Johannes writes, "Finally! My award-winning nerd culture documentary TRACEROUTE (previously) can be downloaded on Vimeo On Demand. It was quite a challenge to create it, and huge thanks to all the folks who supported me… including, of course, the Boing Boing crew. — Read the rest
Johannes Grenzfurthner writes, "My cinematic tour de farce through nerd culture comes to the West Coast. Upcoming Bay Area and L.A. premieres!"
Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about Traceroute: On the Road with a Leitnerd(*)
(*) Leitnerd is a wordplay referring to the German term Leitkultur.
Johannes writes, "Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA, to introduce us to places and people that shaped and inspired his art and politics. — Read the rest
The awesomesauce merchants at BeagleNetworks.net have engineered an appropriately epic set of internal routes, such that a traceroute to 216.81.59.173 produces the introductory crawl from Star Wars:
— Read the restTraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 216.81.59.173 [fin]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 0 0 206.123.64.42 –
2 0 0 0 64.124.196.225 xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net
A sprawling interview with artist and filmmaker Johannes Grenzfurthner on his latest movie Glossary of Broken Dreams.
Canadians' data requests overwhelming flow through US cables, even when the communications are within Canada. Since the NSA takes the view that it is legally entitled to collect, inspect and retain foreign communications, this means that almost all Canadian communications are being spied on by a foreign power.
The Guardian's liveblog of the news coming from Libya is fantastic, in a gripping and sickly horrible way. From the troops and mercenaries massacring demonstrators to the weird, rambling speech of Saif Gadaffi (Muammar's son) blaming drug addicts and foreigners for his people's uprising and threatening to murder the whole country to keep it in his family's hands, it's all there, with frequent updates. — Read the rest
Dan Kaminsky, DNS hacker and rootkit infection sleuth, has devised a test for checking to see if your Internet connection is "neutral" — that is, whether your connection is being filtered, throttled, slowed down, or monkeyed with secretly by your ISP:
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Kaminsky calls his technique "TCP-based active probing for faults."
This crafty cross-stitcher has stiched out a sampler bearing the output of a trace-route as run from the DOS tracert command.
(Thanks, Rebecca!)
Wired Magazine reports on a new kind of ISP: an "invisible" hosting service, based in the former Soviet Union, which uses a network of compromised machines and some redirection-fu to make it very hard to determine where a web-server actually lives. — Read the rest
I've been in Toronto for a week now, and I've noticed that Google behaves differently in Canada. If you attempt to hit www.google.com from a Canadian IP block, you get redirected to www.google.ca — which appears to be identical to Google.com, — Read the rest
