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Monkeying With Maps

I saw someone’s Mapquest directions left on the company printer this morning and it inspired an evil idea.

Let’s say you’re the IT administrator. Let’s say you devise a clever hack with a transparent proxy so that all directions from a site like Mapquest have some random detour inserted into it. Or perhaps the directions always lead to a particular fast-food restaurant.

That would be cool, and totally evil. Too bad I don’t have the time on my hands to actually implement it.