Not now, rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu!

Just updating the clan Artist: Iawn Cont https://b3ta.com/board/11424054 From the 'Ob3tuaries' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/ob3tuaries/popular/ #Ob3tuaries

minor spoiler, but surely Avatar's default plot device of "character gets captured by villain, then a different character gets captured during an otherwise successful rescue attempt" is a tribute to decades of classic Dr Who?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/12/22/?... Demon founder in NOTW theguardian.com/media/2000/d... DVDplus gives customers "power to decide how much [not] to pay" theguardian.com/technology/2... Iraq's 4000 PS2s *probably* not WMDs pcmag.com/news/20-year... & @mjhibbett.bsky.social Xmas party!

arguably a bigger melodic inspiration on 1971's Happy Xmas (War is Over) - Stewball (Was A Racehorse), a folk song going back decades if not centuries before this 1963 hit www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6AQ...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/12/15/?... "Internet Content Rating Association" replaces "Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet", gives up 10 years later & rogue O'Reilly marketing blurb sneaks into Amazon synopsis - seems to have been fixed in the last 5 years or so?

While I’m at it, hello Londoners! Really nice to be back home for a bit. How’s everyone doing? Any recommendations of things to do while I’m here?

Here's something to look forward to in the new year - a one-day event to mark the 21st birthday of #FOI! Join us to discuss the achievements, challenges, and future of the UK's Freedom of Information Act. Meet others, get inspired, and discover the lasting impact of FOI. pretix.eu/mysociety/fo...

#OnThisDayInNTK: 2000 ntk.net/2000/12/08/?... Envision TV Licensing wins "Most Invasive Company" award debut mentions of 2nd-gen MP3 sharer Audiogalaxy Satellite, legally problematic forums for Popbitch & presumably this tech was neutralised shortly before it became self-aware on "Judgement Day"

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/12/01/?... launch of FaxYourMP, final mentions of: BBC's "Bleeding Thumbs" gaming show Argonaut's Jez San web.archive.org/web/20001204... "A Day Without Weblogs" web.archive.org/web/20010124... & @wired.com mag prophetic as ever re iPad-style "Clarke Omniputer"

December 1st, that time of year, and time to broach the 2025 UK Bonne Maman Jam Advent Calendar of Jam (And Some Other Spreads). This is different from the US BMJACoJASOS: our pots are slightly larger, and the range of spreads is not the same. Compare! Contrast! 24 delicious days to go.

NB this also applies to rarer DVDs, 1st-party Nintendo releases & valuable Pokemon cards...

#OnThisDayInNTK: 2000 ntk.net/2000/11/24/?... Furby "hacked", supposedly LAN Party at Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker & from 8:00 - @benmoor.bsky.social typecast as @danny.spesh.com/ Dave Green hybrid in @almurray.bsky.social/ @herring1967.bsky.social pub sitcom youtube.com/watch?v=H-gZ...

Doing this tmrw!

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/17/?... made-up .mudpie .seagull .name gTLDs? Robin Dunbar: Mobiles as Lekking Devices Among [Scouse] Males sfgate.com/news/article... +Church of England's "head of signal logistics" cancels "potentially offensive" Cranberry Aero web.archive.org/web/20010119...

in this episode the Anti-Ken Barlow, from an antimatter universe, is determined to become ruler of all realities. he's battled by Bet Lynch from Corrie Prime and the alternate version of Chas Dingle from Emmerdale-One

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/10/?... George W Bush election win delayed by a month - Florida recount blamed on hanging chads, absentee ballots, Bill Gates etc still online: @khaosworks.bsky.social's khaosworks.org/filk/ & truth in merchandising from Daphne & Celeste

you could always purchase it second-hand, or only via platforms which offer no risk of financially benefitting the creators - eg Spotify or Youtube?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/03/?... widely-sued Napster forms "strategic alliance" for BMG to (unsuccessfully) try and buy it in 2002 & "if this wasn't on UKNM, you'd assume it was a troll" - Godado was a UK search engine where users "paid for higher rankings" chinwag.com/uk-netmarket...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/27/?... Steganography may be "3rd biggest threat to US security after biological & chemical attack"? debut mentions of: Google Ads "Zombie Nation" C64 remix hit Zadie "White Teeth" Smith & list songs: easy to write, hard to pace? youtube.com/watch?v=OsuI...

"& their birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison!" (via @danhon.com)

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/20/?... @kithonline.bsky.social's Scott Thompson spoofs Eminem youtube.com/watch?v=Hick... Nanoloop 1.0 chiptune synth reviewed for GameBoy ...city of Leeds unimpressed web.archive.org/web/20001217... & BT - rhetorical as ever:

surely not... Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/13/?... O'Reilly author eschews popular SQL trope "Humans as numbered entities" web.archive.org/web/20001030... still online: S-Club 7-Headed BEAST OF REVELATION darryn-reeds.tripod.com/S-Club-7-sec... & @tomstandage.bsky.social introduces us to "temp tracks"

We (OpenUK) are running a free unconference in London next week to discuss AI. agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk Boosters and sceptics very welcome! #Unconference #London #AI

Riyadh Comedy Festival is an absolute joke, all the hotels booked up, silly money for airbnbs, venue owners absolutely taking the piss and too many shows with not a hope of getting the attention they want. I swear I'm not going back next year, is this something send bloot

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/06/?... Industry Standard mag optimistically launches European edition, goes bust within a year almost-the-last mentions of x.com/JulieMarieMe... Anthea Turner's Flake wedding Microsoft Netmeeting & retro fun for BBC FutureWorld web.archive.org/web/20000929...

If you're in Melbourne, you can currently see Doom-on-a-Lego-brick up close at ACMI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U... www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

Reminder: We're back on April 25th/26th 2026 at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester, UK. Be sure to get your tickets and submit your talk for our scheduled track! oggcamp.org/posts/tickets/ talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/09/29/?... Bruce Schneier proposes "Street Performer Protocol", early predecessor of 2008's crowdfunding musings kk.org/thetechnium/... Everyone hates BBC2 Attachments youtube.com/watch?v=l2rE... & oddly, King did swear vengeance - against the van

This request came in and I thought, I'd give it a go. Not a tour, just book a couple of nights in a tiny club and have a go at it. I think getting the audience to gently row about trivial opinions could be fun. Anyway - grab a ticket. Tufnell Park. www.designmynight.com/london/bars/...

a longstanding, complicated problem: [exists] donald trump: [suggests stupid and over-simplistic solution that will make things worse] everyone: well, that's a stupid and over-simplistic solution that will make things worse columnists: he has a point about the problem existing, liberals!

#OnThisDayInNTK: 2000 ntk.net/2000/09/22/?... @futureplc.bsky.social reveal their hotly-awaited "Internet Awards", including: Best WAP-enabled Site Best Implementation of an Extranet &... E-Company of the Year web.archive.org/web/20001018... & NASA find "organic material" - right here on Earth!

If AI is so good, where are automatic ALT Tags?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 www.ntk.net/2000/09/15/?... brief Tory "Dump The Pumps" fuel protest spreads to other popular hydrocarbons web.archive.org/web/20010302... hackers "award" Mercury Prize to Badly Drawn Boy's Hat ntk.net/2000/09/15/d... & win the "first product to respect music copyright"

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/09/08/?... Backspace's post-Clink St dek.spc.org/julian/consume/ community wifi "at times [now-deceased Blondie drummer Clem Burke] was playing close to his cardio-vascular capacity" web.archive.org/web/20010430... & the oddly whiplash-disclaimer-free BOXERJOCKS:

Aw, I always thought Paul deserved a bio pic.

#OnThisDayInNTK:2005 ntk.net/2005/09/02/?... 1st/last mention of UK demo party Sundown - ran till ~2016, evolved into still-going novaparty.org @okfn.bsky.social presents World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures web.archive.org/web/20051025... (& slightly less male-sounding lineup than...)

in case anyone missed this, this is absolutely brilliant if you're an oldschool nerd. https://byte.tsundoku.io

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/25/?... The Times previews "debugged" PS2 with baffling (/Japanese) convention of using O = Yes button Guardian reveals how it bluffs its way "through any new-media conversation" theguardian.com/media/2000/s... @charliebrooker.bsky.social launches Unnovations

solid effort - there is a "L'Agence tous risques"-style Japanese theme song catacombs.space1999.net/main/pguide/... but these currently-circulating "Space: 1999 Japanese Titles from the rare Igyan Edition" are fake-subtitled from the Japanese Joe 90! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k0V...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/18/?... users name babies "Iuma" after soon-defunct Internet Underground Music Archive nancy.cc/2011/02/08/h... fan wins date with "Lara Croft" web.archive.org/web/20000816... & "how much worse than a credit agency can the Chinese Government be?"

If I need more ideas I will simply build a Dyson sphere around my head thus capturing 100% of my ideas

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/11/?... Craig David namechecks "CD. com" on new track, a "leading supplier of multi-function adapters for server-based communications systems" first/last mention of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition & ISO 9000 post-mortem of the "Alien" films:

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/04/?... we'll always have ELITE: The Musical youtu.be/y-hxWLoOjgw but FALCOs for: Spielberg-endorsed Pop .com fastcompany.com/90516005/the... Joanna Lumley-endorsed Clickmango & oddly-unendorsed Bango numeric URL system theregister.com/2000/07/20/n...

Our judges have been through literally HUNDREDS of websites and selected their shortlist for the Tiny Awards 2025 - voting's open now, so take a few minutes to check out some of the best, most beautiful, oddest, silliest websites of the past year, pick your favourite, TELL THE WORLD!: tinyawards.net

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/07/28/?... advertisers make fake "I Kiss You" sites, for some reason web.archive.org/web/20000728... web.archive.org/web/20000728... web.archive.org/web/20000728... ends in sight for Napster, Concorde, .EXE mag & VAR'AQ (Klingon Forth) doth battle with BANCstar

On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️ html.energy/html-day/202...

The UK’s premier InfoSec community event #BSidesLDN2025 needs you! Our Call for Papers, Rookies & Workshops opens this Friday (01/08) until 30/09. This is for the community, by the community, so get involved! Links go live Friday. Be ready! #Security #BSides #London #CFP

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/07/21/?... pre-Gadget Show Jason Bradbury reviews RAF job site youtube.com/watch?v=hRLX... @sethgodin.bsky.social infected by meme-like "ideavirus" fastcompany.com/40104/unleas... or "discuss [diarrhea] related topics 24 hrs a day"? web.archive.org/web/20000903...