Links for 2009-02-25
Facebook group against the IRMA action : entitled ‘let’s ensure that we have an uncensored Internet for Ireland’
(tags: facebook irma censorship ireland eircom)Blacknight post a copy of the IRMA letter : in full, as a 3-page PDF scan
(tags: blacknight letter scans irma filesharing piratebay isps ireland law copyright)Ryanair – Their Attitude To Online PR Part Of A Bigger Reputation Problem : wow, this is really blowing up. great stuff ;)
(tags: ryanair car-crash disaster reputation media travel ireland jason-roe blogging funny)how the Italian ISPs “blocked” piratebay.org : they simply intercepted DNS requests for their zones, returning 127.0.0.1. using OpenDNS evades that
(tags: blocking censorship italy piratebay opendns dns filtering isps eircom slashdot)debunking “Facebook causes cancer†: two scientists, Prof. Susan Greenfield and Dr. Aric Sigman, promulgating the worst kinds of fake science. disappointing
(tags: science facebook media health badscience cancer daily-mail susan-greenfield aric-sigman)Datamoshing : the use of artificially-induced video compression artifacts for artistic effect, as seen in Chairlift’s “Evident Utensil” and Kanye’s “Welcome to Heartbreak” videos
(tags: compression artifacts video mpeg datamoshing music via:kottke art effects kanye-west chairlift music-videos cool)Explanations to common Java exceptions : ‘CharConversionException: You have been trying to incinerate something noncombustible. It is also possible that you have tried turning yourself into a fish, but that’s rare.’
(tags: via:nelson funny geeky programming java exceptions language reference)
Keith said,
February 26, 2009 @ 11:43 am
On the other hand, opendns can really break your service access latency by doing the wrong thing with globally balanced DNS addresses (we’ve noticed they often get this wrong with Google addresses) and they are more intrusive than many people will want.