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Not now, rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu!
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5 days ago
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b3ta
7 days ago
Just updating the clan Artist: Iawn Cont
https://b3ta.com/board/11424054
From the 'Ob3tuaries' challenge
https://b3ta.com/challenge/ob3tuaries/popular/
#Ob3tuaries
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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?
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9 days ago
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#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!
12 days ago
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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...
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14 days ago
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#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?
18 days ago
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Tom Coates
19 days ago
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?
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mySociety
22 days ago
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...
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#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"
26 days ago
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#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"
about 1 month ago
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James Wallis
about 1 month ago
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.
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NB this also applies to rarer DVDs, 1st-party Nintendo releases & valuable Pokemon cards...
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about 1 month ago
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#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...
about 1 month ago
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DANIELPEMBERTON
about 1 month ago
Doing this tmrw!
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#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...
about 2 months ago
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Iguanadon Quixote
about 2 months ago
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
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#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
about 2 months ago
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you could always purchase it second-hand, or only via platforms which offer no risk of financially benefitting the creators - eg Spotify or Youtube?
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about 2 months ago
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#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...
2 months ago
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#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...
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We Didn't Start The Weblogs (Nikolai Nolan, 2000) - Lyric video
YouTube video by fakebitpolytechnic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OsuIkCdMkGw&list=PLO1B9Gc9IrRMZ7uS9YFNdLnop7cnsXJUF&index=4
2 months ago
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"& their birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison!" (via
@danhon.com
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2 months ago
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#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:
2 months ago
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surely not... Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman?
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3 months ago
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#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"
3 months ago
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Terence Eden
3 months ago
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
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Agent Open Unconference organised in partnership with the AI Alliance
Agentic technology will be explored in a day of technical and security discussions, with maybe some governance and ethics in an unconference
https://agentopenunconference2025.eventbrite.co.uk/
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Dan Davies
3 months ago
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
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#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...
3 months ago
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James Brown
3 months ago
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...
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Tilt Doom
YouTube video by Ancient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U0JPrMFk
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OggCamp
4 months ago
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/
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#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
3 months ago
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Rob Manuel
4 months ago
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/...
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Ed Morrish
3 months ago
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!
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#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!
3 months ago
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James Wallbank
4 months ago
If AI is so good, where are automatic ALT Tags?
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#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"
4 months ago
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#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:
4 months ago
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Sean of the new new year
4 months ago
Aw, I always thought Paul deserved a bio pic.
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#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...)
4 months ago
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a stinky ox 🐂
4 months ago
in case anyone missed this, this is absolutely brilliant if you're an oldschool nerd.
https://byte.tsundoku.io
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#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
4 months ago
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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...
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5 months ago
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#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?"
5 months ago
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Hari Kunzru
5 months ago
If I need more ideas I will simply build a Dyson sphere around my head thus capturing 100% of my ideas
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#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:
5 months ago
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#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...
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Elite The Musical - Full
YouTube video by The Artisan
https://youtu.be/y-hxWLoOjgw
5 months ago
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Matt Muir
5 months ago
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
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#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
5 months ago
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html energy
6 months ago
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...
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HTML Energy
HTMl Day is on August 2nd, 2025!
https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
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BSides London
5 months ago
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
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#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...
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The Web Review Episode 4, ITV (circa. 2001)
YouTube video by jamnhoney
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hRLXrmqEb3g&list=PLO1B9Gc9IrRMZ7uS9YFNdLnop7cnsXJUF
6 months ago
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