Photos from LiveJournals

August 7, 2004 9:11 PM

Photos skimmed from LiveJournals. There's happy faces, funny faces, scars, portfolios, things out of context, cute guys, monkeys, bears, the obligatory pussy [just for you reklaw], a little bit of Bush, and all-round weird stuff.
posted by iffley (14 comments total)

This exact thing was posted this spring. Only it was a different URL. I spent a whole night refreshing this instead of writing an essay.
posted by SoftRain at 9:20 PM on August 7, 2004

yeah, I had an install of it running on my site for a while.
posted by angry modem at 9:31 PM on August 7, 2004

that 'stuff' link above is this kid who would show up every now and then on Comedy Central's The Man Show. they would send the kid around college campuses to approach women and ask them out on dates...usually with some cheesy, dirty pick-up line.

of course, this was back when TMS was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla.
posted by NationalKato at 10:12 PM on August 7, 2004

I used the original code to make this variation.
posted by dogwelder at 12:30 AM on August 8, 2004

Wow, bandwidth theft on top of bandwidth theft on top of copyright squickiness. How... exciting.
posted by Dreama at 1:18 AM on August 8, 2004

The original source code for the LiveJournal image feed.
posted by filmgoerjuan at 2:19 AM on August 8, 2004

Thank you for making that statement, Dreama. I noticed a serious spike in my bandwidth usage last month, and lo and behold the cause was me posting some pics at Livejournal (hosting them on my domain), and them getting snagged by many pages like this ... and then people stealing them off of there and hot linking them (to post them in their own Livejournals, to get snagged again by these pages, and stolen by yet more people to infinity). I am not happy about these LJ image "collectors". There are way too many of them out there.
posted by Orb at 3:10 AM on August 8, 2004

LJ users won't think it's the "wrong" thing to do as long as the FAQ instructs on how to do it, somewhere in there it might be good to clarify "can't be just any old server and image, it has to be yours, mmmmkay?". Or just explain why people with their own servers (and images) aren't too happy about bandwidth theft...
posted by dabitch at 4:16 AM on August 8, 2004

A week (or two) ago I came across some instructions on how to set your LiveJournal account to avoid the LJ image stealer. So far it seems to have worked.
posted by miftik at 6:36 AM on August 8, 2004

I've had this script running on my own site for my own use since the link was first posted here. I look at it a few times throughout each day, and the results really are quite interesting.
The majority of the images are quiz results and teenage girls posting pictures of themselves or their friends. I've gotten 2 goatse and 1 tubgirl so far, and a few other disturbing images. But every once in a while you get lucky and hit on something really interesting.
posted by sinical at 8:10 AM on August 8, 2004

Loved the "bears." As for "cute guys," I quibble.
posted by digaman at 9:03 AM on August 8, 2004

posted by quonsar at 9:04 AM on August 8, 2004

I didn't think the "cute guys" were that cute either. ; )
posted by SisterHavana at 11:43 AM on August 8, 2004

The "cute guys" are downright scary..
posted by dawna at 3:41 PM on August 8, 2004