How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/

@pete@petedeas.co.uk nice story 😃

x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (interactive) https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/interactive-x86-bootloader-tutorial

The Story of Second Life’s Long-Abandoned Duran Duran Universe | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/07/07/the-story-of-second-lifes-long-abandoned-duran-duran-universe

Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom – Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/

What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict

200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/

A Theory of Information Warfare http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/airchronicles/szfran.htm

Memetics does provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution - Dr Susan Blackmore https://www.susanblackmore.uk/chapters/memetics-does-provide-a-useful-way-of-understanding-cultural-evolution/

BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Encoding data in dubstep drops https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-drops

It’s Nice That | A chat with the Orwellian mastermind in charge of the UK town known as Scarfolk https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/scarfolk-graphic-design-210318

I’ve never heard Dark Side of the Moon - adventures of a Prog neophyte - Getintothis http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2018/03/ive-never-heard-dark-side-moon-adventures-prog-neophyte/

Stack Overflow Culture | Jon Skeet’s coding blog https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/stack-overflow-culture/

Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133

In The Eternal… http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/

We need to an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/obsessive-depth-of-the-internet

Dan Collier — Typographic Links https://dancollier.co.uk/work/typographiclinks/

BBC iPlayer - Bletchley Park: Code-breaking’… https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius

Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE GHOSTS IN THE LIVING ROOM http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/12/the_ghosts_in_the_living_room.html

@pete@petedeas.co.uk that’s a clever solution; I’ll have to set up something like that.

BBC Radio 6 Music - KLF Special http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091zz3q

This is how Netflix‘s top-secret recommendation system works | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-do-netflixs-algorithms-work-machine-learning-helps-to-predict-what-viewers-will-like?imm_mid=0f5ddc&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20170906

@pete@petedeas.co.uk have you tried the plan9port of awk? Should be close to the original

thanks @pete@petedeas.co.uk. This probably means I should write my yearly blog post ;)

Searching A Million Lines Of Lisp – Wilfred Hughes::Blog http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2016/09/30/searching-a-million-lines-of-lisp/

The Mouldwarp King - Invisible Works http://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/the-mouldwarp-king/

Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/ibm_1960s_story_writing_software/?mt=1504125155672

The Etymology of ‘Sabbath’ - Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages UCL Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/calendars-ancient-medieval-project/2015/07/15/the-etymology-of-sabbath/

AI generated place names, what do they mean? (pt 1) | danconnolly.co.uk http://www.danconnolly.co.uk/2017/07/ai-generated-place-names-what-do-they-mean-pt-1/

The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html

Hans Zimmer: orchestral manoeuvres in the dark | British GQ http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hans-zimmer-interview-dunkirk?curator=MusicREDEF

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary | Political bots http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/computational-propaganda-worldwide-executive-summary/

‘Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years’ | University of Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years

Hi @pete@petedeas.co.uk!

I traveled 3,007 kilometers with my Fitbit, and just earned the Japan badge for it! http://t.co/DCPH0FQ5DW #Fitstats_UK

Comment on Ubuntu 13.10 Default Wallpaper Revealed by Ken Ash
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No you can not skip qml if you plan to use qtquick. Without qtquick you don’t get the nice animations etc. Yes you can write the business logic in some other language, but it is also possible to write it in JS instead. Especially with small simple apps is probably a good idea using … ⌘ Read more

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Couldn’t agree with you more. I’m just gonna wait til 13.10 is released though, then switch to Ubuntu again. ⌘ Read more

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I think the same but this wallpaper is more a indicator of the product and not of the brand.
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Elementare is super fast and god looking… An OS I would recommend to,… well, my mother maybe, but I’m missing some features and I like unity dash More than their equivalent ⌘ Read more

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