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The following year, the band released a box set entitled 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, the title being an homage to Elvis Presley's 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong. The set consisted of four CDs packed with 38 unreleased and 12 rare tracks, as well as a DVD. The box set marked the sales of 100 million Bon Jovi albums and also commemorated the 20th anniversary of the release of the band's first record in 1984.
In November 2004, Bon Jovi was honored with the Award for Merit at the American Music Awards, where they performed a sneak preview of an unfinished song, "Have a Nice Day".
[edit] Have a Nice Day (2005–06)
Main articles: Have a Nice Day (Bon Jovi album) and Have a Nice DayBon Jovi participated in Live 8 on July 2, 2005, where they debuted the full, final version of "Have a Nice Day", alongside "Livin' on a Prayer" and "It's My Life". Bon Jovi's ninth studio album, Have a Nice Day, was released in September 2005. "Have A Nice Day", the first single off the album. The second single, "Who Says You Can't Go Home", was released in the U.S. in early 2006. In the U.S., a duet version of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with country singer Jennifer Nettles of the band Sugarland was released, they also released Welcome To Wherever You Are as the third single. And in May 2006, Bon Jovi became the first Rock & Roll Band to have a #1 hit on Billboard's Hot Country Chart. On February 11, 2007, Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles won the Grammy Award, for "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals" for "Who Says You Can't Go Home". The band also won an award for Best Rock Song at the People's Choice Awards with "Who Says You Can't Go Home."
Soon after the release of Have A Nice Day, the band started gearing up for the new 2005–2006 worldwide Have A Nice Day Tour. This tour, being shorter than previous ones with only seventy-five shows originally planned, took the band to numerous stages and stadiums throughout the world. The tour was a significant commercial success, as the group played to 2,002,000 fans, and the tour grossed a total $191 million. The tour was the third-highest-grossing tour of 2006 taking in just over $131 million, just behind The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang World Tour and Madonna's Confessions Tour. On November 14, 2006, Bon Jovi were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame alongside James Brown and Led Zeppelin.
[edit] Lost Highway (2007–08)
Main articles: Lost Highway (album) and Lost HighwayIn June 2007, Bon Jovi released their tenth studio album, Lost Highway. The album influences the band's rock sound with that of country music following the success of a country version of the band's 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home", a duet with Jennifer Nettles.
To promote the new album, Bon Jovi made several television appearances, including the 6th annual CMT Awards in Nashville, American Idol, and MTV Unplugged, as well as playing at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium.[20] They also performed ten promotional gigs in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Japan. As part of the 'tour', Bon Jovi were the first group to perform at London's new O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) when it opened to the public on June 24, 2007. The 23,000-seater stadium sold out within 30 minutes of tickets being released.[21]
Lost Highway topped the charts in United States, Japan, Australia, Europe, and Canada. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and the albums first single "(You Want To) Make a Memory" was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 2008 Grammy Awards. The albums third single "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" won the CMT Music Award for the Collaborative Video of the Year in 2008.[22] Presenter LeAnn Rimes accepted the award on behalf of the band, as Bon Jovi was not at the awards ceremony.[23] The song was also nominated for the Academy of Country Music Award for Vocal Event of the Year.[24]
In October 2007 the band announced the Lost Highway Tour. Starting with the 10 shows to open the brand new, Newark, New Jersey Prudential Center, the band toured Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and then Europe, finishing in the summer. In early December 2007 the band took time off from their Canadian tour to become the first ever American band to headline the Royal Variety Performance in Liverpool, England, performing in front of the Queen herself.[25] While the band was on tour in Australia, Bon Jovi have landed eight albums in ARIA Charts in the wake of their first tour in 12 years.
The tour was the highest grossing tour of 2008 in Billboard's rankings, with ticket sales of $210.6 million, reported from November 14, 2007 through Nov.11, 2008.[26] In all, 2,157,675 tickets were sold during 2008.[26] Combined with $16.4 million in 2007 from the Newark shows, making a combined gross of $227 million in ticket sales. In Pollstar's calculus for North America, the Lost Highway Tour had the highest gross for 2008 at $70.4 million.[27]
[edit] The Circle and Greatest Hits (2009–present)
Main articles: The Circle (Bon Jovi album) and The CircleIn April 2009, Phil Griffin's documentary on the band, "When We Were Beautiful", debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicling Bon Jovi's ups and downs over 25 years and following the band on their latest Lost Highway tour.
In June 2009, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame. That month they also recorded a cover of the song "Stand By Me" with Iranian singer Andy Madadian, to show solidarity for those affected by political unrest in Iran. Parts of the song were sung in Persian.
On November 10, 2009, the band released their 11th studio album, entitled The Circle. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 163 000 copies in its first week. The album is a return to rock n' roll after their Nashville influenced album, Lost Highway. To promote the album, Bon Jovi performed "We Weren't Born to Follow", the first single off the album, on the result show of the rock week of the TV show, The X-Factor. The song also was performed during the Fest der Freiheit on November 9 in Berlin, a memorial for the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
On December 12, 2009, Bon Jovi were ranked #9 on Billboard's top 25 touring artists of the decade after grossing (US)$419,481,741 from 249 shows, of which 244 were sellouts.[28]
On January 31, 2010, Bon Jovi performed for the first time at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. They performed the songs “We Weren’t Born to Follow” off their new album The Circle, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” from their album Have a Nice Day, and fans voted for the last song and chose “Livin’ on a Prayer.” Bon Jovi was nominated for a 2010 Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for "We Weren't Born To Follow."
Bon Jovi headed out on the road once again on February 19, 2010, embarking on The Circle Tour, their largest tour since the Jersey Syndicate tour in the late 1980s. When it concludes in 2011, the tour will have consisted of 135 shows in 30 countries.[29]
On April 11, 2010, Bon Jovi played in Dallas. A short stream of this show was available through the band's website, and viewers were able to buy tickets to three of their shows in Toronto, Chicago, and New Jersey all of which would happen this coming summer.
On April 19, it was announced that special editions of Bon Jovi albums from 1984 to 2007 will be released. These albums will feature new artwork and photos from the time period of when the albums were released. They will also feature live recordings of select songs on the album recorded on the tour that supported the album. The albums were released on May 11.
Bon Jovi had planned to release a greatest hits album in 2009, but the project got sidelined after the group came up with enough material for a brand new studio album, Jon commenting that "the state of the world at this point in time gave us a lot to write about". That doesn't mean the best-of set has been put on hold forever, Jon says "it will come out in 2010". Along with a few never-before-released songs, the compilation will also feature tracks not featured on Bon Jovi's 1994 Cross Road greatest hits. "It'll be a new greatest hits because the last one was 15 years ago in'94. So you had everything from These Days forward. And what is this my fifth album in this decade? So at least six studio records and a solo thing. And then I'm sure you'll still end up having to put 'Living On A Prayer' on it but there won't be 'Runaway' on it. It won't have the early early stuff because we'll have had more hits since then."[1]
In July 2010 Bon Jovi posted pictures on their Facebook page from the photo shoot for the Greatest Hits album, suggesting a release in late 2010.
[edit] Band members
- Current members
- Jon Bon Jovi – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1983–present)
- Richie Sambora – lead guitar, backing vocals, talkbox (1983–present)
- Tico Torres – drums, percussion (1983–present)
- David Bryan – keyboards, piano, backing vocals (1983–present)
- Hugh McDonald – bass, backing vocals (1994–present, unofficially a member)
- Touring musicians
- Bobby Bandiera – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2003–present – live only)
- Jeff Kazee – organ, backing vocals (2003–06 – live only)
- Lorenza Ponce – violin, backing vocals (2007–09 – live)
- Kurt Johnston – pedal steel, backing vocals (2007 – live)
- Former members
- Alec John Such – bass guitar, backing vocals (1983–94). Returned for one live performance of "Wanted Dead or Alive" in New Jersey in 2001.
[edit] Discography
Main article: Bon Jovi discography
- Studio albums
- Bon Jovi (1984)
- 7800° Fahrenheit (1985)
- Slippery When Wet (1986)
- New Jersey (1988)
- Keep the Faith (1992)
- These Days (1995)
- Crush (2000)
- Bounce (2002)
- This Left Feels Right (2003)
- Have a Nice Day (2005)
- Lost Highway (2007)
- The Circle (2009)
- Compilation albums
- Cross Road: Greatest Hits (1994)
- Tokyo Road: Best of Bon Jovi (2001)
- Greatest Hits (2010)
- Live albums
- Box Sets
[edit] Festival appearances
List of Bon Jovi festival appearances [2][30]
- HullabaLOU Music Festival, Louisville, KY, USA (July 23, 2010)
- Rock in Rio Festival, Madrid, Spain (June 2010)
- Summerfest 2009, Milwaukee, WI, USA (June-July 2009)
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA, USA (April 2009) [3]
- Rock in Rio Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (May-June 2008) [4]
- Live Earth 2007, East Rutherford, NJ, USA (July 2007) [5]
- Summerfest 2007, Milwaukee, WI, USA (June-July 2007) [6]
[edit] Tours
- Bon Jovi Tour
- 7800 Degrees Fahrenheit Tour
- Slippery When Wet Tour
- New Jersey Syndicate Tour
- Keep the Faith Tour
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Tour
- These Days Tour
- Crush Tour
- One Wild Night Tour
- Bounce Tour
- Have a Nice Day Tour
- Lost Highway Tour
- The Circle Tour
[edit] See also
- Best selling music artists
- Bon Jovi discography
- Bon Jovi outtakes
- Jon Bon Jovi
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart
[edit] References
- Chow, Jason (2006). Dimery, Robert. ed. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Quintet Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.
- Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-201-2.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Allmusic.com
- ^ Rollingstone.com
- ^ Dimery 2006 pg. 552, "Bon Jovi did the unthinkable with this album-they turned heavy metal into a pop genre that women would be able to love."
- ^ Buckley 2003, p. 97, "Heavy metal is played by big ugly men with greasy hair and bad teeth. Or so everyone thought until Bon Jovi came along...The 'pop metal' tag is one that will follow Bon Jovi for eternity,"
- ^ BBC.co.uk
- ^ "Bon Jovi History". Historyking.com. http://www.historyking.com/Music-History/Bon-Jovi-History.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ http://www.bonjovi.com/story/news-live/bon_jovi_to_play_in_peru_in_september_2010
- ^ "Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful". Top 40 Charts.com. 2009-04-06. http://top40-charts.com/news/Metal-Hard-Rock/BON-JOVI-WHEN-WE-WERE-BEAUTIFUL--Documentary-Celebrates-Bands-25-Year-Career/47464.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ "Bon Jovi to enter UK Hall of Fame". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2006-10-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6055938.stm. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ Bon Jovi honored at American Music Awards
- ^ Bon Jovi honored at American Music Awards
- ^ "Bon Jovi: Summary". TV.com. CBS Interactive. http://www.tv.com/bon-jovi/person/591904/summary.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ Billboard.com 1987
- ^ Metrolyrics.com
- ^ American-music-awards
- ^ 1988 Pcavote.com
- ^ UK Charts
- ^ "海外グループの歴代アルバム初動売上記録TOP3". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/73631/full/#rk_top3. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ "Everything Bon Jovi". http://www.everythingbonjovi.com/Discography/Albums/132-Sex-Sells.
- ^ MSN.com
- ^ "Bon Jovi sell out first Dome gig". BBC News. April 20, 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6575577.stm. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ "2008 Winners". CMT. 2008. http://www.cmt.com/microsites/cmt-music-awards/2008/winners.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Backstage With Rascal Flatts, LeAnn Rimes, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss". CMT. 2008-04-16. http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1585690/backstage-with-rascal-flatts-leann-rimes-robert-plant-and-alison-krauss.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "43rd Academy of Country Music Awards". CBS. http://www.cbs.com/specials/43acma/. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Bon Jovi top Royal Variety bill". BBC News. 2007-11-06. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7080509.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ a b Waddell, Ray (2008-12-11). "Bon Jovi Scores 2008's Top-Grossing Tour". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/bon-jovi-scores-2008-s-top-grossing-tour-1003921575.story. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ "Madonna biggest 2008 North American tour attraction". Reuters. Yahoo! News. 2008-12-30. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081230/music_nm/us_tours. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Top 25 Touring Artists of the Decade". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/features/top-touring-artists-of-the-decade-1004053065.story. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ^ "Bon Jovi Announces Meadowloands Concerts". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/news/bon-jovi-announces-meadowlands-concerts-1004029629.story. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ^ "Bon Jovi Festival Appearances". Bon Jovi. FanShake. Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. http://www.fanshake.com/artists/bon-jovi/detail/. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
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Retrieve Facebook Comments on Blogger Tutorial/Code by Gil "I found a way Wohahaha" Goldshlager
having been the partial impetus for his advancements (in the Face of Facebook's Complete Failure) in the interface between Facebook Social Plug-ins and Connect with Third Party Websites (mainly Blogger), I feel I should be the first to help those that may not even know what 'frustrated' means unless they tried to grapple with this almost impossible nightmare in the deep dark days of its inception 30 days ago. Here's Gil:
Retrieve Facebook Comments code by Gil Goldshlager:
i've just got to say that for the first time in the history of anything having to do with this application and me using it, I installed this and viewed it with 100% expected results in under three minutes--from logging on to the forum to pressing save on Blogger.I won't say what a 'shocking' genius you are because i'm sure it would only replace all my shock, [swear word], and god-damns with shocks, shocks, and shocks, but: you are a shock genius.and thanks.
2010-08-05 19:33:56
- Gil Goldshlager
- http://forum.developers.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23821
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Retrieve / Manage Comments-Box comments tutorial
Important!
This tutorial is not for how to setup the comments-box plugin,
for this visit: for regular websites | for Tumblr blogs | for Blogger blogs.
This tutorial is for how to retrieve/show/display/pull/grab/manage (or however you want to call it),
all the comments on your site by the Comments-Box plug-in.
Let's start
instructions for Blogger (only)
Now, Blogger doesn't give you a way to create a new blank page,
what it does it is using the same template for each page and let you only change the content.
- But I found a way to bypass it (Wohahaha...^_^)
what we just done is telling Blogger that if the page name is "Facebook Comments" then hide all the and content.
by that we are hiding the regular template and when we will view the page name "Facebook Comments" it will be blank.4. Let's create the page!
go to "Posting" > "Edit Pages" and click on "NEW PAGE"
enter the "Page Title:" this MUST to be exactly "Facebook Comments"
click on "Edit HTML" tab, Download the code, copy & paste it in the textarea. 5. Search for:
// Application ID# - enter your application ID# (Not API Key!) //
var appid = 'YOUR-APP-ID';
and start edit all these variables as you wish.
(until // Background Color ) 6. Click on "PUBLISH PAGE".
7. Done!
visit your page click on "View Page"
(http://------------.blogspot.com/p/facebook-comments.html)
First thanks to 'pingflood' & 'TH_Wesley' who helped me with some of the codes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The variables General for all:// Application ID# - enter your application ID# (Not API Key!) //
var appid = 'YOUR-APP-ID'; // Admin ID# - enter your admin ID# (facebook profile id# in numbers, not a name id) //
var adminid = 'YOUR-ADMIN-ID'; // Limit - number of comments to dispaly (default is '-1' unlimit [99999999999999999]) //
var comments_limit = '-1'; // Width - the width for example '800px' (default is '0' auto) //
var comments_width = '0'; // Margin - the margin of the whole content
// if you changed the width-setting above from '0' (auto), -
// then you may want to change this setting to '0 auto' to center it (default is '0px 15px') //
var comments_margin = '0px 15px'; // Paging - change to 'false' if you don't want pagging (default is 'true') //
var paging_comments = 'true'; // Paging Limit - number of comments per page (default is 10) //
var paging_limit = '10'; // Count - change to 'false' if you don't want comments count (default is 'true') //
var comments_count = 'true'; // Login header - change to 'false' if you want to hide the login header (default is 'true') //
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var dark_style = 'false'; // Background Color (if dark style is 'true') - change to blank '' for transparent (default is '#000' black) //
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Who're Attacking Posterous? How to catch the Denial of Service (DoS) Hacker ...and Get Laid!
August 06, 2010Moving Forward
This morning, our new IP address, which we announced on Wednesday, began suffering a Denial of Service attack just as the old one had. For those of you who recently switched your custom domains to the new IP, you'll find that your site is once again down (which is good news for those of us who milk cows).
We certainly knew there was a risk of this happening, but we were hoping that the attack on the old IP would be the end of it. This morning, our operations team responded by bringing up multiple new servers and reviving the old IP address, which is no longer under attack.
Getting Back Online
If you're a user of a .posterous.com subdomain, a custom domain you purchased through Posterous, or a custom domain that has not yet had its A record updated to the new IP, your site should now be up.
If, unfortunately, you were one of the people who responded promptly to Wednesday's outage (don't understand this one), you'll need to either wait for this attack to end or change your address again to get your site back online.
no offense to those effected, but i don't care about your ritzy "owned" domain problems, I've got my own posterous.com problems--little schadenfreude goes a long way.
At this point, to mitigate future issues as much as possible, we're recommending the following course of action for these users. It's slightly more complicated, but it should be somewhat more durable as well:
If you point your main domain to Posterous (ie: mydomain.com) and DO NOT receive email at that domain: We recommend that you point your www subdomain to posterous.com via a CNAME record, and do the same for your main domain (sometimes referred to as @) if your registrar allows the main domain to use a CNAME record. If yours does not, follow the next steps:
If you point your main domain to Posterous (ie: mydomain.com) and DO receive email at that domain: We recommend that you point your www subdomain to posterous.com via a CNAME record, and you point your main domain to 66.216.125.32 via an A record.
If you point a subdomain to Posterous (ie: blog.mydomain.com): we recommend that you point your subdomain to posterous.com via a CNAME record.
The new CNAME records should follow us as we make any changes to servers in the future, unlike an A record, which must be changed each time. We hope there won't be many changes in the future, but we thought that last week too.
Having trouble? It's understandable, since this stuff isn't always easy. If you can't get this figured out, send me an email personally, at help+jackson@posterous.com (nice guy) with the subject line "Custom Domain". (once again, if you can afford your own website, just get your butler to fix it).
If you can, include who your domain registrar (or other DNS host) is, and ideally provide a screenshot of the screen you're looking at. I'll respond back with detailed instructions tailored to your situation as quickly as I can. (yeah, sorry, no sympathy, and while you're getting your tailor to help, I wear a 40L. how bout something in a classic hounds tooth)
Bulking Up
If you're wondering about the new IP address, it's part of our plan to reinforce our services. Tonight, we'll have an outage at 10p PDT for 2-4 hours while we switch to a new host, datacenter, and significantly beefier servers. We'll also be with a host that has better capabilities for dealing with these types of attacks, and more expertise we could leverage to evade or prevent them in the future.
We're confident that the new move will mean a faster Posterous, higher reliability, and more resiliency to attacks like those we've experienced this week. Of course, this doesn't guarantee we'd survive more attacks, but it will give us a significantly better chance to weather the storm.
Identifying the Source
Many users have asked us about the cause of these attacks (i'd question them first. simple TV Detective Work, or you could play along and pretend like you're interested in their questions, but try to keep them on the line for longer than five minutes, that way you can narrow down their location. Also listen for audible clues, such as any background noise which you may think is insignificant, but which the Forensic DNS Expert will be the first to tell you can provide the greatest advantage in their case. RE: The guy who was trying to be helpful in the Twitter DNS Killer Whale Incident, was identified by his 140 word answering machine message.).
First, a quick explanation about Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Wikipedia has more info, (be careful with the Wikipedia after a huge DoS Attack, some of the Dossers will actually EDIT the Page to their advantage and it may be a day or two before even the most rabid Wikipedians can file an Immediate Removal) but it's often hundreds or thousands of computers making as many requests as they can of a single website. Sometimes these computers are all in one place, but often they are distributed around the world, many times otherwise-innocent systems that had been infected with a virus. The people who control that virus can send instructions for the new attack when the infected systems phone home periodically. (Jesus, are you guys okay? I bet the wife doesn't use that tone of voice when her girlfriends ask what her husband does anymore...'oh, he's the CEO of a Blog'.
The motive of these attacks is often unclear (i like where you're going with it, but i've glanced ahead, and you might not want to tip your cards quite that much. NEXT TIME, try something like: DOES ANYONE HAVE A FRIEND WHO LIKE MAY HAVE SENT A MILLION EMAILS YESTERDAY...I MEAN, IN CASE YOU RECIEVED AN EMAIL WITH A CC ON IT THAT WAS REALLY LONG...?). It could have been an individual hacker/cracker (SORRY, the last person I'd suspect of having the inclination or the ability to pull this off is a Redneck, however, next time you find a COW on the Company's Roof, that might be a good guess), who wants to show off a bit ("Hey, Baby, You know that dude who was puttin down Skynard the other day on Posterous, I fuckin' shut his ass down!"). It could have been a piracy group that was upset about us removing abusive material. (Here again, this is one of the oldest stereotypes in the world...those guys are more into the Rum and Parrot Ships, or if you're talking about the African Ones, Rum and Parrot Ships) It could have been a foreign government (I was hoping I wasn't going to have to give you any Frank Sinatra advice about 'overdoing' the INTRIGUE. BELIEVE ME, YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ROYALLY LAID BEFORE YOU ENDED WITH THE COLUMBO ROUTINE. Now, I'm worried, not that you won't get laid over this, but that you'll only have about 50% of the choice) wanting to silence someone using Posterous to protest (that's ridiculous. I'm not crazy about your Post Editor, but I believe you have a right to use it).
Tracking down the source of these kinds of attacks is a tricky challenge (maybe a little stronger word than 'tricky'). First, they often disguise their source addresses, and that's true in this case. We're getting hundreds of thousands of large requests every second (no marketing expert, but I'd say work the social-networking angle of that somehow. Ask that freaky Mashable guy with the absurdly square jaw who has "Mash This" tattooed on his penis what he would do) from systems that all identify themselves as 0.0.0.0 (first clue: LOW SELF-IMAGE!), which is an invalid address (ya think?). Secondly, our host quickly kills our address when the attacks start, so we have a very small sample of requests that made it through to analyze.
We've made a call to the relevant authorities to enlist their help, as forensic analysis of evidence of these attacks is a very specialized skill. (BY all means Kiss THEIR ass in advance like that. Have you seen the SNL IT Guy Sketches? Those guys are FREAKS!)
So while we're hoping we do eventually find an answer, it could be that we'll never find out what exactly happened. For now, we'll concentrate on bulking up to stay as tough as possible against the wild west that still is the Internet. We'll do our best, we humbly apologize for our failures thus far, and we greatly thank you all for your continued support and patience.
UPDATE (4:53p PDT): At the moment, all attacks have ceased, and all Posterous sites should be up and running. While we still advise making the changes above, it's no longer necessary to do so.
Re: Update: While publishing this at (7:58p PDT): I got a 504 error and this priceless bit of DoS comedy was lost!
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YOU ROCK~
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