#364: Community norms

For those keeping score: I looked in the Web server logs and it seems the first Bonobo Conspiracy comic image was served at 13:01:49 PDT on September 11, 2005. The time zone is Pacific because my hosting provider has a co-lo in (according to traceroute) San Jose, California. I don't know if the best astrological practice would be to use San Jose as the strip's birthplace, or my own location at the time, which was Waterloo, Ontario. If you do the math on the strip numbers it'll seem like strip #1 ought to have been posted on September 9, but actually it wasn't. I posted three strips at once on the 11th so there'd be more to interest new readers and so I could test the PHP scripts more thoroughly. Three strips means that the cases of "first strip," "last strip," and "strip that is neither first nor last" all have to be handled separately.

When I saw a referral hit from a URL that looked like the URL of a gay porn site, I figured it was just spam again, but it was keyed as being a click-through from the Bonobo Conspiracy ad embedded in my price of gold feed - not a URL I'd expect to see targeted by a referrer-log spammer - so I investigated and it turns out that it was actually a genuine link. I don't know why a gay porn site needs to have a special page reporting the current price of gold; it doesn't seem to have much to do with their main subject matter; but I guess if that's what they want, they're as welcome as everybody else to use my data feed for it. There's no porn on the page I linked to, but the front page of the same site leaves little to the imagination.