apophenia: finals productivity pack

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December 8, 2004

finals productivity pack

Mindtangle has a brilliant way of battling his fingers' efforts to procrastinate:

I just added the following to my HOSTS file:
# The "law school finals productivity pack"
127.0.0.1 www.ifilm.com
127.0.0.1 ifilm.com
127.0.0.1 www.boingboing.net
127.0.0.1 boingboing.net
127.0.0.1 news.google.com
127.0.0.1 www.slashdot.org
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
127.0.0.1 www.gamespot.com
127.0.0.1 gamespot.com
127.0.0.1 www.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com

For those who don't know what this does, it makes any attempt of my computer to connect to those domains to loop back to this computer so that no information is transferred.

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