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The Cartoonist
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Friday, February 28, 2003 |
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"bird"More tomorrow. I'm tired (the trip back to London was HELL) and have a friend from Frankfurt staying overnight, so have a look tomorrow for some new stuff - I found a few very interesting websites while working my bum off in Brussels. :-)
See ya tomorrow. Good Night.
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 Bloggers meet in Brussels. Next week I'm going to meet Zoe and Quarsan, two Brits blogging from Brussels, for pizza, beer and chat and I'm looking forward to it.
9:32:17 PM Blogs | |
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"bob"Bugger. I'm booked for another four weeks in Brussels; until the end of March. Since I can't take Radio UserLand with me, updates only at the weekends. Grrr ... !
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Sunday, February 23, 2003 |
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 Back to Brussels. I'm on my way to London Waterloo station, getting the Eurostar towards Brussels. See you next weekend...
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 The Firm. Now that I've already blogged Frankie Fraser, let's make it complete and have a look at The Kray Twins. This is the dark East End of London. I've warned you...
11:19:10 AM Cult, London | |
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 Birthday. My son managed to get hold of a signed copy of 'Mad' Frankie Fraser's biography. Fantastic. Another 'Well done, Michael'! This is a really great birthday present. Thank you!
12:44:19 AM London | |
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Saturday, February 22, 2003 |
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 Yeah, right. It may not make sense at all feeding the spambots with non-existing email addresses, as Robert says, but his 'Message in a Bottle' link is great. And where is it? In Brighton, UK of course. So no Swiss invention here. Just English. Now where are my John Steed links ... ?HeHeHe: let's feed the Bots: dikq@ugqowxuifdalckwcoy.ru, nezzmstvx@tszgggjwishhgajplbma.de, iynqxkbxf@ltpvhfvprjrmfcp.ru, hocshrswwb@sdlzx.de, ogbe@cinhuvztddfvt.org, buvoyms@mdmxgcagpbtfpyitdju.com, kpmic@uxeofrd.pl, ddxtyqevad@msussodbcubgstemo.de, ekedodfaz@fdhyu.es, xkpkf@qdqpzayunsoqnzccmx.it, dil@wixobkklpweimeh.edu, jgeoqmwc@xacqkrusqalzwcah.ch, tacak@wdojtyenvrrr.ru, gmc@sdswehjgbuwalmkyme.eu, hiviaw@mwkdzqjryoqwkidjdxxp.ca, nisx@tkpzwbucmzqxskittlp.ru, kasjalpigm@ctyjabbnxghefxlxzl.eu, gejzmnnuiu@njgcxcfhpuzpnugm.dk, tsn@wafmjcwxskdiltxml.edu, ojws@uzcgmpel.us
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 Ah. It's from there. But I still don't get it. Why am I a 'relatively obscure blogger'? Are you guys all crazy or what?
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"head2"I don't get it. I am an 'obscure blogger'? Sheez. Well, just carry on with your interesting research then.
3:29:56 PM Blogs | |
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Pink Flag. Go. Barbican, 26.4.2003, 8 pm. Wire. PostEverything : News"WIRE recorded their first album "Pink Flag" for EMI in 1977. With 21 songs in 35 minutes, it has become one of, if not THE, seminal art punk records of the '70's. Since their inception, WIRE's work has been defined by an inability to stand still. Through punk, psychedelia, and various twisted pop and experimental electronica, the band has remained in the musical vanguard (despite having disbanded twice for several years) whilst still creating a plethora of solo recordings, including music for dancer Michael Clark & more recently, writer Iain Sinclair's films & spoken word events.
Performed for the first time ever in its entirety by WIRE, who better to tackle the presentation of the art-punk icon Pink Flag than contemporary visual artists Jake & Dinos Chapman,who themselves make this their theatrical design debut." I'll be there. Definitely.
11:59:26 AM Cult, London | |
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"Hello. l am going to handwrite this entire blog enty usx ng Jaguar's Inkwell handwriting recognition and not bother to stop and Fix the mistakes. So Far, not too bad . Even the punctuation is Coming out OK For the most part.
Via The Aardvark speaks.
11:35:28 AM Blogs | |
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 Hurt. Yes, this is indeed Johnny Cash. Watch and listen to his latest song - hopefully not his last - at Rolling Stone. Very moving. "link"
9:34:57 AM Cult | |
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 Another one bites the dust. Ulrich Roski ist tot.
Sie fragten mich, woher wir sind und ich entgegne frech:
Ich selbst bin aus dem Wedding und der Eimer ist aus Blech."schock"
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Friday, February 21, 2003 |
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 Food for thought. Quite a few Warblogs are now united at warblogs.cc. Interesting read. Especially the comments by right wing rambos. Nice. Some of them remind me of articles found in Der Stürmer, which used to be a very hip newspaper in 1930's Germany.I found the link through Where is Raed, who posted a link to Back to Iraq. War. Not in my name.
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"In the report LU said it was still not possible to say exactly why the undercarriage motor broke loose from its holding bolts and derailed the train carrying around 750 passengers."
10:49:49 PM London | |
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 Sorry. I'd rather have a look in certain binaries newsgroups first to 'test' it. And then buy InDesign. Quark, you know that virtually everybody is still working with version 4? Nobody gives a *&^% about 5. Because it's crap. Quark OS X - Testing, Free Upgrade?. Quark makes some noise [MacRumors]
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 Shall I try that? Or will it screw up Radio? Outlining Radio's News Aggregator. Mikel Maron: "activeRenderer View for News Aggregation. This is very cool. I've been using the aggregator in an outline, for a couple months now, and I wouldn't go back. Do check out the screenshot and I hope this update is enjoyed."
Wow, cool indeed :-). With Mikel's myRadio tool, you can use Radio's aggregator, and get a better organized view of your feeds.
If you're like John Robb, browsing through 116 subscribed feeds, the new version of myRadio sounds like a winning proposition. [read more] [s l a m]
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 rrr-rrr-rrr ... That's about the sound a compressor makes with an airbrush attached to it. Wonderful - how nicely that fits with the Radebaugh link! Here's a website about Airbrush History. And another one, not less interesting. Mind you, I still have two DeVilbiss Aerographs just next to me on the shelf. Perhaps I should get a new compressor. And inks. Or acrylics. Or ... maybe not. Think I'll stick to Photoshop and Apple. And a good old Magic Marker every now and then.
10:12:48 PM Cult | |
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 Broken Promise. From 1930 to about 1950 Art C. Radebaugh airbrushed The Future we were promised. Hospitals in space, giant submarines, underwater cities, amazing cars, planes, antigravity homes -This is a truly fantastic exhibition. Go and have a look, it's definitely worth browsing. Radebaugh, another forgotten artist? Thanks to losthighways, he now might be remembered. "... he became a skilled proponent of the newly invented airbrush, and was featured as an airbrush star in the 1938 Paasche Airbrush Co. catalog. Airbrush was the right tool for illustration at the moment when streamlined moderne was all the rage, and Radebaugh's airbrush made possible his most enduring works, the covers of the annual issues of MoToR Magazine, 1935 through 1938 ..." The Exhibition:
THE NEGATIVES portal will introduce you to Radebaugh's world the way we found it. All but two of the negs have been made positives, colors adjusted by chance, by choice, or by default. AUTOMOBILES takes you through designs for Chrysler/Desoto/Dodge, the legendary annual issue covers of MOTOR magazine and misc. cars of the future. ADS shows a working illustrator hard at work. SYNDICATED looks at a weekly cartoon strip that Radebaugh drew for regular public consumption.
9:43:51 PM Cult | |
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Hehehehe. The following joke reminds me of last week's work:An advertising team is working very late at night on a project due the next morning. Suddenly, a Genie appears before them and offers to each of them one wish. The copywriter says: "I've always dreamed of writing the great American novel and having my work studied in schools across the land. I'd like to go to a tropical island where I can concentrate and write my masterpiece." The Genie says, "No problem!" and poof! The copywriter is gone. The art director says: "I want to create a painting so beautiful that it would hang in the Louvre Museum in Paris for all the world to admire. I want to go to the French countryside to work on my painting." The Genie says, "Your wish is granted!" and poof! The art director is gone. The Genie then turns to the account executive and says, "And what is your wish?" The account executive says, "I want those two assholes back here right now."
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 Woohoo! Back in Blogland for the weekend. Still booked next week, though. If the UserLand server doesn't crash again like it did last Sunday, expect a few links over the next two days. And here's the first one, which I brought with me from Belgium
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Saturday, February 15, 2003 |
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The playwright Harold Pinter described the US as "a country run by a bunch of criminals ... with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug".
The planned attack on Iraq is a pre-meditated attack of mass murder," he added. "Resistance is embodied today in this massive gathering, and the word I want to direct to Tony Blair is resign, resign, resign.
9:02:52 PM London | |
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Wonderful. I've been trying to get down there myself, but without the Central Line running it's virtually impossible. There are more than 1 Million people in London protesting against the war. More people in fact than on V-day. Wonderful.
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Friday, February 14, 2003 |
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 Just Posters. Cool Anti-War posters are to be found at when I'm out on the street. They come in various sizes, from very huge to not so huge. Jpg, eps and pdf. Print out and show them off tomorrow in Hyde Park.
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 Just Photos. Everybody who still thinks that bombing innocent people and children is a really smart idea should have a look at the exhibition 100 Fotos für die Pressefreiheit. And everybody else too.
10:54:59 PM | |
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 Moules avec frites. I'm back in London for the weekend; Sunday afternoon it's Eurostar towards Brussels again. Lots of work over there, I'm probably booked for another 2 weeks, so I'll do the 'weekend blogger thing' for at least the next 14 days. Sorry about that. New entries either later tonight or tomorrow, first I'll have to dive into the pile of snailmail on my desk. Bills, bills and more bills...
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Monday, February 10, 2003 |
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 This weblog is on holiday. I'm off to Brussels for 2 weeks, doing some more or less creative work. If I'll find the time and some interesting stuff, I'll blog through das Kollektiv (in German, though). See you hopefully again at the weekend. Bye.
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Sunday, February 9, 2003 |
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 The light pours out of me. Here's Magazine.
5:31:03 PM Cult | |
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"Prior to 1820, all books were bound by hand in the traditional manner: each printed gathering was sewn to cords, the cords were threaded through the front and back boards, and the cover (usually leather or leather and marbled paper) was wrapped around, being adhered to the spine and the boards. This all changed when an enterprising young publisher, William Pickering, got the idea of using coated cloth for his miniature Diamond Classics series."
5:25:21 PM Literature | |
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Saturday, February 8, 2003 |
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 Pop goes the page. Pop-up and movable books is a partly interactive exhibition at the UNT Library, covering history, publishers and artists. You can move things around and lots of animated gifs demonstrate the 'movable picture books'.Another exhibition can be found at the University of Virginia: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection, with Quicktime 3D examples. Wonderful stuff. "Pop-ups, the generic name for mechanical, movable books, unfold and rise from the page to our surprise and delight. Through the use of rivets, flaps, tabs, folds, and cut paper, these books perform before our eyes. Each page becomes a stage, inviting action and participation. Here, physical transformations make dynamic the static illustrations. In the moment of touch, we, the operators, escape the mind and pop into the page."
1:31:58 PM Cult, Literature | |
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Obelix, MobiliX, Masterix and Skrobelix. Astérix whups MobiliX. Reverse in Gaul legal brawl [The Register]"MobiliX, the Unix on mobile devices company, has suffered a legal setback in its dispute against the French publisher which owns the trademarks to the cartoon series Astérix the Gaul.
Les Editions Albert René claims MobiliX is similar in name to Obelix, a character in Asterix the Gaul, and so infringes on its trademark."
8:59:31 AM Cult | |
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Friday, February 7, 2003 |
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 Fantastic. Gorgeous. Tasty. Delicious. I'm happy. An Online Anthology of Early Comics, from medieval ages to 1929."This is a collection of old comics, from the beginning to 1929. On this long page they are listed chronologically. If you are looking for particular artists, go to the text-only Alphabetical Listing." "link"
7:50:41 PM Cult | |
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"With the discoveries by Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth of liquid-fueled rockets in the 1930's and the use of V-2 rockets in the 1940's, rocket travel went from science fiction to science fact in the public's mind. In post-World War II America anything seemed possible, even going to the Moon! There appeared in 1949, a book The Conquest of Space , which led to a new trend in children's books. These books outlined the future the children of the "baby boom" would grow up in, the world of space ( example ). The illustrations in these books show facts (as they were known) mixed in with the fantasy of space flight and led many of the readers of these books to 'dream of space'." Via das kollektiv
2:21:29 PM Cult | |
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 Sketch Book Time. Much too busy to draw any new stuff ...
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"head2"The Transcript. On the Channel 4 News Page are links to Tony Benn's interview with Saddam Hussein (video and transcript) and - even more interesting - the afterwards chat with viewers. channel4.com - news
12:06:42 PM London | |
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 Booohooo. Real Pictures of Ghosts. Impressive double exposures, I must say. All done without the help of Photoshop, but 'in camera'! "link"
9:15:46 AM Cult | |
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 Paper. Ladies and Gentlemen, here's the Toilet Paper Museum. "This is where you'll find the interesting stuff: history of toilet paper; samples (including Madonna's); links; funny stories; and odd commentaries ." "link"
9:06:36 AM Cult | |
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Thursday, February 6, 2003 |
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And at The History of Speech Synthesis is a nice and long article about "Wolfgang von Kempelen's and the subsequent speaking machines" with old engravings and photos.
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 The Turk. A little page with a few pictures of Wolfgang von Kempelen's Chess Automat is at Chess Graphics; a long list with links is here (most of them are dead though).
9:26:28 PM Cult | |
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 I'm back. Amazing how many people can fit into one train.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2003 |
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That was HELL. I lost 5 hours of my precious life today on buses, trains and then the Underground. Tomorrow the same. And possibly Friday. I'm knackered. Now quickly a frozen pizza into the stove and then to bed.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2003 |
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In order to arrive in Central London tomorrow at 9:00, I'll probably have to leave home at 6:30, thanks to the buggered Underground. So don't expect any entries tomorrow.
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 MMM. Short for Major Matt Mason, Mattel's Man in Space. This was long before Apollo 1, Apollo 13 and Shuttle disasters and was a fascinating toy. Go to Major Matt Mason's Homepage, or visit Keith Meyer's Space Station. Which I had blogged already a few months ago, but certain things need to be mentioned a couple of times.
12:10:29 PM Cult | |
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Oh no! Please ... More delays to central line repairs [This is London: London News]
"Hundreds of thousands of Tube commuters today faced the threat of continued travel chaos after it emerged that London Underground has still not found a safe method of securing the half-ton motors beneath its fast Central line trains."
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Monday, February 3, 2003 |
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 Dogfood, a German Weblog writes about travelling on the S-Bahn in Hamburg. My Hamburg; yes, I miss it. Nothing seems to have changed since 1993. No, the photo is probably from '33! Hamburg has changed quite a bit since then!Lots of Hamburg photos can be found at the Bildarchiv Hamburg (obviously), rather old ones as well as rather new ones. Anyway: thousands of pics. Worth browsing.
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 The light! The light!! Found a huge website about Turner. J.M.W. Turner. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a Painter, to be precise. Ahh, the light...! Browse to English Romantic Art History.
Oh - Radio's working again.
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And my Sitemeter seems to be kaputt as well. Stupid Internet. Modern World - pf!
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Because Radio is still buggered, I've done a new 3D illustration instead. It's my interpretation of Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and can be found in the bottom left corner of my gallery.
2:05:19 PM Literature | |
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Radio kaputt again. Can't upstream pictures. Booo!
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Sunday, February 2, 2003 |
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In case anyone's interested: I have a new 3D rendering on my gallery page. It's called 'Yuk ... Nature!'.
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Interesting Entry in Michaels Weblog (in German)."Es ist noch viel zu früh, um die Ursache und die Auswirkungen der gestrigen Katastrophe abzuschätzen. Ich habe trotzdem einige - vorläufige - Fakten zusammengestellt. Bevor ich zu einer Auflistung von Fakten komme: man sollte den Absturz der Columbia nicht zu hoch spielen - es gibt auf der Welt noch viel mehr Katastrophen, die viel schlimmere Folgen haben, die viel mehr Leben fordern, die viel mehr Leid bringen, aber im Vergleich dazu nur eine Randnotiz bleiben. Man sollte auch nicht vergessen: das, was den Menschen im Irak womöglich bevorsteht, wird die Columbia-Katastrophe in allen Punkten in den Schatten stellen."
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Saturday, February 1, 2003 |
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Rumours:Andrew Juby: "My roommate has access to Goddard Space Flight Center's Orbital Information group server. He can pull up data on just about any non-classified orbiting object. We checked it this morning and pulled up some data on Columbia, and ran it by the aerospace major across the hall. It appears that at about 2 or 3AM, as Columbia was into its descent, it pulled up." [Scripting News] David Brown, via email: "There are reports that something hit the left wing of the shuttle upon launch, that there was something falling from the wing." [Scripting News] Scott Adams is accumulating links to stories about the Shuttle. [Scripting News]
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Oh-Oh. Of course. Lou Josephs: "Three people are still on board the International Space Station." [Scripting News]
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 And there's more. At Victorianscraps. It's a commercial site, but the scans are just beautiful. And large.
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 Doing the Victorians again. More vintage postcards, scrapbook art and further ephemera can be found here. Enjoy.Might be quite a good idea actually: recreating some of that old stuff with Poser and Bryce as 3D renderings?
1:23:37 PM Cult | |
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 This is Fun. I didn't like the old version, because it was so terribly slow, but iPhoto 2 really is fun.
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Last entry - For God's sake look after our people. Scott. Shackleton. Amundsen. Byrd. Thanks to 
Aha. 
At the Mountains of Madness. I've blogged a similar link 
Have I mentioned the fabulous Belgian weblog 
People. This is Hyde Park. The little dots are people. I watched the speeches, Tony Benn was fantastic, as always. 
Nice books. 
Public Transport. No comment. 
Dreams of Space. 
Simulacra. 
Antique Hamburg. 2 links for 
Shuttle History. Images and documents at the