F*ck you.
So I’m cruising the Internet, having a bowl of cereal, happy as a clam. Not so great at multitasking, I get a little sloppy and mistype a URL. I, of course, expect to be shown Firefox’s usual 404 Page — you know, this:
Instead, I’m taken to this bullshit:
Now, what this means is that, besides throttling my bandwidth, Charter Communications has begun intercepting negative DNS lookup responses from queried servers and replacing that response with a URL the browser sees as valid, one that is full of Charter advertisements. Continue reading »
Abe’s View, via my flickr
Honest Abe’s television.
I love the xkcd comic about Wikipedia, I love that xkcd fans immediately tried to make life imitate art, I love that Wikipedia moderators locked the article in response. For me, this is the internet operating to perfection.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrew-Galvanize-Davies (talk • contribs) 18:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Here is a little something I threw together earlier in the week. Continue reading »
Yang Ban Xi: The Eight Model Works. Continue reading »
Of, By and For the Dollar, via my flickr
A fitting sight, having just finished reading the last of Ayn Rand’s major works. Continue reading »
Page four. Billy looked up from his book, glanced around the coffee shop. He peered at the faces of the other patrons, averting his gaze from each just before it became impolite. His eyes bounced about until eventually they ran out of faces and found their way to the television screen above the counter. Continue reading »
The Boston Globe has begun a very cool little daily online publication, wherein a single article is chosen each day to be accompanied by several very high-resolution photos. Continue reading »
Welcome to Ogg Hall, via my flickr.
Old Ogg Hall, of the University of Madison, in an effort to remain inviting even in disrepair and demolition. Continue reading »
Standard 12-hour time is great for everyone but programmers. I’ve found myself rewriting this little bit of code so often I figured I’d share, to save others the trouble. Continue reading »
I haven’t had the time to post anything really meaningful, recently, but at least I can share some little whatzits and whoozits I’ve found interesting: these are a couple of videos showcasing some very different takes on some very mundane things. Continue reading »
Every once in a while, out from all the 30-second sound bytes and feeble articles that compose that enormous sea of mediocrity we call the Internet pops an article of genuine interest and substantiality. I’d like to share two of these gems, as I found each extremely interesting in its own right. Continue reading »
This is a recollection of an event which came to pass almost a year ago, one with which I’ve been fascinated since. Having been reluctant to write about this event until recently, I do so now only under the naive impression that I’ve found the right perspective and state of mind to do the experience justice. Continue reading »
