so I added the line below
127.0.0.1 www.treachery.net
to my hosts file, saved & rebooted,
now all I see is a is a red X where the picture should be.
Wow...talk about overkill. Hell, if you were using Mozilla, you could have just right-clicked on the image and selected "Block all images."
But hey, you're entitled to be a chimp if you want.
-Jay