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2004/9/18

Today is the 20th anniversary of Apple ProDOS 1.1.1. It was created/released on 18-SEP-1984, a date burned into the retinas of many who used school computer labs in the mid-1980s. So there's the useless factoid for the day.

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2004/7/6

According to the press, Rock'n'Roll sprang fully formed from the loins of Elvis Presley exactly 50 years ago.

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2011/5/26

A few London transport map links: here there is a detailed, zoomable map of the London Underground and surface railways, showing the locations of stations (both operational and closed) and tracks. Meanwhile, the Green Party's

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2010/5/27

A new frontrunner has emerged in Colombia's presidential elections: Antanas Mockus , a former academic and two-time mayor of Bogotá whose terms in power there were characterised by a sort of surrealist urbanism ( previously ).

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2007/5/25

There's a rather good article in The Age on up-and-coming Melbourne indie-pop artist Pikelet : She's from Melbourne, she's 24, she sometimes works in a bar. Her name is Evelyn Morris and she calls herself Pikelet,

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