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  📰 ‘How #Newspapers Helped Democratize Knowledge and #Civic Participation.’ https://lithub.com/how-newspapers-helped-democratize-knowledge-and-civic-participation/

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  #Firefox #Enterprise https://www.firefox.com/en-GB/enterprise/

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  ‘The #Dock on :apple_inc: #Mac, From OS 10 to #macOS 27.’ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/macos-dock-icons-over-time/ #Icons #UI

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  A new @unesco toolkit (which builds upon the Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government Bilingual Technology Toolkit - https://www.gov.wales/bilingual-technology-toolkit-good-user-experience) designed to support those working on #Bilingual and #Multilingual Digital #Services. 🧰 Practical toolkit for supporting multilingual digital services: good practices from enhancing access in #Welsh - https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000399393 ℹ️ New #UNESCO toolkit brings Welsh experience to multilingua...

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  📖 🐈️ ‘The #Encyclopedia of #Movie #Cats.’ https://shop.a24films.com/products/movie-cats

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  📖 ‘How [Computing] #Magazines Died.’ https://whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/2026/10/how-magazines-died.html #RetroComputing #Commodore #Amiga #Sinclair #ZXSpectrum #Amstrad

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  💿️ 🎵 #PinkFloyd - The Maximum Wall. https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/10/pink-floyd-maximum-wall-1979.html An 8 year project that “… gathers every available building block of material: the album, the film, demos, outtakes, alternate versions … to create a single continuous vision, narrative and experience … [it] comprises 52 songs, spanning nearly 3 hours of music. It includes a 180-page book as your in-depth guide, containing the stories behind every song, lyrics, liner notes, co...

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  ‘How #PaulHardcastle created his #Sample driven masterpiece '19'.’ https://www.musicradar.com/artists/they-thought-it-was-going-to-be-the-biggest-flop-ever-but-there-were-two-guys-thinking-this-might-just-change-the-face-of-music-how-paul-hardcastle-created-his-sample-driven-masterpiece-19

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  c64-hw-sim ‘… simulates the #Motherboards of the #Commodore64 (ASSY 250407) and of the #ZXSpectrum 48K (board Issue 3B), pin by pin.’ https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator

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  The Rise and Fall of #ClipArt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM

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  An ⌚️ $80,000 #Casio G-Shock #Watch. 😶 https://www.wired.com/story/casio-crystal-g-shock-is-the-most-expensive-ever-made/

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  ‘ #RoniSize to play the world’s deepest #Rave in an abandoned #Welsh #Mine.’ https://www.musicradar.com/artists/djs-producers/its-the-most-underground-of-underground-raves-ever-roni-size-to-play-the-worlds-deepest-rave-in-an-abandoned-welsh-mine

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  🪪 “A survey of the almost 50 firms accredited by #Government’s digital identity watchdog has found that one in four do not currently meet #Service #Accessibility guidelines, while the same amount collect and store sensitive #Demographic information without making any use of it.” https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/10/19/society-and-welfare/one-in-four-digital-id-firms-miss-accessibility-targets-and-keep-hold-of-demographic-data/ #IDV #PII

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  “[The] Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) acknowledges barriers to #Digital #Services faced by some #Disabled claimants.” https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/10/19/society-and-welfare/dwp-acknowledges-barriers-to-digital-services-faced-by-some-disabled-claimants/ #Accessibility #Inclusion

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  How #LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything. “The bricks’ meticulous design fosters just enough structure to make #Creation meaningful and just enough freedom to make anything seem possible.” https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-lego-engineered-the-perfect-plaything/

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  ‘Historic #Photos Capture the Streets and People of #Victorian #Whitby.’ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/england-late-victorian-era-photos/ #Yorkshire #FrankMeadowSutcliffe

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  Information on a new (and some might say overdue) role coming to the Government Digital and Data capability framework in November: Information Architect. 👇 https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/project-information-architect-new-role/ #IA #InformationArchitecture 👆 via Dan Howarth

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  ‘✨️ A I and the Destruction of the #CreativeCommons.’ https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/

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  New guidance from the Government Digital Service on ‘Addressing #Accessibility issues in your #Service’. https://design-system.service.gov.uk/accessibility/address-issues/ 👆 via Anika Henke

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  ‘DCMS announces #UKCityOfCulture 2029 shortlist.’ “Blackpool, Milton Keynes, #Sheffield and Wrexham have been shortlisted for the title, with the winner set to be announced early next year.” https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dcms-announces-uk-city-of-culture-2029-shortlist

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  A helpful #Poster on ‘Researching Access Needs’ with guidance on how to include people at different stages. https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/blob/master/accessibility/researching-access-needs/Research-who_to_include_when%3F.pdf #Accessibility #Inclusion

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  Some great examples of; • #ArtDeco Illustration & #Typography • #DataViz and #Chart Design • #Form Design • Hand-drawn #Illustration in this single 1938 publication for the #Sheffield Voluntary #Hospitals' million pound appeal. https://archive.org/details/b33448000/

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  “Developed entirely in-house across six #LocalAuthorities, the identity for the new East #Surrey #Council was developed with zero added cost to taxpayers.” https://www.designweek.co.uk/east-surrey-council-reveals-in-house-brand-identity-ahead-of-2027-launch/

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  'Here, There and Everywhere': The #Beatles have permeated #Research papers across #Academic disciplines. “More than 3,000 #Scientific article titles across disciplines have made use of Beatles #Song titles and #Lyrics …” https://phys.org/news/2026-09-beatles-permeated-papers-academic-disciplines.html

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  ‘Could #Palantir be banned from working in the #NHS?’ https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/could-palantir-be-banned-from-working-in-the-nhs/ 👆️ via @index #BetteridgesLawOfHeadlines

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  Games Explained (C64 Section). “How [certain #Commodore #C64 games] actually works — down to the code — with interactive visuals & secrets.” https://gamesexplained.com/c64/

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  📄 International Standard Paper Sizes “Standard #Paper sizes like #ISO #A4 are widely used all over the world today. This text explains the #ISO216 paper size system and the ideas behind its design.” https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

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  📻️ Preparing my wind-up #Radio for any upcoming crisis …

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  ‘Beware of the Meeting Minutes.’ https://daily.jstor.org/beware-of-the-meeting-minutes/ Meeting minutes, writes Gibson, are “traces of words uttered behind closed doors, but they often have the appearance of a verbatim report, and even when they do not, it is tempting to read them that way, lulling us into erroneous conclusions about who said what, how they said it, and whom they were in agreement with.” #Meeting #Collaboration #Archive

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  The Metric Is Not the Mission “… a ten-part examination of how #BigTech moved from building and expanding the #OpenInternet to increasingly shaping it around its own #Metrics, incentives and assumptions.” https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/21/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-history-rarely-announces-itself/