Archive for October, 2006

Male contraceptive pill article

What do you mean “that wasn’t sperm”? (should-be photo caption)

Comcast DTV, Seattle, Part 2

Update: malformed.org’s owner found a channel listing. It’s so strange this is such “secret” information. It doesn’t list the 93/100/101 channels of course because they’re On Demand.
I think I may have figured out what caused the PBS Sprout/Softcore pornography issue on channel 101-8. I think channels 93, 100, and 101 are for “on demand” shows. [...]

Comcast DTV, Seattle

So I finally got around to hooking my TV up directly to the cable line, and set it to autoprogram. It found well over 400 channels, and I have the second most basic cable package they offer. Ugh. Turns out, a lot of them are music, and a lot of them are scrambled. But then [...]

UltraDNS part 2

Bad marketing tactics: UltraDNS has been hung up on so many times that they’re now just saying they’re “a company that does DNS” when they cold call you. They still won’t let you off the line, you have to hang up on ‘em mid-sentence, because they just won’t shut up even after you tell them [...]