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Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
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Grrr! Halloween....children knocking on the door every 3 minutes...I'll shut down the house. No lights. See you tomorrow.
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Another german blogging fellow living in this rather weird country! Fabulous. Especially because he mentions Dortmund, and I was raised there, until I pissed off to Hamburg...and then England of course.
www.grewe.co.uk, Armin Grewe's personal homepage: "[A new haircut?]
No, not for me. And not for David Beckham either. But apparently David Seaman cut his hair. Will this move bring back his goalkeeping powers? When writing this Arsenal lead 1-0 against Dortmund in the Champions League..."
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 Here's number three of The Mookse and The Gripes. Enjoy! Or not.
5:02:11 PM Literature | |
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Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
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 The Mookse and The Gripes, Illustration # 2 (out of 11, but I've mentioned that already).
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My little black cat is sitting behind me and watching me as I type...
Sun Herald - 10/29/02: "Under the spell of black cats
First, there are the eyes.
Like no other feline, the eyes of a black cat can hypnotize, catch your breath, bore into you and make you wonder who has domesticated who. "
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Oh, I love this country...
Liverpool's "Winchester Mystery" tunnels. Liverpudlians have begun to excavate the tunnels of Joseph Williamson, a local 19th-Cen tycoon who hired thousands of men to honeycomb the city with labyrnthine tunnels that dead-end, circle back and stack atop one another (think of a subterranian Winchester Mystery House). It's unclear whether he did this because he was nuts, or because he wanted to give the laboring classes "productive" labor, or because he was remotely controlled by the Mole People (my pet theory).
"We still don't know where each one leads, and we are finding new tunnels all the time," she says.
"There is a triple-decker tunnel under the carpark here and a completely different section has just been found up the road."
Back within the barrel-shaped chamber, the tunnel twists, turns, narrows and changes level.
Smaller tunnels and chimneys head off into the darkness.
Mapping the maze has not been easy. Williamson was notoriously secretive about his creation and no contemporary plan of the whole network survives.
The Mystery Tunnels (BBC)
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 Since nobody wants to print my Finnegans Wake illustrations, I thought I might as well publish them here. I've illustrated a tiny part of the great book: The Mookse and The Gripes. Here's the first one out of eleven.
10:11:07 AM Literature | |
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Tuesday, October 29, 2002 |
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More Lisa Law: Within this site you'll find: a large collection of her photographs of artists, actors, musicians and spiritual leaders such as: The Beatles, Otis Redding, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Janis Joplin, Ken Kesey, Santana, Sonny and Cher, Taj Mahal, Martin Sheen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ram Dass, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Andrew Weil, Richie Havens, Ziggy Marley, The Velvet Underground and many more
Flashing On the Sixties.com
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 Spent an hour in the loft, looking for a box full with old cartoons, especially the originals of Die Randomisiermaschine, a book of mine which was published in 1986. Couldn't find it. Chaos up there.
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The Unsuspecting Tourist found out about our much loved and hated British Rail:
Autumn Trains
I heard on the BBC today that trains in parts of the country were not running because there were too many leaves on parts of the tracks. They were talking about the paper thin leaves that fall on the ground right?
Is there an official leave counter on the government payroll?
"You'll need to call off the trains Jonathan, we've exceeded the maximum amount of autumn foliage on the tracks".
11:35:14 AM Blogs, London | |
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If I see this damn spinning beachball one more time....!!!!!
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Monday, October 28, 2002 |
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Bastards! (The spammers, of course)
Routed through Der Schockwellenreiter:
"Owners of the conversational websites known as weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam." Wired News
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 Enough for today...more tomorrow.
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Hey! A new OS X blog, it seems:
Kevin Altis' Radio Weblog: "After a five year hiatus, I have a new G4 Mac running OS X, so I'll be making comparisons to Windows 2000 and covering cross-platform Python development issues."
5:16:27 PM Blogs | |
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Just ask the frogs...
Independent News: "Global warming is already affecting London, the capital's Mayor, Ken Livingstone said yesterday. You can tell by the frogs."
5:09:58 PM London | |
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More May links are here:
Karl May (1842-1912)
There are many Web sites devoted to various aspects of Karl May and his works - in German and English. Our listing below is divided into several categories. In addition to the many Web links, don't forget to look at these Karl May pages from your Guide Karl May Links
4:02:29 PM Literature | |
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 A meeting of two members of the non smokers club, Newmarket.
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Sunday, October 27, 2002 |
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An encyclopaedia of typography. In german.
(found at http://www.ats20.de/blog/)
Dies ist eine Arbeitsfassung von typolexikon.de. Ähnlich einer Testversion ist sie inhaltlich und formal noch unvollständig und fehlerhaft. Fast täglich werden Themen und Begriffe zusammengetragen und überarbeitet.
http://www.typolexikon.de/
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Rob is back! Bit earlier than originally planned, but I had nothing else to do. Enjoy. Or else.
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Nasty weather today...
Severe gales spark safety warnings: "Weather forecasters are warning stormy conditions with severe gales will continue to sweep across England and Wales on Sunday. "
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Saturday, October 26, 2002 |
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Where's Captain Kirk? Enough for today.
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It's not always Helvetica then:
reduce to the max. For about three quarters of a century now, the phrase 'Neue Schweizer Grafik' ('New Swiss Graphic Design') has been more than a denotative combination of words -- it has become a brand name... [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]
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 Rob - Stranded on the crazy planet - will return early next week. Meanwhile, have fun with the chicken, or cock, or whatever.
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Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
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Perhaps I should give this some thought...oh, the book is online. And another one. Have a look:
http://www.saveloomis.org/
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Alright then... if I'm being asked so kindly...it's in german, though.
And I am not going to translate it.
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Shields up! Engage.
spacetoday.net: ISS radiation shielding not as good as hoped: "ISS radiation shielding not as good as hoped
Posted: Thu, Oct 24 8:04 AM ET (1204 GMT)
Upgraded radiation shielding on the International Space Station is not working as well as expected, New Scientist reported Wednesday."
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
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German encyclopaedia from 1732 (!):
Diese Version des Zedler bietet zwei Zugriffsmöglichkeiten:
1. die Navigation in den im Grafikformat digitalisierten Buchseiten (Anm.: Das erste Stichwort ist ca. alle 20 Seiten explizit angezeigt, dann muss innerhalb der Bilder "geblättert" werden)
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2. einen Index mit allen Stichwörter des Zedler. Ein Klick auf das Stichwort führt direkt zur Buchseite (siehe 1.) (Version 1.2 vom 18.06.02).
Zedler, Lexikon: Stichwortsuche und Images
3:23:11 PM Literature | |
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 And another one! The Penny Magazine of the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge: "This page represents an effort, begun by Laurie Dickinson and Sarah Wadsworth as part of the graduate seminar English 8330: Illustrated Periodicals (Fall 1995) at the University of Minnesota. Our purpose is to make available electronically some of the key issues of the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, a popular illustrated weekly of mid-nineteenth century Britain. The publications from the first volume include the full texts of the Preface to that Volume and the text and images from the very first issue of the periodical. The publications from the second volume are of four issues in which the Penny Magazine itself is used as an exemplar to demonstrate the history and technologies of commercial publishing. These four issues are presented in full-page graphical image format and as illustrated annotated texts. In addition, we will be making available bibliographic information and critical essays which pertain to this series."
1:09:56 PM Literature, London | |
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The Penny Magazine is simply fantastic. The german edition (Greno 1985) is long out of print; here is the original and, best of all, it's online. Fabulous.
The Penny Magazine, published every Saturday, was aimed at the working class. It was part of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's program for liberal reform. for its reader, however, it was a source of information on subjects of general interest: everyday things like tea and coffee, well-known places in England, a series on animals and birds of Britain, descriptions of prsent-day manufacturing, even an American alaman and a serial of a personal account of an immigrant's problems. Poetry was published, too, and there are several illustrations in each issue.
Penny Magazine Online Home Page
12:42:52 PM Literature, London | |
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
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Now that's what I call art! Ladies and Gentleman, here's Moritz ® Reichelt:
studio ® - artist's profile: "Besides painting, making music and designing record covers, Moritz Reichelt does set designs for several films and TV productions. For more than 6 years he is doing illustrations for the German magazine "Tempo" under the pseudonym of Marie-Claire de St. Rocaille."
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Raumpatrouille Pic of October: Frogs landing on MZ4!
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No Rob today. But another page from my sketchbooks...
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No idea what's going to happen there, but at present it's a very nice and clean layout - something you can't say about my pages, because I've no idea how to change the templates...
David Stewart's Radio Weblog: "This page is a mess at the moment because I am messing around with the templates and editing the HTML. I wonder if it's a possibility to prevent access to the weblog whilst maintainance is underway?"
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I wonder what he might be doing these days. Is he still in Hamburg?
Scheuer
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Andre Franquin link number 3:
AndrÈ Franquin: "Franquin died on 5th of January 1997. His work will live on..."
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Andre Franquin link number 1 (in english, dutch and french):
Gaston - Guust: "Official site of Gaston Lagaffe, a great character created by Andre Franquin"
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YUK!
Dribbleglass.com--Ugly Toes Contest: "You asked for it. OK, that's pretty unlikely--but here it is, anyway. The first annual "World's Ugliest Toes Contest."
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And the song 'I got laid on James Joyce's grave' by the New York band Black 47 is here; free as in 'free beer' (MP3):
http://www.black47.com/titl.htm
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Good old Whitby...
Independent News: "Dracula's abbey reveals site of Iron Age village
Archaeologists digging land adjoining Whitby Abbey have discovered a new and unexpected dimension to the site's colourful past.
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Monday, October 21, 2002 |
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Rob. Again!
2:37:41 PM Rob | |
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Sunday, October 20, 2002 |
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Some proper literature for you guys.
The George Gissing Website: "This site celebrates Gissing's achievement and publishes material on Gissing's life and works. It also acts as a clearing-house for information about Gissing studies."
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And another London link.
Cockney Online: "To be a true Londoner - a Cockney, you have to be born within hearing distance of the bells of St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, in the City of London."
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Another interesting german weblog. The guy apparently likes Raumpatrouille Orion, reason enough to mention him here.
Wurchlog: "Anscheinend braucht es nur einen superfreundlichen Comiczeichner und schon verwandle ich mich in einen stotternden Idioten."
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Rob again...
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Saturday, October 19, 2002 |
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Still stranded...
3:46:19 PM Rob | |
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Brilliant. A cooking weblog. Well, not the weblog itself, but it's full of recipes. Jamie Oliver and other stuff; partly english, partly german.
http://mange.antville.org/
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Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
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Still got one - two, actually. A 35mm one and a tiny silver one from the sixties. Fantastic technology.
Minox Historical Society: Welcome Page: ""The Minox is my life."
-- Walter Zapp
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Another interesting german weblog
(for Reimund, who hates all my english links):
generation neXt: "Und die wichtigere Frage: Ist das beim Sex auch so? Und weil wir gerade beim Thema sind: Ich hege Zweifel an dieser Aussage.
Frauen ficken nicht zur Selbstbestatigung... Frauen vögeln, weil es ihnen Spaß macht oder weil sie sich aus Liebe dazu verpflichtet sehen. Männer ficken zur Selbstbestätigung (und weil es ihnen Spaß macht, aus reiner Liebe allerdings kaum)."
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Rob strikes again!
2:42:10 PM Rob | |
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This is the guy who was the most hated crew member of the Starship Enterprise. His weblog is really good though:
WIL WHEATON DOT NET: "Welcome to WIL WHEATON DOT NET."
11:37:33 AM Blogs | |
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Fabulous article about typography:
max bruinsma > texts > miscellaneous > the erotics of type: "The erotics of type
From the simple figure 69, to elaborate tongue-in-cheek exercises like Michael Worthington's 'Dominatrix' typeface, typographers and type designers as well as readers (and censors) have used letters and ciphers to suggest 'prurient' content. Throughout the history of typography, the 'abstract' medium of type is employed to evoke eroticism, not by merely using the obvious words, but by using the letterforms: Copulating letters, erotic ligatures and the dot.
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It's Jeff ...
Jeff's Radio Weblog: "Jeff's Radio Weblog
Tuned in and turned on!
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So it goes...
Apple reports $45 million loss: "Apple reports $45 million loss
by Jim Dalrymple, October 16, 2002 4:30 pm ET
Apple today reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended September 28, 2002. For the quarter Apple posted a net loss of US$45 million or $0.13 per share.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
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Old news but good news: Macs are about to get a serious boost.
Industry sources say that IBM plans to announce a new 64-bit processor on Monday -- known as the PowerPC 970. It will run a new line of Macintosh products that could be available by the end of next year.
Wired News: IBM Promises Muscle for the Mac
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A writer's brain and inspiration is often underestimated. I don't believe a word of this story regarding Anthony Burgess and 'A Clockwork Orange':
Independent Independent
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At last! The first in a series of comic strips. Enjoy!
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Sunday, October 13, 2002 |
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And here's a Nat Finkelstein gallery:
Billy Name's fantastic photos can be found here:
Gerard Malanga's Factory photos are here:
Lisa Law's Velvet Underground pictures are here:
Classic Lou Reed pictures, by the fab Mick Rock:
Karl May's Winnetou
A very good Ian Fleming/James Bond Website. And the Ian Fleming Foundation. I like it.