Ranty. Bewildered. If you live in a country other than the U.S., you've probably had some access issues with various sites from time to time. For whatever reason, some sites don't want you to see their precious words or images if you're not a yanqui, and use a variety of redirection methods to thwart your yearning mind. Whevs, right? Assholes. But, here's one that breaks my tiny brain... →[More:]

By coincidence, I've run into the site dominomag.com, several times over the past couple of days... once when I was doing a search about collage or assemblage or something, once in an orange swan post on mefi, and I don't remember the other path that led me to this "guide to living with style". *rolls eyes*

Anyway, dominomag has gone through all the trouble to secure a Greek domain name, so that they can redirect me there just to give me the 403 middle finger:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

They actually send me to dominomag.gr for this little love letter, which is kind of bizarre since they could have dissed me directly from the .com. What makes it especially weird is that a Gr domain is a big old pain in the butt to acquire. This site says:

.GR Domain Name: Must provide tax office number, Greek ID card number, type of business, (FEK) number/date (greek companies), photocopy of Greek ID or passport, photocopy of document containing tax registry number.

and charges $250 for a registration fee.

Really? You're going through all that trouble to say, "fuck you"? You shouldn't have, really... I would have been satisfied with any old "you do not have permission to view this page" directly from the main site, but thanks for thinking of me!

a little detour to anonymouse has allowed me to view your wondrous and magical "shopping in palm springs" and "ten tidiness tips" anyway, suckahs. shut up i hack you.