new pic is here. Was that wrong?

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1. jeff

12 May 2005 3:37 pm

I LOVE that! How did you notice the hot-linking? I'm not very good at tracking that shit....

2. Brian

13 May 2005 3:00 pm

jeff, it depends on your hosting provider. Mine has a facility for looking up the most recent visitors, where "visitors" who only grabbed that jpg file and no actual pages stand out. The referrer info is included so it's easy to see who the bandwidth thieves are.

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