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Link dump: Tubes, vampires, cookies

(It’s time for another link dump, a hodgepodge of web goodness. Enjoy!) – There is a theory — a “unified” theory, in fact — that the universe is connected by “wave tubes”. (Imagine traveling to other galaxies through wormholes ala-Star Gate.) But I digress. On a less grander scale, but still beautiful, here is the [...]

Google “breaks” the internet

Well, not quite. But for a few hours, any search made through Google threw out results with tags that the sites are bad and “may cause harm”. The glitch has since been corrected. (Interestingly, at around the same time, searches through the Google applicance cluster we have at work also yielded errors. Related?) Here’s a [...]

Leading tech innovators under 35

The MIT Technology Review presents its annual list of tech innovators — all under 35 years old — whose “inventions and research (they) find most exciting”. Among them were Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert; Twitter creator, Jack Dorsey; and Wii hacker, Johnny Lee. Interestingly, majority of the innovators are from Microsoft (including Lee). Digg’s Kevin Rose [...]

Google CAPTCHA sorry page

Okay, I know this is old news, but lately I’ve been getting a lot of these sorry pages that prompt me to input CAPTCHA words so I can continue with the search. This would be understandable *if* only because I go through the Tor networks sometimes when I do searches, but this also happens at [...]

PLDT DSL routing woes

My PLDT DSL connection is having some routing issues lately. First off and most annoying is that I can’t browse this blog. My other domain works perfectly fine, though. Here’s a traceroute: (I wonder why Window’s tracert shows more hops while my Linux box merely shows end-to-end connectivity. Windows tracert shows that the connection to [...]

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