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Friday, January 31, 2003

By hand. :::koewi::: has some nice links on Graffiti and Arabic Calligraphy. Go and have a look. Hop. 11:57:18 PM     |

Quacks. FreeBooks4Doctors is a fabulous website with hundreds of online medical books. "FreeBooks4Doctors was created to promote the free availability of medical books on the Internet. We welcome your comments and suggestions." Via The JWalk Weblog. 11:52:04 PM     |

There's more. At lileks.com there are Comics, Matchbooks, Old Ads, Motel Postcards (see left) and - what a relief! - old American Diner pictures I was looking for earlier on. Proper design and art at last. 5:17:51 PM     |

I'm excited. Big Little Books are comics. They're books. They're a joyless synthesis of both. Fantastic: Major Matt Mason is there, The Invaders, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - a really nice cover gallery. Lots of thanks to Anita for the link. 4:31:45 PM     |

Oh - the Chancellor won't like that. Dell cuts 180 jobs in Germany. When the going gets tough [The Register] 3:30:09 PM     |

Remember David Vincent? The bloke who fought The Invaders from Vega? That was a fabulous TV series in the 60s. They even did a new Mini series in 1995, which was really spooky. It all started off in front of an old diner ... so have a look at the Diner Museum. Sadly, not a lot of pictures - you have to sign up to their e-group to access those. "It began with a closed deserted diner ... and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy ... " 3:20:28 PM     |

Signs. Let's post something positive about the USA for a change. After all, some of my best friends are Americans and you really can't blame all of them for their mad government. So have a look at the Sign Museum. Plastic Signs, Neon Signs, Signs of all sorts ... brilliant. 3:13:04 PM     |

Nice one. Bush approves nuclear response -- The Washington Times. " A classified document signed by President Bush specifically allows for the use of nuclear weapons in response to biological or chemical attacks, apparently changing a decades-old U.S. policy of deliberate ambiguity, it was learned by The Washington Times." 2:49:24 PM     |

Maybe I should try that? Steve Hall's Adrants. "The staff at ZDNet Tech Update has been laid off. How are they looking for work? They have put themselves up for bid on eBay as a turnkey online publishing solution. A new form of classified advertising? Will it work? Monitor their bids on eBay to find out." eBay has pulled the 'auction' meanwhile. 2:43:53 PM     |

Flicker. I was actually looking for Tony Conrad's Site, but that has been taken over by a Country & Western singer with the same name. So if you want to know more about the Tony Conrad I mean, there's not much out there; a short article here and a review here. So let's go to Flicker instead, which has got nothing to do with Tony Conrad, but with downloadable Underground Videos, Performances and Films. "Welcome to Flicker, home page for the alternative cinematic experience. Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy." 2:17:39 PM     |

Searle. Interesting page about the English cartoonist. 12:42:01 PM     |

Computer History at the Computer History Museum. "The Computer History Museum maintains a broad range of artifact, documentary, and media-based sources in computer history, one of the most important and comprehensive such collections in the world. The museum's strength is chiefly in post-WWII electronic computing but it also maintains a representative collection of objects from earlier eras." "link" 12:32:50 PM     |

Nelson speaks out. Times Online. "NELSON MANDELA, South Africa's former President, made a scathing attack yesterday on plans for war against Iraq, denouncing the United States and Britain for seeking to plunge the world into 'a holocaust'." 12:22:38 PM     |

Thursday, January 30, 2003

This is pure chaos. thetube.com: Service Update. 7:28:44 PM     |

The Flash in Flash is an exhibit at wordsandpictures.com about the 'fastest man alive' and his creator, the great Carmine Infantino. Well done. 6:09:11 PM     |

Oh dear... Two weeks of Tube chaos [This is London: London News] "A total of 11,200 bolts on 2,800 motors will be replaced after preliminary investigations showed the cause of the accident was machinery falling from the train and hitting the track. The safety work will mean there will be no service at all on the Central Line and Waterloo and City Line for at least two weeks." 1:38:57 PM     |

Mr Mutato. The funny bloke on the left is Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. And Mutato Muzika is here. 1:36:18 PM     |

Nice Ads. Hundreds of Historic Railroad Advertisements & Posters. Fabulous - 36 zipped files with about 5 ads each, all in high resolution. 1:29:37 PM     |

White stuff. Snow in London. I hate this cold white stuff. 1:21:06 PM     |

Bishops having fun. A new cartoon from the cartoonist. 12:17:33 PM     |

Yuk! Snow warning to commuters [This is London: London News] 10:45:40 AM     |

Interesting article for OS X newbies. Taming Mac OS X : As the deadline looms for the transition to the new operating system, here are some helpful hints for making the switch as effortless as possible. (Baltimore Sun via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 10:42:25 AM     |

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Tony? Are you still here? Are you actually living on this planet? Here in the UK? On this world? Blair: North Korea is next. 3.15pm: Tony Blair today pledged that after dealing with Iraq, the UN would confront North Korea about its nuclear weapons programme. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:44:01 PM     |

Oh, get away. Bugger off. New US warning on Iraq debate. The US ambassador to the United Nations says the window is closing for finding a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 11:26:38 PM     |

DAF. Reformed, reunited, back together again. For tonight this is the last of my Pop/Punk links. Gabi was a friend of mine, when he was still in Düsseldorf. Their first single is called "Der Sheriff", Untertitel: "Ein anti-amerikanisches Lied". (Spiegel). The official website is here. And as Gabi says in the video: "Wenn es ein Symbol gibt für Terror, Unterdrückung, Folter und Mord, dann ist das die Flagge der USA." Sorry, guys. He's right. 7:43:30 PM     |

On Returning. More Wire. Dammit, they're GOOD! Nice linkpage with a live video (Top link). Real Player as usual. 5:10:43 PM     |

More Pop. Jennifer Jeffery has an impressive portfolio of live concert pictures. And while I'm at it, may I also recommend my friend Jutta Brandt again? You will find weird fellows like LaMonte Young and Terry Riley on her website. Wonderful black and white photography. 4:08:03 PM     |

Dotdash. On the border there's movement. 12XU. It's a lowdown. Reuters. I am the fly. Map Ref.41N 93W. Fits nicely with the Punk links below. Here's Wire. 2:12:42 PM     |

Palermo Catacombs. Creepy. "Welcome! This is a photographic trip to the Capuchins' Catacombs located in Palermo, Italy. There are thousands of corpses lined on the walls like paintings." Thanks, Reimund! 1:49:39 PM     |

Looking through Gary Gilmour's Eyes. Hate and War. Whole Wide World (with Ian Dury on drums!). And more. Old Punk videos at The Bunker. Have fun. "link" 12:46:16 PM     |

Bela Lugosi's dead. Yes, that's indeed Pete Murphy on the left. Hundreds, no, thousands of Punk and New Wave photos are on Phillipe Carly's website. Fantastic. (Siouxie and the Banshees: 808 pictures!) 12:27:39 PM     |

Wot?! Snow could fall tonight [This is London: London News] 12:09:01 PM     |

Toys, toys, toys! The most bizarre action figures are at Kidrobot. Great stuff. Via Whykay's. 12:02:02 PM     |

Bush. Being completely fed up with The President's Speech, which is being broadcasted live on German Telly, I'm just doing a Dietmar Schönherr ("Der Präsident ist ein .... ") Good Night. 2:42:47 AM     |

Rumour. As I've just heard from a trustworthy source, (This is a secret of course) British Troops have been given the order to attack Iraq in about 2 weeks time. How great. Shall we celebrate now? Guys, this is for real. I'm scared. Bastards! 12:12:01 AM     |

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Junk the Junk. It might not work in Germany, but it certainly works here in England and it's a great idea. So Junk the Junk. "schock" And here's for the Spambots: zyd@ifzheskc.mil, vwpexqiewt@qtdhsbxnlhutp.es, qvrucrnufc@lqptkkgpatqfkomcnhm.it, lli@ystzgobblwfkmovgzc.fr, nhjr@yoooezrrtddcdveplrk.com, qjjowhokmo@wfaq.st, chqw@ymzluppubgqdpdebt.mil, zzi@kmccw.tv, bpuo@eplrdjqchkrplobxm.com, vpiwrzlh@cxclvgpvwmqwpibsa.mil, cdzemnd@hqnukgetiizbupekpi.fr, oyb@sawczhzd.mil, urimuaor@srbbrakushhx.org, btajleateu@eglxasaybexyp.com, obdzx@pklzznhrzmzpegjeylu.de, iqdalcl@kuzerylreduegdvqe.it, vkzelliz@jjmwuxdrasft.it, evupxmrmqu@yqelftwwjwfxfxtttf.ru, wvcvnqxzp@ctmn.at, wpjrpkbju@itaosqcnrpjethnovk.com. Feed me, feed me ... 10:40:39 PM     |

How to draw. PolyKarbon shows you the how-to. Great. Found at Whykay's, yet another interesting blog. 10:30:07 PM     |

Aha. Antville seems to be kaputt again. 10:14:19 PM     |

Absolutely Fabulous. This is the best thing about Saddam Hussein, George W. and us Tony I've seen so far. Brilliant! A Channel 4 production - Real Player needed. Between Iraq and a Hard Place. "The comedy trio Bremner Bird and Fortune bring their viewpoint on the Iraqi crisis in their own unique way. We're about to invade Iraq. Again. We invaded in 1917? and 1941? and 1991. This time though, we're dealing with Saddam Hussein. But then, we've been dealing with Saddam for years. Why now? The Americans see the chance to bring traditional Western values to the Middle East (aka the guys with the diapers on their heads): democracy (from the people who brought you George W Bush); freedom (from the people who brought you Guantanamo Bay) and economic prosperity (from the people who bought you Enron)." Via Industrial Technology and Witchcraft. 11:29:14 AM     |

Monday, January 27, 2003

Just in case, part 2. Linkfilter is being great tonight. A wealth of information. Here's a link to all the naughty stuff your parents were afraid to tell you about. "This isn't biology, it's bad renaissance art. It's not important to know how girl parts work. Just be aware that they're beautiful. Like a flower. " 11:24:25 PM     |

Just in case. You never know. How to protect yourself, by Science Service, New York 1950. "link" 11:11:45 PM     |

Mhmmm ... ! I had some of their lemon-flavoured toffees on New Year's Eve (the whole box in fact) and the next morning I felt sick. Which is a good sign, it means their toffees must be really good, or otherwise you wouldn't be sick the next day. Farrah's Original Harrogate Toffee - unfortunately I was to stupid to find any ordering information on the website. It seems you have to buy them directly at their shop in Harrogate, Yorkshire. North Yorkshire that is. "John Farrah - Harrogate Toffee was established in 1840. John's mother, an assistant in a local bakery was taught the recipe by her employer; Mr. Swan. The all important method was handed to John, who saw the potential and started commercial distinctive blue and silver tins. The lemon flavour was designed to combat the putrid taste of Harrogate's sulphur water." 10:55:13 PM     |

This is fantastic. An Advertising Slogan Generator. I Can't Believe It's Not The Advertising Slogan Generator! Via Industrial Technology and Witchcraft. 6:56:10 PM     |

3 Hours. It usually takes me about 35 - 40mins to get into the centre of London. This morning it took me 3 hours...buses on replacement service and traffic twice as bad as it usually is. Dear Underground Gods, please fix the Central Line! Fast! 6:42:54 PM     |

I know the feeling. Scared of a bank statement? You're not alone. Health: Researchers have discovered a psychological condition they call financial phobia, affecting 9 million Britons. [Guardian Unlimited] 8:55:14 AM     |

Sunday, January 26, 2003

"tube"So how am I going to get into town tomorrow? Commuters set for delays after line closure [This is London: London News] "The closure of the busy Central Line, possibly until Tuesday, following the derailment over the weekend is set to create chaos during London's rush hour." 9:07:32 PM     |

"tube"More about the Tube crash. BBC NEWS | England | Motor fault blamed for Tube crash. "The type of Tube train involved in Saturday's derailment has been prone to mechanical problems, London Underground (LU) has admitted. It said a faulty motor may have caused the accident and investigators were also checking whether the 800 passengers on the train could have breathed in asbestos." 2:13:05 PM     |

Tiny little books. An exhibition of 4000 Years of Miniature Books at the Indiana University. Fabulous. "Miniature books, most of which are less than three inches tall and some of which are smaller than a penny, have delighted readers for centuries. Popular because they were easily carried or concealed, these historic books range from tiny "Thumb Bibles" to illustrated nursery rhymes. The earliest piece of block printing to which an accurate date can be ascribed--a Japanese wooden block print from about 770 AD--is a miniature scroll and part of the Lilly Library's collections. Via Kellerkind. 11:48:39 AM     |

Underground Paris. Take a tour. "Far below the city streets of Paris, in the quiet, damp darkness, seven million Parisians lie motionless. Their skeletons, long since dis-interred from the churchyard graves their survivors left them in, are neatly stacked and aligned to form the walls of nearly one kilometer of walking passage." "link" 11:31:55 AM     |

Saturday, January 25, 2003

Terragen, Part 2. Alright, I've tried it. It's a beta and it's free. But how can I control the camera? How assign materials to the landscape? It's a bit clumsy, I must say. Bryce and Vue are just ... better. 8:46:35 PM     |

"tube"Great. I'm using the Central Line almost every day. Thirty in hospital after Tube crash. More than 30 people are in hospital after a Tube train carrying 800 people derailed and hit a tunnel wall in central London. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 7:26:13 PM     |

I've got to try this. Terragen: Breathtaking terrain-generator. Terragen is a terrain-generator. By moving around sliders and sketching out terrain features, you can create breathtaking stills and animations of fantastical landscapes. The OS X version is in open beta, and there's a working version for Win32. Terragen. Via "boing" 7:20:30 PM     |

Sounds good to me! Raymond Chandler's Lord Of The Rings. String together clips from great film noire classics, a few 50s horror movies, add a nifty soundtrack and MST3K dialogue and the result is a hIlarious 18.5MB .mov featuring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo, Peter Lorre as Gollum and Godzilla as the Balrog. Worth the download if you're a movie buff. [linkfilter.net] 7:11:19 PM     |

Python. First, there's PythonOnline, the official website which comes even with a Spam Club. Then there's PythoNET, unofficial, but with scripts, videos, pictures, sounds, games...decide yourselves. 12:23:47 PM     |

Gilliam. Dreams is a Fanzine about the crazy English (he's actually American, but then he's too crazy to be a proper American) director, with a message board, filmography, interviews and links. The Terry Gilliam Files deliver Eye-opening conversations with the visionary director, as well as behind-the-scenes stories documenting the production of some of the most imaginative films of the '80s and '90s. There you go. 12:07:47 PM     |

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Friday, January 24, 2003

Allohol. Interesting. Gin Tonic as a Malaria remedy? Why not. BBC - History of Gin."1870 - Gin's position in Britain moves up as it grows drier and more refined. "Indian tonic water" is invented to disguise the unpleasant taste of the quinine necessary to fight malaria in the tropics. It combines will with gin and the gin and tonic is born. Martini birth #2: A gold miner pays for a bottle of whiskey in the town of Martinez with a nugget so big he demands an extra drink. The bartender dubs it a 'Martinez'." 5:48:20 PM     |

Etchings. The artist Peter Reichert - a student of Eberhard Schlotter - has some nice Joyce and Schmidt portraits and illustrations on his website. And a truly bizarre article about Arno Schmidt can be found in Hanf! Das Cannabis Magazin ... 2:31:13 PM     |

IRAS is the 'Internet Review Arno Schmidt', a publication of the 'British-American Arno Schmidt Society (BAASS)'. Apparently they like abbreviations. Anyway, it's a very loooong website with interesting articles - mostly in German, unfortunately. 10:14:07 AM     |

Brian Eno writes about America. Interesting article. TIME Magazine | Brian Eno: A European View - Jan. 20, 2003. "To this European, America is trapped in a fortress of arrogance and ignorance." 9:24:46 AM     |

"tube"Crowded? Or Overcrowded? Anger at tube bosses [This is London: London News] 7:17:09 AM     |

"tube"This is really good to know. Tube incident could have been disaster [This is London: London News] 12:14:02 AM     |

Bored? Everybody seems to have been bored by my Groovy collection of links. No comments, just silence. But what if I tell you that page 16 of The Groovy Times has image galleries of the Top Twelve Grooviest Chicks of the Sixties? Mhmmm? Nico is there, Penelope Tree, Anita Pallenberg, Twiggy...! 12:07:18 AM     |

Thursday, January 23, 2003

Dragons. I thought that might fit nicely with the stupid bird below, so here's a website about Dragons, in a choice of English and German. 2:43:53 PM     |

Bigbird. Four-winged dinos from China. "Recently discovered fossils of feathered dinosaurs with four wings are raising new questions about the origins of flight." 1:39:35 PM     |

Wednesday, January 22, 2003

Sorry - I just can't stop. Ruhrgebietssprache: Asche Geld; "keine Asche inne Tasche, keine Butter für dat Futter" - Ausspruch kurz vor Monatsende und Lohntag; "Asche machen" - Geld verdienen ("Seit ich an den vermatschten Abend in die Hohensieberg den ganzen Schotter verplästert haben tu, muss ich widder Asche machen.") Ok, I'll stop now. 9:28:42 PM     |

Hardcore-Linguistics. Ruhrgebietssprache.de translates Ruhrgebiets-German into proper German. This is obviously not for my English readers, but surely Robert and Schockwellenreiter will appreciate this particular link. Example: Variation 2: Die geschlossene Eröffnung: Sprecher 1: Wat gibt! Sprecher 2: Nix gibt! Sprecher 1: Scheiß Tach auch! Analyse: Sprecher 1 signalisiert, dass er ein vertieftes Gespräch nicht um jeden Preis angehen möchte. Sprecher 2 unterstützt diesen Wunsch, woraufhin Sprecher 1 das Gespräch schließt, ohne dass es vertieft wird. Grammar: Es gibt nur zwei Fälle: den Wer-Fall und den Wen-Fall. Den in der Hochsprache gebräuchlichen Wessen-Fall, der Besitz oder direkten Bezug zu einer Sache oder Person anzeigt, und den Wem-Fall, der die Richtung einer Handlung angibt, kann die Ruhrgebietssprache durch den Wen-Fall problemlos ersetzen, ohne dass es zu Verständigungsschwierigkeiten kommt. Das ist der Hut meines Vaters. --- Der Hut da is mein Vadder seinen. Gib mir sofort mein Geld. --- Gib mich sofort meine Kohle. 6:46:16 PM     |

About time, isn't it? Mobile phone firms ordered to cut rates. Mobile phone operators have been ordered to cut the cost of calls to their networks by as much as 30%, sparking strong criticism. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 5:33:54 PM     |

There must be something wrong here. I mean, shouldn't they rather lock up the statue? Or at least send the thing to Brussels, like they did with the Churchill statue? Thatcher statue vandal faces jail [This is London: London News] 5:29:13 PM     |

I am a Poser and I don't care. I've just received the brand new Poser 5 Handbook in the post and I'm only mentioning this because one of my 3D-illustrations is featured in the book. Plus a nice little text about me, courtesy of Shamms Mortier, the author of the book. Now everybody go and buy it. Quick - before it's sold out! 11:25:25 AM     |

Groovy, part 3. The Groovy Times is a huge big website with 12 pages of psychedelic posters, a history of Swinging London, photos, more photos, even more photos and 'Learning to talk like Keith Richards - a Hipster's Lexicography'. Fab. 9:57:04 AM     |

Groovy, part 2. The psychedelic 60s is an exhibition at the University of Virginia. Fab, if I may say so. 9:44:32 AM     |

Groovy. Original 1960s and 1970s Psychedelic Rock Posters and Handbills at PeaceRock. Those colours...! 9:28:22 AM     |

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Under the Sea. It's the Starlight Casino! 8:56:33 PM     |

Read this... Saddam weakening says Blair. Saddam Hussein is getting "rattled" and his regime weakening as the military build-up in the Gulf continues, says Tony Blair. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] ... and read that. Israelis flatten West Bank shops. Bulldozers destroy more than 60 Palestinian shops and businesses Israel says were built without permits, sparking fierce protests. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] Now what the &*%$ is going on on this creepy planet? 8:37:15 PM     |

"tube"Oh, I am so excited. Scheme to boost train frequency [This is London: London News] 8:28:41 PM     |

As promised. A new RatSwine cartoon. This time drawn completely with a Gillot #170. Thanks, Hans! 4:59:59 PM     |

I think I'll move to Cape Town. Interesting blog. 4:12:12 PM     |

"tube"Not again... There's already chaos on the tube. Yesterday I tried to get to Kensington Olympia, only to find out that there was no District Line service at Notting Hill Gate. I had to get a cab instead. Grrr... Firefighters in 24-hour walkout. Latest fire service strike under way. [Guardian Unlimited] 3:47:18 PM     |

Comments are down again! 3:16:23 PM     |

Danger for the crew. Thank God there's a Telenosis expert on board! 2:51:38 PM     |

Has he now gone completely bonkers? Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | No way out for Saddam - Blair. "Tony Blair today refused to rule out using nuclear weapons in a conflict against Iraq, as MPs grilled the prime minister for two and a half hours on the subject of Saddam Hussein." 1:40:59 PM     |

Monday, January 20, 2003

Hilarious. Best thing about Bush I've seen so far. "bib" 6:16:25 PM     |

Style. Ideas. Well, DUPA (12.2.1945 - 8.11.2000) had both. A fantastic drawing style (Man, am I jealous...) and lots of ideas (and I'm even more jealous...). So here are a few links pointing to the great man and his creation Cubitus, the crazy white dog. Comiclopedia first, because it's the only English site I could find. Next a French site with a nice little drawing of Cubitus. In Germany, there is the YPS Fanpage with an article about Dupa, and the fantastic Cubitus-Fanpage, which is the best website about Dupa and the dog I could find. Honestly. 5:56:39 PM     |

Logo Time. Every designer knows the problem: You're doing - let's say a flyer for a client, and it says something stupid like 'Sponsored by Abbey National' in the copy. Your client insists to use the Abbey logo, but of course he hasn't got it. So you have to contact Abbey National and try to get hold of their logo, if possible in a format your software can read. Problem solved. At The Logotheque you can download hundreds of corporate logos for free, all in Illustrator format. Did I already mention that I find this fantastic? "link" 5:37:35 PM     |

Agreed. Every time I post a comment on a weblog I have to remember to go back and see if anyone followed up. We have to figure a way to automate this. Agree or disagree? [Scripting News] 9:44:17 AM     |

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Promise. Another Ratswine cartoon this week. Hans from Stockholm was so kind to send me some really fab nibs, which is another reason to draw one right now - and because of that, my drawing style is bound to change. Oh, the Gillott #170 is great....and in the UK, have a look at scribblers. 11:50:50 PM     |

Zippydooda. Yves will love this website. Zippotricks.com shows you all sorts of tricks you can perform with a Zippo lighter, plus things like the 'full anatomy' of a Zippo. There are 389 Real Video clips of tricks available. Amazing. "link" 5:16:17 PM     |

Radio's working again. Dave Winer writes: "I was able to get it going again. It's an intermittent problem that always happens in the middle of the night between Saturday and Sunday (actually it could happen on any day, but Murphy's Law applies). Upstreaming is working for me, it should also be working for you. Onward." 5:09:47 PM     |

My Radio is kaputt. It won't let me upstream pictures anymore - I'm getting the cryptic message: Can't upstream because "The server, radio.xmlstoragesystem.com, returned error code 4: Can't find a sub-table named "item #1"." Help...! 10:48:19 AM     |

Saturday, January 18, 2003

More Ruhrgebiet. Photos by Thomas Lehr. "Over a period of 250 years the effect of coalmining and heavy industry changed the appearance of this area. Villages here grew into small towns, and these in turn grew and expanded into one large town. Today with the disappearance of the mines and the furnaces, this region is again going through a change. Because of this, only in a very few places you can see the origins of the towns development on the landscape. These photographs try to show both the origins and the changes, but most of all they look at the people living in the area." 5:31:01 PM     |

Ruhrschnellweg. Ruhrgebiet photography by Reinhard Krause. His series of black and white photos, all taken in the eighties, is fantastic. I found this fabulous link at cursor's brilli.ant weblog. 4:11:36 PM     |

How old fashioned. Why can't they just build a warp drive? Look at those spacemen go.... The US hopes to send an astronaut to Mars in a nuclear-powered rocket. [Guardian Unlimited] 3:38:27 PM     |

"tube"Having Fun on the Tube. Tube Announcements. "To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage, what part of 'stand clear of the doors' don't you understand?" 12:30:05 PM     |

I told you. Suicide. Live in Paris. Real player. Have fun ... no, be scared. 12:47:05 AM     |

Friday, January 17, 2003

Suicide. I'm desperately trying to find the original ticket of the Suicide/Elvis Costello gig in Hamburg 1978/79? Audimax ... where the hell can it be? I was there! Must be somewhere, I just can't find it. Go: Instead of the original just an iTunes impression then. Well, Suicide were great. New York madness. The audience, they just ... left. Alan Vega tried to force them to stay , but - they didn't like to be 'touched' by a crazy NY Rock'n Roll Star ... there you go. It was fab. Best gig ever (except The Damned at the 'Markthalle'). Here's Suicide. Be afraid. Be very afraid. This is Suicide; dream Baby dream. 11:46:30 PM     |

London at Street Level. London's favourite streets. Entire streetscapes showing over 2,500 shops, bars and restaurants in the liveliest areas of London - Oxford Street and Regent Street; Portobello Road and Notting Hill; the King's Road in Chelsea; Carnaby Street; Covent Garden, Bond Street; Knightsbridge; Soho; Islington and Camden. Via "boing" I can recommend the Blue Posts pub at the corner Ganton Street - Kingly Street, opposite the famous Bartle, Bogle, Hegarty ad agency. Great website. 10:22:39 AM     |

Danger on the tube. Again. 'Poison gas checks' on Tube [This is London: London News] 10:05:16 AM     |

Thursday, January 16, 2003

Mhm. Comments seem to be kaputt again. I just hope they'll get a proper server soon. 9:28:27 PM     |

Treasure Island, Part 2. I already had a Treasure Island link a while ago, now here is the man himself, Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a compact little website with a wealth of pictures and illustrations. "The University of South Carolina marked the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death in 1894 with a special exhibition illustrating his life and writing career. Drawing on the excellent Stevenson holdings in the University Libraries' Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and on additional items from the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature , the original exhibit included most of Stevenson's first editions, the early magazine publication of Treasure Island and other adventure stories, and a full range of his travel writings, sensation fiction such as the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , and later Scottish novels. This online version includes additional materials not included in the original exhibit as well as hypertext links to other sites of interest. " Another interesting site about the Scottish author is The Robert Louis Stevenson Website with links to e-texts, museums & libraries and more. 7:35:11 PM     |

Copying the Copyright. A few articles and commentaries about the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the US. Forbes: "Somewhere in Burbank a mouse called Mickey is smiling." [Scripting News] Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Supreme Court Endorses Copyright Theft. "Swipe a CD from a record store and you'll get arrested. But when Congress authorizes the entertainment industry to steal from you -- well, that's the American way." ["boing"] Gawrsh! Another 20 years in copyright jail!. Andy has brilliantly remixed an old Mickey cartoon-strip (a fair use), to form a commentary on the Eldred decision. ["boing"] 9:42:05 AM     |

Even more British Rail chaos? Train services to be cut. More than 150 trains a day are to be scrapped by the government body overseeing the railways, the BBC has learned. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 9:31:01 AM     |

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

More of the beautiful, bizarre and weird. At The Scrap Album you will find Victorian Greeting Cards, Valentines & Scraps. Wonderful website. 7:32:23 PM     |

Fancy a game? Bizarre, beautiful and weird historic card designs at The World of Playing Cards. 7:21:34 PM     |

No comment. BBspot - Saddam Actually Just Doing Research for Book on Weapons of Mass Destruction. "Baghdad - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein today told investigators he is not developing nuclear or biological weapons, but instead has been doing research for a book on weapons of mass destruction he hopes to see published next year." 5:38:40 PM     |

Expedition Time. Looking for Lewis and Clark? They're right here, at Discovering Lewis and Clark. Very nice website with a choice of Flash on or off. Another one is Lewis and Clark, which also deals with the movie. And their journals are online here. Lots to read. 10:11:36 AM     |

Pete hires an army. Former SAS squad to guard Townshend [This is London: London News] 9:53:35 AM     |

Engrish. I LIEK MILK!!!!!!!! "My name is Hitoshi. I live Tokyo capital city on Japan. I liek play amercican sport baseball i play at weekend. My intrest is musics. I liek listen with my 'Chesney Hawks' tapes. is good english singer liek Mr Cliff Richard." "link" 3:47:54 AM     |

Tuesday, January 14, 2003

More Celebrities Trouble. Mike, Pete, Gary - you all seem to be in bad shape these days. How very sad. Who was the other bloke who's on bail (or still in prison?) for rape? The news announcer? Well, this would never happen in Germany. New Barrymore pool death inquiry. The death of a partygoer at the home of television presenter Michael Barrymore is to be re-investigated by police. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 4:43:02 PM     |

Married with Simpsons. Oh no ... please don't. The Prisoner was enough already. ReMarried with Children. The Simpsons will get a surprise visit for their 300th show from old neighbors on the Fox schedule -- the Bundys. Fox will air a one-hour "Married ... with Children" reunion special Feb. 16, the night "The Simpsons" marks its 300th episode milestone. [linkfilter.net] I'm actually looking forward to it. 4:37:14 PM     |

Exactly. Bloated code. The DTP application Calamus for Atari ST/TT fitted comfortably on two Floppy Disks; was much better than today's Quark and used only little RAM. In fact, Calamus still has functions I'm missing in Quark and InDesign. So why do we have all these huge big applications nowadays? Perhaps I'm just stupid. After all I'm not a programmer. But I'm an Art Director and I know what I want. Mozilla Hurt By Apple Blast : AOL Time Warner's Mozilla project is facing new questions about quality after Apple Computer's release of a browser based on rival open-source code. (ZDNet via MyAppleMenu) 3:56:48 PM     |

Toys, toys, toys. My favourite shop here in London is without doubt Comet Miniatures. They're specialised in all sorts of Science Fiction and Movie Toys. Oh - there's only one Time Machine left, so you better hurry. 12:28:32 PM     |

Oh Ronnie! Biggs "kicked to floor in prison attack" [This is London: London News] 12:06:14 PM     |

Monday, January 13, 2003

Another fallen hero? BBC NEWS | UK | Police arrest Townshend . "Rock star Pete Townshend has been arrested by police following a search of his home after he admitted viewing images of child pornography on the internet." 9:39:20 PM     |

Im not too sure if I'll be able to do anything on my weblog tomorrow. I'm off to the dentist, having a wisdom tooth removed. Now that sounds like fun to me... 9:10:21 PM     |

The City as Hero. Victorian London in Life and Literature is a nice collection of articles about life in victorian London. I especially like the article about phrenology, mesmerism and spiritualism. Another article about mesmerism is here. 4:39:19 PM     |

Unbelievable. I think I'll have to throw up a little. MPs in child porn inquiry. UK: Former ministers reported to be under investigation in same operation which embroiled rock star Pete Townshend. [Guardian Unlimited] 1:17:07 PM     |

Intel inside. Heathrow thieves nick £6.2m of Intel chips. Then leave £1.5m-worth behind [The Register] 1:14:53 PM     |

Oh, really? Bellens: advertising slump is not over yet. Guardian Unlimited Jan 13 2003 6:23AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 1:13:17 PM     |

Sunday, January 12, 2003

Puppenkiste. Great. Oliver from Stör-Signale has assembled quite a few Augsburger Puppenkiste links. Fab! Go and have a look. Now where is Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong? Update: Found him. He's here: http://www.borwinsite.onlinehome.de/AP-default/Ausstellung/Oblong.jpg Thanks, Oliver! 9:58:40 PM     |

I've tweaked the Adrants logo a bit - it looks much better now. Edlef, send me an email! 5:40:10 PM     |

Räuber Hotzenplotz. Schockwellenreiter posted a link to comp.kids, a weblog run by three children. And what did I find? Lots of entries about Otfried Preussler, who used to be my favourite author when I was little. And he's now running his own website. So who's going to post an Augsburger Puppenkiste link then? 2:40:07 PM     |

The German author Friedhelm Rathjen now has his own little corner on the web: Kein Tag ohne Zeile - Fördererkreis deutscher Schriftsteller in Niedersachsen und Bremen. "Außerdem veröffentlicht er in internationalen Fachzeitschriften und Sammelbänden literaturwissenschaftliche Aufsätze, hauptsächlich zu Arno Schmidt, James Joyce und Samuel Beckett. Ab 1986 kamen Vorträge und Tagungsreferate in Europa und den USA hinzu. Außerdem schreibt Rathjen für Tageszeitungen und für das "irland journal" Reiseberichte (v.a. über Irland, auch über Schottland, Rom, Nordfriesland und den Nordwesten der USA). Seit 1989 arbeitet Rathjen als literarischer Übersetzer. Eingedeutscht hat er u.a. Werke von James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hermann Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain und jungen US-Autoren." 12:30:41 PM     |

And don't miss the old pictures of Reno. 12:05:03 PM     |

Vintage Vegas. A combination of a postcard museum, old casino chips and a 'matchbook lounge'. Nice. "link" 11:58:18 AM     |

Armin's back. He's now blogging at the Ministry of Propaganda. 11:45:20 AM     |

I knew it! Official: commuting is bad for you. Millions of rail passengers are suffering chronic health problems as a result of travelling on grossly overcrowded carriages. [Guardian Unlimited] 10:18:14 AM     |

Saturday, January 11, 2003

In case anyone's interested, I've designed the logo for Adrants. 9:37:02 PM     |

Don't mention the war. Because Robert has just mentioned it, here's The Unofficial Guide To Fawlty Towers. Enjoy. 6:35:34 PM     |

Rock'n Roll. Won't be easy getting out of this one, Pete. I'm no paedophile, says Who star. Pete Townshend admits downloading child porn but says it was for research, amid reports a rock star's details were passed to police. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 6:12:58 PM     |

British Poster of WWI. kellerkind and koewi are blogging old propaganda posters like crazy, so I guess I'll have to join in. As a proper converted English Gentleman I'm linking to Take Up The Sword Of Justice - British Posters of World War One from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection. Bätsch. 5:54:31 PM     |

Yeah, the old 'Freedom of Speech'. Peking Duck: "Yes, it appears the Chinese communist government has imposed a permanent nationwide ban on all blogspot.com sites." [Scripting News] 3:33:44 PM     |

The Underground Railroad. Another fascinating website about slavery in the US. Like the Poe website below, this also comes from LearningWorks. "The Underground Railroad was a secret network organized by people who helped men, women, and children escape from slavery to freedom. It operated before the Civil War (1861-1865) ended slavery in the United States. The Underground Railroad provided hiding places, food, and often transportation for the fugitives who were trying to escape slavery. Along the way, people also provided directions for the safest way to get further north on the dangerous journey to freedom." 3:28:05 PM     |

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary - very nice website about Edgar Allan Poe. Flash and RealPlayer alert, but worth it. "link" 3:10:41 PM     |

Ohhh ... look at those smiles. BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Blair due for Germany talks. Why do they remind me of sharks? Photo AP. 12:41:22 PM     |

Flying Wings. Fascinating website about the Nurflügel airplanes developed by the Horten Brothers, Lippisch, Northrop and others. History, technical papers, photos, articles. 10:44:32 AM     |

Well done! system.verbs.builtins.sys.appIsRunning changed on Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:50:59 GMT: Added support for Safari on MacOS X. [Radio.root Updates] 9:34:51 AM     |

Friday, January 10, 2003

Open the Champagne. Tube celebrates 140 years [This is London: London News] 9:53:09 PM     |

Loriot. Well, I think I just have to include him ... and he certainly is a good one. 4:08:18 PM     |

Flora. I first came across him through a book with the title Gruselgeschichten (Diogenes Verlag Zürich, 1968), for which he did the inside illustrations and the cover. I must have been only 8 or 9 years old at that time, but it had a great impact on me. Ravens are a repeating object in his drawings and the way he uses pen and nib is amazing. His official site is here and you can order original and signed prints. Great stuff. 3:50:29 PM     |

Halbritter. Amazing; there was not much I could find on the web about the German cartoonist Kurt Halbritter, only 3 pages with a few of his drawings. Copyright problems perhaps? Anyway, he's certainly one of my heroes, he had a great humour and a fantastic drawing style. Kurt Halbritter died in 1978. (?) There really doesn't seem to be any info on the net about him ... 3:30:51 PM     |

By the way - no problems with Safari here whatsoever. I still can print, launch Classic and burn CDs. 2:51:03 PM     |

Going Underground. Again. Here are 150 Tunnel Links. Have fun. 2:14:18 PM     |

Comics. The Creating Comics resource site by Dave A. Law lists everything you need to know about creating comics. 11:22:18 AM     |

Thursday, January 9, 2003

Dozens of Dubious Duckland Data. Dominating Duckman links at ::: koewi.log ::: Unbelievable. How could I miss that? Great find. 9:27:28 PM     |

Heimatsicherheitshauptamt again. How strange. Now Google returns only 11 hits; last week it was 115. What's going on? Is Google being censored? Perhaps Robert Bruce Thompson is right? Is there a conspiracy at large? Ok, let's try to get it into the Duden then; this is not something American, but a proper German Institution that has got nothing to do with any conspiracies whatsoever. Apart from the reformed Grammar and Spelling... -: Heimatsicherheitshauptamt. Google, bugger off, here comes DUDEN! Heimatsicherheitshauptamt! Now just add the entry (with an exclamation mark at the end, please) and we're all happy. 4:55:23 PM     |

The more I'm diving into it, the more it gets exciting. Click the previous and next buttons. And visit Hans's homepage. It's worth it. 4:12:05 PM     |

Pen Love. More vintage catalogues of old pens, nibs, holders and fountain pens can be found at Hans Presto's website. This is actually the best website about pens I've come across so far. And let's not forget the Carl Barks Esterbrook! 3:56:04 PM     |

More on Links and Freedom. Slashdot | You Can't Link Here "Now a German law student joined the fight against linking restrictions and starts getting media attention in Germany." 1:54:36 PM     |

And Dave Hyatt of Safari fame blogs about the new browser: Surfin' Safari. Dave, we want tabs! 1:43:21 PM     |

Just in case you haven't been aware of this already: The Woz is running his own website. Woz.org...Everyone is Welcome. 1:38:50 PM     |

The Man of Bronze. Thomas Raus's website deals with the German Doc Savage publications and translations. "Still, in the early 80s, if you were at all interested in speculative fiction, you could not fail but notice the Doc Savage paperbacks. They were published by Pabel, whose paperbacks one could instantly recognize by their format, type, logo, spine. And since Pabel was one of the major places to look for science fiction, fans would develop an eye for the Pabel look." Well said indeed. Although I don't necessarily like the design, it's nevertheless Branding properly done - all across the Pabel range at that time. 1:26:46 PM     |

The Shadow knows. Lots of information about the superhero who's darker than even Batman at ThePulp.Net, with an extensive collection of links. "From the spring of 1931 until the summer of 1949, a slim figure cloaked in black fought mobsters, evil scientists, crazed old men and foreign invaders with two blazing automatics and a laugh that chilled the hearts of evil. The mysterious figure was The Shadow." Most of The Shadow novels are online here. 1:09:39 PM     |

Cambridge, UK. This is a somewhat lengthy entry about this picturesque little town, where I used to live and work for 6 years after I came to the UK in 1993. The picture on the left is taken by Derek Langley, who has about 250 Cambridge pictures on his website, all of which you can order as prints. The Cow and Calf pub was the place where I used to drink my beer. The pub was a time-warp back into the seventies. Unfortunately it has been closed down and demolished; Les, the Landlord, commited suicide. A really sad story. Here are Online Dictionaries maintained by the Cambridge University Press, where I worked as a book designer. Of course Pink Floyd are from Cambridge and Syd Barrett still lives in solitude in Cherry Hinton. Have a look at the Roots of Cambridge Rock. Because I once almost fell over him (and his wheelchair) while crossing a road (I was looking in the other direction), here's Professor Stephen Hawking. Last but not least some general information about the town, the history and - mostly important - the traffic. 10:06:26 AM     |

Tony in Trouble. Rebel MPs deliver war ultimatum. The government is facing a hardening mood among Labour backbenchers against an attack on Iraq. "The mood has hardened over Christmas. Labour MPs don't trust George Bush and wonder why Tony is so close to him. And the weapons inspectors haven't found anything. With a new UN resolution it [war] is manageable, but if Tony wants to do anything without UN support there will be serious mega-trouble," one influential moderate said yesterday. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:19:49 AM     |

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Oh my. Bozzetto selling out? Neues Glück für Signor Rossi? [Der Kontakter] 9:47:42 PM     |

Safari is scriptable. Scriptable Applications: Safari 3:41:37 PM     |

Want Unix? Here's X11. X11 for OS X directly from Apple [Mac OS X Hints] 3:26:01 PM     |

More Safari. Safari mounts FTP sites in the Finder [Mac OS X Hints] 3:23:32 PM     |

After the party. Or before - that depends. The Mothership is a website devoted to the preservation of Apple Computer History. Timelines, LISA, old ads and brochures and - you can even switch to a classic Mac version of the site. I'm posting this only to annoy Robert, though. :-) 3:15:10 PM     |

Strange Sisters. Lesbian pulp covers. This is really trashy art, fabulous. I'm not sure if Schockwellenreiter had this already; I found the website through linkfilter. 2:40:36 PM     |

How to use Radio with Safari is detailed here. Andy, thanks! 2:11:20 PM     |

I'm not feeling well today. Flu again, it seems. See you all hopefully tomorrow. Bye. 12:06:18 PM     |

Tuesday, January 7, 2003

This is the last thing I'm going to post about the Keynote (Hmm, I'm using Safari). Horst of The Aardvark Speaks has rounded it up quite beautiful: "Boy, was today's Macworld expo keynote an experience. The folks at Apple must have been pretty busy over the past months - today Jobs revealed a number of exciting new products - iLife (Apple's iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD rolled together into one integrated software suite), Safari (a slick and extremely fast web browser), Keynote (a presentation software that seriously kicks PowerPoint's butt) and the amazing 17" PowerBook, which does not only have a gorgeous big screen, but also a keyboard that starts to glow when it gets dark so that you can still type in absolute darkness (Wannahave factor: 1000). Not to forget Airport Extreme, FireWire 800 and the smaller 12" PowerBook. A written summary of the keynote in weblog style (reverse chronological order) is available from MacCentral, a videostream is available at the Apple QuickTime site" 11:32:29 PM     |

Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition for OS X is out. Have fun. Maya Personal Learning Edition 4.5 - VersionTracker 11:03:50 PM     |

Enough of that Steve Jobs Apple Keynote Stuff. Have a look at some proper computers. Now that's what I call technology! Safari needs an update - urgently... 10:47:35 PM     |

Safari Update: "Importing bookmarks from other browsers The first time you open Safari, it automatically imports your favorites from Microsoft Internet Explorer (no, it doesn't) At this time, Safari does not support importing bookmarks from other web browsers. You might be able to move your bookmarks to Safari by exporting them from your web browser as an HTML document. Then open the document in Safari and drag the links to a collection in the All Bookmarks view in another window." 10:13:17 PM     |

Wow. Safari is fast indeed. I haven't tried it with Radio yet, but it beats Chimera... Now how do I import my bookmarks? 8:09:58 PM     |

So what did we get? Software updates and a new Browser (I'm excited about that!). A super-thin Powerbook and a new super-small Notebook. And really crap advertising. For God's sake, Steve, get another agency...! I'm off now, until tomorrow. Hrmpf. 7:30:15 PM     |

The ads for the Powerbooks are all just testimonials (Chiat/Day?)...now this is not very creative, is it? I could have done better. Pfrrr. Chiat/Day used to be a really good agency once. One of the best in fact. Now they're doing testimonials. Very creative. Not what they're used to be, are they, Chiat/Day, hmm? Tsk..."let's do a testimonial campaign then, the client will buy it." Fab. Carry on. 7:13:05 PM     |

Keynote coverage: Small notebook. Now where's the beef? 6:58:12 PM     |

He's still talking. 6:50:49 PM     |

New Powerbook. 1 inch thick. Bloody amazing. G4, Superdrive, Firewire 800. 6:44:46 PM     |

grrr ... Imports and exports PowerPoint...Keynote...and it's 99 freaking dollars. 6:29:48 PM     |

Keynote coverage: Getting fed up with this. Wanna watch now. Goodbye. 6:23:22 PM     |

Keynote coverage: New WebBrowser: Safari. Seems to be very fast. Download now. Also iMovie and iDvd updates. Free download - for Safari. 6:09:49 PM     |

This keynote is getting boring. 5:49:29 PM     |

Keynote coverage: He's now introducing iPhoto 2... 5:45:37 PM     |

Steve is wearing a black rollneck and blue jeans... 5:44:24 PM     |

Keynote coverage: New software: Final Cut Express. Downsized version of Final Cut Pro. Yawn. -£299!! 5:32:24 PM     |

Keynote coverage: - and I'm slightly embarrassed that I'm actually watching this, but anyway: there's a snowboarding jacket out with a special pocket for the iPod - and you can fast forward with some buttons on the sleeve. Oh, great... - $499! 5:27:50 PM     |

"Little Joe, Hoss and Pa, Adam left the show..." The Ponderosa Ranch is right here; with soundtrack. Another Bonanza website is here - again with soundtrack. Good grief. A small part of Gurf Morlix's song Dan Blocker can be found here as a .rm (Real Player) file - I couldn't find an MP3 anywhere. Dammit. 4:56:49 PM     |

Brilliant story. Stolen straight from Armin. "[Careful with that answering machine!] Danish answerphone joke sparks police raid. As long as nobody misinterprets my message telling telemarketers to bugger off...." 3:39:07 PM     |

What's wrong with the UserLand server? It takes ages to access my (and other Radio sites) website?! Booo! 1:36:18 PM     |

Wild, Wild West. More images from America's past, again at Harper's Weekly: Buffalo, Wagon Trains, Gold, Railroads... "This website provides a look into some of the stories and pictures which kept 19th century readers informed and entertained, and thereby preserves a unique documentation of life west of the Mississippi." 12:42:34 PM     |

American Political Prints, 1766-1876. This fantastic collection is available at HarpWeek. "Warning: Website visitors should be warned that several of the words, descriptions, and images in these 19th-century caricatures are considered racially offensive by today's standards. The materials are presented in order to give an accurate historical picture of American political prints in the 19th century." 12:33:38 PM     |

Monday, January 6, 2003

Last one for tonight: Commander McLane, keeping a close watch on Station M88-12. 11:31:30 PM     |

Even more old American things. Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls, 8000 covers, all scanned in a good resolution. Amazing. "The dime novels were aimed at youthful, working-class audiences and distributed in massive editions at newsstands and dry goods stores. Though the phrase conjures up stereotyped yarns of Wild West adventure, complete with lurid cover illustration, many other genres were represented: tales of urban outlaws, detective stories, working-girl narratives of virtue defended, and costume romances." 10:49:04 PM     |

More old American ads. This time not that old. Ad*Access has archived over 7000 ads from 1911-1955. Again, browsing for hours is guaranteed. "Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University." 10:43:40 PM     |

Really old ads are at EAA - The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920. Fabulous website. One can browse there for hours. "The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture." 10:19:16 PM     |

Check out the 404 Research Lab. Very funny. 5:29:42 PM     |

One for the bots. iyxoi@ujnlznwb.com, kashi@lfahvpxfgxpdkkttky.jp, uobeuisw@hdngoalaxrrdjdjcib.at, fpwggmufw@zvbrl.mil, owzihuv@sbtqycqlb.br, igp@bhjuszicsmwsvwghzb.biz, htr@rskicm.mil, mfzhx@qjoep.ch, ldvh@nvazojocuhueijahhyf.es, yihp@lhbtagjeueyyuuc.br, vpn@smahpdmnkgnhxgsyrfw.tv, fbecjszy@jhshbtqy.pl, giwubxggx@lzgtwewkdvpgmige.st, umvthlw@lobtcpxgwmpeejmq.com, hbju@fopemaxdd.es, zkoubc@ssvppnpaiuznjrjyspe.de, fzvab@eidsxonolytab.ch, cgmlxxspbk@cvcxkxsikgf.de, kbpfwneeo@jiczvu.biz, yywweaca@ilgu.de 5:26:30 PM     |

HTML Coding. I hate it. Anyway, I've added a search engine for my weblog on the right hand side. Phew... Hate that stupid logo, though. 4:32:58 PM     |

Al Mcintyre not only has the most extensive list of Radio UserLand document sources (I've already mentioned that), but also a list of Enhanced Radio Tools. Brilliant. Thanks, Al! Radio logo shamelessly stolen from Schockwellenreiter 2:51:24 PM     |

Don't use Microsoft Frontpage to design your website. It can be dangerous. Wired News: Help Wanted: Steal This Database "Such a security gaffe may have enabled unauthorized visitors to log in and access files undetected for more than six months on a server operated by Carmichael Lynch, a public relations and advertising firm with several big-name clients. The admin password was inadvertently published on a page that contained online job postings." 2:15:07 PM     |

Swansea goes German. Lot of German links at german-studies.net "link" 10:23:20 AM     |

Hey, Shackleton. Now the big freeze sets in [This is London: London News] 10:19:36 AM     |

Free Text. Mi is a text editor for OS X that does almost everything BBEdit does. Difference is, it's free. Via Kosmonautentraum. 10:13:36 AM     |

Sunday, January 5, 2003

Esterbrook Madness. A whole catalog from 1952 can be found here; fountain pens, nibs, holders ... fantastic. Why couldn't I find this before? Thanks to Hans; again. (see below) 7:10:30 PM     |

Carl Barks's drawing instrument. This is one of the pens Carl Barks used to draw his Duck Comics with. So it's not a fountain pen after all. Thanks go to Hans from Sweden! "Welcome to BLAM design. A site about Lettering, Comics, Handwriting, Vintage Pens and Calligraphy. Hans Presto is a free-lance letterer and art-teacher. He's running a fabulous website about Calligraphy, lettering, comics - and pens! Again, thank you, Hans. Seems the 'Esterbrook' picture on this page is simply wrong. 6:47:30 PM     |

This weblog is getting better and better. If you're interested in advertising. Ads Ads Ads....Advertising is Everywhere. adrants Jan 5 2003 9:38AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 5:06:25 PM     |

Dear Doctor, please cut the crap and come forward with some proof. Three more 'clones' due. The doctor who says she has produced two cloned babies in the past weeks tells the BBC that three more will be born by February. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 3:09:20 PM     |

Yes, and he's Arno Schmidt's great nephew! So no surprise there. Steve Gillmor: "Opinionated, volatile, blunt, and disruptive, Dave Winer is an American original." [Scripting News] 3:06:23 PM     |

Watching the detectives. I can't seem to find any proper Nick Knatterton links. The German website knatterton.de has now evolved into something really strange, so all that's left is apparently an exhibit at Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (englisch) and an article at Flensburg online (german). Sigh... 2:56:56 PM     |

Old English Literature. The folks at Gutenberg Project have now started with an electronic edition of the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The first 10 files are online. Woohoo! Gutenberg: etext05 2:28:30 PM     |

It's getting cold here in England. Reason enough for a Shackleton link. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition is a recommendable exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. 10:20:11 AM     |

In geheimnisvolles Dunkel gehuellt means wrapped in mystery in English? Long list of German idioms and the according translations. Quite a few of them are a bit weird, though. Idioms 9:56:39 AM     |

Update: Exeter offline. STARSHIP EXETER - NCC-1706. Starship Exeter "The Savage Empire" off line. The move came several hours after the Starship Exeter Website (www.starshipexeter.com) was featured on the front page of SlashDot.Org, a popular Website which thrives on, in their own words, "nerd oriented news." Immediately, the Starship Exeter site was deluged with visitors attempting to view Starship Exeter "The Savage Empire." During the next few hours, traffic to the Exeter Website rose to beyond 10,000 hits an hour. The bandwidth demands proved more than Mac.Com could handle and the decision was made to remove the Starship Exeter Quicktime movie files. Mac.Com has offered to make the movies available again with a bandwidth restriction of 500 megabytes every six hours. This would render the movies unaccessible to most visitors of the Website.The best fan related move online since Troops [linkfilter.net] Update 2: Exeter is back online at the Mac.Com address. 9:41:18 AM     |

Saturday, January 4, 2003

Armin has posted some historic pictures of Swindon. Nice stuff. A few pictures from Historic Swindon - Wiltshire 10:59:21 PM     |

This is mean. First I spend the whole morning looking for Hal Foster links without finding any decent ones. Then, there's an old Prince Valiant movie on German telly. And now Robert has posted shedloads of Prince Valiant/Hal Foster links on his koewi.log. There is no justice in this world. :-) 7:25:18 PM     |

Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit and a lot of other beautiful comics now maintains his own website. Another comprehensive Spirit website is The Spirit Database. 2:26:44 PM     |

One for the Trekkies. Starship Exeter - The Savage Empire is a fan production based on The Original Series, and it is indeed watchable. It's available as a Quicktime movie; also on the website are pictures of the props used and the sets - the Captain's Chair is great. "The U.S.S. Exeter, freshly recrewed and commanded by Capt. John Garrovick, is on a mission to save a ship infected with the deadly Canopus Plague. The Exeter must travel to the homeworld of Andorian Lt. B'fuselek to find the cure. But Andorian rebels have other plans . . . and so do the Klingons! " 1:25:01 PM     |

Friday, January 3, 2003

(sachmahassenixzutunralf?) It's Friday, isn't it?! Grrr... Robert of :::koewi.log::: fame found another Tarzan-related link: Sheena, Queen of the jungle! Hey Tarzan, eat this... 9:28:07 PM     |

Sweet, sweet Jane. Proper music? A version performed live by Mott the Hoople (MP3). Well, Ian Hunter used to play with Lou Reed, so... -Those were the times when Lou used to wear silly hats and mascara. The Cowboy Junkies version is much better, although it's not available on the web. Courtesy of Schockwellenreiter for the main link to Spitfire Records One of the best guitar riffs ever. [The Cartoonist] 5:32:04 PM     |

No comment. This is fantastic. The Complete Works of Marlowe: "The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition" "link" 4:01:31 PM     |

Mark Twain about long German words (like Heimatsicherheitshauptamt?) and other peculiarities of the German language. "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain: "4. "Verdammt," and its variations and enlargements, are words which have plenty of meaning, but the sounds are so mild and ineffectual that German ladies can use them without sin. German ladies who could not be induced to commit a sin by any persuasion or compulsion, promptly rip out one of these harmless little words when they tear their dresses or don't like the soup. It sounds about as wicked as our "My gracious." German ladies are constantly saying, "Ach! Gott!" "Mein Gott!" "Gott in Himmel!" "Herr Gott" "Der Herr Jesus!" etc. They think our ladies have the same custom, perhaps; for I once heard a gentle and lovely old German lady say to a sweet young American girl: "The two languages are so alike -- how pleasant that is; we say `Ach! Gott!' you say `Goddamn.'"" Via Industrial Technology and Witchcraft. Fab link that is. 3:41:55 PM     |

Virtual Africa. Quicktime Panoramas of KwaZulu-Natal. Fascinating. My thank you goes to Armin, who posted the main link: Worldwide VR Panoramas 3:07:50 PM     |

Amazing, how the brain works sometimes. I'm still in a Africa mood somehow. Here's a website with historical postcards from Mali and West Africa, all supplied as High Resolution images. Amazing. 1:39:25 PM     |

Tarzan again. Here is a biography of Burne Hogarth, the best Tarzan artist ever. More about The Lord of the Jungle is at Tarzan of the Internet. 12:57:05 PM     |

[Burroughs #2] The wild one. Wonderful website about Edgar Rice Burroughs and his creation, Tarzan; biography, history and many pictures. A big linkpage can be found at this location and Edgar Rice Burroughs's works are online here. 11:03:17 AM     |

[Burroughs #1] The author with a gun. The Unofficial William S. Burroughs Homepage lists documents and websites, while The William S. Burroughs Files again lists documents and websites. Bit boring, but at least there isn't too much of a crossover between those two. "Language is a virus from outer space." 10:51:25 AM     |

Time, gentlemen! Landlord calls time ... with JCB. Landlord allegedly demolished his own pub after bar staff refused him an after-hours drink. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:47:59 AM     |

Thursday, January 2, 2003

Here's Google in Klingon. Unbelievable. They must have too much time on their hands. Google 9:30:15 PM     |

Oh great - comments are down again! Well done. Grrr... 2:46:21 PM     |

Hey Mr Rain. Rain plunges South-East into chaos [This is London: London News] 10:12:47 AM     |

Crime Time. Martha Grimes maintains her own website (well - sort of) with information about the Superintendent Richard Jury series. Of course, there's a 'Pub' link - the titles of her novels are all names of pubs. Peter Robinson's website with his Inspector Banks series can be found here. "Like P.D. James, Robinson works on a large, intricately detailed canvas....This satisfying and subtle police procedural has a little bit of everything." Publishers Weekly Henning Mankell is nowhere to be found - Books'n'Bytes is asking: "Please let us know if you find an official Homepage for Henning Mankell !" 10:00:33 AM     |

Wednesday, January 1, 2003

Update: Heimatsicherheitshauptamt. Google now returns 120 hits. 7:33:19 PM     |

England under water. Well, I just have to look out of the window... UK floods 'could get worse'. Heavy rain sweeps across the UK bringing widespread flooding and even causes a landslide which derails a train. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 4:39:38 PM     |

This is bizarre. Hospital fights Peter Pan copyright battle [This is London: London News] 4:37:03 PM     |

Early office stuff at the Office Museum. Amazing website with tons of pictures: Office photos from 1830-1940, early typewriters, dictating machines, staplers - and a whole page is dedicated to paper clips. "The Early Office Museum(TM) engages in research on the evolution of offices and business technology based on original documents and artifacts. We recommend that you begin your visit with a review of the Museum's Site Index by clicking here. To visit Exhibits and the Museum Store, please click on the links at the top of this page." 4:27:43 PM     |

Jäki Eldorado licks Iggy Pop's leg. The development of Punk in Germany at Verschwende deine Jugend - Waste your youth. Lots of pictures, timelines and, best of all: a few scans of old articles from Sounds magazine. Available only in German though. 11:59:44 AM     |