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 »

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 »

So I took the plunge the other day — I finally went out and bought Leopard. Not because I really needed it or anything — no, the reason for this purchase isn’t much of a reason at all. The truth is, I lost all my icons. Continue reading »

I’ve been taking advantage of my holiday break as a time to catch up on some reading. It had been a while since I’d had a good dose of sci-fi, and in an effort to ward off the withdrawal symptoms, I’ve been eating up all the Brin and Bova I can get my hands on. One novel, which came suggested by a friend, however, has taken a comfy seat among my all-time favorite novels — Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Continue reading »

Because we all need more end-of-year top-ten lists, here is one that is at least partly educational — an interesting list of the most significant scientific discoveries of the past year. Continue reading »

Time Magazine has put together a list of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. Continue reading »

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