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Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
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 Tony in trouble. Putin publicly rebuffs Blair. · Calls for return of UN inspectors· Refuses to lift Iraqi sanctions· Blair insists on unipolar vision [Guardian Unlimited]"Tony Blair's first public attempt to heal the diplomatic wounds of the Iraq war suffered a humiliating rebuff yesterday when Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, refused to lift UN sanctions and mocked the possibility that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq."
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 My eMac's going mad again. This is no fun. Got to ring Apple.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
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 Holy Cow! Damn. I missed this. Batman. Robin. Batgirl. All the toys (The Baterang is one of those things...)!!! Well, Ye olde Phart found several links:
Classic Bat-Vehicles.... For the Gotham City crime-fighter on the go!
[Ye Olde Phart]
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 That's. Wire. Tabs and lyrics to 12XU? Or Pink Flag? Reuters? Here they are:[tabulated by andersom[at]spot.colorado.edu] [E5 B5 F#5]
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[P. M., alternating up- and down-strokes] Saw you in a mag (smoking a fag),
kissing a man [C#5] I got you in a corner (cottage),
got you in a corner [E5 B5] 12XU All their songs are not more than 3 or 4 chords. Usually just one chord, with a bit of tabbing on guitar or bass. That's what makes them great. Easy. But play it LOUD.
8:57:58 PM Cult, London | |
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 And just to let you know... ...or else. ALL of those black and white cartoons on the left hand side of my entries have indeed been drawn by nobody else but me. Except there's a drawing, painting or photograph that directly refers to especially that website. Then it belongs to that site, and nobody else. Or to the Copyright holder. All the other stuff is by yours truly, The Cartoonist. Which means, if you want to use any of my cartoons for your homepage or God knows what, please ask me. Just ask. Do not download and then upload any of my pictures (from The Cartoonist, my 3D-Illustrations or ESPECIALLY my Raumpatrouille gallery) to your website without mentioning where you got it from. I'm only writing this because I'm now involved in a legal battle with Bavaria Film AG and/or Schwanstein TV, who both reside in dreadful Southern Germany (Bayern! Bavaria!). Documents are here, here and here. This, of course, doesn't count for fellow bloggers who refer to my entries anyway. Just carry on. Anybody else: Please just ASK! Again: Just ask. I've got 3 email addresses, so it can't be that complicated really.
5:07:54 PM Blogs, Cult, Literature, London, Orion Pics | |
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 Green Apple Shampoo. That's the title of an article (in German, I'm afraid) about the horrible seventies: Bonanza bikes, Kreuzer Füller, Bazooka Joe chewing gum, Chreme 21 - they're all being mentioned, together with pics. And of course the dreadful 'Apple Shampoo'. Alright then - where's 'The Sweet' homepage? Ballroom Blitz.
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 ... from swerve of shore to bend of bay. Big website about architectural Dublin; development, history, houses, streets - one can spend hours there."Dublin Bay, with its great sweep of coast from the rocky brow of Howth in the north to the headland of Dalkey in the south, is a fitting introduction to one of Europe's finest capitals. The city is spread over the broad valley of the River Liffey, with the Wicklow Hills sheltering it on the south. In addition to its splendid public buildings, Dublin is particularly rich in domestic architecture of the 18th century. Fine Georgian mansions, many of them with historical association, lends elegance to the city's wide streets and spacious squares."
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Monday, April 28, 2003 |
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 Klaatu borada nikto. Meet Gort, the silver robot from Robert Wise's movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Nice website with lots of articles and links."Gort, Master of the Guardians, appeared in the 1951 Science Fiction epic The Day the Earth Stood Still. The first robotic representation of alien technology to be displayed on screen, Gort was the prototype for the strange machines seen in movies today." "link"
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 More old stuff. The Antique Shop has hundreds of old postcards, magazine covers, ads and God knows what else. And did I mention the pinups?
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 Robbing Hood. While we're at it, here's the Robin Hood Project with everything about Robin and his merry men.
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 Excalibur. Everything about good old King Arthur, Excalibur, Merlin, The Holy Grail and all the other stuff is at The Camelot Project. Very extensive website.
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Sunday, April 27, 2003 |
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Time for Poetry. I'm still in a Wire mood. Their song Reuters sums up all the madness of the Bush admin:Our own correspondent is sorry to tell
Of an uneasy time that all is not well On the borders there's movement
In the hills there is trouble
Food is short, crime is double Prices have risen since the government fell
Casualties increase as the enemy shell
The climate's unhealthy, flies and rats thrive
And sooner or later the end will arrive This is your correspondent, running out of tape
Gunfire's increasing, looting, burning, rape And remember: this song is from about 1977.
8:43:29 PM Cult, London | |
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 Wrecked. And another gig to look forward to: Wreckless Eric, live on the 8th of May in Denmark Street, London. That's where the Pistols used to live in the seventies. And Roadent. I know where to go to on the 8th...
Via the fantastic Kosmonautentraum.
6:44:32 PM Cult, London | |
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 UK artblog. Here is Bugpowder, a weblog for the UK Small Press and Art Comics community. BugPowder
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 Toyz! The Toyshelf: a very nice website about Mattel toys of the 60s: Wizzers, Major Matt Mason, Thing Maker (I had one of those) and more.
3:15:44 PM Cult | |
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 Jazz goes to the movies. The German film composer Peter Thomas of Raumpatrouille and Edgar Wallace fame gives one of his rare live performances, together with a screening of one episode of Raumpatrouille, on the 9th of May in Wiesbaden. More infos (in German) are here and here."Unter dem Titel 'Jazz goes to the movies: The music of Peter Thomas' bietet der Hessische Rundfunk Jazzfreunden und Filmliebhabern einen ganz besonderen Leckerbissen: Unter Leitung von Peter Thomas spielt die hr Big Band am Freitag, 9. Mai, in der Caligari-FilmBühne in Wiesbaden und am Samstag, 10. Mai, im Kino Traumstern in Lich jeweils ab 19 Uhr ein Kinokonzert mit den schönsten Evergreens aus Filmen und Serien wie 'Der Frosch mit der Maske', 'Flucht nach Berlin', 'Die seltsame Gräfin', 'Der Hexer', 'Das Wirtshaus von Dartmoor', 'Der unheimliche Mönch', 'Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand', 'Melissa', 'Drei Männer im Schnee', 'Der Alte' und natürlich 'Raumpatrouille'. Die Titel wurden teils eigens für diese beiden Veranstaltungen für die hr Big Band neu arrangiert." Thanks for the URLs, Marc! And by the way - Mark maintains a nicely designed Raumpatrouille website.
1:29:38 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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"robot3"Orion Update. It's getting worse. Is there a solicitor under my readers? Have a look at the mail I received today:hallo herr zeigermann, die bilder haben wir auch schon nebeneinander gelegt. was die bavaria-juristen nun wissen wollen, ist: wurden hier elemente verwendet, an denen ein fremdes copyright besteht? wenn ja, welche? diese fragen habe ich an sie weiter geleitet mit der bitte um ihre stellungnahme. erst wenn sie uns diesbezüglich aufklären, kann ich die angelegenheit auf den dienstweg bringen. beste grüße - stephan reichenberger Have a look at my original entries here and here.
2:12:27 AM Orion Pics | |
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 Raw Power. My ears are still ringing. Amazing, how much noise only 4 people are able to generate.I just got back from the Wire concert at the Barbican. They were absolutely fantastic. Pure Punk. "Another day. Another cigarette. From A to B. Again avoiding C, D and E." They played the complete Pink Flag album, the highlight being '1-2-XU' of course, the best Punk Hymn ever pressed onto vinyl. And they played it at least twice as fast as on the album. "Our own correspondent is sorry to tell of an uneasy time that all is not well. On the borders there's movement. In the hills there is trouble. Food is short, crime is double." There were Aerobic videos playing on a big screen in the background. Then a 45 minute break to rearrange the stage, and they played send. Noise, noise, noise. And the band was boxed in, with videos playing on top of them; and their new stuff actually better than the old Pink Flag. After 13 years they just crop up again and produce better music than in the 70s. "Trust me. Believe me. It's all in the art of stopping." I've set up a gallery of pictures here (Hey, they call me Mr Focal Length!). Wow. The Velvet Underground Reunion was fab; Devo were great; the Ramones were noisy - but Wire beats them all. Except the Damned perhaps, back in 1977. Now go to Wire. "The smell of you
That's the lowdown."
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Saturday, April 26, 2003 |
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 Orion. Here's a Raumpatrouille board game. I don't understand anything of it because it's all in Hungarian. But nice. Looks good. Mhmm...now what does "Az egyetlen értelmes jelzés a fedél sarkában lenne található, de azon a jelek szerint az egyik kiskutyánk próbálgathatta a fogacskáit. De azt hiszem, sikerült rekonstruálnom a maradék nyomokat, és tisztelettel adózok a Péceli Htsz. (talán háztáji szövetkezet) emlékének." mean?
12:35:19 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 Sexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op-cola - everything's in afri-cola. Good old Charles Wilp. Here is some German ad-history; the afri-cola print ads are here and all the commercials, including Charles Wilp's infamous 'nuns' commercial, are here (Quicktime). The main website is of course afri-cola.com. And Roland Greppmeir maintains a very informative afri-cola history website with galleries of old bottles, cans, signs and advertising.
11:17:04 AM Cult | |
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 Peel slowly and see. At RetroCrush - Sex, Monsters and Rock'n Roll - you will not only find a very big Diana Rigg Gallery, but also articles like 'Ugly furniture of the 70s', 'The first Video Arcade Game' and so on. Worth browsing."Diana Rigg's original leather outfit is now owned by famous 70s singer, Leo Sayer! "
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Housecleaning. I'd like to tidy up my list of links on the right, so ...Unsuspecting Tourist: Mark, are you still there? Shall I keep your link? Anneke: Ist das Kellerkind wirklich weggeschlossen? Wirklich keine Nabel (was ist eigentlich die Mehrzahl von 'Nabel'? 'Näbel'?) mit Druckstellen mehr? Jammerschade, aber ... soll ichs mit dem Kollektiv oder Rollberg austauschen?
9:54:01 AM Blogs | |
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 ... find ich gut. A complete OTTO (exclamation mark) mail order catalog from 1965 (three exclamation marks). This is amazing. More than 600 pages, all scanned in - fashion, furniture, toys. Anybody out there who's working on a 60s movie? Need some styling? Look no further. More examples of German mail order catalogues can be be found at - where else - alte versandhauskataloge.de, covering the 50s - 70s. Even more exciting are the Antique Catalogues: There's one from 1878 and a few more ranging from 1934 to 1939, which is the time when the funny little Austrian with the funny little moustache came to power. But that's a different story.
1:35:58 AM Cult, Literature | |
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 Why Cats Paint. A fascinating website about some very talented cats. Check out the 'Documentry' (why can't they spell?); Quicktime movies of cats painting. Amazing.
12:46:42 AM Cult | |
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 Grrr. This is great. I switch the machine back on, and everything's back to normal. So maybe I can post a few entries now? Computers, especially Apples; I hate them all. Except the old Mac Classic stashed away in the cupboard - now THAT was a computer!
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Friday, April 25, 2003 |
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 There's a worm in my Apple. My eMac is displaying (what a pun!) all the symptoms of the dreaded 'Raster Shift' disease and it's virtually impossible to do anything with this machine. Got to ring Apple tomorrow morning, I hope their Service Department works on Saturdays...absolutely no idea when I'll be able to add all those fantastic links and websites I collected over the past two weeks. Mhm. Guess I'll buy a Dell next time.
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"tube"Hooray! The Central Line is up and running again - it took me only 50 mins getting from Waterloo to Grange Hill, compared to two hours with all these silly replacement buses and trains and rollerskates and wheelchairs and... Fabulous.
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Sunday, April 13, 2003 |
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 Dat is dem Majo seine Schuld. Here's Kumpel Anton; and here's the history of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Wonderful website."Anton", sachtä Cervinski für mich, "Mit unser dicke Tante Matta ... Mainze, datt sowatt ansteckt?" "Watt", sarich, "euer dicke Tante Matta? Iset watt Schlimmet?" Gotta dash. Off to Waterloo Station.
12:57:27 PM Cult | |
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 I'm off to Euro City. See you on the 25th. Happy Easter everybody.
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 More covers. Can't get enough? Even after browsing through every single Pilote magazine? Well, here's Comic books best covers - the great gallery. Enjoy.
11:04:35 AM Cult, Literature | |
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 Ruins. Old castles all over Europe are nicely assembled on Mot's Castle Page. There are castles even in the Netherlands!And Caledonian castles are here.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 |
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In the know. Just to let you know: I'm off to Belgium and Germany until the 25th of this month. No more entries until I'm back in London. Good gracious. Probably a few more links tomorrow. Who knows. Why can't I get a proper job in London? Why do I have to work all across Europe? Racism? After all I'm German. Hey Maurice Saatchi, hey Mr Hegarty, gimme a proper job! Silence there.
10:21:22 PM Blogs, Cult, London | |
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 German. Advertising. Photography. German ads from 1925-1988 are here. I actually did a google search for 'Axel Hinnen', who coined the term 'schreIBMaschine'; and then I ended up there. It's all GGK and DDB anyway. Good old times. And - that's your Cartoonist there on the left. Ages ago. From a time when you bought a magazine like 'Der Stern' just because of the ads.Whatever happened to Axel then? I can't find him. Looks like I'm wearing a wig. Good Grief.
6:54:55 PM Cult | |
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 Home. This is the history of Dortmund, the town I was born and lived until about 1982. A fascinating webpage initiated by one Kurt Endrikat (my grandparents lived in Kronprinzenstraße) with many pictures out of Luise von Winterfeld's book about Dortmund, which is the book about Dortmund, the bible, the best book about the town. Funny: her niece (Grand niece? Great-grand niece?), Elisabeth von Winterfeld used to be my assistant when I worked for FCB Hamburg (she probably hates me). Strange world.Now where's the history of the Humboldt Gymnasium?
3:40:37 PM Cult | |
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 Over and out. October 2003 marks the end of world's most famous aeroplane. Here's the Definitive Concorde Site with history, prototypes, technical specs, pictures and lots more.
12:31:54 PM Cult | |
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 More old toys. More memories. Here is an online archive of old Elastolin catalogs. Elastolin manufactured highly detailed plastic figures of knights, cowboys, etc. No, without any movable joints. No, they aren't 'action-figures'. But fun they were.On Nick's Elastolin page is another catalog from 1980. And here are the knights and castles.
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 The collector. Wilbert Swinkels in Holland collects old toy catalogs and brochures. And he's got lots. Hundreds in fact. And they are all on his website, categorised by manufacturer. Nice galleries that bring back childhood memories.
10:42:20 AM Cult | |
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The 'untidy' freedom. Rumsfeld is an - well, you know what I mean. Baghdad 'in chaos'. 7.30am: Widespread looting· Rumsfeld: freedom is untidy· Date set for talks [Guardian Unlimited]"US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said looting was part of the transition process and accused media reports of exaggerating the scale of the chaos. "Freedom's untidy," he said."
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Friday, April 11, 2003 |
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 Mad. I'm still mad about a TV production company stealing one of my illustrations. If anybody's interested, this is the mail I sent them this morning (German, sorry, but they're based in Munich):
Hallo Herr Reichenberger,
Ich finde es toll, daß sie einen neuen Raumpatrouille
Film produzieren.
Ich finde es nicht so toll, daß eine meiner Raumpatrouille
Illustrationen auf ihrer Trailer Website als Teil eines
'Covers', 'Plakats' oder 'Bilds' Verwendung findet.
Mein Original ist hier:
http://www.kag15.dial.pipex.com/gallery.html
Hat man mich gefragt, ob ich diese Illustration
zur Verfügung stelle? Nein.
Wird irgendwo auf der Trailer-Website mein Name
erwähnt? Nein.
Nun bin ich durchaus nicht auf Geld aus, aber ihrem
Designer (oder ist das etwa sogar ne Agentur?)
gehört gehörig auf die Finger geklopft - Urheberrecht
scheint ein Fremdwort für diese Person zu sein.
Ich erwarte Namensnennung auf der Website sowie auf
allen gedruckten Materialien, auf denen meine Illustration
abgebildet ist. Das ist ja nu das mindeste.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen aus London,
Ralf Zeigermann That should be ok. Or what? Majo? Jörg?
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 Model Sheets. Model sheets are for animators to keep the animated comic characters consistent. So that Yogi Bear always looks like Yogi Bear, although he is being drawn by gazillions of artists, each with their own style, Yogi Bear needs to be Yogi Bear (I could tell you a story about the Dentagard Beaver here, where it didn't work thanks to the Creative Director, but that would be telling). Anyway, my mate Reimund found a website with hundreds of those model sheets from Disney Studios, Anime, Universal, Hanna Barbera, Dreamworks... Guys, this is ART! And it's all handmade. With pencils and stuff like that. No computers. Honestly.
10:19:09 PM Cult | |
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 It happened on German TV. 1966: America encountered pointy ears. Old Europe encountered pointy bras. There's a new Space Patrol movie in the makes, 90 minutes long and with additional music by the composer Peter Thomas. More infos and a trailer (Quicktime and Media Player) are here.I should be really happy now, but, as a matter of fact, I am really pissed off. See the image on the left? That's taken from their website. See the spaceship Orion? Well, that's one of my Orion renderings. Has anyone asked me for permission to use my illustration? No. Does my name appear anywhere on the website? No. If I don't get an answer very quickly to the email I fired off this morning, I'll get a solicitor on the case. Very quickly.
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Saturday, April 5, 2003 |
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 Last entry for this week. I promise. And this is a repeat from November, 20th, just because it's so beautiful: Andre Franquin's Turbot sports car. Wonderful. Gorgeous. Tasty. Delicious:The car that never was. A probably very expensive portfolio about Andre Franquin's Turbot Traction 1. Pure art. And now I'm really off to Brussels and will stop pestering you.
11:37:29 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 Can't stop ... I found this link over at Steve Hall's adrants. Spoof ads, and most of them are brilliant. Have a look. And now I'll start packing. Or maybe tomorrow?
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 Sun. Warm. Blue skies. The weather is amazing in London today. So I'm not going to sit in front of the Mac all day long. See you later tonight.
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 Meanwhile... Here's Superman's Homepage with everything about the man of steel - history, costumes, artists, online comics, online this and online that.
1:40:15 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 This is probably old news, but for your Cartoonist it's brand new. Old Pulp cover magazines, pin ups, vintage racing photos and much more, all nicely assembled in various galleries at WorldWideRetro.
1:31:19 PM Cult | |
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 When men were men and cars were cars. Grand Prix history with the greatest drivers, places and events; lots of pictures and a few broken links.
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Friday, April 4, 2003 |
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 Submit your own. An anti-war poster exhibition; artists, designers and students can submit their own designs."This project was started in early March on a public design forum, in the midst of spirited debate over the impending war in Iraq. One member of the design forum suggested that the other members offset their war anxieties by focusing their energies in a more positive way. He encouraged everyone to create posters that expressed their views of the war."
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 More cover art. A little, but nice gallery of old comic book and pulp covers.
9:12:33 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 This is Science Fiction. Visco is a visual catalogue of cover art of science fiction, fantasy, weird and horror fiction magazines from the early twentieth century to the present day. And it's simply fantastic."When it is fully developed - it will never be finally complete - it will display an image of the cover of every magazine of the genre in the English language that can be located. In these early versions of Visco, we are a long way from that aim. About 1200 magazine issues are depicted out of a possible 9,000 or more."
6:37:31 PM Cult | |
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 The Cambridge Four. Interesting article in 7 parts about the Cambridge spies."There have been no more successful, more dramatically impressive spies than a group of Englishmen who all met at Trinity College, Cambridge University in the 1930s. To one degree or another, they were active for the Soviet Union for over thirty years. They were the most efficient espionage agents against American and British interests of any collection of spies in the Twentieth Century. One of them, Kim Philby, served the KGB for almost fifty years."
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Thursday, April 3, 2003 |
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 Piccicato in Heaven. Chroma ships approaching the Orion. The people of Chroma don't like to be eliminated by a pre-emptive strike. Nothing's changed in the year 3000.
11:57:15 PM Orion Pics | |
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"bob"Announcement: Spambots, here's some food. Have fun with it. Well, I actually don't believe in this anymore, the spam in my mailbox is growing and growing, but what the hell.fefgzvcvt@iejsazhwibmii.ru, vghmcbmfm@sniogodsqvtq.de, xknzzcjcdz@iosshepqtdrdkswxz.com, utfywpab@nzqwxgdcgzi.dk, wcqwpa@brkuabpswkvym.de, cbrjrlbmq@ttogyfdoghzppswvlc.at, upkm@ltyytqzpbcmkfdgqxm.ru, vxyopgj@pkbpgrdtlnjrd.it, onptub@qbstxlnvmyowbsin.st, oitmpbw@snlhtrdhixfnlzm.dk, yqezmugmp@jglvauhpwwp.com, qhuo@futnpcvwiqfxy.com, xwy@uswupvrr.st, vthdcobh@gedylvlbdombg.com, mwadbae@wprdvnofaran.ar, kywbc@cdvmdlkapzdttylipbqy.com, jlysatz@lhgssjzhiphrw.com, mndeniai@fdzmlyetm.de, pcxlzoe@acnesv.de, jdghwiucxv@vbabyhn.com
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 Oh, fantastic. The never-ending story of the Central Line. Better than a comedy on BBC. I'll post the whole article. This is unbelievable. Central line fiasco [This is London: London News]"The Central line fiasco continued today as the route was shut down just 30 minutes after a full service had resumed. Various sections were closed because of fire alerts and defective trains.
Trains were scheduled to start running at 5.30am this morning, but by 6am the line had been brought to a complete standstill causing chaos once again for London's commuters.
All eight stations between Marble Arch and Liverpool Street were closed off because of a fire alert in the Tottenham Court Road area.
A second fire alert then took place between 6.12am and 7.37am affecting the same stations and causing the complete closure of Oxford Circus Tube.
At 7am the Central line service from Marble Arch to Holborn was closed in both directions because of a continuing fire alert, affecting five of the eight stations.
By 11am the Marble Arch to Liverpool Street route was suspended eastbound because of a defective train at Holborn.
The Central line has been closed for safety reasons since the derailment at Chancery Lane on 25 January which injured 32 passengers."
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 Interesting, that. Open RTF files in Safari. "I have to open RTF files every now and then, generally Read Me files for applications. But I don't like waiting for TextEdit to launch and then quitting it afterwards.""However, since I keep Safari open all the time, I have s... " [macosxhints]
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Wednesday, April 2, 2003 |
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 More things Russian. I know, this is not the right time of the year. However, the exhibition of Early New Years and Christmas Picture Cards at the National Library of Russia is beautiful."First Russian post-cards came out in 1871. Convenient and inexpensive type of mail has quickly become popu | |
Wroom! 
The big sleep. Ladies and Gentlemen, here's 
Keep off the grass. A gallery with 
This is a magazine. 
Dumb. A gallery of the 
That reminds me. I have to leave in a couple of hours. Back to Brussels. Here is the 
Tintin. Same as below. 
The very best. Comic magazine in the world, that is. Here is an extensive database about every 
schreIBMaschinen. They're all here - old ads and more at 
YesYesYesYes! Old ads, old ads, old ads. Here are 
Revolution. 
Blunt. Interesting. A museum of 
Sharp. 
Frites. I don't know if I'll find more time for entries today or tomorrow - I'm back on the 
Fan-tastic. 
Yet another incredible website. 
The power of steam. Everything, absolutely everything about steam engines, steamboats and locomotives at the 
May contain nuts. 
Well, Photoshop. Can you believe anything these days?