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The image should've come from Borges. Or Julian Barnes. But in fact, it was in Tim Nott's column in PCW, where (in describing his collection of software) he tosses at us the wonderful image of "like the story of the old lady who died, and in her house they found a box labelled 'bits of string too short to keep'"...

Other pages on this site (Very short bits of string)

The ART Director Speaks, Peter Bondar's infamous post to comp.sys.acorn
British Patriotic Songs, shock friends at your next Last Night of the Proms party by knowing the words!
Holoalphabetic sentences
Why did the chicken cross the road?

There used to be another one, Engineers explained, which I got rid of when I discovered it was actually a chapter of Scott Adams' book The Dilbert Principle, which you should thus get instead (it's very good).

Pages on other sites (Slightly longer bits of string)

search engine at ECM Selection for software jobs in Cambridge doesn't work at the moment, and they seem to be making no effort to fix it, but in the meantime you can check out their top page. Also worth checking out are PCR and TAPS.
Alsager Tour Guide: "Looking back at my childhood, all I see is a street like any other street, in a town like any other town. But somehow I still look back -- with wonder".
Searchable on-line archive of recipes, over 30,000 of them too.
Marple Hall High School, the school I went to, has a web page now, but it's pants.
I used to suck only occasionally, but now I suck every day before starting work. Often the first question I ask people is, "Do you suck?"
Classic articles from the ACM, including Ken Thompson's legendary Unix backdoor lecture.
Stick Figure Death Theatre, Tarantinesque snuff fiction in animated GIF format. The accompanying review uses the splendid word pleonasm.
Cocktails archive at HotWired.
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto. Worth reading if you're a parent, or a schoolteacher, or even if your best friend's a schoolteacher.
Circuits archive: all sorts of useful stuff in there. (Pah -- hardware).
The Church of the SubGenius, which is currently my favourite religion. Trouble is, I can't really get excited about any religion... if only SubG was a text editor or an operating system or something, I could get really zealous about it.
Philip Armitage's home page -- any stars you've got you want crashing into accretion discs, Phil's the man for the job.
Ofsted report on Marple Hall High School -- this is a 90K Acrobat (.PDF) format file, for which you'll need to get your mitts on a reader if you haven't got one. You can also get an Ofsted report on Alsager Highfields County Primary School (which used not to have the word "Highfields" in its name) -- they loved it, even though Graham Bickerton seems no longer to be Head.
Charlie Don't Lead, which is not Tim Bevis's home page but is the nearest I can find to such a thing. Fortunately, it's not about HRH The Prince of Wales either, it's about climbing things.
Awaken I don't really know what this is, more than an Ancient Greek would know what a page of C++ was in aid of. But I think a bright enough Ancient Greek would realise it was possibly quite important. I think Awaken is possibly quite important.
Liquid Nitrogen Rocket as constructed from a five-gallon drinking water bottle.
The King's English, by H W Fowler, 1908. Wow. And I thought I was a pedant. "If any one were asked to give an Americanism without a moment's delay, he would be more likely than not to mention I guess." 1908! 'Forceful' was a neologism! 'Placate' and 'antagonize' were deprecated Americanisms!
HAKMEM
One or two pictures of the majuscules of Trajan's Column.
RGO Information Leaflets -- a dusty, dull old page (remember Royal Greenwich Observatory staff are civil servants) with some brilliant potted bits of astronomy. Real astronomy, all about sundials, the Metonic Cycle and all that.
Queriable UK railway timetable.