Random Burblings

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May 142008
 

As the Alpha Geek was getting dressed, I flopped on the bed and started chattering at him. Because what’s the point of being married to someone if you can’t inflict some mild torture on them once in a while?

“I ate an apple for breakfast—

Well, I started to eat the apple, but it was all rotten inside.

It looked okay, but then I took a bite and it was all black and sour and nasty.

…so I spit it out.

Isn’t it weird how something can look fine on the outside and then be all horrible on the inside?

Is that, like, a metaphor for people?”

Right about here I glanced over to see him looking at me like this: o_O

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Rabbit on our sidewalk

Appropos of nothing, this afternoon when I took the trash down to the street, there was a rabbit on the sidewalk cropping grass. He’d freeze whenever I passed by, but I purposely passed on the far side of the driveway and didn’t pay him any mind, so he didn’t run away. Picture’s kind of fuzzy cause I used the cell phone instead of hunting up the camera with a zoom.

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ISP Wiretapping

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May 132008
 

They’ve been talking about doing it for a while, and now they’ve actually gone and done it. Charter is now monitoring its users’ browsing habits so that it can insert advertising into their browsers (ads that do not come from the site being viewed). It’s as if the phone company started monitoring your calls so they could play targeted advertisements while you’re on the line. Comcast also chooses what users can and cannot send (all for the good of their customers, of course).

Keep an eye on this one, folks. If Charter’s customers let it get away with this shit, you can bet other carriers will soon follow suit. Site designers might do well to follow Lauren Weinstein’s suggestion for pervasive encryption, just so users on the other end will know if the content they’re viewing has been tampered with.

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