For those of you who haven’t seen this already (I hadn’t before this morning), there is a devil on Digg. You heard me right. Go to Digg.com, right click and pull up the page source. What do you see? This.

I was a bit worried that this was a hack until someone pointed out the URL at the bottom of the image, “www.hellisnigh.com“. When I went to the URL I was asked to put in six passwords to receive a special reward.  The passwords are hidden in the images, which are spread out on different domains. Curious now, I did a little snooping and found out that it’s a promotional ad for the new game Dante’s Inferno. A forum I found listed where to find other, similar images on the different gaming sites. The sites were digg.com, dailymotion.com, gamespot.com, kotaku.com, ign.com, 1up.com, gamestrader.com, ugo.com, and even wwe.com.

How people knew they would be on these domains were beyond me, but here are the rest of the images. Each image is a character in the game that’s been recreated in ASCII.

This is such an innovative, creative ad strategy that’s fun for us techies to hunt down, and it definitely leaves a lasting impression. What was the prize after you find all six passwords? I think I’ll leave that up to you to find out.

A few of you may have noticed an error pop up when adding a new site in LavaLinx. It usually looked something like this:

“ERROR: You must enter a valid domain name”

The error was occurring on normal domains if the user didn’t strip out all http:// and also the trailing slash. We’ve corrected this error so you can include the entire URL and progress onto the rest of the domain setup. However, it will still alert you if it believes the domain isn’t a valid domain. If you get this message and you believe it is an error, make sure there are no spaces within or after your URL.

LavaLinx is still in development stages, and it’s feedback from users like you that make all the difference. If you have any ideas or suggestions on how to make our product grow, or if you’re having any issues you’d like us to look at, feel free to drop it in the comments below.