when you die all of your draft emails should automatically send (not in a surveillance way, in a spiritual way), it’d just be nice to see what folks were planning on getting to

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/06/15/?... Guardian plugs contributor site RABBIT-ON .com, babbles on to 2005 web.archive.org/web/20010623... last mention of suck. com, debuts of Extreme Ironing web.archive.org/web/20010607... "Banzai" youtu.be/4YcIrL6JZn0?... & ICL slams those "no-good..."

would prefer Baconface's history of Radio 4, but this'll do for now

♬ ♪♪ Three horrifying scorpions the size of dogs on a shirt/Primitive men screaming/ 30,000 years of hurt/ Claws and stings cause bleeding ♬ ♪♪

I haven’t seen it, and wasn’t planning to - but now thanks to @tomcoates.bsky.social I’m inordinately excited that Disclosure Day is *actually* “DR & Quinch Have Fun On Earth” told from pov of puny humans. Please let it be so.

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/06/08/?... @gregegansf.bsky.social Turing/Lewis tale gregegan.net/MISC/ORACLE/... MoonFruit site builder: hyped by Guardian, purchased by Yell, offered "workarounds" to demise of Adobe Flash, decommissioned December 2021 +Cambridge Uni fails to invent Facebook

...so slightly odd to see it used 10 times in Sat's BBC discussion of the topic, including 3 uses of "two-tier Keir" - perhaps Labour should select future leaders with less obviously rhyming names? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PSA: Puntcon will be on August 16 this year. Emails going out soon.

Do you make art and weird things with computers? Would you like to meet other people who do and talk to them about it? This June we're hosting a creativity unconference at King's - CUAK for short. Sat June 27th - Bush House - 9.30am-5.30pm Info and free tickets: www.possibilityspace.org/cuak/ 🦆

Bill, that's exactly why that rogue police punt was chasing you & other ageing revolutionaries last Aug?

#OnThisDayInNTK: 2001 ntk.net/2001/06/01/?... in the absence of Kubrick minifigs, "The biggest response came from women given a DVD player," claims Amazon web.archive.org/web/20010606... & via "Star Wars Kitsch" theswca.com/images-speci... the impressively-unauthorised youtu.be/C8NjEspThbE?...

tangentially - Lego deserves more credit for its lower-cost Minifigs effectively revitalising the "dolls for boys" market following the eventual decline of Star Wars figures, GI Joe and Action Man?

"Copy that floppy" - if you have an old floppy disc you can take it to the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge on Sat 13 June and for £12 they'll attempt to put it on the USB stick that you also bring with you. No guarantees www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/76911/Co...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/05/25/?... saved for future: top 8 1990s scifi haikus web.archive.org/web/20210213... BBC oddity news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote200... unlabelled EastEnders 90210 April Fool? web.archive.org/web/20010410... & what if the EU had enforced this rather than cookie popups?

I made an automated hyper-normaliser. It produces some uncannily familiar vibes. mildlydiverting.github.io/are.na-toolk... Vibe coding means I can finally build browser toys myself! Years of discussing specs, bugs and ideas with developers is good training data for this human.

If you can’t handle me at my Spicy Chicken, you don’t deserve me at my Priority Specimen.

(You can play it here btw archive.org/details/msdo... )

appreciate it's been a warm few days but this feels like quite a big conclusion to draw from "fridges and freezers haven't worked for a week at the local Tesco"?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/05/18/?... Prescott egged - from 'Grassy Verge'? web.archive.org/web/20010614... 1st/last mention of antipsychotronic MINDGUARD software - for Linux/Amiga only & Apple debut eye-hurtingly soulless high st experience - admittedly less "unprofitable" than expected:

as @robmanuel.b3ta.com‬ has noted, there was a lot of "you must get online" marketing in the early-ish years of the WWW - and before that, entire government campaigns to "make the most of the micro[computer]" in the 1980s. Yet neither Ofcom or DCMS have demanded a BBC LLM - sort it out you cowards!

disappointed there aren't more people furiously agreeing with this - & Tom wields his anger more productively than most of us - but surely way more than half of online anger is either pointless and/or actively counter-productive in terms of creating engagement around the thing you disagree with?

Took about a year, but I finished my cross-stitch tribute to the class Amiga Deluxe Paint King Tut. It’s 180x200 stitches, about 34,000 non-black tiny thread X’s 🙂 #NerdStitch

At OFFPRINT great alt books and zine fair that’s on today and tmrw at 180 The Strand London.. Delia Derbyshire patch and very appropriate to me book on STOLEN SPOONS.. Go see if in town it’s GREAT! offprint.org/en/

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/05/11/?... sad deaths of the Times "Inter//Face" section, Douglas Adams cryptic debut mention of UK Independence Party & in modern parlance: Mike & The Mechanics' The Living Years, but it's The Shangri-Las' Leader Of The Pack youtube.com/watch?v=gOFc...

via @kierongillen.bsky.social - you don't have to listen to pt1, interesting exegesis of Tommy the rock musical, plus extra trivia that 1950s UFO "contactee" George Adamski knew he'd spoken to aliens due to their distinctively non-terrestrial trousers

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The battle for the left between greens and labour is going to tear your friendship groups and family part. My advice is stay out of it with the line, "I'm going to vote for whichever left-ish party has a chance of winning in my local area, based on polls just before the election."

for the sake of argument this Star Wars Day - surely some of the appeal of cinema scifi comes from the transportative novelty of the production design, which comparatively lower-budget TV shows can't easily compete with (though Dr Who & Star Treks use various techniques to try)? @robmanuel.b3ta.com

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/27/?... @edfelten.bsky.social et al defeat audio watermarks, silenced by RIAA Lucozade renamed Lara(Croft)-zade "Large Global Anti-Capitalism Protests Put Smaller, Local Protests Out Of Business" web.archive.org/web/20010603... & "..one Cheggers made earlier"

This makes me so angry. Honestly think it should be illegal. Losing millions, and every so often asking the public to fund your large salaries for the next while, with no financials even provided. And others: www.reddit.com/r/crowdcube/...

I'm speaking on the 26th of April (tomorrow!!) at www.oggcamp.org in Manchester speaking about my much loved Open Source Design Diary studies project! which you can read here: github.com/sprblm/Diary... #oggcamp #oggcamp26 #oss #opensource #opensourcedesign

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/20/?... netimperative.com & Attachments' in-show site web.archive.org/web/20110725... battle on longer than expected + following en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho... comic Bob Mills gets 2nd series of similarly Larry Sanders-y BOB MARTIN: youtu.be/lR5ZWi0F4Jw

3 sentence horror story

Train tickets booked for #oggcamp 😃 Hope to see lots of you there. I'll try to bring random electronics for the swap shop. Weekend tickets still available on https://www.oggcamp.org/

Get your schooling on resisting Big Tech empires next Saturday from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social with @doctorow.pluralistic.net and others This is not one to miss 👇👇

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/13/?... Higgs "Bosun" ahoy! ntk.net/2001/04/13/d... (perhaps deliberately?) cheesy promo Alt Reality Game for Spielberg A.I. movie legacy.aintitcool.com/node/8659 & Nazi shows may lose ratings battle, say media analysts... "but zey vill vin - ZE WAR!"

had to go back to Twitter, wasn't as bad you'd expect?

former Tory defence minister Tobias Ellwood is still doing his quote about "It will cost each taxpayer roughly the price of a cappuccino a day" ...like he's asking Britons to set up a charity direct debit, or to crowdfund unexpected medical expenses for a pet www.the-express.com/news/world-n...

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/06/?... RMS' odd behaviour fairly well-known 22 years ago zork.net/pipermail/cr... gamers conned by bargain deals - on PlayStation 2 Harlan Ellison's anti-piracy campaign - "I Have No Caps Lock Key, And I Must Scream" web.archive.org/web/20010418...

I've just had an amazing idea

The quality of photos from Artemis II of the moon surface is incredible to witness in real time.

In his grave at Golgotha, Lord Jesus waits dreaming

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/03/30/?... Mike Magee quits @theregister.com, launches The Inquirer (later sold to VNU) web.archive.org/web/20050502... not an April Fool - Avon quits Blake's 7: The Movie hermit.org/Blakes7/news... & state-of-the-art JS encryption: web.archive.org/web/20010216...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

always good for indie game devs to have a "unique" PR angle, although...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/03/23/ debut mentions of: no free Tacos for deorbiting Mir web.archive.org/web/20010405... the Ted Nelson-esque nongnu.org/gzz/ Bandle Bobble remix.kwed.org/files/RKOfil... Open Firmware anthem www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wy... & Foot & Mouth vs - Jerry & Margo?

london! @jbrew.bsky.social will be hosting robot karaoke among other awesome shows (shouts out to algorave!) on friday at this london games festival event www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...