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Go watch a Wallace and Gromit short! Nick Park is releasing 10 1-minute movies, beginning today. To begin with, they're only available through BBC Online.

There've been no new ones in ages, and this remedies that.

And it has a Preston reference! (Okay, I know, I know, Nick Park's from there, so the odds of there being one is greatly improved.)

Various historians of technology who used to be in my department but aren't any more are in town now, since my department is hosting the

I nearly forgot to mention the other good thing today: I've finally seriously gotten started on my conference paper, now that I have all the background material. Unfortunately, most of the next 24 hours will be taken up with latin, badminton, work hours, a talk I need to go to, and - good, but not work - various social events, including a farewell dinner for cwjat. Mmmm, Indian food.