Cute

[pne]

Psst! Everyone talk about behind 's back!

Comments

[kamara.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I love stuff like this. *amused*

[conuly]

This makes three times in the past 24 hours.

The font is messed up on the usernames.

[bobert225.livejournal.com]

They look fine on a white background, which is what they were optimized for. Change the background color, and thats when it looks bad.

[conuly]

Actually, it's on the white background that it looks wrong. It was fine on my friends page, but here on the comment page it looks fake.

conuly

That's so I can compare, and make sure I'm not crazy. Hold on....

[conuly]

Yup, I was right. It looks wrong on this comment page.

[pne.livejournal.com]

It's a bit smaller than the default, if that's what you mean. Yeah.

[asciident]

When I turned on referrer logging, I noticed they were the wrong color and aligned improperly. It would never fool me. ;)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Aligned improperly, yes (though that may be fixable by judicious diddling with the <img> tag's "align" and/or "style" attributes), but "wrong colour" is more debatable.

It's pretty close to the colour my browser uses for visited links; I presume that was the effect that was intended.

If your browser uses a different colour for visited links (say, because you customised it), then the effect won't work.

But I'll guess that 90% of LiveJournal uses a stock MSIE with few to no customisations.

[asciident]

They were orange when I checked, and I leave opera to the normal blue and purple. On my style, however, links are all pink. So, yes, I imagine that for most people looking at this on a customised friends page, it would look very wrong indeed. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

The text in the image is purplish for me.

[asciident]

I miswrote; they're a deep orange-red.

This is the trouble with images. ;) It's more or less the same for me in Opera, but in out-of-the-box IE, it's the incorrectly colored, improperly aligned, and in the wrong font.
http://www.callete.com/misc/wrongcolor.png
Using Verdana instead of what looks like it might be Arial might've been more convincing! Memes are silly. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

While slightly different, the colours look similar enough that they'd have fooled me.

I had to look a couple of times before I saw the difference.

But yeah, I suppose the font is off.

[conuly]

And not underlined.

[pne.livejournal.com]

This makes three times in the past 24 hours.

It's what they call a "meme".

Which sheeple will go and copy.

I did so, too, because I found it amusing.

[conuly]

I know it is. It's just a fast spreading one.

Sheeple, sheeple, sheeple. Here is the meme, here are the sheeple, read the comments, where are all the people?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Honest, ossifer, I'm not under the affluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am.

It's just that the drunker I sit here, the longer I get.

[asciident]

I can't see these images :P Haven't seen them on anyone's though.

[asciident]

Oh, I just realised why. It requires referrer logging, and I don't typically send referrers. ;)

[pne.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Without referrer, you get (IIRC) zmey2 or something like that. Or maybe nothing.

[asciident]

Just broken images. :)

[angharad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's who I see.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

eridanusus is such a slag!

^_^

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Screw him. And her. And them. Why can't they just make up their mind instead of pretending to be lots of people?

... Though now that I think about it, you're one of the few people I can think of who can talk about themselves behind their own back! At least, if it involves the body or the LiveJournal account or other such shared resource, rather than individual people.

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

And yes. We can. And do. lol. Every so often we'll check our email and have one telling us "so and so wrote to us and said such and such", it's kind of amusing when it's not creepy.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm gonna bite, only cause I'm having a blonde moment and don't have the time to figure it out.

How'd you do that? :P

[pne.livejournal.com]

It's not my image, but the web server hosting it appears to evaluate the 'referer' (sic) header that most browsers send when retrieving an image in a page (or when following a link); that way, the server knows that the image is retrieved from, say, http://www.livejournal.com/users/sovereigna/friends and can create an image on-the-fly that says sovereigna.

I think that the reason it'll work on the comment page (where the referer header cannot identify the user fetching the image) is that the server caches the combination of IP address + browser identification string ("user-agent" header) and will send back the last username it knew for that combination, so if you read the entry shortly after reading your friends page, it'll still say sovereigna for you.