I can tell you how to fix it.

Before Windows, etc. looks up Salon.com's IP address, it checks a local file called HOSTS.

Usually found here:

c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\HOSTS

.

Edit that file, duplicate the existing line that says:

127.0.0.1 localhost

and change localhost to c1.zedo.com.

Duplicate that, adding doubleclick.net, etc. and all those sites "disappear".

I like to add these to mine, YMMV:

127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

127.0.0.1 fastclick.net

127.0.0.1 tribalfusion.com

127.0.0.1 a.tribalfusion.com

127.0.0.1 oingo.com

127.0.0.1 apps1.oingo.com

127.0.0.1 apps2.oingo.com

127.0.0.1 apps3.oingo.com

127.0.0.1 apps4.oingo.com

127.0.0.1 apps5.oingo.com

127.0.0.1 dynacpc.com

127.0.0.1 .2o7.net

127.0.0.1 112.2o7.net

127.0.0.1 2o7.net

127.0.0.1 partypoker.com

127.0.0.1 partypoker.net

Bot meet kettle.

I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering why you feel the need to drive-by troll Salon.com repeatedly, ad nauseum.

I, for one, am shocked he wrote this book, and have to commend him for it, even though he disgusted me as Press Secretary.

You just know they'll try to black-list him from any decent jobs in the future for this, so he'll likely pay a personal price.

At least the book came out before the election: I'd think more Salonistas would be pleased with that.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of Mad King George II. Soon he and Cheney may well find themselves facing treason charges (well, I can dream, can't I?).

Haven't seen The Wire or The Shield, so cannot comment but the Wire, at least, sounds good.

If you like that, you'll probably like Da Vinci's Inquest. Based on a real person (now Senator Larry Campbell, former Mayor, coroner, cop).

Very character driven, great dialogue, not of the one-case-per-episode format, but cases carry on over seasons sometimes.

Intelligence grew out of Da Vinci's Inquest -> Da Vinci's City Hall. Many of the same characters, though often on the opposite side of the law.

As for commercials, CBC runs / ran them both with no commercial break until at *least* the 13 *MINUTE* mark. Yes, 13 minutes uninterrupted, first class acting, writing, everything.

"Sex, Drugs, and, Intelligence, monday nights on CBC"

Da Vinci's is available on DVD and got a fantastic review here on Salon.com, but I cannot find it right now...

You made good rebuttals to the "fenced-in" quote.

But you lost all credibility with this gem:

Don't you know? Israeli defence of any type is by definition genocide.

Defense against despicable deaths of civilians is to ... kill 10 to 100 times as many civilians?

How'd that work out in historically?

Also, your first post about fenced-in cities under siege. Good historical precedents, however you ought to consider the current Gaza situation's similarities to another famous historical event that you may have heard of: The Warsaw Ghetto.

Cheers

>> How'd that work out in historically?

> Sorry, I don't understand the question.

Here is a reference (thanks to previous poster):

> http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html

>> Gaza situation's similarities to another famous historical

>> event that you may have heard of: The Warsaw Ghetto

> That's an obscene comparison. The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto

> didn't make war on German civilians, and were entirely

> innocent.

The dead Palestinian civilians are (were?), by definition as civilians, equally innocent.

BTW, I just noticed "obscene", I'd read as "obscure". Interesting.

I'll grant what happened in Warsaw *was* obscene. But I see obscenities in Gaza now too. Guess I have the distance to be objective and disinterested (at least not uninterested!).

Also, returning to your siege comparison on fenced-in vs walled-in, I think you missed something else.

In your examples, the walls were *defensive*, Gaza is not "protected" by the fence.

Forgive my clumsy quoting...

Cheers,