Online cookie contest!

[pyesetz]

Everyfur sees a different image above.  If you don't like what you see, please send me a note with corrections.  loganberrybunny: I am unable to pick you out of the crowd of anonymous fans I seem to have on BT-DSL, but if you call in from the Worcester library I should be able to put your name in lights from there.  giza: either your ISP is screwy or there are furs all over the world who read your friends list.

Contest Announcement: Combine two pieces of data from this post to construct a URL that will provide you with more information on how I generate the on-the-fly image above.
Prize: A snail-mailed bag of cookies!  I intend to send a bag to everyone who causes an appropriate line to appear in my website logfile.
Group effort: The cookies go to the person assigned the IP address at the moment when a winning URL was issued.  Splitting the spoils with any helpers you might have had is *your* problem.
Extra credit: My program raw.php (now in color!) contains three "Easter eggs": files for which the content it shows is not the same as what's actually on Furtopia's hard drive.  One of the three is raw.php itself -- it hides its own Easter eggs!  (I amuse myself here by linking to the Greatest Hack Ever.)  For a double-shipment of cookies, send me an email naming one of the other files and saying how you know that raw.php is lying about that file's content.
Hint: No way!  I've already made this too easy.  RL cookies cost real money, you know!
Deadline: I *might* terminate the contest at the end of the year. All attempts must be made by December 10th.

Oh, and I've returned from my vacation at Disney World. Here are some cynical pictures.

Comments

[pyesetz]

Hi!  I'm guessing you are ozarque's daughter, mentioned in her The Language Imperative (which I *might* do a book review for after I finish it).

AOL is a difficult case.  They have their own national network, which connects to the public Internet in only a few spots, one of them being in the Bronx.  As far as the rest of the world is concerned, your computer appears to be located in New York, since that's where data you request has to be sent before you can get it.  After arriving in the Bronx, the data then travels through AOL's private tunnels to your home in Fayetteville or whatever.

My wife prefers crocheting to knitting, but also bakes cookies.  As for me, I prefer working with "easy" stuff like computers.  If a program doesn't come out right, I can just rebake it, over and over, until it's done properly.

You have three hands?  That must be quite useful sometimes.  Thanks for stopping by!

[fibermom.livejournal.com]

You are exactly right, not only about my identity, but also about my place of residence. Good for you! And your explanation was interesting, too. I had no idea. In future, when I am cross with my computer, I will consider whether perhaps it also thinks it is in New York, which might explain its quirks. As to my third hand, I have four children, so of course I need to have at least three hands.