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I think the first artistically ambitious TV show I remember coming out of the US was 'Twin Peaks'. I've watched GBH a few times since it aired and I think it still holds up. Certai…

I knew an old-time naval engineer who used to live by "If you've tried brute force and it didn't work, you just didn't use enough brute force"... ;-)

If it's a self-add thing, possibly just hasn't had the word of mouth yet over here?

My commute is ~1hr and I'm only going around three miles. I could go on at length about the joys of the bus system... ;-)

And if you're so inclined you can pop over to Jura and have a nosey around the cottage Orwell wrote most of 1984 in :-) It's quite a pretty spot too :-) https://flic.kr/p/kkwkuk

Just to add some anecdotal pain... I recently bought my first audio book from Audible. I didn't realise it was a proprietary DRM'd format which has no sensible playback on Linux. S…

In a similar line, I've been using 'streisand' for the past little while - might be worth looking at for inspiration if nothing else. https://github.com/jlund/streisand

I fondly remember playing 'Midi Maze' on the ST back in the 80's. LAN gaming has moved on a little, but I remember the joy and amazement of playing it :-) https://www.youtube.com/w…

I can relate to that - we used to have two related systems which couldn't talk to each other. So the solution was to print out (landscape, tiny font) 1000's of lines from one syste…

I'm just down the road - I might pop past at some point for a nosey :-) The only things of note I'd ever spotted in Govan were Titan Props and Film City - live and learn!

We're a CERN connected site and originally 'only' had 10x10G feeds. When the first data started to come in the network guy was looking a bit worried and said "the plane's coming in…

I remember when the bus system was being privatised and watching the transport minister on the news explaining that he'd been 'inspired' by watching multiple double-decker buses cr…

There's also a good documentary about the lead up to various nuclear power issues in the Adam Curtis documentary 'A Is For Atom' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora's_Box_%28TV…

Have you tried the follow up - 'Lila'? It goes at it somewhat differently.

Not really non-fiction, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is always a good read. Also if you're just interested in 'stuff', Plato's The Republic is very worth reading :…

You might prefer "Time Management for System Administrators" : http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007836.do It's a little bit GTD-ish, but has a direct practical IT take on it …

There is a quite good 70's sci-fi film (well, I like it anyway) where an AI becomes for all intents and purposes The President (and then some) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colos…

I remember watching a video of her washing all the goodness out of a bit of dough then baking it into a hard inedible lump of starch. Take from that what you will ;-)

And on ubu : http://www.ubu.com/sound/oram.html . Also a lot of Delia Derbyshire's work : http://www.ubu.com/sound/derbyshire.html

I think the EU certainly helped a lot by trade and free movement of people. It's a lot harder to make people from another country into demons if you've met them and shared a bottle…

> Europe has been at peace for a logn time I think in terms of peace it's useful to distinguish between the EU and Europe. There have been a couple of wars in Europe in my lifetime…

No worries - the only thing I did was slide the time forward by a couple of hours - it was rendering ok before that :-)

It's giving me what look like quite unlikely wind conditions (FF42/Linux) : https://imgur.com/QejZqTY

It seems to want to take my email address so you can email me 'stuff' - and also I need to use OAuth2 via your site for... something? I'm afraid I've given up on it after about thr…