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Friday, April 30, 2004 |
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 Long Weekend. Bank holiday weekend. See you back on Tuesday. Cheerio.
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 Dutch made. The DAF, the funny little car with the 'clever stick'. Via Ye olde Phart.
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
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 Virtual Cockpits. The picture on the left shows the interior of the Mercury Freedom 7 capsule. And more Quicktime VR cockpits are here. Nice. I wanna fly.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
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Rechts geht es schneller, irrerweise wegen der Lkws. Die wollen nämlich alle noch vor zehn zu Hause sein. Osnabrück. Dammer Berge. Tanken, weil kleiner Tank. Nach Wildeshause wird die Autobahn dreispurig. Klasse! Alles stürmt nach links, auch ein Kadett City mit Bochumer Kennzeichen. Bleibt hartnäckig. Blinker bringt auch nichts. Lichthupe ebenfalls zwecklos. Muß rechts vorbei. Ein Mittelscheitel macht den Breiten. Der Verkehr verzieht sich. Nach Stuckenborstel gehe ich vom Gas nicht mehr runter. Den Abzweig zum Elbtunnel mal wieder viel zu schnell genommen. Der Rest geht schnell. Entscheide mich natürlich wie immer für die linke Röhre, um dann nach Tunnelende dramatisch blitzartig vier Spuren nach rechts in die Ausfahrt hineinzubremsen. Das einzige, was auf der Stresemann wieder aufhält, ist eine kuriose Ampelschaltung. Am Phantom der Oper links, auf dem Ring einmal rundrum bis zum Winterhuder Marktplatz, dahinter noch mal links, zum Stadtpark hinunter. Ich bin da. Wieder zu spät. Blogged before, but found again with DEVONagent for OS X. Fab software. Und ich hoffe mal, der Autor der obigen Zeilen meint das nicht wirklich ernst...
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 Of special Interest. For all of my German-speaking readers presumably. Everything, absolutely everything - if not even more than everything - about the comic magazine YPS (with Gimmick!).10. März 2004
Inhaltsverzeichnis und Coverscans der Hefte 876-900 sind online. 24. Februar 2004
Start des neuen Bastelbogen Archivs! Für den Anfang stehen schon 10 Bögen zur Verfügung. ...
5:34:58 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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 I was wondering. In the "old days" I used to report each and every spam I received straight to spamcop. The "old days" were when I got about 30 spams a day. Now that I'm getting between 200 and 350 a day, it just doesn't seem to make sense anymore - even with an automated reporting system I'd just lose precious time. I was also thinking that reporting 200 spams a day might just add to the bandwidth already being used by spam? And it doesn't seem to help anymore; I reported one especially nasty mail this morning. Ten minutes later I received 50 mails, well, I guess they were spams - all from different addresses, blank subject line, blank body; they must have been from the person I was complaining about. I think reporting doesn't make sense anymore. Or did it ever, apart from setting up blacklists that are faulty anyway?Oh, and bots look here please.
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Monday, April 26, 2004 |
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Besides looking like no other instrument, the theremin is unique in that it is played without being touched. Two antennas protrude from the theremin - one controlling pitch, and the other controlling volume. As a hand approaches the vertical antenna, the pitch gets higher. Approaching the horizontal antenna makes the volume softer. Because there is no physical contact with the instrument, playing the theremin requires precise skill and perfect pitch.
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Saturday, April 24, 2004 |
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Spiegel Online and German Grammar. Langsam wird das Ausmaß der verheerenden Explosion zweier Güterzüge in Nordkorea deutlich. Laut dem britischen Außenministerium schätzt Nordkoreas Regierung die Zahl der Toten auf mehrere hundert. "Laut dem..."???? Who are those selfmade journalists, that are now writing for what once used to be Germany's top notch news magazine?Zugunglück: Nordkorea spricht von hunderten Toten - Panorama - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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"tong"Weekend. The sun's shining. It's actually warm outside. I'm off. Back on Monday. Perhaps.
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Friday, April 23, 2004 |
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 3D. Synagogues in Germany. A Virtual Reconstruction. Very interesting website. Via paperholic. Since 1995 synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis in 1938 have been reconstructed on the computer in the Department CAD in Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The project stems from a student initiative in 1994, a year in which hostility towards foreigners and anti-Semitic commentaries noticeably increased. It was also the year of the arson attack on the synagogue in Lübeck.
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The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. They point to a connection between newspaper comic strips and early animated films, as represented by Keeping Up With the Joneses, Krazy Kat, and The Katzenjammer Kids. As well as showing the development of animation, these films also reveal the social attitudes of early twentieth-century America.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
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 Modeling a Wreck. Roy Mengot has created a scale model of the Titanic wreck. The boiler room only has about 50 parts in it since it's largely obscured. The inverted Y shaped pillars, the steam and water lines, and the collapsed uptakes to the funnels are there according to the plans, but not really visible in the model.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 |
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
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Update. Anthony Rooney writes:
I have to say that I enjoyed what I saw. OK, there were a few
problems - I would have lost the scene in the Starlight Casino with
Cliff and a drunken Hasso discussing his marital problems. It's a
scene that works well in the original episode because we see where it
goes, but in the context of the re-edited movie it was out of place
and served no purpose. I also would have lost the scene with Cliff
and his nephews, as - again - it was great in the episode it came
from but seemed odd here. As those are the only two nit-picks I have
I am glad to have got them out of the way as I very much enjoyed the
film. The 'news' items were funny but did not detract from the pace
and excitement of the adventure. The characters of the Orion crew
came across well in the English translation and I had to smile when
Mario was talking about the very good looking 'bird' he's been
pursuing ('bird' being British slang for a good looking girl - 'dolly-
bird' - similar to the American 'chick').
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 Good OS X Software of the Month. Tubetrack. Tubetrack is a little utility that sits on your desktop, updating its dot matrix indicator with the next three tube trains set to arrive at your chosen station. Also available for Linux, Windows and OS 9.
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 Build the Village. Portmeirion. In Lego.
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Monday, April 19, 2004 |
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Sunday, April 18, 2004 |
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 Raumpatrouille Picture of the Month. Hasso Sigbjörnsen leaving Lancet 1.
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Friday, April 16, 2004 |
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On April 15, 1954, Bellingham, Seattle and other Washington communities are in the grip of a strange phenomenon -- tiny holes, pits, and dings have seemingly appeared in the windshields of cars at an unprecedented rate. Initially thought to be the work of vandals, the pitting rate grows so quickly that panicked residents soon suspect everything from cosmic rays to sand-flea eggs to fallout from H-bomb tests.
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 Just in Case. If anybody wants to have a look at my resume, feel free to do so. But don't expect the links to be working - the Pipex servers have been down for at least 48 hours now. And they still are.Update: They're back. And now they're down again. This is fun.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
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 Want. Laterna Magica. A Newton Telescope. And everything else. At astromedia. The website's in German, but who cares - it comes with lots of pictures attached. Order astronomy and optical stuff now! And order from My Shop. Now. Because I need to upgrade my Radio UserLand account pretty soon. A 90 smegs is not enough.
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 One for the Stamp Collectors. Comic strips on European stamps. This website is big. It's very big. In fact, it's huge. Should I even go as far and say: "It's enormous!"? Colossal is another good word that comes to mind. Anyway, just click your way through it. Have fun. That's what it's there for.
1:32:53 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
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Some maps deliberately set out to deceive. Many show a selective view and reflect only the interests of the people who made them. Stunning maps from ancient to modern reveal a secret world. In every case there is more than meets the eye.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
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The 2004 edition of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Great Britain paints a picture of a land where everything stops for afternoon tea, everyone wears tweed and the trains run on time. We look to the web to see if this alternative-universe Britain really exists.
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Monday, April 12, 2004 |
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 St Pancras. Gone. Michael McCarthy writes in the Independent: It was grimy but grand, murky but magnificent, and when it closed last night, something that was the very essence of railway travel in Britain disappeared. At 20 minutes to midnight, St Pancras station in London ceased to be the great Victorian gateway to the cities of the English East Midlands when the last express for Loughborough, Nottingham and Derby pulled out from William Barlow's steel and glass trainshed, one of the engineering wonders of the world when it was built in 1868.Thanks to this thing called Internet, here's a Virtual Tour of St Pancras, created by Jonathan Hall.
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 |
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"bob"Country & Western. The writers who came up with these song titles deserve an award. At least. Some of my favourites are: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
I Wanna Whip Your Cow
She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger Fantastic. Enjoy.
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 Still Easter, innit? Build yourself a Paper Dalek. Then stick an egg on top of it as the head. Brilliant.
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 |
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Friday, April 9, 2004 |
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Thursday, April 8, 2004 |
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004 |
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 Oh, my Goodness Me! This is insane. Check out Horst's German translation of the London Tube Map. I love it.Obviously, you need to have a pretty good command of German to find this funny.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 |
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More strange Music. Sammy Davis Jr. singing the 
Rrright ... Now! Seems as if 
Test. 
Ahhh... Ladies and Gentlemen, the fabulous 
Panorama. 
Even more Logos. I know someone who will be very happy about the logo on the left. 
Counting. A long, long, long list of 
Sound. The history of sound recording - 
Sachsenhausen. 
Greek German. 
Because I like it. 
Bizarre. The photography of 
Berlin, 1936. Huge 
Air Guitar. 
A Body like an Industrial Landscape. 
Fast Cars. 
Impossible to Navigate. The website of Dutch Comic Book Artist 
Black Letters. Fonts, all Gothic. Lots of them. 
Storm. 
Moving Pictures. 
The Darker Side of Playland. Mouse I, by 
Ducks. Great website dedicated to 
Khaaaan! Ohmegod; 
Empty Bottles. At the 
Schweinskram. 
Round. 
Again. Orion. Raumpatrouille. Blogged 
Forward into the Past. Visit the 
Secret. 
Round 2. 
The Swiss again. Helvetica. Futura. Akzidenz Grotesk. Gill. Frutiger. 
And now the Commercials. Presidential campaign commercials from 1952 - 2000. 
Changing. 
Art Cars. At the 
From the Zone. Huge website in German language about 
Project Dalek. Unbelievable. A 
Fortean. 
Quack! 
Sophie. Crumb, of course. She's as weird as her father. 
Even more Disney. Ub Iwerks, the hand behind the mouse. 
More Disney. The history of the 
Dark History. Willibald Wundermild, the author of the website, writes: This site is dedicated to Floyd Gottfredson, one of the world's almost forgotten artists, which is, by no means, justified. Quite right. But it comes better. The subtitle of this wonderful page is: 
DIY. 
Kraftwerk. 
Kurt. The Site for English-Speaking Fans of 
Mapped Out. 
Trek. This is gruesome. 
Der Blöken. Dem Blöken. Des Blöken. Wegen dem Blökens.
Dry Bones. 
Fab. The illustrator
Virtual. The 
There's no Escape from 
A peaceful Easter link. 
By the way. 
Wow. 
Crystal Palace. 
Just one more thing... The ultimate 
Droids. The 
Monsters. 
He's back at last. 
Stuck. In the 
Stuff. 
Maria. A fantastic (Flash) website about 
Flying Saucers are Real. Check out the