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Sex and "The Kids"

Aug 08, 2010 13:15

Jason and I recently saw The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko's film about the children of a lesbian couple finding the sperm donor who is their natural father. We really enjoyed it--it's one of the best depictions of marriage that I've ever seen on screen and the acting is fantastically unstudied ( Read more... )

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firstfrost August 8 2010, 19:14:06 UTC

Clicking on the link gets intercepted by IMDB, which instructs me to re-enter the link and the reload. I've never seen a web site block linking like this - what's going on here?

lillibet August 8 2010, 19:47:37 UTC

That is bizarre. It's doing the same thing for me. There doesn't seem to be anything special about the URLs. I wonder if it's a temporary thing or some link-busting strategy they're trying. Weird. Sorry if that's annoying.

firstfrost August 8 2010, 20:00:51 UTC

I started experimenting with my own links (I was especially wondering if it had something to do with blocking the LJ link-intercept middleman thing). It does seem to be movie-specific, as none of the other ones I tested did the intercept. I wondered if it was "adult" content, but my other tests didn't trigger it. (Not that I could get IMDB to pull up any of the titles I think of as explicitly "porn" - either they don't have them, or there's some "yes, really, show me" setting I didn't find.)
http://web.mit.edu/boojum/www/test.html

(This is kind of a digression from your original post, though - sorry!)

lillibet August 8 2010, 20:05:04 UTC

No worries--that is really odd.

minkrose August 10 2010, 00:13:29 UTC

It started happening lately - it's related to LJ taking vendor credit for links that you post. I think they said they fixed it, but they didn't really? I wasn't keeping up very closely.

It's some tricky bit of code that's messing up link forwarding. IMDb links haven't worked properly from LJ in months.

firstfrost August 10 2010, 00:21:39 UTC

I was also suspicious of the vendor credit redirection, and I had thought that I had ruled out it being LJ-specific with my test page, but I now realize it was probably a browser cache issue on my end, having cached the "reload this" image. Oops.

Maybe IMDB is catching everything coming from that redirection site on purpose, though then I wonder how they're being annoyed by it.

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