Tag Archives: internet

AT&T declares war on the Internet

By probabilityZero | July 26, 2009

AT&T has started blocking access to img.4chan.org, which means access to the 4chan imageboards /b/ and /r9k/ are unavailable to most (not all) AT&T customers. An article on the wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica has details:
-Most AT&T DSL (largest ISP in the US, 15.5% of US Internet users) customers ARE currently not able to access img.4chan.org (/b/ [...]

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Yahoo Pipes is actually kinda fun, but not very useful

By probabilityZero | February 7, 2009

If you haven’t heard, Yahoo launched a tool that allows non-programmers to build mashups (web applications that combine data and/or functionality from more than one source) by dragging boxes and lines together in a (usually) intuitive visual interface. I played around with it for a while and made an application for listing one’s XFire statistics, [...]

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Top 3 Open Source (X)HTML/CSS Editors

By probabilityZero | January 10, 2009

I’ve been a Dreamweaver user for a while now, but I thought it was about time to look at some of the free options available. I’d messed around with Nvu a bit a few years ago and thought it was impressive, so I was looking forward to some impressive free software in this area. I [...]

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Top 5 Firefox alternatives for Linux

By probabilityZero | January 9, 2009

I’m a huge fan of Firefox, but it just doesn’t run well on my EEE PC (which runs Ubuntu Linux). Because of this, I’ve been researching alternate web browsers that run in Linux.

Epiphany is a browser for the GNOME desktop environment and is at the top of my list for great alternatives to Firefox. It’s [...]

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NYTimes article on web trolls

By probabilityZero | August 1, 2008

Read the whole article here.
This was the most interesting thing I’d read in a long time. The author obviously did a lot of research, and it’s very accurate; I don’t generally go into these sorts of articles (articles having to do with online/tech/internet related topics) expecting the writer to know more about the subject than [...]

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