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Famlove.cn is an offensive blog scraping site!

I’m writing this post so that when anyone searches famlove.cn, the google results they get show this title.

Here’s why famlove.cn and anyone associated with it, is being awarded the ASSHAT OF THE DAY AWARD. Many thanks to Mark, from Blogitude, for the permission to use his award when I see fit.

The reason the site found at http://www.famlove.cn (and no, they don’t get a link from me, you can paste that into your browser) is to many, a scraper site more offensive than the typical scraper sites, is because they aren’t just scraping (stealing) posts written by others, they actually post them in their entirety, and then byline them to the orginial author, thus giving the impression that the original author has willingly contributed the work to that site.

Though I’d heard about this site through a WordPress help forum posting from another victim, I hadn’t actually been a victim of this blog until today, when my Ceiling Cat Saved My Children post was stolen, posted in full at the site, with a byline implying I’d given it to them. I’ve screen capped that for your viewing pleasure.[1]

And so, I began the list of things necessary to report such a blog. I first, went there and demanded my post be removed. Of course, the comment will be “held in moderation” but I screen capped the submission to prove they were told.[2] I then looked up the domain name and obtained hosting information.[3] [4] Next, I went to the WordPress forums, to share that information with others and save them the trouble.

Coming back to continue with the reporting of this scumbag, I found a post from one of the WordPress staffers letting us know the scumblog’s info had been added to a blog dedicated to helping people deal with scrapers. Bravo! Seeing that as the first google result for a search of famlove.cn inspired me to write this post and add my title to the google results page for famlove.cn. Nothing like a little bad press to let someone know the list of people who’d like to see them shut down (to speak lightly) is growing.

So, my friends… if you’d like to do the same, write your own post with their name (famlove.cn) in the title of your post, using their name as tags, and let’s make it a point that from here on in, when anyone searches for that blog, they find nothing but pages of google results for people who are willing to say famlove.cn stinks… and the owner stinks worse for doing what they’re doing.

I do thank you!

Links to view screen-caps:

[1] Stolen Post
[2] Cease and Desist Demand
[3] Domain Host Information 1
[4] Domain Host Information 2

Other posts about blog scrapers:
(If you have one, leave me a comment with the url and I’ll link it up right here in the post!)

1. Fracas - Content Thieves are Vermin
2. Fracas - Blog Scrapers and Content Thieves - Turning The Tables
3. Fracas - Where org org is a blog scraping theft site
4. Yours?

And you know, this post would be the perfect one to share with others so that this blogger is shamed out of existence. Choose from the icons below and be social about stopping scrapers!

As I do each Saturday morning, I was enjoying my cup of dark roast Arabica bean coffee (brewed strong enough to grow Joey Lawrence’s hair back*) and reading the latest over at TransWorldNews, when this bit of news caused a hand-shaking, heart palpitating minor anxiety attack.

Wait. That was probably the coffee.

No matter, this news…

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are about to have six children, but say they aren’t stopping there. The actress is pregnant with their fifth and sixth child but is already talking about adopting again. She and Pitt already have a biological daughter, an adopted daughter and two adopted sons.

“We keep thinking, ‘Is there ever going to be a time when we don’t have kids in the house?

…this news upset me so much, I did what, as the author of the Sunday Lolcat Scripshers, everyone would expect me to do.

I turned to Ceiling Cat and asked Ceiling Cat to save my children from Angelina Jolie.

You see, I have children… three. Sometimes, even though I love them dearly, I actually make jokes about them. I couldn’t help but fear the thought that, while recovering from the birth of her twins… Angelina Jolie might be reading blogs on the interweave and come across mine. She might think I’m a bad mom, that I don’t really want my children… and then she’d have to adopt them away from me.

Yes, I know, the fraccy children are older, but it all makes sense. She already has several young ones, and what new mom doesn’t wish she had some older children to help with the diapering and the extra laundry and all?

It’s not like Brad would be doing that. He might break a nail.

So I, in fear (because I really do love those little original fraccers) knelt down and humbled myself to Ceiling Cat and I learned something really important.

If one becomes still, and really listens… Ceiling Cat will speak to you.

Ceiling Cat spoke to me, and told me to create the lolebrity caption you see here, and upload it to the icanhascheezburger site. Ceiling Cat told me that if I also shared this lolebrity caption with all of you, and raincoaster… that my children would be safe from the claws of the Brangelina.

I, and all the other bloggers over at Humor-Blogs do hope it’s true.

You can help keep my children safe from the Brangelina too. Choose one (or more) of the following ways.

1. Click here and help my blog get to #2 at Humor-Blogs

2. Click here and vote my Brangelina caption a five hamburger rating over at icanhascheezburger

3. Go visit raincoaster’s newest site, lolebrity.net, because finding her new site in a link in the WordPress forums inspired this post and she should get the blame credit for that, so stop by and say hi to her there.

4. Choose one of the following icons to click and go share this post.

* Disclaimer: Fracas doesn’t have a problem with bald on guys… obviously. Fracas has a problem with guys who fake reasons for being bald. Hey… just be ok with it because lots of women are actually ok with it.

Last week there was some confusion over whether or not the kohlraboobies featured would qualify as 1 or 2 of a person’s 5-a-day. To avoid confusion this week, I chose to feature some good old fashioned meat!

Indeed. The most prized part of this meat is the siphon, which may be eaten raw, consumed sashimi style with soy sauce and wasabi, or cooked up into a nice Chinese hot pot soup.

I can hear many of you now. Ouch?

What about grinding up this meat to the consistency of hamburger. Mix it with equal parts crumbs and an egg or two and make patties! Saute or grill and you’ve got one heck of a burger!

Now that I’ve got your attention, please take a deep breath and relax. Would I steer you wrong?

Come now.

Today’s food porn is none other than the Geoduck Clam. Pronounced gooey-duck or gwee-duck, it’s a species of large saltwater clam (Panope generosa), native to the northern Pacific coasts of Canada and the USA. The name seems to have originated from an Native American word meaning to dig deep, and indeed… check out this clip (originating from Fisheries Canada) to see how a Geoduck Clam is harvested.

Click the thumbnail images accompanying the recipe for a larger version of this week’s Friday Food Porn… the Prized Meat of the Geoduck Clam. But please, only click if you’re confident enough not to let it bother you; Fracas cares about your self-esteem! Well, maybe not all of you. Some of you over at Humor-Blogs seem to think you’re all mighty. I’m sure you don’t need me to care about your self esteem, so click away!

Pacific Rim Geoduck Carpaccio

Recipe courtesy Karen Malody
Sesame Spinach:
1 bunch or 8 ounces spinach, stems removed, washed and trimmed
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds

Geoduck Carpaccio:
24 (1/2 to 1 ounce) thinly sliced pieces geoduck siphon, pounded (might I say… ouch)

2 green onions (scallions), green part only, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons sliced pickled ginger

In a large saucepan of boiling salted water, blanch the spinach for about 1 minute, or until leaves are just wilted. Drain and rinse under cold water until the spinach is thoroughly cooled. Drain well and wrap spinach in clean, dry towel. Squeeze to remove excess moisture. Place spinach in medium bowl, sprinkle on sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, and salt and toss to mix. Set aside until ready to use. Sprinkle with sesame seeds for garnish just before serving.

Place a portion of the Sesame Spinach in the center of 4 plates. Or, place spinach on 1 large platter for buffet or family-style serving. Arrange 6 geoduck slices around the spinach. Drizzle some sauce on the geoduck and garnish with a sprinkling of green onions. Serve a bit of the sauce on the side as a dipping sauce, if desired. Place pickled ginger in center of salad in a mound.

Dipping Sauce:
2 tablespoons chopped shallots
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon Asian barbecue sauce
2 teaspoons hot bean sauce
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons Chinese Shoaxing wine or dry Sherry
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 cup chicken stock
1 teaspoon sugar

In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine shallots, garlic, Asian barbecue sauce, hot bean sauce, and hoisin sauce and cook for 30 seconds. Add wine and cook for 1 minute. Add soy sauce, stock and sugar and cook for 2 minutes. Adjust with sugar, to taste. Transfer mixture to a blender and process until liquefied. Let cool.

More information about Geoduck Clams can be found at Agriculture Canada

[Geoduck Images found here, and here. Images cropped or altered to protect identities while displayed at fracas.]

And though we all know size isn’t everything… fracas is pretty sure there are some folks out there that will just want to compare, so click one or two of these little icons and share the mighty meat!

Who you gonna call when you can’t even count on a Ghostbuster anymore?

Jennifer Butler Murray, wife of Comedian/Actor Bill Murray, has filed for divorce, citing a cornucopia of bad behaviour which as she claims, “destroyed the marital relationship betwwen the parties and plaintiff no longer feels safe being in the presence of defendant.”

Murray has had a productive career from his appearances on Saturday Night Live to a string of successful movies. In What About Bob, Murray played a hapless obsessive compulsive whose behaviour wins over the family of his Psychiatrist but drives the Psychiatrist over the edge. Groundhog Day found Murray playing a manipulative jerk of a Weatherman who, when he discovers that each day he wakes up and it’s the same day again, uses that to his advantage to win over the heart of his co-worker.

Estranged wife Jennifer Butler may feel that his real life behaviour is a little closer to his Groundhog Day character and she may just resort to quoting the 1984 movie when she refers to her severed relationship with Murray.

Ghostbusters (1984) is the comedic tale of three ghost exterminators in the city of New York.
Three ghostbusters, (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis) are called upon to have a paranormal showdown with goblins, poltergeists, and other demons, which are invading an apartment and taking possession of people.

Its most famous line is delivered by one of the Ghostbusters after an encounter with a ghost: “He slimed me.”

Fracas wishes the best to Jennifer and should the reports be true, hopes the former Ghostbuster finds a nice place he can check in for awhile to bust a few of his own ghosts.

[Ghostbusters Quote: Source]
[Ghostbusters Photo: Source]

Damn some people. I’ve had to go down on Kevin again, and it’s really starting to tick me off. I’m sure he’s a fine person and all, but things in the fraccy world aren’t getting done for all the attention I’ve been paying to this problem.

You see, I signed up for Humor-Blogs a short while ago, and while I thought I’d be happy to just get to the top 30 and make the main page, once I started climbing the page, I found that more and more, my thoughts revolved around getting to be on top. Briefly, I found myself in the #2 spot, behind Kevin from Pointless Banter, and it was good. I started scheming how I might topple a 15 Minute Lunch but before you know it, Kevin had risen again. Damn him. Damn, damn, damn.

It’s not that I hadn’t noticed or anything. I’d been begging fraccers to click me up again, even offering to post a picture of my new bra if they did… but to make the whole situation even more embarassing, the fraccy readers started talking about it.

So I shall explain how it works over at that haven for boobs.

Once upon a time, those who joined were reviewed and assigned a base score by the reviewer. Afterwards, the clicks from your site to theirs were are tracked and added to your base score to comprise your total score. As time went on, Humor-Blogs became popular and the reviews stopped, each entrant instead being assigned a base score of 50 with their clicks then added to that. The clicks are tabulated based on the last 30 days worth, so clicks must continue to happen… or the blog’s score will go down as clicks older than 30 days drop off the tally.

I’m going to whine a bit now, because Kevin joined earlier than I, and so received a review giving him a base score of 68 whereas I have had to endure a base score of only 50. I happen to think my boobs are more entertaining than Kevin’s, but be that as it may, I must suffer with a lower base score.

To continue whining… Kevin also, happened to be mentioned on CNN the other day, and thus will be receiving a 38F’s worth of traffic while I, with my 36D’s will have to compete against that for the click-throughs to add to my score.

So you see… poor, poor fracas battling mean old Kevin is like David battling Goliath.

(Is this working? Do you feel propelled to rush out to a library and log into every single computer there so you can visit fracas and click through to Humor-Blogs to boost my score? Of course, I would never ask anyone to do that…)

So as you can see by these lovely screen captured images of our standings last night, while I may have indeed (as Dagny put it) gone down on Humor-Blogs, I think I can still hold my head high. I have managed to stay very close in click-throughs, to a Goliath. I promise not to give up though. I promise that if you keep clicking, I’ll keep trying. I may have to show more boobs in order to keep the clicks happening… but for my fraccy readers, I’ll do just about anything… I will, as God as my witness… stop going down on Humor-Blogs!

But if you want to email (or otherwise contact) CNN and give them a dressing down for not doing a story where they could quote me… I won’t complain. If you cc me your letter, I’ll even write a post about you.