Last night on YouTube: BBC Archive

The Lion & Unicorn has an interesting dive into the BBC’s YouTube archive channel.

I’ve featured a few things from that archive, but none of the videos featured in the article. It’s a nice read and covered a similar ground to some thoughts I’ve been having around archive footage and what it means today.

‘Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script’

Another aide-memoire so that I have the link kicking around…

There used to be a somewhat famous ThinkGeek teeshirt called ‘Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script’ that, even now, gets periodically referenced on the more tech-ish end of the internet. With ThinkGeek now lost to the mists of time, it’s not as easy to Google for as it used to be.

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Archivery: UKUSA Agreement (1946)

In June of 2010, the National Archives released copies of the 1946 US-UK intelligence sharing agreement generally known as the ‘UKUSA Agreement‘. These files were, at one point, stored here. Alas, time and link rot comes for us all, and all that following that link will get you now is a ‘404 – Page Not Found’ error.

So I’ve extracted them all from the Wayback Machine and attached them below!

The core of the UKUSA agreement is covered in HW80/4, with the files HW80/1-3 and HW80/5-11 covering various amendments and procedures.

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