(Update: I'll be posting the latest on the MySpace links below when I notice that they've stopped jacking my bandwidth. If you see one that's changed, let me know.)

Alright, so I was checking my server stats today and noticed I was getting a heck of a lot of hits from MySpace. I figured What the ever-lovin' HECK is going on here?"

I looked into it and found out that I was being jacked for bandwidth.

You see, some time ago, I put up a picture of Kurt Vonnegut at in a post at film geeks. It was this picture here:

When I got to looking around at some of the MySpace sites that were tagging my server space, I saw what was happening. See, these MySpace losers were using my Vonnegut picture on THEIR website. Now, don't get me wrong, if they wanted to download it and put it up on THEIR OWN server space, that'd be fine with me. How do you think I got the picture in the first place? I got it the same way they did: by doing a Google Image search and finding it.

The difference is, I saved the picture on my own server space. These losers on the other hand just jacked my code and pulled the picture right off my server, using up MY BANDWIDTH for THEIR STUPID MYSPACE PAGES!

As you might imagine, I felt a bit violated.

If you want to see some quick examples of the MySpace pages that were using my image, pulling it right off of MY server, you can click for thumbnails here and here and here and here and here.

Of course, you know that this meant war.

I looked around at their MySpace sites a bit and asked myself... "what's the best way to get back at these pretentious, smug little snot-noses?"

It didn't take long to come up with an answer. I simply changed the code of the old Vonnegut picture and then created a new image and loaded it up on the server with the same name as the oldVonnegut picture.

This is the new image I created:

So that means that the MySpace scumbags are still stealing my bandwidth... or, at least, they will be until they eventually notice that where they once had a picture of their beloved counter-culture hero Kurt Vonnegut they now, instead, have a picture of that abrasive idiot Larry the Cable Guy.

I encourage you to check these MySpace profiles for yourself... just as a little experiment to see how long it takes them to find out that they're now promoting Larry as their favorite comedian.

Here's one of them. Update: Replaced with a picture of
Eeyore as of 6/16.

Here's another one.

Here's another.

And another.

Here's still one more.

And another. Update: Replaced With Keira Knightley as of
about 10:30 PM, 6/14. And that makes sense: "Kurt Vonnegut,
Keira Knightley, whatever...as long as I seem like Mr. Cool Guy, right?"

And another.

One More.

Hey, how about another?

This guy has Larry in his "Who I'd Like To Meet" list.

And yet one more. Update: Replaced with a new picture of
Vonnegut, this time jacked from another site. Wendy noticed
the change about 9:30 AM Thursday 6/15.

And another one.

Yet another.

Here's one last one.

So let that be a lesson to all you little MySpace idiots. Steal SouthCon's bandwidth, get SouthPunk'd.

Word.