Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends
Has DiskWarrior's Eddy award been statue-napped?
Earlier tonight during Shawn King's Your Mac Life show, a chat room participant delivered a chilling warning to Alsoft, publishers of the venerable and vital DiskWarrior utility: a cherished possession, the 2007 Eddy award for DiskWarrior, was being held hostage in an undisclosed location. Indeed, the kidnappededdy.com site does clearly show a rather unhappy-looking award with a succession of rambling, barely-comprehensible ransom demands... cigars, bacon, tofu, birdseed -- either these people have a serious dietary problem or someone copied Wile E. Coyote's shopping list by mistake.Our crack investigative team has run around looking very busy for the past few minutes, and our sources have all been dragged inside from their eclipse-watching parties to answer our urgent calls for information. We have reason to believe that the reprobates and ne'er-do-wells at Ambrosia Software are involved in some way with this award situation, and we can only hope that the wayward statue is quickly and safely returned to its owners -- unscathed and unscratched.
Thanks to Mat, Shawn King, and "Mr. X."
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Big John said 12:02AM on 2-21-2008
I love when Mac devs find creative ways to advertise!
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Ken Collins said 12:12AM on 2-21-2008
-=>> curl -I http://kidnappededdy.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:10:51 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 394
DJCarbon43 said 12:27AM on 2-21-2008
The link to the ransom demands: http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii165/kidnappededdy/
and to Ambrosia: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~jchamplin/kidnappededdy/1.html
DJCarbon43 said 12:32AM on 2-21-2008
just tried a URL hack on the http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~jchamplin/kidnappededdy/1.html link, changed it to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~jchamplin/kidnappededdy/2.html
which if you click the "back" button in the page that comes up, directs to http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~jchamplin/kidnappededdy/1a.html
Big John said 12:38AM on 2-21-2008
@Ken: You mean not every Mac user runs Mac exclusively? I am shocked to hear that! Might want to let Parallels and VM Ware know, they should probably close up shop.
ColonelSmith said 12:40AM on 2-21-2008
I just noticed that, Ambrosia is definitely behind this.
ColonelSmith said 12:57AM on 2-21-2008
It's as easy as just looking at the source xD
Big John said 12:31AM on 2-21-2008
@Ken: You mean not every Mac user runs Mac exclusively? I am shocked to hear that! Might want to let Parallels and VM Ware know, they should probably close up shop.
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DJCarbon43 said 12:35AM on 2-21-2008
There is an email address: kidnappededdy@gmail.com
Thats: kidnappededdy {AT} gmail d0t com (in case it gets caught by the spam blockers the first time :)
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Lee said 2:24AM on 2-21-2008
LOL! This is hillarious! Have you read through the demands. Too funny.
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Simon Arch said 3:24AM on 2-21-2008
How much you want to bet this all leads up to Alsoft being bought out by Ambrosia, or the two companies merging somehow?
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umijin said 6:14AM on 2-21-2008
I think the next time I have to wait two months for them to mail a CD-Rom with the DiskWarrior boot disk I purchased online, I'll hold their Eddy hostage too.
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Cowfodder said 8:05AM on 2-21-2008
Has anyone tried to email them? If so what, if any, reply did you get?
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krye said 8:39AM on 2-21-2008
What is this like a MacHeist wanna be?
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matt.sadewitz said 9:25AM on 2-21-2008
I'm giving the kidnappers props for the Calvin & Hobbes reference.
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Joseph Agreda said 10:50AM on 2-21-2008
The birdseed was a dead giveaway. Hector must be gettin' hungry!
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