March 29, 2004

3:36 AM

I've found the most incredible page on angelfire that just has to be shown to Metafilter. The problem is, well, it's angelfire...

The author is a russian woman who gives no contact details on her website. I'd love to share it with MeFi, but mirroring the images seems potentially dangerous. Thoughts?
posted by twine42 to (16 comments total)

It's not the woman riding a motorcycle through Chernobyl is it? Because that one has been posted before.

I'm really sorry if that came across snarky, but I haven't had my coffee yet.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 3:58 AM on March 29, 2004

can I just ask how the blue b*****y f**k I managed to miss that twice in under a month?

Godamnit. Oh well.

Okay, as a hypothetical then...?
posted by twine42 at 4:07 AM on March 29, 2004

Link it through FreeCache?

Not an ideal solution, as the caching doesn't seem to stick to subsequent links in the same site, just to the first one; but it would work well for links where the main focus is on a single page.
posted by rory at 4:30 AM on March 29, 2004

incidentally, i think that page has survived slashdotting twice - i guess it has a special deal with the hosting company (/. don't cache for people, do they?)
posted by andrew cooke at 7:09 AM on March 29, 2004

Why the fear of angelfire? Is it mean... or fragile?
posted by silusGROK at 7:51 AM on March 29, 2004

silusGROK--Angelfire and many other free hosts have pretty tight limits on daily download volumes. A link to MeFi, and enough people would click through to hammer it quickly, frustrating everyone else.

Plus, it has popups'n'stuff.

Back to the original question--I haven't checked, but it may be archived at archive.org.
posted by adamrice at 8:06 AM on March 29, 2004

What does b*****y stand for? I can't find an appropriate adjective with the correct number of letters.
posted by jjg at 9:25 AM on March 29, 2004

adamrice -- Oh. I thought Angelfire was a blogger.

Heh.
posted by silusGROK at 9:34 AM on March 29, 2004

blooody
posted by goethean at 12:06 PM on March 29, 2004

jjg: I think the missing letters are u-g-g-e-r - it's a Britishism.
posted by misteraitch at 12:13 PM on March 29, 2004

I read it as "blue butterfly fuck." Not sure what that says about me.
posted by MrMoonPie at 12:43 PM on March 29, 2004

Slashdot posted that link twice and there's been no fallout over the issue.
posted by shepd at 12:45 PM on March 29, 2004

Wow, never noticed this link before. Very cool, in an eerie kinda' way.
BTW, there IS contact information on the last page, albeit snail-mail
posted by jmd82 at 3:10 PM on March 29, 2004

Here is a mirror of the site that appears to have more bandwidth.

Signed, the guy whose blog is currently #1 in Google for "Chernobyl motorcycle."
posted by kindall at 4:48 PM on March 29, 2004

I was going to suggest linking to it via archive.org's Wayback Machine, assuming they have a suitable copy. But the FreeCache solution may be a better way and it's being done by the Wayback Machine guys.
posted by Nelson at 5:06 PM on March 29, 2004

Thanks guys.

And yes, for some reason "blue buggery fuck" is a favourite term of confusion and dispair for me...
posted by twine42 at 12:24 AM on March 30, 2004