19 September 2007

ARRRRR!

It be talk like a pirate day, Mateys! Show off yer pirate spirit, ahoy!



Arrr. Not piratey enough? Then feast yer eyes on this beauty:


It do be from an odd comic that all ye landlubbers be needin' t'read.

Note: Pirates be hijackin' thee original link, mateys, but here be a back way in.

11 comments:

John said...

the link you provide seems to poinst to some weird Japanese site. At least that's where it takes me.

Qalmlea said...

Actually, I think that's French, and that IS the correct link, according to a Google search, but it's apparently being hijacked.

However, the archive link seems to be working.

John said...

Unles the French recently started writing in kanji, I'm pretty sure the site where I was sent is Japanese.

John said...

Weird. The archive link worked the first time I tried it, but now it leads to kool-host.com.

I think someone, somewhere, is taking Talk Like A Pirate Day a bit too far.

John said...

I'm annoyed, and yet I wish I could do this.

Qalmlea said...

Well, it worked for me once... And twice... *shrugs* But, yeah, it may be a Pirate-Day-Prank. And the site it took me to was very definitely French. No kanji. ^/^

John said...

The target site seems to change at some interval. Now I really want to know how this is being done. I doubt someone is doing it by hand each time.

Qalmlea said...

Okay, this is weird. The original link works on my laptop, but not on my work computer. The archive link works at my work computer, but sends me to random ads on my laptop.

Not sure what's going on. Here's the text link to the main site:

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy/

Qalmlea said...

http://bonobo-conspiracy.ca/

might also work.

Anonymous said...

I'm the operator of the site, and saw your link in my referrer log...

What's going on is that you ran afoul of an anti-spam measure. I get a lot of visits from referrer-log spam robots, which fake visits to my site with the referrer URL set to point to a spam site, in the hope that I display referrers to the public and so people can be tricked to visit the spam site. I have a script in place that follows up on referrer links, and if the referrer link (which supposedly is to a page that links to my site) does not actually link to my site, it puts it on a blacklist and redirects such visits to each other. After a given site has been associated with enough spam links, it will be permanently blacklisted and not checked again, to reduce the potential for overload on my end.

Unfortunately, a huge number of these spammers operate out of fake Blogspot accounts, so that the overwhelming majority of Blogspot links I see, are from spammers. Yours is the first non-spam Blogspot link I've seen in months. As a result, my script automatically blacklisted all of blogspot.com - so any hits coming in with a referrer of anything.blogspot.com, would be redirected to a randomly chosen link from my spam blacklist. I've now manually whitelisted qalmlea.blogspot.com, so it shouldn't happen to you in the future.

Some of the strange effects you saw, such as the same link appearing several times, but a different one appearing later, are probably explained by caching in your browser.

Qalmlea said...

Thanks for the clarification!