OK - This Is Cool (How'd They Do It?)

[Greenguy]

I searched Google for "strange sex laws in the us" for this thread (http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=63909) & came across this page:
http://digitaljournal.com/article/253517

So I highlighted & copied the title of the article from the page & then pasted it into the reply box & this is what showed up:

Weird Sex Laws In America: Real Laws On The Books Of Justice

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/253517#ixzz1u3r6lPuc

I thought that I might have accidentally copied some extra text, but I didn't. I tried it a few more times with other text on the page:

Differences in federal and state laws are nothing new, and legal battles over a state’s liberal laws regarding sexual behavior making news every day. What about those sex laws that just don’t make the headline news?

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/253517#ixzz1u3saJHiv

Florida:
-two people cannot commit "unusual acts" together
-illegal to have sexual relations with a porcupine
-it an offense to shower in the nude

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/253517#ixzz1u3t1GF2i

Minnesota:
sleeping naked is illegal
illegal for men to have intimate sexual relationships with a live fish

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/253517#ixzz1u3tCGPMp

No matter what I copy & paste, it always adds the URL with (I assume) a tracking code.

Has anyone ever seen this before? How are they doing it?

[Cleo]

I've always found that rather annoying.

This page does it too.
http://www.macnn.com/
I'm guessing that it is done by one of the many Javascripts that I see on it.

[Simon]

Here's what they're using...

http://tracer.tynt.com/



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[tickler]

One of the newspapers here use that to try ensuring linkbacks if you are quoting their stories!

[Bill]

I do a lot of political writing these days, and thats become a standard "feature" in most copies from newspapers or magazines.

yeah, it's a right-click javascript.