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I have a long list of "bloggables" from different blogs and yesterday, I found something really funny that I want to share with you.

I "stumbled upon" Push A Pixel. This blog is all about art, design, photography, and Justin, the author of the blog, features different kinds of art/design and artists.

I've only read a couple of his posts and I've enjoyed all of them. You might want to add him to your blogroll or blogs you visit because he's got something interesting everytime. He's in my bookmarks already.

Anyway, I found this hilarious post about image leechers. If you're not familiar with the term, they are those who use images from someone else's site or server and posts them on their blog or site without hosting the images on their own server. They steal bandwidth and, I completely agree with Justin, they're just rude.

What's funny is, he and a friend came up with this idea of sweet revenge - replacing those images with something nasty without the thief knowing it. The result? You better check out his post here: Image Leechers Pay the Price! (NSFW)

It was so funny that I still can't get over it. LOLz! And one of the "victims" is actually a Filipino. I wanted to warn him or tell him about it but it'll ruin the whole thing. Hahaha. Serves them right.

Now, that made me wanna check my own backlinks or inbound links. The thing is, my blog is still hosted by Blogger so I was only able to check inbound links for my domain - www.justanotherpixel.net. I used Compu-Rx Backlink Checker and it showed 2,133 results. Most of them were from blogrolls or links from comments I posted. But, it was surprising that there were people who actually shared some of my tutorials with their friends and some who actually added me to their blogroll. So, because of that, I'm organizing my blogroll and hopefully, by next week, I've cleaned it up a bit.

I'm wondering if there's any way that I can check if I have my own image leechers out there. I can't really check them because my images are mostly hosted by Blogger, Google and PhotoBucket. Not that it matters since I'm still not paying for bandwidth but I just want to check.

I'm planning on having my blog hosted somewhere else by the end of this year. I hope I won't have image leechers, too. But, if I do, I'll do exactly the same thing with them as what Push A Pixel did to these image/bandwidth thieves.