Periodically, I go over my website logs. I'm getting something like a million hits a month and about 10 gigs of bandwidth traffic (which in itself is flabergasting as this is an I-love-me website). A lot of people link directly to the strips in the comic archive. Annoying, but I can live with that. Since I'm still below my bandwidth allocation, I don't mind, really, and I can't be assed to write an htaccess file to limit the referrers.
Sometimes though, I'm worried about the state of humanity. People hot linking comic strips? I can handle. People hot linking pictures from my portfolio and taking them *scarily* out of context? I get worried. Not as in, OMG they're going to steal my identity or start stalking me (and lets face it, most of the time it's from emo kids on myspace). More of the “what the fuck are they thinking” sort…
Case and point:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nickcerta/
http://myspace.com/plusplusminus
http://myspace.com/risingsunmusicnet
The myspace accounts are typical of all that is wrong with myspace, but that's irrelevant. What is freaky is that they both link images completely out of context. The LJ one is sorta in context, but still, wrong.