Looks like Xbox.com has been having some issues serving up much of their GamerCard content (GamerCards themselves as well as GamerPics) this weekend. Since MGC relies so heavily on their GamerPicture server for our GamerPic Scout, this was making the pages look awfully bare.
I’ve just spent the past few hours creating and implementing a system to catch when Xbox.com rejects a tile request, and will then attempt to fill it in with an internal MGC Tileserver, which has been working beautifully. The only thing it can’t quite catch is when a request is taking too long; sometimes a connection to Xbox.com will hold things up and prevent it from happening. Still looking into ways to force a timeout and load the MGC Tile after a few seconds…
Just a quick note that MGC Tile server is not serviceable outside of MGC; Please don’t link to them on your blogs or other pages.
In any case, this is just one of the multitude of things that goes on during weekends, and seemed useful enough to share considering how troubled Microsoft’s site is at the moment. Let me know if you have any problems with it, or if you happen to be a javascript guru, any suggestions on forcing image load timeouts. 
Does this disable the 'GamerPic from...' message on the Flash 'cards?
mgg
Well that doesn't, but this method also doesn't cover Flash cards yet, either. Unfortunately, if Flash can't load the image, it won't do any of the neat effects. I briefly looked into ways to fix it, way back in the day, but hadn't come up with anything extraordinary.
I had also noticed more and more gamerpics aren't showing where they're from on the flash cards. I hadn't considered it might be from this.
I'd gotten so used to just mousing over it when I saw an interesting one, and lots of times now it doesn't say anything.