Archive for March, 2009

I’m sick and tired of being carpet-bombed by fear, despair and stupidity by the media.
Checking news sites is part of my daily routine, so to counter that, I did something as simple as inducing a bit of self-censorship, and added the following lines to my “hosts” file:

For the unfamiliar with this file, it simply is a local lookup table where domain names are translated into ip addresses, and the 127.0.0.1 is the local computer, so instead of pointing say: cnn.com to their own webserver I just redirect the request to my local webserver.

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

# Fuck the fear mongers
127.0.0.1 www.jp.dk
127.0.0.1 jp.dk
127.0.0.1 pol.dk
127.0.0.1 www.pol.dk
127.0.0.1 cnn.com
127.0.0.1 edition.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 www.cnn.com
127.0.0.1 bbcnews.com
127.0.0.1 news.bbc.co.uk
127.0.0.1 politiken.dk
127.0.0.1 www.politiken.dk
127.0.0.1 bt.dk
127.0.0.1 www.bt.dk
127.0.0.1 eb.dk
127.0.0.1 www.eb.dk
127.0.0.1 nyhederne.tv2.dk
127.0.0.1 seneste.dk
127.0.0.1 www.seneste.dk
127.0.0.1 berlingske.dk
127.0.0.1 www.berlingske.dk