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Welcome to the last of my summaries for a while, after a chunk of people volunteered to do their duty for the next month. Hopefully all those summaries with message-ids will soon be converted to URLs, too, courtesy of a perl script. More on that when it's ready, I hope. The G8 summit last week was commented on by Ashley (in an amusing script style), Chris Devers (shooting people isn't cool) and at length by Daynal, while Aaron laid into Tony B. Daynal also asked about Sky News and their poll on the situation, and Paul Mison mentioned postcodes. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042330.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042368.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042370.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042439.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042390.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042408.html Responding to Alaric Snell's question about porn offers, David Cantrell and Chris Heathcote pointed out the R18 certificate. Daynal mentioned children and animals and Todd Larason pointed out silly US laws. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042406.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042413.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042415.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042422.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042416.html Last week's punk thread staggered into this week, with (somewhat randomly) talk about straight edge (Chris Devers), Chris Morris explained (by Alex Robinson), anti-punk (Matt Jones) and an anti-funk comeback (Devers again). http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042482.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010716/042348.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042503.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042542.html Robert Jones complained about his break-in period; Mike Jarvis is just past his, but is having trouble with it, and Chris Devers analysed fuel consumption. No-one really said what a break-in period was, though. Ho hum. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042487.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042492.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042631.html Robert Shiels mentioned a BBC piece on Swordfish, which Paul Mison railed against. David Cantrell also had a bit of a go at BBC News Online. duncan mentioned dodgy VCDs and DVDs, which led to Alex Robinson talking about Serbian piracy. Later on, Simon Wistow talked about projection. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042494.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042499.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042504.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042512.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042521.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042654.html Harl sent another message from the desert; he's going to HAL 2001, as is Steve Mynott, despite tent lossage. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042500.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042539.html Magnus Bodin asked whether the quicksort algorithm was buggy for twenty years; Daniel Brännvall suggested maybe this was binary search, and Todd Larason suggested a couple of books to look in. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042515.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042518.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042553.html Mike Jarvis asked for good Gnuttela clients. Steve Mynott recommended Unix ones, not Windows; William Wilson recommended Bearshare but wondered if there was badness there these days, and suggested sharing limits were completely useless. Carrying on in this vein, Frank Gough recommended Kazaa, and Magnus Bodin pointed out it was Windows only. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042548.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042560.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042564.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042568.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042660.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042667.html Todd Larason picked up on a mention of Ananova to ask about it; Chris Heathcote and Robin Houston mentioned ownership, and Daynal liked the offbeat news. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042561.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042569.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042566.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042572.html Isabelle Whitman asked about crashing IE on Mac OS; Patrik Nordebo wanted to blame Microsoft, but Steve Mynott laid into the Mac OS itself. Chris Heathcote suggested a reinstall. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042578.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042581.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042606.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042584.html Ashley Pomeroy talked about Commando in the style of his film web pages; Robert Shiels mentioned crap soundtracks, and Matt Jones compared bodycounts. Steve Mynott did a very long analysis of the various films. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042582.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042588.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042590.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042609.html Ashley Pomeroy posted about punternet again, with a disturbing report from a bad man, and Daynal responded, leading to a fairly long (if broken) thread on the subject. Steve Mynott posted about a book called "Survival in the City" and was accused of watching too much TV. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042599.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042669.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042681.html Ashley watched Phillipa Forrester's last Tomorrow's World, sparking a long thread on TV; Andrew Bowman liked TW in the old days, while Chris Heathcote didn't like what had happened to Newsnight, and Ashley talked about Lindsey Fallow and gave Alex Robinson the chance to parody Mark Lawson. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042689.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042691.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042697.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042703.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042714.html Matt Jones took the thread into the realm of 'UK <-> US Information Exchange' by asking what sitcoms were seen in the US: Chris Devers and Mike Jarvis sent pretty long responses, while Alex Robinson defended ITV a little and John Pilger a lot. Chris Devers set the scene for the beginning of next week... http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042722.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042730.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042736.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042741.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042771.html A couple of random posts I liked but didn't fit into threads, from Ashley Pomeroy and Simon Wistow. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042453.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010723/042558.html Links of the week, from Chris Heathcote, William Wilson, Steve Mynott and Ian Malpass. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/db/2/S/salmongravadlax_742.shtml http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/07/22/stinwenws03005.html http://squack.com/steve/htm/hip97.html http://www.indecorous.com/3frame/ That's all from me. Next week, the first of many guest summarisers, Robert Jones. |