Our tech-oriented readers may like to know about a discovery I made today: the Internet Archive crawler is now trying to follow links within external Javascript files. So if you have an Ajax-based script that calls a PHP program on the server, their web robot will try to open that page. Even if it’s not really a page. And this may lead to serious issues, if you haven’t accounted for this possibility. (I did.)

The robots are evolving.

I know that didn’t make sense to most of our readers, but an open thread’s an open thread…