So you’re a bandwidth thief! You just right click on the image you want, copy the code, and then paste it into a forum of your choice to show your friends, or use it as a desktop wallpaper. Or, worse yet, you decide to use that image code that you borrowed from someone else’s website, on your own website. [I respect the irony that I may have just enabled someone on how to hotlink images in the first place.. but as someone who showed their own mother how to hotlink... I can't really.. get annoyed at myself.. now can I?]

I would imagine that if you got to this page that you would have already known what hotlinking is. Instead of making you google it to find out if you don’t already know, I shall tell you what it is.

I first discovered what hotlinking was when I was in an epic picture battle thread on a gaming forum. I needed a good picture to one-up my competitors fast. I didn’t have time to waste moving the image to photobucket or imageshack. So I uploaded it.. and then my friends told me that they couldn’t see the picture! but I could! Once I cleared my cache, I saw what they were seeing, and ad to visit the website I had stolen the picture from. Fair enough. until I had visited that exact page that I had stolen the picture from, I was unable to see the picture on the forum thread. Which irked me.

Mostly because it was a very sweet picture. So I researched it.. to find out what I could do to punish this evil web admin. Then I found out that they could do even worse things with the picture you stole. At this point, it’s not even about copyright.. It’s about image hosting.

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this.. but images take up a lot more space versus words. They’re a drain on a website’s resources. And do you know how much webhosting costs? per month? The more popular your website is, the more you have to pay.. unless you have some nice ads which will give you good money for the adspace.

Also, because the web admins own the webpage, they can do all sorts of nasty little coding to get their revenge on you. They can set it so that the image shows an ad for their website.. or they can set it so that the image says that the person who put this up is an imbecile and thief.

And well.. unless you’ve never had to chase a thief down the street in the middle of the night because it stole your precious bottle of fingernail clippings [which totally should have been thrown away], then I can understand your inherent distrust of honest people who don’t want to pay for webhosting, end up with the cheapest thing they can find [free stuff rocks] and ginge over every little bit of bandwidth that gets stolen.

Hello Darlings. Sugar is bad for you. Very bad. Most candy has sugar. Lots and lots of it. Some websites say that sugar can cause aging, arthritis, hemorrhoids, cataracts, hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive, cancer of the rectum, liver tumours, etc.

Now some of you might say, well, this is the internet.. you can’t trust what the internet has to say! Anyone can make this shit up!

Which is true. However I, who have no medical qualifications, advise you to google it yourself and find out!

Also if you’re addicted to candy,  you might want to get yourself checked into a rehab clinic.

First of all, let us explore the dictionary definitions of what some words are.

Twit:

1. to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc. with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at; to reproach or upbraid.
2. a weak or thin place in yarn caused by uneven spinning.
3. an insignificant or bothersome person.
4. an excited state; dither: to be in a twit about company coming.

As you can probably imagine, my favourite definition is number 3. An insignificant or bothersome person. Now lets see what twitter is defined as.

Twitter:

1. to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
2. to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter.
3. to titter; giggle.
4. to tremble with excitement or the like; be in a flutter

Ok. Great. If you have been living under a rock for the past few years, Twitter is something like an internet based sms thingy. I don’t really care.. read the entire wikipedia page here.

It’s very useful.. and my mother uses it. I figure if you cannot figure out how to use it, then you must be beyond retarded.