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:: Thursday, August 21, 2003 ::

Local News: Bristol (we don’t see much about Leeds up here Popcorn?)

In one final aviation adventure to eclipse all others Andy Elson and Colin Prescot are preparing to fly the biggest manned balloon in history "QinetiQ1" - to the edge of Space. Current altitude record: 34668 m.

Spank gets an overhaul. Bristol’s biggest fetish night even gets written up by the Beeb now.

This weeks Guardian Online picks:

Why Blogging is not the new social resolution, to paraphrase, “it’s just a buch of people who could never get published writing crap.” Umm, any argument here... no? OK, I’ll carry on anyway; you’re reading this after all.

Apparently the fact that Downing Street has release a public email address for Tony Blair is a big deal. Yeah, like he’s going to read it.

"Wait for video - and then don't rent it!" Quotes you don't see on film posters.

The children of the 80s are going back to their home-programming roots. Why Basic is coming back into fashion. Dark Basic sounds intriguing.

Chris Johnson, professor of computing science at Glasgow University, has created a program that tracks the development of arguments within documents and looks for material connected to the conclusions. The program strips out the rhetoric that distracts from the conclusions in long documents, such as those produced by an enquiry. Haha, I’d like to run some of the stuff I write for work run though this, or my uni dissertation.

Popcorn: Where did you hear that?

:: Dan 21.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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