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thanks to the folks at arslinux for this link to a swf/lecture on encroaching copyrights.

note the download speed…

ed: the internet is my tivo.

sealab 2021 ended at 1:30. no bumpers. then adult swim opened with billy’s balloon by don hertzfeldt. it appeared to be a bumper for the animation show

that was pretty sweet. BUT!! it’s a reminder of the upcoming spike & mike’s sick & twisted animation festival at the magic bag in ferndale.

who’s in? here’s the schedule from the magic bag’s website

December 26
SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK & TWISTED ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Early Show: Doors at 7 p.m.
Late Show: Doors at 10 p.m.
$7.00 per show

December 27
SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK & TWISTED ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Early Show: Doors at 7 p.m.
Late Show: Doors at 10 p.m.
$7.00 per show

December 28
SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK & TWISTED ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Early Show: Doors at 7 p.m.
Late Show: Doors at 10 p.m.
$7.00 per show

December 29
SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK & TWISTED ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Early Show: Doors at 7 p.m.
Late Show: Doors at 10 p.m.
$7.00 per show

December 30
SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK & TWISTED ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Early Show: Doors at 7 p.m.
Late Show: Doors at 10 p.m.
$7.00 per show

next year, i’m gonna see what it takes to rent out the whole place for a showing of the festival.

taking a cue from jeff (and here,) i picked up a credit card with cash-back rewards and intend to dump them into a newly-opened a savings account with emigrant direct.

gonna make my money work for me. thanks jeff! 🙂

maybe andy’ll buy it back now. 😀

a seal walks into a club…

someone emailed me the ‘conan raver‘ i posted it on my site for you to enjoy.

i logged into my webserver control panel and noticed a ‘omg huge’ traffic spike this month. people are hotlinking this thing all over! a quick google for it and my site’s ranked first. so far this month it’s accounted for 1.2gb of traffic and 1300 hits.

drawing up what i learned in the past about hotlinking, i implemented some changes into my $webroot/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?anysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|png)$ http://www.agitated.net/pics/steal.PNG [R]

i didn’t want to block “all hotlinking” only those who steal my bandwidth without asking me first. the drawback to this approach is that i had to do this for each server linking images. i tried broadening the criteria for the rewrite and have only one rewrite condition, but it wasn’t working on this server. i reused the [NC] line but it broke all the existing rule sets.

oh well. copy/paste is my friend. 🙂

from themaxx.com

this might be NSFW, depending on your environment.

http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702

to a piece of shit movie. why is scarface a classic/great movie? i don’t get it. it sucks. maybe what bothers me are all the people who act like the main character. tony montana