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| If you are a sad git like me you may have seen tv ident galleries before but the TV ARK site has LOADS of Real Media clips of idents, continuity announcements, news intros, series intros, ads, you name it, stacks of stuff from the 70′s & 80′s and good bit of earlier stuff too. The Protect & Survive public info film is as mad & scary as the booklet ever was. In fact all the 70s/80s public information films are pretty mad.        Wow! An update! It has been a while, so whats been happening since October? Well, I finally upgraded my main machine to a 1.4GHz Athlon with 512Mb DDR RAM so there has been much installation and testing of new software going on. It’s running Redhat 7.1 with an upgraded KDE 2.2.1, KDE really is impressive these days, much more so than Gnome in my opinion and the faster hardware makes such a difference. Also, with the extra power I have now switched to Mozilla as my main browser and have found 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 to be extremely stable. In the past I have mentioned IBM’s Linux watch project, it seems that Citizen have now joined up with them on this and it looks like it is really coming on. I still don’t think we’ll be seeing these in the shops anytime soon though. In November Alexa launched the Way back machine which is an archive of the web from 1996 to present day, not everything is there of course but it kept me entertained for hours reliving some of the pages I used to visit. On a similar note this week Google expanded its Usenet archive to cover the last 20 years and there are some fascinating posts linked to from their timeline. Is this what history will be like in the future? It looks like the pilot of the Doctor Who audio adventure, Death Comes to Time, was a success. The BBC has commissioned further episodes which will be posted weekly starting sometime in 2002. Looks like it will still only be available as real audio though, can’t we have mp3 too please? There is now a short trailer for the forthcoming Dr Who audio drama on the BBC site. Doctor Who returns to the BBC on 13 July as a special one-off audio drama, Death Comes To Time. It will be broadcast on the Beebs official Doctor Who web site and Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred continue their roles as last played on TV in 1989. Listeners will also be able to vote on whether they want The Doctor to return. [more] Great news: Google have put the Deja usenet archive going back to 1995 back online, that’s over 650 million messages. There is a transcript of last weeks live chat with douglas adams available. Douglas Adams is doing a live chat tonight at 20:00 GMT on BBC online. mirreentry.com will be showing the MIR reentry (current estimate 23 March) online 4 hours after the event. H2G2 is back at last, it’s now part of BBC Online which seems fitting. It seems much faster so far but alas the beeb have buckled under legal worries and introduced moderation. | 
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