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bsky.app/profile/roug...
sounds like a fun event, especially if attendees all greet each other with the now-traditional:
"...Do you remember Acorn Computers? The company designed and delivered the first ARM chip and the BBC Micro!"
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/23/?...
debut mentions of:
"All Your Base" meme - vs Iraq's no-fly zone taner.net/AYB/allyourb...
Bearshare/Limewire
Prime-like? ZapItOver (née WapItOver) .com
Wales' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester_...
& Barcelona's ever-catchy
youtu.be/PWVGdMPuwVo
I wrote a brief thing about Rob Grant: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/rob-grant
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/16/?...
Future Publishing closes MP3 Magazine, Arcade, Cult TV & "Connect" (us neither)
maybe try Ruby while waiting for Perl 6 aka Raku, due around 2015?
& early days of "Copyright Infringements @milmillington.bsky.social / @dailymail.co.uk Have Argued About"
although: is Kind Hearts and Coronets arguably a toned down version of the novel it's loosely based on -
Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907)?
...this coverage opens with futuristic mention of
The F-35’s ‘computer brain,’
...no doubt connected to its electronic 'eyes and ears'?
www.twz.com/air/f-35-sof...
Everyone's talking about wuthering heights but no one wants to acknowledge the very real risk of wuthering lows
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/09/?...
a young(ish) Julian Assange proposes crypto to confound - at-the-time-theoretical - captors
web.archive.org/web/20010308...
Arnie "ponders" California governor bid
...neither quite as frightening as - you've guessed it:
web.archive.org/web/20010207...
A Three Thing Day is happening threely this month:
12/2: Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar London N1
19/2: @oldwoollen.bsky.social Farsley W.Yorks
27/2: Tom Thumb Theatre Margate
It's a comedy concerning affinity, vertigo and phone reception and is smart, warming and weird.
Tixdeets via Linktree in Bio.
FOI Fest 2025 19th February, Birkbeck University of London + online
In-person tickets for FOI Fest have almost sold out, so act now if you are hoping to join us in London: pretix.eu/mysociety/fo... (online spaces are limitless, but still a good idea to book now while you're thinking of it!). #FOI #freedomofinformation
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/02/?...
@billt.bsky.social backs Net Proficiency Test
web.archive.org/web/20010419...
final mention of Erich von Daniken - currently residing in the Was God An Astronaut? file
& KPMG herald new "golden age" of dire CORPORATE ANTHEMS
youtube.com/watch?v=NCvK...
the... FIENDS!! how long until - unscrupulous performers start learning the songs of OTHER PEOPLE, then use them to "entertain" audiences without providing detailed authorship credits beforehand?
via www.instagram.com/p/DTjb425iaKx
I'm co-hosting this talk by science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski, this Saturday at Frontier Tower in SF! Don't miss it! luma.com/minds-in-tra... #SanFrancisco #ScienceFiction #AI #BioPunk
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/01/26/?...
quirky h2g2.com Wikipedia-alike sold to BBC, resold in 2011 to "the owners of Lycos Chat"
debut mentions of:
Bonsai Kitten
@bruces.bsky.social's Viridian
@theregister.com's society/gossip correspondent Kieren McCarthy
& SchNEWS hassled by [its own] PCs
similarly, the entry for @danny.spesh.com feels compelled to include "his [...] presenting role in 1999 on the single episode of Doors to Manual" - it was actually a series:
grokipedia.com/page/Danny_O...
...yet omits "introduced Stewart Lee to internet in 1988"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJx...
cool, not sure if AdventureX 2018 immediately replaced the 2017 GameCamp/ if there were earlier unconferences - anyway, that 2017 GameCamp seemed popular there (& LSBU had crossover interest in game dev that may not be so readily available around St Pancras - eg Central St Martins, Kings Place?)
www.adventurexpo.org might be a development of a digital games unconference at LSBU/ Elephant & Castle - ie "The St Pancras of South London"
might have helped if they'd replaced the "This Is A Trent Reznor Song" end credits with a record-scratch sound and more Depeche Mode?
you say that Mark but if anything you now appear even younger, like I'm your Picture of Dorian Gray?
anyway, have you seen this year's Canary Wharf lights already - I'm thinking of organising a trip this Wed if the weather holds out..?
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/01/19/?...
MI6 memoir The Big Breach published in Russia, then confusingly in UK by directory-enquiries dissidents 192 .com
inventor of then-unannounced Segway aims to manage expectations
zdnet.com/article/inve...
& "My God, it's full of stars!"
a) most people on BSky think they're temporarily-underrecognised creative millionaires, &
b) we're only 2-5 years from this Eno quote applying to the current artefacts of generative AI?
weird brand name though?
but: isn't that also likely to be the typical user experience?
#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/01/12/?...
final mentions of:
RedHotAnt unmetered (/illegal) ISP
DoBeDo Island
Terry's Chocolate Raspberry
Indigo Children
3D0 Magazine
web.archive.org/web/20000824...
hahabonk .com
designweek.co.uk/issues/11-ma...
& RMS' intergenerational grudge-bearing skills:
THEN YOU SHOULD : ) this sample short arguably has more maths than usual
clarkesworldmagazine.com/egan_10_25/
- mostly recommending his "early" stuff as it's on Audible, as it turns out they don't have an English version of Axiomatic but lots of mad physics in Schild's Ladder...
presumably you've read early (& amazing) Greg Egan - Axiomatic, Permutation City?
ditto this salacious weekly invitation - "They've left you all alone in the living room, which means it must be time to..."
