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Comcast abusing DNS

I realize I’m probably way late to the game here, but for whatever reason I did not notice this problem until today. Comcast has started responding to bogus DNS requests, sending people to some crap-tastic search portal.
Up until now Comcast hasn’t given me too much to complain about. The service is reliable, the speed is [...]

wtf

Complaining about captchas may be passé, but come on! This is fucking awful.

TV listing sites. COME ON.

I’m no fan of football, but my parents are, and I’m planning to head over to their place tomorrow to celebrate my brother’s birthday. I’m using the power of the Internet to figure out when it’s scheduled to be over (assuming it doesn’t go in to extra innings) but have met severe frustration. For example, [...]

dpk.net convention

I think I should hand out dpk.net Alexa ranking t-shirts at the next convention.

wtf: iTunes license agreement font

I may or may not agree to the terms of the license, but I flat out refuse to agree to the use of a font that has an obvious gender.

Network Solutions Future Product Plans?

You know how companies will register domains for products they plan to sell in the future? It looks like they just registered “networksolutionsclubscutelittlebabyseals.com”. The poor baby seals. :(
Domain Name: NETWORKSOLUTIONSCLUBSCUTELITTLEBABYSEALS.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC [...]

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We’are

We received reports of an unfamiliar error message, and I searched for it on Google: “We’re sorry, this data is no longer available”. There were no results. Surprisingly, their “Did you mean” suggestion using the word “We’are” had no results either!