Hot links! Get your hot links here!

Contrary to some popular beliefs, "hotlinking" is not the newest craze involving teens and pork products that you should be concerned about as a parent. Instead it is the (quite common) practice of mirroring a picture from one website to another instead of hosting the picture on your own websites storage. The problem used to be quite problematic when bandwidth was a real issue, server storage spaces were limited and expensive and dialup was the only method of connectivity. Popular pictures could be hotlinked so often that the original servers productivity could be slowed or even crashed. Then came tera-flops of storage and unlimited gigs of server space at a fraction of what a handful of MB's used to cost and the Internet got so big so fast that most sites dont require hotlink protection (pass word entries or secure storage pictures) because it is either a non-issue in relation to storage and connection speeds, or so many other websites can just "upload" the picture instead of hotlinking and quite often do. Many servers do charge based on traffic and if Amazon hotlinked a picture from my site, each time their site loaded the picture would have to be recalled from my server space and this would undoubtedly be beyond my current server needs. Hotlinking for a blog my size or his for that matter is the equivalent today of driving through a town you dont live in and "stealing the air" by breathing as you do so. So much for the history lesson. On to the problem at hand. Last week I did a simple search of "American idol" for a fourth of july post i was publishing. I came across an icon that had been photoshopped poorly and posted on a weblog to read; American idiot instead of idol. I liked the look of it, and copied the URL to my own site for my blog. I dont know if the retard that runs the site is the same creative genius that made the picture, but he is sure proud of it. His site much like this one has the ability to see if and who is hotlinking pictures to the site. He changed the image file that I had uploaded to this instead so this image showed on my blog:

The level of pleasure I find in someone else taking such an uneducated swing at me is immeasurable really. I don't know what i have done to be so fortunate that in a war of wits and words I have found myself fighting unarmed opponents so often, but I am grateful nonetheless. I lack the words to describe the look of total joy that creeps across my face in the form of a maniacal smile when i happened across this little nugget. It truly made my day. A few points on this image before we get into the good stuff:

1. Misspelling the word; your? yor. I mean come on. The least of this guys worries should be someone stealing his bandwidth. He would fail a 2nd grade spelling test for godsake. Now I am not saying i don't misspell words, quite the opposite. I just wouldn't misspell a word if i was sending a demand letter and put my name on it. Note to idiot: Have your mother look over any threatening letters before you post them.

2. He put the address of his shitty website on the bottom? It would be different if it was a recognizable site with some respect. This is a rambling blog with webcams that show his cats sleeping in his "bachelor apartment" and numerous pictures of other cats with captions across them that attempt to be cute and funny and fail miserably at both. You think i am kidding right now dont you?

Here "wiggles" shows a look of complete surprise when a non-recoverable error erases his hard drive.
Whew...too much, too much i tell you.


There is also a moving story about him begging his friends to purchase an air conditioner for his "bachelor apartment" as he is "low on cash right now". Not a dry eye in the room after reading this post.

3. I suppose the thought is that the picture once posted on my site will now appear that I said "I am a bandwidth stealing cocksucker" and "Give me your(sp) cock please!". This guy is good. I wonder how many people saw the picture and wondered why i was suddenly "gay" and begging for cock and admitting that i offended macbros.com. This mac guy is a real rascal.

4. The top link on the site is "about me" and hosts the following picture. No i am not making this up.

Never mind the haircut that appears it was bought out of a box, and the raked angle model look, that says "Im both mysterious and magical". Just look at that dazzle in the background! This is a man that wears a goatee for two reasons: to try and hide a weak chin, and as a point of fashion. How many times do you think he had to take his own picture before he arrived at this one? To the untrained eye it may appear to be just another pasty, Canadian, thirty-something with a rapists stare and a beard that looks like he was eating something sticky and then fell face first onto the floor of a barbershop. However I thought something was odd when i first saw this picture. Hmmmm, Why does it seem so familiar? Then it hit me.

I knew i had seen that shirt somewhere. Yes I will take fries with that Mac.

The site isnt all garbage, i did find this article helpful if i am ever incarcerated with no chance of parole that is...

Here is an excerpt from the link "flirting with disaster" with the same photo accompanying it.

Handsome fella isn’t he? Yup he sure is, because it is me. I naturally give off that glow when flirting with the ladies, I believe it gets hypnotic to them. A simple raise of the eyebrow, and a smirk of a smile, but not showing the teeth, since I don’t want to come off as desperate. Just being subtle enough to send the message without any verbal comments to give them the hint. As if to say, “Hey baby. You look fine tonight.” If the look doesn’t go well you can always speak up and say something like, “Awe! Dammit it all!” and when she says , “What?”, you reply with, “Oh nothing, I was just under the impression that I was the only beautiful one here tonight.” I know I’m not the Love Guru or anything, but I’ve got a few compliments on that line. Do you think you have the flirting game down? Extreme Style by VO5 has a web site that features a web game where you compete with others on the internet to see if you have what it takes to flirt with others, and if you are as good as you think you are. You can play the little applet embedded in this post, but going to the site to play Ultimate Flirting Championship is a lot more entertaining since you can play it on a bigger screen and there are more features available, like saving your own character for example.

I think the article shows just how tenuous a grip our friend mac has on reality.

Here is the fun part. The picture below is hotlinked back to Macbros site again from the Air Conditioner story. With a stern warning like "I want yor cock please" you would think i would have learned my lesson. I dont go out like that. I steal your bandwidth and your soul. Thats how i go out.