The internet is full of (20 years' worth of) stuff

[shewhomust]

1. It was twenty years ago this weekend Seargeant Pepper Tim Berners-Lee uploaded the first web page (it looked something like this).



2. nineweaving visited Edward Gorey's house. Wait, you can visit Edward Gorey's house? I need to bookmark nineweaving's post so that I can look at her photos when the perfect storm which is currently afflicting her LJ / my internet connection abates.



3. Man arrested in Sweden for trying to split atom in kitchen: Eddie Mair on BBC Radio interviewed him, deadpan, and eventually asked the question that had been bothering all of us: where had he got hold of his radioactive material? "From Germany, on eBay." of course. Also, out of an old smoke detector.



4. The fiasco that is the Durham Marketplace and Vennels improvement scheme has gone very quiet about the work that was supposed to be done on the vennels. They seem to have managed these things better in Edinburgh, where artist Martin Creed has clad a flight of steps each in a different shade of marble, to the delight of the Guardian's Jonathan Jones, who called it "the best art at this year's Edinburgh festival". (This, too, ran over schedule, but at least people seem to have liked it once it was finished).



5. No, sorry, that's all I've got today.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

One who shall be nameless, an acquaintance of firends, used to keep an Atlas missile (acquired piecemeal) in his garage. And that was long before eBay, long before anything but ARPANET.

Nine

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Google does not know the tale of Junior Tom, who built his own atomic bomb; that, and that one of the components was "one slightly bent uranium atom" is all I can retrieve from my own memory.