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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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One year ago:

2007/10/7

Adam "Ape Lad" Koford, author of The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats has posted a graphical argument against the teaching of cursive writing in schools :

Two years ago:

2006/10/6

Despite being on indefinite hiatus, Melbourne/Brisbane krautesque art-pop combo Minimum Chips are following the likes of The Lucksmiths, Sodastream and Architecture In Helsinki into Europe, having just released a retrospective album . Titled "Lady Grey", it

Five years ago:

2003/10/7

Bruce Sterling on 10 technologies that deserve to die ; which includes the usual Viridian hot buttons (coal, internal combustion and incandescent lighting), as well as nuclear weapons, prisons (apparently people can be controlled easily enough