Rodger Kibble

@rodgerkibble.bsky.social

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Recovering academic, former IT type, artist and printmaker, Brighton Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain - Schiller

Floppy disk manufacturers should be quaking in their boots as word gets out of Bart Khan and his amazing cube. Mr Khan, who is chairman of a company called MicroXeno, says the six-inch cube will store at least 9.9 gigabytes (that's 9,900 million bytes) of data. For some reason no-one seems prepared to lend Mr Khan the money to manufacture the ineffable cube. MicroXeno recently advertised itself as "rapidly becoming the world's largest network of consultants... in computer technology." The company had five employees at the time.
Slim volume placed pages-down on a pebbled beach: front cover says HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS Volume One David Southwell
Grammar of the Gothic Language by Joseph Wright
Peter Tatchell on stage in front of Nelson's column, also shown on giant screen
Top panel: man with long hair yelling "Gimme an F!" Bottom panel: finger pressing white key on a piano, adjacent to series of three black keys to the right
HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA Walter Rodney
Group of men and women walking past Houses of Parliament. John Thaw is being shown a report. Caption "The Labour Party no longer stands for anything distinctive*
Black T-shirt with 'No to ID' logo
Carer to elderly gent in old people's home: Come on Ben, time for your Van Morrison
Seven volumes of À la recherche du Temps perdu by Marcel Proust
Book cover: The Crystal Spirit, a study of George Orwell by George Woodcock
Paperback book Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht
Book cover with Sidney Poitier and cast members in a still from the Columbia film
Book cover: Fredric Jameson, The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit
Quentin Letts on front page of the Daily Mail
Bright Phoebus by Lal and Mike Waterson