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Saturday, July 31, 2004 |
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Friday, July 30, 2004 |
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 NEW. Now even better. My new Corgi pages are slowly coming along.
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Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
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 9674 Jeopardy Lane. A biography.Al is a shoe salesman. He is married, drives a dilapidated Dodge Dart automobile and works for Garry's Shoes & Accessories for the Beautiful Woman at New Market Mall.
7:59:08 AM Cult | |
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 Ah. Fred Stiller (aka WeltamDraht) has done it again! He mailed me something regarding the most peculiar cinematographic devices - fab. And I'm having a cup of Bovril now.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
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... I created my own using scanned data, lots of painting, and reference to USGS digital elevation map data. Once I had completed both a bump and colour map of the Earth, I turned to the other planets in our solar system, scavenging data where I could and piecing together the images I am sharing here.
8:11:14 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
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 Housekeeping. Welcome everybody to the new home of The Cartoonist. With now 2 gigs of webspace, this weblog could go on for a little while. And Radio's FTP driver is fab - no more upstreaming errors. At last!The Google box on the right doesn't work at present; Google hasn't indexed the new site yet. But that should only be a question of time. The Corgi pages are getting a facelift, hopefully over the weekend, and there are new catalogues to come; Harry Schley was so kind to supply me with a complete catalogue from the eighties. So ... enjoy. Have fun!
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 Moving Pictures. This is fantastic. A list of German movies from 1929-1972, nicely done with posters, staff, who's who etc. Brilliant. This comes yet again via WeltamDraht (Ulli - brilliant!).
7:52:33 AM Cult | |
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 Why Comic Books are good for you. Argon Zark by Charley Parker. The original interactive online comic book. Thanks to WeltamDraht!
7:39:31 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Monday, July 26, 2004 |
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Sunday, July 25, 2004 |
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 Raumpatrouille Picture of the Month. Modern interior design at GSD (Galactic Security Department) Headquarters.
5:05:54 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 Smoke the tyres. Guess who won the Hockenheim Grand Prix today? Exactly. Formula One has become so boring these days (except when someone is mad enough driving a McLaren Mercedes, whose rears wings just pop off at high speed), it's reason enough to beam back in time and remember some forgotten drivers, when F1 used to be exciting:Jody Scheckter.
Ronnie Peterson.
Patrick Depailler.
Clay Regazzoni.
Rolf Stommelen.
Jean Pierre Beltoise.
Jochen Rindt. Of course this list is far from being complete; those are just a few of the drivers who used to be my heroes in the 70s. Also highly recommended, the excellent Grand Prix History website and Watkins Glen Memories. And, naturally, the best F1 commentator ever: Murray Walker (In his quieter moments, it sounds like his trousers are on fire. - Clive James) and the Murray Walker Quotes Page: With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go. Anything happens in Grand Prix racing and it usually does. ...and there's no damage to the car.....except to the car itself. There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire. A few Murray Walker Audio Clips can be found here. And here are some more. This is ab-so-lut-'-ly fab!
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 Professor Hawking and his Balloon. Incredible. It says on his official website: New: Would you be interested in buying Professor Hawking's hot air balloon basket? Click here! I just wonder: why on Earth does he want to sell his balloon basket? Is he working on a new version with warp drive?
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Thursday, July 22, 2004 |
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 How and Why. I remember reading them when I was a kid; in Germany they were called Was ist Was Bücher. Well, here's a very big cover gallery. And the How and Why book about dinosaurs, with a few inner pages, can be found here. Enjoy.
3:56:11 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 Hey Mr Spaceman. The most outrageous space suits.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
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Monday, July 19, 2004 |
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 Let's do the Erlenmeyer. Singing Science Records, with song titles like Zoom A Little Zoom or E-lec-tri-city. Fantastic collection of MP3s. Credits go again to WeltamDraht.The Singing Science lyrics were very Atomic Age, while the tunes were generally riffs on popular or genre music of the time. We played them incessantly.
8:09:55 AM Cult, MP3 | |
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 Let's do the Robot. Cocktail Music for Robots - an LP Cover Gallery of the Music of the Future, from 1959 (1, 2, 3). Fab. Thanks to WeltamDraht!
8:01:56 AM Cult | |
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Sunday, July 18, 2004 |
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Saturday, July 17, 2004 |
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 Important Message to my Readers. The Cartoonist is moving. To a domain with the funny name of http://zeigermann.com/Don't worry though; it'll take a few weeks until the transition is complete, with all the decision-making: should I stick with Radio or should I move to Expression Engine? God knows. I'll let you know when everything's ready to update your bookmarks. In case anyone has bookmarked me at all.
6:36:20 PM Blogs | |
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Caricaturing him has been fairly straightforward, once I'd discovered the secret of his one mad (left) eye, furrowed brow and bland, twinkly (right) eye. He is blessed with prominent features which one can satisfyingly apply to any animal or object, be it dog, dalek or electricity pylon. This gives one tremendous scope for extended visual metaphor. More from Steve Bell here.
9:28:01 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Friday, July 16, 2004 |
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 Sweet Jane. It's live, comes with the complete intro by Messieurs Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, and can be found on this website [MP3, 9.8MB], amongst other superb Old Fart Music. This is a record to be played loud. Like a Formula One car, it doesn't really begin to perform until it's pushed close to the limit. As background music it isn't much, but powered up on a strong system loud enough to make enemies a quarter-mile away, Rock n Roll Animal -- recorded live at Lou Reed's Academy of Music concert December 21st, 1973 -- is, well, very fine. (superseventies.com)
1:54:57 PM Cult, MP3 | |
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
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 Udo Kier. The Warhol actor; the weird actor; the horror actor; the Fassbinder actor; the good actor. Here's his homepage. Then, a website maintained by fans. And two interviews conducted by Index magazine [1, 2]. Great.
8:00:19 PM Cult | |
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 Great Idea. Cthulhu Reverse Nigeria Scam. Actual transcripts of an email exchange between a Nigerian scam operator and a guy who likes to string along the scammers. In this one, he poses as a character from H.P. Lovecraft's stories, to humorous effect. The guy's main website includes links to other scam transcripts.
Dear David,
Just a quick message; waiting for my plane back to Arkham. No point in wasting your time telling you what happened here yesterday; i'm not sure i believe it myself. know now what charles meant by "shining trapezohedron." we thought it was just a simple religion. damnable cult. might be more truth than i thought in the Necronomicon. saw one of the detectives make the Voorish sign, can they be in it?
thank you for the banking information. i can't do anything with it as its the weekend. Monday will go to my bank and get my passport and transfer the money. $6000 is no problem, should have it by Tuesday latest.
Yours ever,
R. Carter
Via linkfilter.net
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
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 I'm glad I haven't got one. A Barclaycard. The mysteries of online banking with Barclays Bank, all explained here:
Barclaycard dumps Mac users |The RegisterWe are not quite sure how much light we've been able to shed on this one. Let's recap: Barclaycard current policy is that it doesn't support Macs. It never has, except that it did. And it should be fixed soon. But it isn't to do with the logo, its all because of Netscape 7. UK-Banking is a mystery, not only with Barclays, not only with online banking, but with UK-Banking itself. Believe me.
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 Practical Origami. A double CD case, folded from an A4 (or letter size) sheet.
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 The Wonders of Technology. This has been blogged elsewhere over the last few weeks, but anyway - the Antique Vibrator Museum is always good for a link. Thanks go to Andy Campsey.
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Monday, July 12, 2004 |
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Sunday, July 11, 2004 |
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Saturday, July 10, 2004 |
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Friday, July 9, 2004 |
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 This is fantastic. Bad Mags. This is unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Totally unbeliev ... guess I'm repeating myself here. Those covers are incredible. Gazillions of thanks for this particular link go out to karramarro, whose weblog isn't bad either. A fellow designer: fab.
3:43:18 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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 The Old Fart MP3 Competition. With a nudge, nudge, wink, wink towards IT&W: hey, hey... it's The Monkees! With tons of MP3 files. Groovy.
12:32:07 PM Cult, MP3 | |
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 Major Corgi Update. Harry Schley, technical director of the Automuseum Melle and founder of the Oldtimer IG Osnabrück, was so kind to supply me with scans of an 1958 Corgi Toys catalogue. And there's more to follow. Harry, thanks! And because this website is getting bigger and bigger, I'll probably restructure the whole site over the weekend.
10:22:26 AM Cult | |
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 Those Letters again. BBC News: An erotic letter sent by author James Joyce to his wife has fetched a record £240,800 at auction in London.And thanks to the Internet, we can all read his letters to Nora here, without having to pay £240,800.
9:27:27 AM Literature | |
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Thursday, July 8, 2004 |
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I really like Coudal Partners new layout and webdesign. And now check out panicarmy, who are based in Lithuania. And this panic guy even has the nerve writing: As a web designer, i look for perfection in my work, and inspiration in the work of others. Well, he doesn't seem to understand the difference between 'inspiration' and 'theft'. Back to art school. Now.
7:52:41 PM Blogs | |
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The Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park was flooded, just one day after it was officially opened by the Queen. Five children at Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton, Surrey, were also treated for shock. Not quite sure if those two incidents were related in any way...
9:16:10 AM London | |
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 No Comment. Blair says Iraq WMD may never be found. Politics: PM admits for the first time that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, but refuses to apologise for invasion. [Guardian Unlimited]The Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy described Mr Blair's position as silly.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2004 |
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Tuesday, July 6, 2004 |
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 Hey Man, what's your style... I'm still listening to INDIE 103.1.
10:07:06 PM MP3 | |
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 Legalize it. No weblog without a cat picture. Here's mine.
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They're Back. 
Needful Things. A few blogs that came to my attention: the Indian 
Here's some Erotica for the Weekend. An 
Bloody Amazing. Read. Debate. See. Create. 
Raumpatrouille. A complete HiRes Scan of the 
Good Grief. 
Tin Man. 
Toot. 
Steel and Coal Industries, 1966. A collection of 
The Stones on Broadway. 
The Planets. 
Fear eats the Soul. 
Sound. 
Why Comic Books are bad for you. Dr Frederic Wertham's book 
Video Violence. 
Factory Made. 
Plucked her Eyebrows on the Way. 
Little Joe. 
Talking about Dinosaur Books. 
The School for Atheists. 
This is Fantastic. 
Making Fun of the Victorians. At 
Fun with Stencils. An incredibly big 
Amazing. More great illustrations at 
All those Books. 
Who's on first? 
Drawing Tony. 
Duprez. More good illustrations: 
Alice's Adventures under Ground. This is a 
Back into Advertising. 
Wax Worx. 
More Devo. The Big Dirty Farmers with 
Beautiful Mutants. Oh my God, he's producing art now. 
Simulacra. 
Learning Swedish with Spirou. The fantastic 
Abraxas. 
Get your Scissors out. 
Samplesize. 
The Racer. He just wins. 
Clever & Smart. The 
Anatomy. 
Ernesto Rodera. A fantastic 
8-Track. 
Mortadelo. Since I don't speak Spanish, I have no idea 
Buttons. 
Karloff. Nice 
Mervyn Peake. Artist. Illustrator. Novelist. Poet. 
A Book. Ernest A. Batchelder, 
Music? Here's a 
Writing. 
Master of Stage and Screen. 
Dream House. 