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http://www.slyck.com/story1949_The_Effort_to_Save_...

The original Usenet server is shutting down. I can't imagine anyone will notice - anyone still usin...

http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/25195/auschwi...

Weird, and sick. I cannot fathom a motive to do this that doesn't leave me faintly nauseous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M&fmt=18

This one's done the rounds a lot, but I'm going to want to look it up ater, I know I am, so here's y...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_Accident

Well, this is crying out to be recycled into some nasty bit of horror/mystery fiction or something.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

I know that this is just words. It's an easy thing to say, and it costs him nothing. Of course it...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/0...

I really do enjoy watching Mr Stross think about the near future. I have no idea if he's right or n...

http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/maplist.html

I love old maps. I especially love old maps of London.

http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/on-syste...

This one's done the rounds like a bastard over the last few days, but just in case you haven't seen...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/rememberi...

By the time this is posted, I am sure you'll all have seen this link everywhere on the internet toda...

http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/a4-vs-us-le...

Useful guide to setting up print margins so that documents will work with either size, plus some exp...

http://www.oddee.com/item_96674.aspx

There is a part of my brain insisting that some of these had to have been jokes, even for the time....

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2355

They've long since been discontinued, which is saddening. I cannot imagine why anyone could ever hav...

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/03/23/t...

"Yes, halfway through this project we'll discover the impossible, but we know how to build through t...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2009/mar/03/...

Iain Sinclair talks with typical eloquence about living in Hackney over the last 40 years. It strik...

http://mikedempsey.typepad.com/graphic_journey_blo...

An address given in 2005 to the RSA about design and the world we live in. No earth shattering insi...