catch<\/a>, of course, is that everything routes through the Iraqi’s state ISP, where, presumably, it is closely monitored and filtered (and which is subject to convenient outages).<\/p>\nThe fun part is the name of the state ISP: uruk<\/i>link.net<\/b>.<\/p>\n
They say it’s named afer the ancient city of Uruk.<\/p>\n
Uh-huh. Things don’t get much more ironic than that.<\/p>\n
(Non-Tolkien types can be let in on the joke below.)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Uruk” was the name that the Orcs called themselves in Tolkien’s mythos.<\/p>\n
Okay, that’s about enough geeky irony for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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