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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Quarsan, meet Basil. Had a nice visit from Zoe, Q, and Davide yesterday. 10:55:18 AM   Blogs | |

Friday, September 28, 2007

Law and Order. Thanks to this BBC article and then, after some serious googling, I came across those three downloadable versions of the UK Highway Code 1931, 1946, and 1954. Fabulous. The links go straight to the PDF files, which are all about 30MB in size, but if you're brave enough to stand the horrible music, here's the website where they came from. Oh my goodness me, those good old times! Well, better carry on now. Mustn't complain. 10:12:50 PM   Art & Advertising, London | |

Local News. Tabloid photographs from the Los Angeles Herald Express, 1936-1961. Via Paperholic. 9:16:09 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Look, it's Thomas Woodruff's Freak Parade. 7:56:34 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Usmanov Affair. Tim Ireland has published the timeline of what happenend when, and also lots of other stuff. Interesting. Very interesting indeed. 1:48:50 PM   London | |

Bubble Helmet. The 60s Fashion Pool on flickr. 1:41:26 PM   Cult | |

Exakta. J. Andrzej Wrotniak's vintage cameras. And his articles about the Olympus e-system are probably the best you can find on the web. 1:36:32 PM   This & That | |

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Basil Says. Rubbing your bones with salt in the evening makes them all new and shiny in the morning. 4:00:46 PM   Basil Says | |

Martin Waugh. Liquid Sculptures. Again via David Thompson. 10:58:12 AM   Art & Advertising | |

By Unknown Artists. The comics Flip Falcon and Space Smith. 10:52:00 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Tim Ireland's back. Sort of. And he's got something to say. Plus a second article in The Register: Downed blogger Murray vows to continue Usmanov attacks. Also, Usmanov allegations to be revealed to the European Parliament. 1:23:44 PM   London | |

One for Basil. Huey, Dewey and Louie as well as other cartoon characters in a somewhat basic form by the artist Hyungkoo Lee. Via David Thompson. 10:44:03 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Final Frontier. The Space Cowboy Saloon. 10:27:57 AM   Cult | |

They get Spam. The Moon of Alabama has received an interesting unsolicited mail from a certain lawyers firm in London. Via a comment on Chicken Yoghurt. 9:18:56 AM   This & That | |

Monday, September 24, 2007

Craig Murray is silent [4]. The story has made it into the Register. Fab. Button below by Beau Bo D'Or. 6:01:52 PM   London | |

Supreme Instruments. Tube testers, diagnometers, multimeters and so on. Great website. Via All about nothing. 12:19:09 PM   This & That | |

British Art through the Times. The national fine art education digital collection. 12:12:48 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Re. Usmanov/Murray Especially for my German readers, a fabulous summary of the whole case can be found at the Swiss metablog: The Story so far. 7:08:55 PM   London | |

A new Sunday Roast. Over at London Leben. And this time in English and with a special guest! 6:51:52 PM   London, MP3 | |

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Sorry. I couldn't resist. Mr. Usmanov's cunning plan. Yes, you may republish this cartoon wherever you like. Please don't hotlink and a link back to my site would be nice. Thanks. 7:38:00 PM   London | |

Friday, September 21, 2007

Basil Says. Whenever you stroll across Waterloo Bridge, always keep an eye open for umbrellas loaded with Ricin pellets or Polonium in your takeaway coffee. 9:26:05 PM   Basil Says | |

Craig Murray is silent [3]. Well, it's made national news on the telly now: Blogosphere mugging for Usmanov. And this one by Tim Worstall deserves an applause. 9:01:41 PM   London | |

Craig Murray is silent [2]. And now even the distinguished Swiss Metablog writes about the Alisher Usmanov/Craig Murray/Bloggerheads fiasco. This is truly becoming an international affair; so where's Napoleon Solo when you need him? Apart from that, according to Chicken Yoghurt, 251 blogs are writing about this rather unpleasant incident with more joining in by the minute. Those lawyers really should know that you cannot shut down the internet; in fact, Craig Murray's 'defamatory writings' can now be found all over the planet, hosted on Swiss and US servers and God knows where else. Well done; I think the storm has found its way out of the tea cup now. 5:29:13 PM   London | |

It's getting Cold. Shackleton Centenary Expedition. Via things. Welcome to the Shackleton Centenary Expedition website. We are the descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton's band of Antarctic explorers. In 2008-09 we intend to follow in our ancestors' footsteps, and recreate the 1909 Nimrod Expedition, originally intended to be the first mission to the South Pole. 1:53:30 PM   This & That | |

Of course. But I wouldn't have paid forty quid for four people who only play 30 year old songs anyway. Instead I'm going to see Alabama 3 on the 7th of October. Zoe, thanks! 1:43:26 PM   London | |

Classic Print Ads. 998 of them. Many thanks to Peter for the link. 1:19:22 PM   Old Ads | |

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Craig Murray is silent. Apparently because of this fellow. More here, here, and here. And here's Craig Murray's weblog, but that's been shut down right now. A nice roundup of the case can be read at AOL sports: Arsenal Suitor's Lawyers Are Shutting Down Blogs Left and Right; also, the Public Service Announcement at Chicken Yoghurt has been updated. Update: More bloggage on this from: Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry's Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), Mike Power, Jailhouse Lawyer, Suesam, Devil's Kitchen, The Cartoonist, Falco, Casualty Monitor, Forever Expat, Arseblog, Drink-soaked Trots (and another), Pitch Invasion, Wonko's World, Roll A Monkey, Caroline Hunt, Westminster Wisdom, Chris K, Anorak, Mediawatchwatch, Norfolk Blogger, Chris Paul, Indymedia (with a list of Craig Murray's articles that are currently unavailable), Obsolete, Tom Watson, Cynical Chatter, Reactionary Snob, Mr Eugenides, Matthew Sinclair, The Select Society, Liberal England, Davblog, Peter Gasston Pitch Perfect, Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe, Lunartalks, Tygerland, The Crossed Pond, Our Kingdom, Big Daddy Merk, Daily Mail Watch, Graeme's, Random Thoughts, Nosemonkey, Matt Wardman, Politics in the Zeros, Love and Garbage, The Huntsman, Conservative Party Reptile, Ellee Seymour, Sabretache, Not A Sheep, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, The People's Republic Of Newport, Life, the Universe & Everything, Arsenal Transfer Rumour Mill, The Green Ribbon, Blood & Treasure, The Last Ditch, Areopagitica, Football in Finland, An Englishman's Castle, Freeborn John, Eursoc, The Back Four, Rebellion Suck!, Ministry of Truth, ModernityBlog, Beau Bo D'Or, Scots and Independent, The Splund, Bill Cameron, Podnosh, Dodgeblogium, Moving Target, Serious Golmal, Goonerholic, The Spine, Zero Point Nine, Lenin's Tomb, The Durruti Column, The Bristol Blogger, ArseNews, David Lindsay, Quaequam Blog!, On A Quiet Day, Kathz's Blog, England Expects, Theo Spark, Duncan Borrowman, Senn's Blog, Katykins, Jewcy, Kevin Maguire, Stumbling and Mumbling, Famous for 15 megapixels, Ordovicius, Tom Morris, AOL Fanhouse, Doctor Vee, The Curmudgeonly, The Poor Mouth, 1820, Hangbitch, Crooked Timber, ArseNole, Identity Unknown, Liberty Alone, Amused Cynicism, Clairwil, The Lone Voice, Tampon Teabag, Unoriginalname38, Special/Blown It, The Remittance Man, 18 Doughty Street, Laban Tall, Martin Bright, Spy Blog The Exile, poons, Jangliss, Who Knows Where Thoughts Come From?, Imagined Community, A Pint of Unionist Lite, Poldraw, Disillusioned And Bored, Error Gorilla, Indigo Jo, Swiss Metablog, Kate Garnwen Truemors, Asn14, D-Notice, The Judge, Political Penguin, Miserable Old Fart, Jottings, fridgemagnet, Blah Blah Flowers, J. Arthur MacNumpty, Tony Hatfield, Grendel, Charlie Whitaker, Matt Buck, The Waendel Journal, Marginalized Action Dinosaur, SoccerLens, Toblog, John Brissenden East Lower, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Peter Black AM, Boing Boing, BLTP, Gunnerblog, LFB UK, Liberal Revolution, Wombles, Focus on Sodbury, Follow The Money, Freedom and Whisky, Melting Man, PoliticalHackUK, Simon Says, Daily EM, From The Barrel of a Gun, The Fourth Place, The Armchair News Blog, Journalist und Optimist, Bristol Indymedia, Dave Weeden, Up North John, Gizmonaut, Spin and Spinners, Marginalia, Arnique, Heather Yaxley, The Whiskey Priest, On The Beat, Paul Canning, Martin Stabe, Mat Bowles, Pigdogfucker, Rachel North, B3TA board, Naqniq, Yorkshire Ranter, The Home Of Football, UFO Breakfast Recipients, Moninski , Kerching, e-clectig, Mediocracy, Sicily Scene, Samizdata, I blog, they blog, weblog, Colcam, Some Random Thoughts, Bel is thinking, Vino S, Simply Jews, Atlantic Free Press, Registan, Filasteen, Britblog Roundup #136, Scientific Misconduct Blog, Adam Bowie, Duncan at Abcol, Camera Anguish, A Very British Dude, Whatever, Central News, Green Gathering, Leighton Cooke, Skuds' Sister's Brother, Contrast News, Poliblog Perspective, Parish Pump, El Gales, Noodle, Curly's Corner Shop, Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft, otromundoesposible, Richard Stacy, Looking For A Voice, News Dissector, Kateshomeblog, Writes Like She Talks, Extra! Extra!, Committee To Protect Bloggers, Liberty's Requiem, American Samizdat, The Thunder Dragon, Cybersoc, Achievable Life, Paperholic, Creative-i, Raedwald, Nobody's Friend, Lobster Blogster, Panchromatica (251). Copied and pasted from Davide Simonetti's Nether-World. 8:59:05 PM   London | |

German Stuff. Zeno.org, beta. 6:56:00 PM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

Eugene Merinov. Punk and post-punk photography, New York 1977-1981. Via Pink Flag. 9:35:51 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Look and Learn. Oh, what a fabulous website this is. The picture library. The children's newspaper. The comic characters. The ... well, and everything else really. 10:17:48 PM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Away. Off to Euro-City. 8:46:55 AM   This & That | |

Friday, September 14, 2007

The Mirror fell off the Wall. I see. I'll get a cloth. 7:58:07 PM   Cult | |

75 Years of Scotch Tape. Reason enough to celebrate. 12:08:16 PM   Old Ads | |

Thursday, September 13, 2007

A Birthday Card for a Copywriter. Here. Fabulous. And, of course, Copy Goes Here. 11:09:35 AM   Art & Advertising | |

The Essence of Line. French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. Via Plep in NY. Welcome to this database of nineteenth-century French drawings. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation. 9:07:49 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Better than a Garden Shed. A full scale Lunar Lander. I want one of those. Oh, and there's more. 4:06:37 PM   This & That | |

Money, found in a Box.  1:30:00 PM   Found in a Box | |

Monday, September 10, 2007

Basil Says. Be always prepared to duck and cover. 6:20:42 PM   Basil Says | |

Word Perhect. A word processor. Many thanks to Peter for the link. 11:09:06 AM   This & That | |

Sixties Fashion. Welcome to Pari's Biba Site. And here's the Biba Experience. 8:18:34 AM   London | |

Saturday, September 8, 2007

The strange Photography of Charlie White. Here. Via The Crime in your Coffee. 4:34:01 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Comet Miniatures, Part 2. As mentioned a few weeks ago, this weekend is the big sale at Comet Miniatures. Well, I managed to get Steed's Bentley, which is no longer available from Corgi, for a tenner. Fab. And I could have got one of Ray Harryhausen's Skeleton Warriors for Basil (he used to be one of the actors in that movie), but I think he's got enough stuff already. 2:48:15 PM   London | |

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Kent Williams. Paintings and drawings. Via Small Drawings. 11:57:45 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Damn, sold out. The broken heart robot. An here's the photoblog. 11:11:44 AM   This & That | |

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

On Editing. Don't believe anything you see on TV these days. Via Michael. 9:53:59 PM   This & That | |

Nautilus Rügen. A hotel and restaurant. Via Harald Siepermann. 5:20:05 PM   This & That | |

I am the Fly. Here. Speaking of which, the Pink Flag website has been relaunched; This is a Wire site. 10:10:33 AM   Cult | |

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Basil Says. If you don't want to remember unpleasant episodes in your life, simply forget them. 4:39:25 PM   Basil Says | |

Pictures and Scans. A thread at the Velvet Forum. Also, A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory. 2:17:55 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Thomas Struth. Photos. 8:00:52 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Schmidt Schnauze. An interview with Helmut Schmidt, German Chancellor 1974 -1982, about himself and his thoughts and decisions during the Baader-Meinhof/RAF threat. Fabulous. Via Hebig. 8:05:51 PM   This & That | |

Like a Swan. Happy birthday, dear Siouxsie. And here's an interview. And another one. And the leaked video, which now apparently is no longer leaked, but officially on YouTube. 6:18:34 PM   Cult, London | |

The George Inn. And another Sunday Roast for you. 5:35:56 PM   London, MP3 | |

Saturday, September 1, 2007

I Want One of Those. The Zenit Photosniper. Still available and actually not that expensive. Via Stef. 12:32:44 PM   This & That | |