So I blinded more people than I expected

[sweh]

My web server logs show over 100 hits for my picture, but very few of them had my LJ entry as the referer. Huh? A quick look shows quite a large number of sites using the "LJ image feed" to generate pages.
eg

  count Referer-URL
      1 "http://rtns.org/ljimages/"
      1 "http://toothpastefordinner.com/livejournal-pictures"
      1 "http://www.chrisbartow.com/lj/"
      1 "http://www.hokahoka.net/lj/"
      1 "http://www.hotelhell.com/lj.php"
      1 "http://www.iamthecheese.com/ljimages.php?n=90"
      1 "http://www.perturb.org/lj_images.php"
      1 "http://www.philsized.com/LOL.php"
      1 "http://www.portalofevil.com/lj.php"
      1 "http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/lj/php"
      2 "http://nonexiste.net/lj.php"
      2 "http://www.nonexiste.net/lj.php"
      2 "http://www.nonexiste.net/lj.php?count=100&refresh=120"
      2 "http://www.wtfpic.com/lj/"
      5 "http://media.admirald.net/ljimages/?n=250&r=Off"
      8 "http://fuzzysquid.com/LJ.php"
     10 "http://www.iamthecheese.com/ljimages.php?n=250"
     13 "http://www.fuzzysquid.com/LJ.php"
     18 ""
     23 "http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/livejournal-pictures.php"

Those poor people deserve all the pain they got!

Apparently you can 'opt out' of the LJ latest image feed by going to the command console and running the command

  set latest_optout yes

but I haven't tested this. It may stop all your posts (as well as images) from appearing in the latest feeds.