Each time I’ve walked past the Cutty Sark, I wanted to visit inside. I’ve always deferred it to later as It never managed to reach the top of my prioritized to-do list.
I hope I’m not going to regret it.
Blaze ravages historic Cutty Sark: “A fire which seriously damaged London’s historic tea clipper the Cutty Sark was ’suspicious’, police say.”
(Via BBC News.)
O mon dieu, est-ce vrai? 
France and UK discussed ‘merger’: “
Be prepared to choke your beef and oyster pie of Olde England: previously-secret documents at the National Archive reveal how in 1956 the French Prime Minister travelled to London to propose a possible merger between the two countries.…
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(Via The Register.)
Just found this story on Digg relating various steps of the evolution of graphic user interface on personal computers.
It reminded me another time line I came across years ago, which is the history of UNIX from 1969 to nowadays.
Humm,
I’m not into conspiracy theories, but this is going to argue in favor of people who think Mankind never landed on the moon, and everything that happened in 1969 was staged and fake (remember the film Capricorn One?)
They don’t want us to analyze the missing tape, they must have something to hide
Apollo 11 TV Tapes Go Missing: “Richard W.M. Jones writes ‘On July 21st 1969, Honeysuckle Creek observatory brought us the first TV pictures of men on the moon. The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards. Unfortunately John Sarkissian of Parkes Observatory Australia reports that 698 of the 700 boxes of original tapes have gone missing [warning: large PDF] from the U.S. National Archives. Even more worryingly, the last place on earth which can actually read these tapes is scheduled to close in October this year. The PDF contains interesting comparisons which show that if all you’ve seen are the TV pictures from the landing, you really haven’t seen the first moon walk in its full glory.’
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(Via Slashdot.)
And for the fun, below is a comment from Slashdot :
“Holy crap, They were labeled “Moonwalk” so I thought they were the michael jackson video or something and I taped the world cup games over them. My bad guys. Can’t you set up the studio in the desert and tape them again?”
