Monthly Archives: December 2003

christian dns highjacking

We’re used to the idea that pornographers register all the popular typoed domain names, and that whitehouse._com_ leads you somewhere unexpected. I hadn’t realised that fundies do it too until I hit a mistyped link from a comment on frizzylogic … Continue reading Continue reading

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Zipper l’addon

One of the nice things about OOo is its international quality. Canadian nationalists seem to assume that it must be Canadian, because so many of the best bits are in French; but as far as I can tell, these contributions … Continue reading Continue reading

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historical ironies

At breakfast this morning I was looking through an old Doonesbury book while waiting for the papers to arrive. The year was 1979: the Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan, and Phred, the Vietnamese delegate to the UN, was talking to … Continue reading Continue reading

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