Bookmarks for July 14th through July 15th

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Links for July 14th through July 15th:

National Trust Names: Map a name (1998) – where is your surname from?
Sale Sharks Official Fixture List 2009/10 – HTML version.
Should be able to go from this to iCal, Google Calendar etc.
Cory Doctorow: Stop worrying, Hollywood – nobody is stealing your films with mobiles | Technology | guardian.co.uk – They do bag searching at the Vue in Bury, I think it's disgusting treatment of the very people that fund the industry in the first place.
Not only do they check bags but halfway through the film a member of staff walks in looks at the audience from one side then walks ACROSS THE SCREEN and looks from the other side.
The computers that put man on the moon | 13 Jul 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com – bit of 40th anniversary nostalgia for you
YouTube – C’etait un Rendez vous – I've been looking for this for a long time,
Kottke's description:
In 1976, Claude Lelouch mounted a camera on the front of his Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 and drove through the streets of Paris — running red lights, jumping curbs and possibly reaching speeds upwards of 120 mph — before reaching his date near the Sacré Coeur. The result is the film C'était un rendez-vous, 8 uncut minutes of insane urban driving.
O2 Digital News Centre: Turning on Twitter Texts –