This is pretty cool. I wonder if there's a way to do this without having all the semicolon and curly brace punctuation on the right side... Perhaps something akin to coffee script which can be compiled back into PHP.
It'd make debugging/refactoring someone else's 10,000 line mess of PHP logic they wrote into one file in 2002 much easier. :)
Update: The images APPEAR to have flipped back to normal somehow... I'm having Brian put his images on a server we control from now on (just in case it happens again). So hopefully we don't risk offending our partners/customers/investors again. This has been an amusing 16 hours.
That would be a pretty awesome way to troll scrapers!
We've had Gmail image caching turned on for a while and these images just started showing up like this today... it seems like Photobucket/tinypic just swapped the images out from under us a couple hours ago. Brian has been sending emails with these images for at least a year.
Also, I feel slightly responsible for not enforcing good practices... never occurred to me to investigate how he was putting those images in his emails.
In other amusing news, I want to check this out without Google image caching... but first need to sign up for a non-google hosted email address since I forgot the password to my Yahoo mail account from all those years back.
Update::
I used a disposable email box that doesn't do Gmail image caching, we're getting the same results:
The real problem is that all previous emails sent now display cleavage and a cat (arguably two of the more popular things on the internet) instead of the correct signature images we had before we went to dinner. We can fix emails moving forward, but it's hard to take emails back.
Edit: Scratch that. Some stuff I'm hosting in AWS East is still working. Maybe someone screwed up router configs on the west coast.
Edit: Rollback the scratch. It's oscillating between up and down right now.