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Digital Domesday Defies Doom

Hulver writes "The BBC Domesday project, originally completed in 1986 and under threat (as reported in this old slashdot story) has had its data recovered. The contents of the laserdiscs have been put on DVD, and new programs written so that PCs can access the data. Interestingly, most of the images and films were not recovered from the laserdiscs, but were instead re-digitised from the original analog films at a higher resolution than the laserdiscs contained. Full details of the recovered data are at the Public Record Office website."

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  1. ooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!! by matty · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frosty!!!

    1. Re:ooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      damn that last beer! if i'd come back to the office sooner that fr05ty p155 could have been mine.

    2. Re:ooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      mine's a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, you?

    3. Re:ooooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'd be drinking Sierra if they had it on tap. It was brewco so I had one red and then switched to the hefeweizen.

  2. ALMOST FROSTy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:ALMOST FROSTy! by double-oh+three · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We need a system to IP ban idiots/trolls/dumbasses like this. Maybe a 'voted off the /.' system, where if a 100 or so people voted against them they get banned...

      --
      "For years, I struggled with reality... but I'm happy to say I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd
  3. d00d by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that still makes me giggle... :)

  4. [ed. note: no it isn't] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael you stupid fag, its Doomsday not Domesday.. damn you stupid hippies

  5. mod parent down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -1 karma whore with retarded sense of humour.

  6. Mod child down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Irrational child molester with a need to get raped by a negro dog with a big dick.

  7. Won't work with dynamic IPs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People will just re-connect on dialup.

  8. u R dubm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and uptight

    how sad...

  9. please tell me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that was a subtle, reasonably well-crafted Troll

    i'd hate to think you thought he was serious

    that would be sad...

  10. DKD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Might be off-topic , but can we have a round of applause for DKD, hacker of 1000s of sites.

    One of the best, information on defense fund forthcoming

  11. Black Witchery by Uber+Banker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I was young, I first started having fantasies about filling my pants with thick, stinking, greasy shit and how this would cause shock and horror to everyone around me. Sometimes I imagined doing it at church.

    Many years later, I have kept this to myself and my band mates, who understand that often the truest expression of romance is between men who have escaped the fear of extremity. I do also sleep with some women, when I can meet them at shows, but I do not prefer the company of women. Only battle comrades!

    I am in a moderately successful band which plays shows across the world in a style of metal music that is not accepted by the same people who would find pantshitting disgusting. However, many of our fans still are not ready to take this final step toward seeing the truth beyond. So we do not tell them.

    However, I have never before shit my pants on stage. Last show we played gave me a perfect opportunity. The "dressing room" was actually a big area behind the stage where there were lots things stored, like old machines and stage costumes in big brown cardboard boxes. No one could see me so I brought my bag of toys and got naked. First thing I did was to insert a rubber 12" black cock-style dildo into my ass, and I rubbed my asscheeks together, feeling it press hard into me and my submissive manly organ. It felt very good, but I could not maintain an erection without the smell of shit.

    Because of this, I became more excited at the idea of shitting myself in front of other people. I wanted them to know what happened, but I did not want to make it public in a way that others could talk about later. I put on my favorite red lace teddy, which is very femme and a gift from our guitarist, Tragenda, and then over it my black leather pants and Beherit tshirt. When I moved the silk lace slide over my buttocks and back, making me feel very sexy. But still I was not erect or turned on.

    I had prepared by eating a full meal at Taco Bell, but instead of drinking soda I had pure water and ate two or three butter packets from the restaurant, then had a couple of bran muffins and chocolate milk. Inside me the burbling tempest was beginning.

    Before the show started, I took one of the fans they have to keep us cool on stage and moved it so that it was blowing past my microphone stand into the crowd. People were already chanting our band name and pounding on the tables at the bar. I grabbed my instrument and we ticked off and began.

    Because I was stimulated, but not yet sexually aroused, this was one of the most energetic shows we have ever had. My energy was growing instead of going away, because of my little secret, which only I knew was going to occur before the unsuspecting crowd. On our final song, there is a part where I do a long and grotesque scream, and during the middle of this, I pushed hard in the behind area and felt a comforting warm ooze on my thighs and the bottom of my testicles as a sickening stench filled the air.

    The crowd must have smelled it, because the looks of horror on their faces were immaculate! I did not want to let out my secret, so I continued to crap myself while doing the show normally, and no one knew. The only cleanup I did was to run back to the dressing room before going out to meet the fans, where I wiped myself down with an old sequin dress from the costume boxes and threw the hopelessly soiled teddy into a corner.