Eric Covener’s Journal

RoadRunner seems to have setup some crap to return the address of their search engine for invalid DNS lookups — unfortunately my resolver config is a little involved at home and _relies_ on a failure for address like ‘foo.bar’.

Somehow, opting out of their redirector service in their search engine page almost immediately changed the behavior of their DNS servers.

Chinese leader offered women to U.S. in 1973

Big pimp’en.

“You know, China is a very poor country,” Mao said, according to a document released by the State Department’s historian office.

“We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands.”

A few minutes later, Mao circled back to the offer. “Do you want our Chinese women?” he asked. “We can give you 10 million.”

When you have firefox running locally, and then try to run a remote one, it does some horrendous thing under the covers and opens a new tab in your local browser (running on the same system as the X server instead of where you launched it)

You can suppress that default behavior by invoking your remote firefox as below:

MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -P

NWS (bleeped though, aired on Jimmy Kimmel)

Bonus video from Talk Soup — Barbara Walters has a happy story to tell!