additional #OnThisDayInNTK:2000 archive: "JOBS calls Apple hiring freeze - still, needs to eat:" web.archive.org/web/2001041320… "This accident could have had international repercussions" web.archive.org/web/2000120510… & boldly "thinking outside the boxes marked TV, Film, Games, The Web" etc

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/13/?arc @sfonplsql book questions popular SQL assumption of "Humans as numbered entities" web.archive.org/web/2000103014… still online - S-Club 7-Headed BEAST OF REVELATION darryn-reeds.tripod.com/S-Club-7-secre… & @TomStandage introduces us to "temp tracks"

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/20/?arc Kids in the Hall's Scott Thompson spoofs Eminem youtube.com/watch?v=HicknI… @AdeWard reviews @Nanoloop 1.0 ...city of Leeds unimpressed web.archive.org/web/2000121702… & BT - rhetorical as ever:

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/10/27/?arc Steganography may be "3rd biggest threat to US security after biological & chemical attack"? debut mentions of: Google Ads White Teeth "Zombie Nation" C64 remix hit & list songs: easy to write, hard to pace? youtube.com/watch?v=OsuIkC…

additional #OnThisDayInNTK:2000 archive: not a cryptic crossword: "If Constrict Anus 100 times, Malarkey?" web.archive.org/web/2001102400… & by 2012, the Zombie Nation C64 inspiration en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraft… was itself "said to borrow from" this earlier track? youtu.be/Hgf82hF3qj8?t=…

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/03/?arc 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" - rather than a sales exec at Godado, whatever that was chinwag.com/uk-netmarketin…

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/10/?arc George W Bush election win delayed by a month - Florida recount blamed on hanging chads, absentee ballots, Bill Gates etc still online: Terence Chua' khaosworks.org/filk/ & truth in merchandising w/ Karen DiConcetto @CelesteCruz:

additional #OnThisDayInNTK:2000 archive: @KierenMcCarthy: BSA Deploys Imaginary Pirate Software Detector Vans theregister.com/2000/11/08/bsa… early days of tech T&Cs: web.archive.org/web/2001052900… & The Terminator vs "Come with me, if you want to live - in a cave!" groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.…

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/11/17/?arc made-up .mudpie .seagull .name gTLDs? Robin Dunbar: "Mobiles as Lekking Devices Among [Scouse] Males" sfgate.com/news/article/C… & CofE's "head of signal logistics" cancels "potentially offensive" Cranberry Aero web.archive.org/web/2001011900…

additional #OnThisDayInNTK:2000 archive: final mentions of San Francisco's Geek Pride Festival Region Code-Enhanced DVDs web.archive.org/web/2001061921… "Sock Puppet brand icon" sold off in Pets .com Falco web.archive.org/web/2000111006… & baffling TVGoHome-parodists turn on... each other?

for the record, I've now successfully transmuted ALL my parasocial likes/dislikes of celebrities into parasocial likes/dislikes of the sorts of ill-defined groups who still form parasocial likes/dislikes of celebrities - total mental peace = very close now x.com/skdh/status/17…

We might not have a functioning mental health service in this country but at least there's this

Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too. We say it's time

UK Gov Camp We now have 240 registrations for UK Gov Camp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. You can still register and sponsor via UKGovCamp.com

"On Ability Tech, Contemporary Hackerspaces, and Being as Badass As Possible" - Liz Henry in conversation with RU Sirius, pic by Danny O'Brien🤖 magazine.mindplex.ai/post/all-acces…

Dorkbot London is back! luma.com/81ykl9sh

lots to unpack here, not least that today may look like an intellectual golden era compared to future dark ages - a) media always look like they're "dumbing down" when appealing to wider audiences, & b) maybe all the low-hanging "intellectual" fruit have already been discovered?

for any younger readers wondering who Prince Andrew is - from John Lloyd's Spitting Image book 1985