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Some video from 1927 of some very familiar parts of London. Amazing just how little has changed in some ways, apart from the transport and people of course.

I read a lot online, including a lot of short fiction magazines and websites with lengthy articles but I’m often put off by the page layouts or design when what I really want is the text.
Previously I’ve cut and paste text and put it on my ereader,  I’ve written scripts to scrape the text automatically [...]

Do we need another one? Google seem to think so.
http://golang.org/

Thought this was interesting given the ads you see today.

[via vintage_ads]

Had a random desire yesterday to play with some games development stuff just to use the old brain cells for a bit and strangely it seems to have coincided with a three companies releasing free or at least free for non-commercial use versions of their tools.
In what seems a fair order:
DarkBASIC Pro

DBPro (along with blitzbasic) [...]

I’ve had a Google Wave account for a little while now but haven’t really had a chance to spend much time playing with it. To be honest I fired it up, thought “OK what now” and promptly forgot about it.
Partly this is because it’s not immediately clear how best to use the thing and partly [...]

Oohh free album time.
Irish thrash act Gama Bomb are releasing their new album “Tales from the Grave in Space” on November 5th and are making the album freely available for download via Rapidshare.
I’d never heard of them but had a quick listen and sounds real old school thrash. Looks like they are building up quite [...]