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Sunday, August 31, 2003 |
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 New at the IT&W shop: "YOU HAVE BEEN BLOGGED" coffee mugs and t-shirts. Now come on everybody: if you all buy 5 mugs and 16 t-shirts each, Majo and I can finally retire.
6:37:33 PM  Blogs, Cult | |
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 Modes and Motors. Wow. More art. A 1938 General Motors brochure about car design. Wonderful illustrations.What follows in the brochure's next 30 pages is a short history of global art ("Wherever artistic geniuses lived and dreamed, they left behind them evidence of their hopes and ambitions and desires[sigma]") and then a lengthy examination of the industrial design process. What makes this booklet notable is not just its breathless prose, but the degree to which GM lavished artistic integrity on what was just publicity material. With its lovely (and uncredited) art deco illustrations, Modes and Motors is a work of art in itself.
10:06:39 AM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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Saturday, August 30, 2003 |
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 Serious Literature. I'm sure I've blogged this before. And if not, then someone else has. Anyway. Here's 19th-century German Stories. And there are a lot of them. Enjoy.
10:50:03 AM Literature | |
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 I confess. I'm a nerd too. An anorak. Cleaning out stuffed drawers and bookshelves here at home, I came across some old Corgi and Dinky Toys cataloges, for which I've paid a considerable amount of money about 12 years ago. Mhm - why not put them online? At least some sample pages? There you go. See my nerd collection here: Corgi, from 1969. Dinky from 1967? And another Dinky brochure from 1972?. Cheers. Have fun. And no, I won't throw them away. And they certainly are not for sale! I'll just stuff'em back into the drawers and bookshelves. And now c'mon - see The Avengers Gift Set, the Thrush Buster, the UFO Interceptor and even - argh - Daktari! The Lotus Gift Set was nice. What a nerd I am.
1:29:11 AM Blogs, Cult | |
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Friday, August 29, 2003 |
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 Because Ted's throwing a party. And even Anneke is there. From left: the discerned woman on the left is unknown. The guy on the moped is Mary Lou Monroe from Charley's Girls. Then, there's your Cartoonist. And then Ted. And here's Flattermann by The Neat (Cartoonist: Rhythm guitar; Ted: Keyboards). Ted, have fun. Me, I'll just stay in London and hope certain people will keep their mouths shut. :-)
10:14:18 PM Blogs, Cult | |
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 In 1977. London's burning. Yeah right, mate. I just got back from friggin' Docklands. Nothing's burning there. Still - they were better than the Stones. Better than Cliff Richard (Hi Zoe!). Better than anyone actually. Here are the Clash Photo Rockers - one great big Clash photo gallery. Fan - tastic. Enjoy.
7:02:18 PM Cult, London | |
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 Oh. More about our time traveller can be found at Inert Ramblings. And guess what: I found it through Radio's new fabulous TrackBack function!And now let's feed the bots and give The Cartoonist some rest:
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 Oh Bugger. Did I really write I'm too lazy looking for new stuff? Just came across the Pulp Fiction Postcards website; via the fantastic exclamation mark. Great. Both of those sites. They are. Really. Trust me, I'm an art director.
5:48:55 PM Blogs, Cult | |
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 A repeat. Blogged this before, but I'm too lazy looking for new stuff, so check out all the cards of the old Raumpatrouille-Quartett from 1966 - the link is still relevant. They are complete and in 200dpi RGB colour, which is almost HiRes.
5:28:28 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 Docklands. Since I had nothing else to do this morning, I boarded the Docklands Light Railway at Stratford, went off at Canary Wharf and had a little stroll around Docklands. In typical London weather of course: grey, rainy and rather cold for this time of the year. Anyway, it was quite nice and interesting, although the admission fee of £5 to get into the Docklands museum seemed a bit steep. Talking about money: you can get a small 160sqm apartment there for only 2 million pounds, which is a bargain really.
3:34:30 PM London | |
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 More about yesterday's power cut is at Going Underground.Do not (I repeat) do not, ask any Londoner about their journey home this evening.
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Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
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 Soldier, soldier. We all don't get younger, do we? Here's Spizz. Athletico. Energi. At least he's still a member of a local London soccer club. Where's Captain Kirk...?
11:21:07 PM Cult, London | |
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 I must say. I'm getting lots of spam mails every day. And I usually report them straight to spamcop or their service providers. But the one I just received now is amazing. It's a piece of art. Here we go:Hello, I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.
Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.
Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z, n), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any plans you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have a dimensional warp generator available, and are 100% certain you have a (safe secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply with a secure way to contact you. Send a separate email to me at:
webmaster@custompaintshop.net
Thank You
Brian Appel Fantastic, isn't it?
9:29:48 PM Cult | |
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 Distracted. Sorry, I got distracted. Check out the Raumpatrouille Forum [German]. Especially the 'Frechheit' entry. Your cartoonist is running into trouble there. Ted, you will love this. See pages 7, 8, 9 and 10. Fantastic. And please post some useless information in there. It's all about the picture on the left.
8:07:15 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 Blast. If you're on a Mac and all of a sudden can't access Schockwellenreiter anymore, then you have to tweak your MTU (whatever that is). Checkout this website and download rmac, which is free. Compared to ipNetTuner and anyway - it works.
4:17:15 PM Blogs, Cult | |
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"bird"More Tony. Instead of going to war and spending millions of Pounds, Tony should have a look at the prices for passports here in the UK, which are outrageous. Via comments section at Keys Corner.
1:17:49 PM London | |
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 More lies. Of course. Mr Prime Minister, nobody believes a word you're saying anymore. Please resign. Da soona da betta. Oh, and by the way - where are those 'weapons of mass destruction' Iraq could launch upon us 'within 45 minutes'? Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Blair takes the standGiving evidence to the Hutton inquiry the prime minister also said the dossier was "not making the case for war" and denied that Alastair Campbell had been involved in anything more than assisting with its "presentation".
12:58:11 PM Literature | |
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 Nico again. Phillipe Carly has a nice gallery of Nico live photos online. To all the dirty old farts out there: Those pictures are from 1981, not from 1966!Anyway, check out Phillipe's homepage - you will find thousands of 'new wave' live concert pictures there. The obviously drunken John Cale alone is worth the visit. And while we're at it: Please check out my friend Jutta's homepage. Live concert photos and portraits more on the weird side: LaMonte Young, Gerard Malanga, Faust, Moe Tucker...
12:05:40 PM Cult | |
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 Books. Now that looks interesting. Finally a proper books database for OSX? Well, it connects to Amazon, you can download book covers etc etc. Sounds promising.Books is a native Cocoa application for MacOS X users that stores, sorts, and searches a "virtual card catalog" for a personal library. Books makes it simple to enter new books, edit the information of older books, and sort the books by attributes such as title and author. Books also includes built-in searching for quick book information retrieval and XML support for importing and exporting collection information.
11:46:49 AM Literature | |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
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 Chindogu. Chindogus are highly useful japanese inventions Gyro Gearloose would be proud of. Like the 'hayfever hat' on the left. (Flash site)
9:39:33 PM Cult | |
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 Kaff. Another exclusive one for my German readers, I'm afraid. But it's fantastic. Gisbert Damaschke and Gregor Strick are planning an online handbook about Arno Schmidt's novel Kaff auch Mare Crisium. The first few parts are already online and the website itself is very well designed. Wonderful. Fantastic. Great. Fab. Picture stolen from Arno Schmidt Stiftung.Das Projekt mare-crisium.de versteht sich als digitales Handbuch zu diesem Text, das als offenes und prinzipiell unabgeschlossenes work in progress im Internet publiziert wird. Es soll Materialien, Informationen und Kommentare bereitstellen, die das Verständnis des komplexen Textes und die Auseinandersetzung mit ihm fördern.
2:11:45 PM Literature | |
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 The Unexplained Explained. Heidi Hollis offers Alien Advice, which looks like this:PAMELA WRITES:
I saw a reptilian type person (male I think) I felt him staring at me from behind I looked behind and could not see this thing then I looked in my rear view mirror and saw him however he was transparent. He sliced his finger across his neck and felt this as a warning. Was this real or was I just seeing things in the mirror? Am I supposed to do anything after this?
Sincerely yours Pamela HEIDI:
Hi Pamela,
Well, I do know these beings like to creep up on people and scare them. They do this because they feed off from the fear we give them when we see them or just have plain fear in general...as strange as that may sound.
But one thing to note about these beings too, is they often are not spotted, just felt. That feeling alone can suffice them to feed on, but when you were able to actually see it even transparently...I don't think they much appreciated that [...] Picture taken from - well, from The Unexplained Explained. Sigh.
11:36:53 AM Cult | |
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 Autopsy. Alien autopsies around the world are here.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
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 Oh. Look, a brolly. Wonder where that might be coming from.
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 Alfred Leobold. I believe the following literary links are more for my German readers unfortunately - but it's fun anyway. Here's the history of the famous Sechsämtertropfen. And the special Alfred Leobold homepage is here; and something really weird is here [huge big smiley inserted]. Ha.
12:32:27 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 Looks like Hamburg. Black & white photography by Thomas Müller. Great shots.
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Ok. The great TrackBack Experiment is on. Something should now somehow trackbackwards and forwards.The Value of Weblog Trackbacks. Reminds me of the Pete Townshend song, "So Sad About Us."
Trackback is about the surfers, the visitors, the READERS, not the author. If they go to your site they can look at the trackbacks and find a new blog to read. If they go to my site, for instance, they may see that The Cartoonist has posted something from Mediaburn. They may then go to his site and find out that The Insekt Limited is precisely what they need! ;o)
It gives everybody's weblog some exposure... to the wandering and random readers. - G.S.
 So sad ... Radio's TrackBack is not working at all. No trackbacks ... sniff. I'll give it another week. And then I'm probably going to find out that I will have to modify certain ports on my Firewall, which is HELL - I'm using a NOKIA IP55 router. Oh Bugger - I hate this Internet stuff. And I still don't understand: who needs TrackBack anyway, when we have technorati? Or am I missing something? I must be, I'm just a Cartoonist. Heh. So please - enlighten me. [The Cartoonist] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]
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So sad ... Radio's TrackBack is not working at all. No trackbacks ... sniff. I'll give it another week. And then I'm probably going to find out that I will have to modify certain ports on my Firewall, which is HELL - I'm using a NOKIA IP55 router. Oh Bugger - I hate this Internet stuff. And I still don't understand: who needs TrackBack anyway, when we have technorati? Or am I missing something? I must be, I'm just a Cartoonist. Heh. So please - enlighten me.
12:02:23 AM Blogs | |
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Monday, August 25, 2003 |
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 That thing on the moon. Yes, I spent most of the afternoon finishing yet another one of my 3D-renderings and you can find it on my 3D-Gallery website. It's done in Vue d'Esprit, because I wanted to try out the little Bryce2Vue converter. Guess what: it works perfectly! It doesn't convert the materials, but camera positions and objects are still where they used to be. Another good piece of software for MacOSX, since Corel doesn't seem to care [bigtime swearing inserted here] updating Bryce. Idiots. Actually I find Vue less buggy than Bryce in OSX and - getting used to it - much easier to operate. And the materials and textures controls are much, much better. The rendering is faster. Display is faster. Vue still has a few bugs, but is much better than the aforementioned piece of 2001neverupdatedstinkyprogrammethankstocorelbuggers! So I'm waiting for the next Vue Update.Phew. I'm feeling much better now. Thanks. Now are there any SF book publishers out there who need a cover artist? I'm ready ... !
10:30:54 PM Blogs, Cult | |
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 Gotcha! (Again!) Another one bites the dust:Thank you for contacting the Lycos Network Abuse Department.
The account you have brought to the attention of the Lycos Network Abuse Department was found to be in violation of our Terms and Conditions. As a result, it has been removed from our servers. Thank you for reporting it to us. There's a new bunch of German Spammers out there who send you mails with subject lines like 'New screensavers on the SAT1 homepage' (SAT1 is a German TV channel) or 'Your postbox at Datanetcom'. If you're stupid enough to click on the link in the message body, you download a dialer. Bastards!
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 Margarethe. I believe Margarethe Hubauer must have been representing illustrators even before I was born. She will probably still work as an illustrators' agent when I'm long gone. She does it now since I can remember. Anyway - wonderful artists' portfolios on her site (watch out: heavy use of Flash!). That's where I found Brad Holland.
10:35:49 AM Art & Advertising | |
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 Strange. And good. The art of Brad Holland. Great.
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Sunday, August 24, 2003 |
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 Lürzer's Archive is still the best and largest online archive of international creative advertising. Find gazillions of famous, not so famous and wild and modern ad campaigns in there.
3:45:29 PM Cult | |
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 Ironclad Ships. And now for some really weird ship designs. Here's the homepage of the CSS Merrimac (which is actually the CSS Virginia), and then we have the USS Monitor at The Mariner's Museum. Those ships look better than even the Nautilus, which can be found here: photos, blueprints, paintings, links. Amazing.
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This section displays images sorted by known dust jacket designers for titles printed in the years 1928 through 1970. It includes pictorial, design, and non-boilerplate text styles found on flexie's and hardbacks, plus illustrated acetates and box images. Via speckled paint + via neurastenia.
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Saturday, August 23, 2003 |
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 Russian Utopia. A depository. Architectural drawings, paintings, stories.
3:22:53 PM Cult | |
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 Common errors in English. Brilliant.What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak. Via Sean Lloyd.
2:39:59 PM Literature | |
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Friday, August 22, 2003 |
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"robot5"Gotcha. Found at linkfilter. Women pose as underage girls in chatrooms and very quickly become involved in a chat. With certain people. They then forward the person's details to the Perverted Justice website. Brilliant.This site targets pedophiles in regional chatrooms, then posts pictures, names and numbers (they ask that you call those numbers!), as well as the chat text. ramsst69: ok please send it i'd like to see
lil_pink_princess_90: http://www.perverted-justice.com
lil_pink_princess_90: u there?
ramsst69: yes
ramsst69: whats that site??
lil_pink_princess_90: It's a site where people like me pose as underage girls, and then bust pervs like you who try to solicit us for sex. You might wanna bookmark it. Your name, telephone number, photo, and a transcript of this chatlog will appear on the front page within 24 hours.
lil_pink_princess_90: You're busted, shitbag.
lil_pink_princess_90: Got anything to say for yourself?
Yahoo! Messenger: ramsst69 has logged out. (8/17/2003 5:51 PM)
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 Unbelievable. What country am I living in? This is worse than the US! I can only hope those 'immigration officials' got fired.'Tourists' fail Beatles quiz
Six Brazilians have been turned away by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport after failing a quiz about the Beatles. Reports say immigration officials refused to let them into the UK when they failed to answer basic questions about the band. They apparently did not know who Yoko Ono was and thought Ringo Starr was dead. Via it&w.
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 The Best. Wonderful. I finally found him. The all-time great René Gruau, one of the best commercial illustrators around. The website comes in French and English.
3:22:09 PM Cult | |
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 Danger: Eros! A Felicien Rops gallery. Getting hot under the collar... tsk - those Belgians. The official Rops museum is here.
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 Jim Aparo. Small website about the great comic book artist and illustrator.
3:04:25 PM Cult | |
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 Sticker. Man, am I being creative today. Here's a sticker for all your blogging needs. Steal it. Download it. Use it.
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 Photos of the Jewish Cemetery in Hamburg Altona.Considered as one of the worlds most significant jewish cemeteries. In use from 1611 - 1869. Now undergoing research and restauration. The cemetery is not open to the public.
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 Luminarium. Wonderful resource of English Literature: Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century.This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one. Via linkfilter.
9:14:18 AM Literature | |
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 Enter Tim Baggaley. Experienced left arm amputee actor and model. I met him tonight at the Princess Louise Pub at a party organised by The Recruitment Business. First of all, the party was great - Bernie, Ali, Zoe and who else was involved: Thanks, although our team scored bad in the quiz - but that was alone Sarah's fault. Second, I met Tim, and he's great. He even does battle scenes, because there's not much trouble with the special effects when a left arm has to be hacked off. If there's a film director out there - employ Tim. Now!
12:27:53 AM London | |
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Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
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 The Emigrants. Wow. Do you have a few hours to spare? Then check out The Ships List. A very fascinating website about the immigration to The New World with lots of documents, like Ship Descriptions, Passenger Lists, Diaries and Journals, Ship Wrecks and much, much more. Can't help it - I like stuff like that.TheShipsList website was first established in August 1999, to help those seeking the details of their ancestors' ships; passenger records; contemporary immigration reports; newspaper records; ship wreck information; ship pictures &c. We quickly outgrew our "personal" webspace and so registered our own domain in May 2000. Since then we have grown to about 1000 totally free access web-pages [...] I actually found the URL in the 'Sources and Acknowledgements' section of Joseph O'Connor's novel Star of the Sea, a highly recommendable book.
12:37:32 PM Literature | |
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 Hot Metal. Ok, the website of the Melbourne Museum of Printing is ugly and chaotic. But hidden under this layer of ugliness are the most amazing documents and pictures of old type, machines and a glossary of typography. Enjoy.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
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 21:55. Just back from Brussels and too tired to do any serious blogging. Even worse, I might have to work in London tomorrow, so don't expect too many updates. Meanwhile enjoy the little comic I did especially for all of you.
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Sunday, August 17, 2003 |
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"head2"Again. Off to Brussels, probably back by Wednesday.
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 On the %$*& Moon. Here's what Neil Armstrong really said when he walked on the moon (Flash).In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast. Via linkfilter.
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Saturday, August 16, 2003 |
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 Aliens. As seen by children. Pretty weird website, but nice drawings.This website features a series of drawings made by children who were abducted by aliens for the alien purpose of creating a new race of alien/human hybrids. The drawings show different aspects of the alien abduction phenomenon and include cruel medical procedures performed on children, children boarding alien spacecraft with other aliens, children playing with alien/hybrid children so the alien/hybrids can learn how to be human, and children being taken by aliens against their will, and the types of aliens encountered by the abducted children. Via ronsens.
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 Walking Britain. This is actually quite a good idea. I should do this rather than just walking from The Blue Posts Pub in Kingly Street to The Ship Pub in Wardour Street ...With over 3000 pages of information, "Walking Britain" is dedicated to the footpaths that cross the landscape. The National Parks feature strongly including the Lake District, the Peak District and Snowdonia, not to mention the Yorkshire Dales. Also detailed are the Brecon Beacons and Pennines. Coverage of Scotland and Ireland will be improved with more emphasis on these areas in future. Also see The Walking Englishman. Via The Ministry of Propaganda.
7:39:58 PM London | |
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 Letterpress. Nice little website:Fireproof Press was a letterpress printing, packaging, and design company located in Chicago, Illinois. We specialize in smaller print runs, hand-set type, custom die-cuts, and unusual requests. The service provided went beyond simple reproduction - each print was subtly different from the next, a reflection of the handprinting process. If you'd like to learn more about how we worked you'd probably enjoy this page that explains the letterpress process.
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"head3"Ah. Read the Guardian:In fact, the foundation for the government's claim was even shakier, according to the document: a single anonymous uncorroborated source quoting another single anonymous uncorroborated source.
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 Pingu. The little fellow is here. Enjoy.
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A man must cross the river, and so it shall be. Go for a walk - here's the 
NYC. New York on 
This is art. Even 
Ain't you. 
Ska! Great - a complete discography of the 
Somewhere there's a feather. The 
Majestic-12. Everything about the secret and sinister organisation is at 
Impressive. Ralf H. claims to be in the posession of one of '
They're really good at things like that. 
Flower, stolen from 
Old and new. Everything about 
Li'l Folks. Here is 
The Avengers again. 
Wonder Woman. A collection of ancient 
Books and Art. Here's a gallery and database of 
Toys again! Brilliant: 
The Lurkers. 
The Vampire. The picture on the left shows the 
Solemates. 
More Type. Check out the 
The Goddess. Lots of old Citroen 