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[theweaselking]

Quoth Crooks And Liars:

Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here). Davidson gave the template code away to anyone who wanted to use it, but asked that he be given credit when it was used, and told users to host their own image files.

McCain's staff used his template, but didn't give Davidson credit. Worse, he says, they use images that are on his server, meaning he has to pay for the bandwidth used from page views on McCain's site.

And we all know what that means, right?

That's right! Replacing the hotlinked images with more interesting fare! In this case, an announcement!



"Dear Supporters: Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay mariage… particularly marriage between two passionate females. John"

Comments

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

whoa, he's 70?

[jerril]

... this is delicious.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I will try very hard not to die laughing, because that way I can laugh for longer. jerril is right: Delicious.

[matgb]

The techcrunch version is a slightly better version (and got in a day earlier, I meant to link it but my wifi crashed again):
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-hacked/


The guy that did it is also the guy that helped set up sIFR, for which I'm still not sure whether to applaud or loath him for, and the general template is what I used to make my profile not ugly. Well, as not ugly as a MySpace can be. Have to laugh at the dopey staffer though.