LGF was lousy with web bots this morning, using “zombie” machines compromised by viruses, crawling around the site like crazy, probably looking for email addresses to add to spam lists. They’re not finding any, of course, but they’re running up our bandwidth for no reason, so Stinky Beaumont and I are stamping them out as quickly as we identify them. If you noticed the “Visitors Online” count reading an unusually high number, that’s why.

Here’s a Monday morning open thread while we finish the clean-up.