After roughly 400 hits and and the biggest ego boost I’ve had in a long time, the controversy is over. Comments are turned off and locked on the original post, but feel free to pick up over here.
Around 9am this morning I noticed hits from Desktoptopia’s Mint installation via my Mint installation (how’s that [...]

RESOLUTION: See the last comment below and “Theftoptopia Gate is officially over.”
I got an IM today from friend and ex-roomie Alex Shanfeld who said:
alex: a wall paper made by you came up on my super cool background program jawn. gumballs.
me: is your super cool background program randomly grabbing flickr images?
alex: i don’t think so. [...]