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Come find me.

One of the side effects of being BoingBoinged around the same time that Warren Ellis shines a light on your little slice of the Internet is that lots of people come to take a look and all attempt to squeeze their eyeballs through a narrow tube that then causes a server rupture that results in a spell of fall-overing for most websites. There are probably more technical terms for this but I prefer to call it ‘being fucked’. In a good way. It just means your website doesn’t walk right for a little while.

Well that used to be the case anyway. For a few years now I’ve had @loudmouthman looking after my website (this one and a few others I have squirreled away), ensuring my WordPress installations are up to date and generally answering all the annoying questions I have when Google fails me. He’s been doing this since an older version of my site got hacked and was properly done over. Since then things have run like clockwork. Or whatever the digital version of clockwork is.

I now recommend him to everyone I know if they’re even considering using WordPress. My backend now has an effective series of bells and whistles as well as a near invisible suite of addons that just keep the site up no matter what and most importantly don’t get in the way of my infrequent blogging attempts.

This of course is just a small part of what Nik does for a living (he recently helped Ridley Scott’s mob not get overwhelmed by Life in a Day) so if you’re doing anything for a sustained period online he’s certainly the man to talk to. I said this on Twitter this morning, but its worth repeating: Too many talk themselves up, deliver little. Nik gets it done. End of.

Oh and he also runs a neat little Moleskine blog which is one of those cool things that I wished I’d thought of doing first.

That’s Brad Fidler, Leonard Kleinrock and Matt Novak.

Read up on Kleinrock if you need to and please take note of Boelter Hall 3420. Then click here.

Our heritage site is a restoration of the original 1969 ARPA lab that sent the first Internet message from 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA.  It will be open to the public and feature key artifacts including the very first piece of the Internet infrastructure, namely the Interface Message Processor (IMP).  We use teaching tools from the 1960s such as slide projects and blackboards to tell the story of the Internet’s early history.

Chills. I’ve been following this since @3420BoelterHall popped up on Twitter. Right now they’ve only got 184 followers so I urge you to get in on the ground floor of something very important and offer all the support you can. In many ways this reminds me of the work done by Sue Black to save Bletchley Park and I’m hoping there’s some discussion around the importance of this kind of physical archive/museum on both sides of the Atlantic.

Looks like 3420 is way ahead of me:

I believe that most of you will know the fellow Brit in question and I’m looking forward to seeing him document the ongoing work as well as reflect on the history.

Matt Novak I’ve been following for quite a while via one of the best websites on the Internet: Paleofuture. We’ve yet to meet in person, but he’s also incessantly entertaining on Twitter so I do intend to buy him a drink at some point. It makes perfect sense that he was one of the first people to get access to the site and organised an Obscura Day tour.

The director of this endeavor is Mr Fidler. Brad and I first crossed paths on Seesmic when it was still a video platform I believe (he’ll correct me if I’m wrong) and once conned me out of a hotel at an ungodly hour to do shots in a dive bar with an ungodly mix of Internet hobo types in New York. He’s a force of nature and just the right chap to see this mission through.

If you have even a passing interest in Internet history then you’ll be excited to know that 3420 plans to be back to its original 1969 self this summer.  I can’t wait to go visit.

I was a tad underwhelmed with the first glimpse at RISE OF THE APES this morning and my subsequent tweet was transformed into this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmLWdjtzPw

So. Cool.

And as Warren said, “the badger is fucked in the head“

No comment.

Emphasis on net.

Last week I met up with an old friend who was kind enough to give me one of the limited edition prints of a poster that you probably saw rule the Internet a few weeks ago. 20 things that happened on the Internet in 2010 is a puzzle poster by McBess commissioned by Syzygy.

You can see it in all its glory here. And I think I’m correct in saying that no one has yet to name all twenty things correctly…

If you want to grab the Internet’s interest by the balls and in a good way then this is the way to do it. Can’t wait to see what these guys come up with next.

Oh and my friend, John, also wrote one of my favourite books – the hilarious Sea Otters Gambolling In The Wild, Wild Surf. I still think it’s one of the few books screaming out to be adapted into a movie and if you haven’t read it please do so as soon as possible. You’re in for a treat.

The BBC radio thing I did yesterday is online. I’m up front and quite short.

Just like in real life…