Friday, June 6, 2003

Brilliant. Plain brilliant: The Credit Card Prank. "How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice? In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature." 4:02:09 PM     |

How interesting. Those guys have done basically everything to ruin the company, and now... GBP2m bonus deal for Cordiant chiefs. Guardian Unlimited Jun 6 2003 5:22AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] This is unbelievable. What is going on in this world? Whatever happened to all the employees, talented people that have been made redundant? Are they going to get a payoff? Surely not. See me in the bathroom - I have to throw up. Both men will receive payoffs equivalent to 18 months' salary as well as guaranteed bonuses in the event of a sale or a debt-for-equity swap, which would leave shareholders with virtually nothing. 3:41:47 PM     |

Photographer to the World. Fascinating exhibition of the Detroit Publishing Company materials, hosted by The Henry Ford. Amazing historical US-photography. "The material in the museum?s collection today consists of 30,000 vintage photographic prints, 15,000 postcards, and 5,000 color and sepia lithographic prints. The photographs are contact prints made by the company from the original glass-plate negatives. They often contain written information about the topic and the photographer, instructions concerning reproduction methods and retouching marks. This current online exhibit is based on the museum exhibit and includes over 250 prints, photographs, postcards and documents relating to Detroit Publishing Company. The website was created in 2002 and was funded, in part, by a grant from the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET). 3:24:46 PM     |

Images of England. Images of England, working in partnership with over 1,500 volunteer photographers, is building a digital library of photographs of England's 370,000 Listed Buildings. Text and images will be added to this site regularly during the project and many thousands are there for you to view now. Via Haldur Gislufsson's fabulous Saunablog from Vienna ('a crackpot Austrian blog!'). 3:05:57 PM     |