Do you use Firefox? You could right-click the image and choose "block images from metachat.org" and that should take care of it. I don't know if you can do that in IE.

Ghostzilla

Lynx, lynx, lynx.

Using firefox with adblock, you can just adblock that one image without disabling other images.

There are RSS feeds on the sidebar, too. You could maybe read the site through a service like Bloglines?

Ghostzilla

HAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAAA!

How have I not seen that before? Hilarious. I'm glad some cleverbastard developer is out there fighting for the poor, downtrodden masses.

You can? Then why the hell have I had a 168 x 341 pixel piece of paper taped in the upper left corner of my screen for the last five months?

With opera you can use your own style sheet and make it look like whatever you want.

you can turn off images in Firefox preferences too, under content. Unclick "Load Images".

IE and Firefox also support user style sheets that arse_hat mentions for Opera. Here's how to do it in Firefox:
1. Find your chrome folder in your profile folder (how to find your profile folder if you don't know.)
2. Open userContent.css with a text editor like Notepad (or if userContent.css doesn't exist there should be a sample called userContent-example.css, in which case copy that and rename it userContent.css and edit that).
3. Insert the following in the file:
img[src="bunnyhead.gif"] { display: none !important; }
4. Save the file (make sure it keeps the .css extension) and exit.
5. Restart Firefox and visit metachat. Et voila, il n'y a plus de "bunnyhead"

If you're using Opera or IE the syntax should be the same (it's just vanilla CSS) but you'll have to figure out the name/location of user style sheets for your browser. (and note that this will hide any image anywhere whose source is "bunnyhead.gif")

User style sheets can be a really powerful tool to make sites behave the way you want them to. Mine (for Firefox) has code to highlight links that open in new windows, to turn off blink and marquis, to force a different appearance for visited links, etc. A little search-engining turns up lots of info on how to do all sorts of things.
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timefactor, cool reply. I'm just to laaaazy. Opera will allow you to apply an individual style sheet to an individual web site. I have not used FF for more than a year so I wonder is there a plugin for that?

arse_hat: Not a plugin, but Firefox 1.5 and beyond support per-site stylesheets. Mine for MetaChat looks like this:

@-moz-document domain(metachat.org) {
   img[src$="bunnyhead.gif"], #box, #right {
      display: none;
   }
   
   body {
      background-image: none !important;
   }
   
   #left p {
      padding-left: 9px !important;
   }
}

Optimized for furtive work browsing!

I just adblock the one image in Firefox.

I also block images from metachat.org in Firefox. Works perfectly with no programming knowledge needed.