This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Google has quietly reinstated the archives it aquired from the Deja news service behind it’s beta front end. I’ve never really payed that much attention to usenet before but, with archived postings dating back to 1995, there’s a mind-boggling array of textual information in there on just about any subject imaginable.