Freeze me in Carbonite, Jabba!

Seeing as I'm a notorious multi-poster, please have a look at this if you haven't already, and you like being sexy and rad like I am.

As if this wasn't enough, I received yet another message from a party interested in squirrelling away even more of my life.

This time, it isn't 'art', it's...wait for it...THIS VERY BLOG !!!

And even more crazy, mine is the first blog the National Film and Sound Archive are archiving for their collection...ever! Exclamation marks!!!!

And to think, I was gonna delete this sucker.

Here's the highlights...

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The National Film and Sound Archive, aims to build a comprehensive
collection representing all aspects of Australia’s film, television,
sound and related industries to ensure that Australians have access to
this part of their cultural heritage now and in the future. The Archive
has traditionally collected items in physical formats, but it is also
committed to preserving electronic publications of lasting cultural
value.

PANDORA, Australia’s Web Archive, was set up by the National Library of
Australia in 1996 to enable the archiving and provision of long-term
access to online Australian publications (including those dealing with
our audio-visual industries). The Archive is one of a number of
partners associated with the National Library in this project.
Additional information about PANDORA can be found on the Library's server
at: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html

We would like to include http://www.knifey-knifeyard.blogspot.com/ in the
PANDORA Archive and I would be grateful if you would let me know whether
you are willing to permit us to do so, that is, grant us a licence under
the Copyright Act 1968, to copy your web site into the Archive and to
provide public online access to it via the Internet. This means that you
would grant the National Film and Sound Archive and National Library
permission to retain your publication in the Archive and to provide
public access to it in perpetuity. We assume that in granting permission
all contributors to your publication are informed and in agreement that
their work will be archived in PANDORA. If you are not the person with
authority to give permission, could you please advise us who is.

[For serials and integrating titles: We would like to re-archive your
publication periodically to record significant additions and changes.]

There are some benefits to you as a publisher in having your web site
archived in this way. If you grant us a copyright licence, The Archive
(through the National Library) will take the necessary preservation
action to keep your publication accessible as hardware and software
changes over time. The National Library will catalogue your publication
onto the National Bibliographic Database (a database of catalogue records
shared by over 1,100 Australian libraries). This will increase awareness
of your site among researchers using either catalogue.

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Not only am I part of your cultural heritage Australia, I get to be inside Pandora's box!!! (Don't you just adore ancient Greek/technology jokes?)

There's a running joke in my house now, whenever I go to the toilet or throw something in the trash, my housemates say "Wait, I'll just call Canberra to make sure they don't need to archive it".

It's fun being knifey lately...

Seeing as I have totally assed up my formatting on this page, is there anybody out there with some HTML knowledge, who could help me clean it up? It's for the nation, you understand. Very important.


This is knifey, from 'the internet'.