[rsayers]

In 2003 or so, I was really amused by the ORLY owl memes, so I collected them and stuck them in a public directory on my webserver. I have no idea how it was found, but at some point my open directory got indexed by google.

I found out because my host emailed me saying I had hit my bandwidth quota for the month... 2 days into said month. So digging through logs I found the biggest offenders, there were forums where people linked just about every image I had.

A little htaccess magic later, any request that came from a non-allowist referer was instead served a rather crude message I quickly put together in MS paint.

No one contacted me about it, but it was amusing watching these threads where people were getting upset when they thought they were going to see funny owl pics.