The Cartoonist

Thursday, July 31, 2003

And now for some decent photography. Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective. From the 1940s through the 1970s, Philippe Halsman's sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians appeared on the covers and pages of the big picture magazines, including Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match, and especially Life . His work also appeared in advertisements and publicity for clients like Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC, Simon & Schuster, and Ford. Photographers, amateur as well as professional, admired Halsman's stunning images. The fellow on the left is Bob Hope, btw. 8:17:04 PM     |

While we're at it - here's Socialist Realism. Nice exhibit. 7:47:46 PM     |

More GDR Propaganda ist at the East German Propaganda Archive. Have fun. 12:58:10 PM     |

Socialist Design. From the German Propaganda Archive: the 30th anniversary of the GDR, celebrated in posters. Anniversaries were big events in the GDR. These posters come from material prepared for the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979. The points they make are a good summary of the the GDR's general propaganda line: a youthful, peace-loving, hard-working state that was strongly supported by its citizens. Found at netbib. 12:51:39 PM     |

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Kubrick. Here, here and here. 8:24:19 PM     |

Illuminating the Renaissance. Yet another fabulous exhibition: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. 3:27:46 PM     |

Moving Here is a fascinating exhibition about 200 years of migration to England with documents, photographs and audio samples. 2:55:16 PM     |

Nibs. Hans Presto has set up a new page with America's most wanted nibs. Also quite interesting is the zanerian calligraphy website. 2:11:05 PM     |

Scheuer. The homepage of the Austrian artist Chris Scheuer. And his Morgana comic strip is online here. 1:40:21 PM     |

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

I'm busy! Stop ringing me. I'll switch the phone OFF. No blogging today, I urgently need to get some cartoons done. Now. 4:04:36 PM     |

Monday, July 28, 2003

Frankenstein. Good old Victor. There's so much stuff about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein on the web, I don't know where to begin. Ok, the full text is here, at the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library. Some interesting essays about Mary Shelley are at Kim Britton's website. But I wouldn't be The Cartoonist if I didn't remember the fantastic illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. They're here, in good quality. And Bernie's homepage is here. That enough Frankenstein? No? Well, then check out Resources for the Study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 8:07:19 PM     |

Toast. Amazing, the things some people collect. Here's a Cyber Toaster Museum. 3:48:37 PM     |

RAF. Schockwellenreiter just mentioned the planned 'Rote Armee Fraktion' exhibition and the trouble it has caused already (why are politicians stupid?) so I thought I'll dive a bit deeper and found a huge website: rafinfo.de. History, biographies, downloads and more. Looking through the site, it even seems to be quite objective. German text. Obviously. 7:52:43 AM     |

Sunday, July 27, 2003

Sanity for Sale. American Gallery of Psychiatric Art. Magazine advertisements for psychiatric medications in the latter half of the twentieth century. Via dublog. 10:54:45 AM     |

Fantastic. A Bravo-Starschnitt archive. It works like this: Bravo is a youth orientated magazine. In 1959 they introduced the so-called 'Starschnitt', a clever money making scheme devised by the publisher. Every week you found a spread or a single page with a lifesize body part of 'your' star in the magazine. After hundreds of weeks, your star was complete; you could then assemble the parts and pin Michael Landon, The Sweet or T. Rex on your wall. I believe they're still doing it today... Found at Kellerkind, who's just back from holiday. 8:42:08 AM     |

Saturday, July 26, 2003

Dead End. Batman versus - well, everything nasty. I know, it has been blogged to death, but this is the best (Film-) Batman ever. And the best Joker, played by Walter Koenig's (Chekov - Star Trek: The Original Series) son Andrew Koenig. You now have the option of a 48MB download or a full screen 160MB download. Guess it's your choice. And no spoilers here. Movie directed by Sandy Collora, featuring Clark Bartram as The Batman. Picture taken from the OSG Forum 8:41:52 PM     |

Bovine Freedom. Cows with Guns is the most hilarious Shockwave animation I've seen for a long time. Found this gem somewhere in the usual linkfilter chaos. 6:39:51 PM     |

Vienna Design. Charlotte Schlifelner creates 'filmfakes' and 'screendesign' for Austrian TV productions ("Kommissar Rex"). Fascinating stuff. Oh - she's a big time Raumpatrouille fan too! 5:31:13 PM     |

Belgian fun. Have a look at An A to Z of Belgium. Found at My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Delhaize: A supermarket invented by the devil to torture his subjects. Offers every shopping frustration imaginable, from lack of baskets to severe aisle congestion. Home to the most spectacularly slow checkout queues in the universe. Horrid horrid place. July: The wettest month of the year in Belgium - a fact only really appreciated by anyone who has tried to block book a fixed hour on an outdoor tennis court for the whole summer season. Post Office: A building that is almost always closed. On the off chance that it is actually open, post office customers can expect the usual queueing problems and a severely incremental and erratic pricing system for overseas mail. This seems to be based on the mysterious Belgian "standard" envelope, an object carefully designed to ensure that any card purchased in a Belgian card shop will automatically fail to qualify as regular mail. 9:03:44 AM     |

Friday, July 25, 2003

The Interview. Interesting interview with award-winning film designer Rolf Zehetbauer about Raumpatrouille. Sorry, German text... 7:25:21 PM     |

Now that looks interesting: A new weblog tool in the makes. Serious competitor to Radio? Check out TypePad. Thanks, Wurch! 3:15:51 PM     |

Computerwelt. The Guardian's Alexis Petridis is in Düsseldorf, desperately seeking Kraftwerk. 7:56:03 AM     |

Thursday, July 24, 2003

The Insekt Limited. Hell. I hate it. Not webdesign itself, but the friggin' coding. It's hell. Anyway, my own company, The Insekt Limited is now online. Please let me know about any oddities going on there. I can't cope anymore. And now get me some jobs. :-) 9:27:00 PM     |

Coconino County. This is an absolutely wonderful website about George Herriman's classic comic strip Krazy Kat. Fantastic. 2:20:22 PM     |

I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam. Nice little Popeye website with 'Olive's own page' and a special about J. Wellington Wimpy. Brilliant. Some selected Popeye strips are here. 2:07:25 PM     |

More London. Found a nice little London page with things like the origins of London place names, Cockney rhyming slang and a complete listing of the Kings and Queens of England. Enjoy. 8:35:22 AM     |

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

The streets of London. Wow. The guys down at The British Library must have been really busy. They've put about 670 of 1200 historical London maps of The Crace Collection online, zoomable and searchable. This is fantastic. Found at the Map Room. This is the essential guide to the development of the capital from the 16th to the 19th centuries, brought together by the Victorian designer, Frederick Crace. 6:00:21 PM     |

Ahhh ... London Underground. Sometimes I just love it. Listen to the funny announcements of a tube driver who was clearly either on drugs, or delirously happy, or both (MP3). Courtesy of Fox Travel and via Going Underground. 5:32:28 PM     |

Hot Metal. A museum of old letterpresses at Briar Press. And ornaments to download. Nice. BRIAR PRESS is an educational and practical resource for the letterpress printer, the bibliophile, the enthusiast, and the curious. 9:18:57 AM     |

Automata. A gallery of early 'robots'. Interesting. 9:09:38 AM     |

Flying Machines are at flyingmachines.org. Welcome to the Flying Machines web site. Before the Wright Brothers achieved the first successful heavier-than-air controlled flight on December 17, 1903, hundreds of women and men attempted to fly, in airships, gliders and aeroplanes, and many did go aloft in gas and hot-air balloons. This site documents a number of those pre-Wright attempts at heavier-than-air flight, as well as significant events and thoughts which contributed to the ultimate success of powered, heavier-than-air human flight. 9:02:00 AM     |

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

It's a man's world. Vintage tie ads. Via j-walk 8:16:27 PM     |

Art on cows. A simple and strange concept: get a cow and paint some art on it. Exhibit the results throughout Brussels. Great fun. This gallery includes photos of 22 of them. Photos by Quarsan. 8:03:44 PM     |

Fantastic. Baron von Münchausen trading cards. Found at The Gospel According to Mark. 5:21:38 PM     |

Virtual Dali. A wonderful website about the great surrealist. Plain brilliant. Via dublog. 5:04:22 PM     |

Yesterday's Telly. Nice. A gallery of old television sets, together with downloadable circuit diagrams and test screens. Text in German. 4:33:50 PM     |

Matt Jefferies is dead. TrekWeb has confirmed that Matt Jefferies , original STAR TREK art director and the man behind the concept for the design of the original Starship Enterprise, passed away yesterday at age 82. Jefferies had been suffering from cancer for some time, but no official announcement has yet been made. 12:40:41 PM     |

Yeah, right ... Blair denies role in naming Kelly. 12.15pm: PM insists he had no part in identification of government scientist as source of BBC dossier story. [Guardian Unlimited] 12:30:12 PM     |

Monday, July 21, 2003

The Smart Patrol. New old clips at The Bunker: Devo, Dead Kennedys with "Holiday in Cambodia', Comsat Angels, John Foxx and many more. Sad: Please note due to lack of web space / server limit they are only clips! (Approx 1 minute To 2 minutes maximum).Hopefully the clips will be changed every other month or so. If anyone out there ... ... can supply similiar clips of more esoteric groups (1970's Kraut Rock, Early C93, NWW, Death In June, This Heat, Early 4AD - Mass, Rema Rema & more!) via Mpeg, Divx, Video or Dvd please let me know , Thanks. (Not me of course - mail the guys at The Bunker.) 11:14:53 PM     |

Bang. Crash. Blob. Gargle. Hiss. Cough. Sink. The Titanic. 10:22:38 PM     |

Black and White. The Crossword Puzzle History. And the World's First Crossword Puzzle, invented by Arthur Wynne from Liverpool. And here (1, 2, 3.) are some Crossword Puzzle Dictionaries. For everyone who's too stupid. Erm. And here is something similar for my German readers. 9:18:24 PM     |

So you're still on dial-up then? Or what? This is ridiculous. Who are those 'biggest firms'? Railtrack? NatWest? Then I'm not surprised. Idiots. E-mail abuses cost UK firms millions. Time wasters [The Register] This overuse, along with poorly written mails, can cost some companies up to £10,000 per person, per annum, senior staff at some of Britain's biggest firms told Emphasis. One FTSE 100 firm reported annual e-mail costs of £39 million. 8:23:47 PM     |

The blood is not on his hands, it's at his feet. Just my quick comment on the current state of British politics. 10:08:56 AM     |

Superstar. Big, big website about Andy Warhol's Superstars. They're all there: Viva, Edie, Ondine, Gerard, Nico, UltraViolet, Holly ... 8:45:21 AM     |

Arf! An exhibition of photographs in which dogs behave like people... and people are transformed into dogs: Photography as a Fine ARF! 8:25:38 AM     |

Sunday, July 20, 2003

It must be summer. What happens in summer? Lots of new Nessie sightings of course. Always in summer. So here's a website about the famous monster, and here's another. 10:07:09 AM     |

Oi mate, you looking at my bird! A dictionary of London Slang. Fantastic. The English language contains a rich array of slang words and phrases. This can be particularly seen when examining the day to day language of the average Londoner. A great many London slang terms derive from the Cockney tradition and fall into the bracket of 'Rhyming Slang'. Other terms have been introduced by the influx of other cultures into the capital. The resulting mishmash has created what academics sometimes call 'Estuary English' (after the area of the Thames Estuary), although this term is used more to describe the accent used in the area. 9:49:17 AM     |

I can't believe this. Bush ready to wreck ozone layer treaty [Independent: World News] President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. 9:18:47 AM     |

Saturday, July 19, 2003

Raumpatrouille. At last. A webpage about Raumpatrouille with at least a little bit of English text. And lots of pictures. Have fun. Mhm. The thing on the left of the screen looks a bit like the Quicktime icon? 5:50:06 PM     |

Lorem ipsum. Big archive of greek text, or Blindtext, as it is known in Germany. We advertising agents use it to simulate bodycopy in ads, because copywriters are usually lazy and the layout looks better anyway - nobody bothers to read the copy. They come in different flavours, German, English and even some Flemish copy is to be found there. Part 1, Part 2. Found at Usability Inside. Download the copy directly to your Quark or InDesign folder and win the next pitch! 3:17:40 PM     |

Fantastic. The art of Virgil Finlay. More here. Found at Dublog. Finlay's work was an immediate hit with the readers and the writers. Readers wrote in praising the illustrations. H.P. Lovecraft wrote him fan letters and even composed a poem about his art. Finlay was a fan of the genre as well as one of the most talented artists to enter the field. These combined to provide his work with a power and grace unknown in the pulps. The stippling, fine hatching and pebble board were all used in conjunction to give his images a texture and depth beyond anything ever seen in the field... 12:09:58 PM     |

Wir sind die Roboter. Robot comic book covers and book covers at Jeff's Robots. Via linkfilter. 10:10:26 AM     |

Soap and Fashion. Old ads and magazine covers. Hey, this is proper art! 9:19:23 AM     |

Friday, July 18, 2003

Nevermore. Poe's The Raven, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Sorry - I honestly can't remember in which weblog or whatever I found the link. Could have been linkfilter. 11:09:59 PM     |

Shush! I'm pretty sure Horst and the guys over at NetBib are going to appreciate this: The Librarian Action Figure, available at Archie McPhee. Now I'm just waiting for the Art Director Action Figure... 11:01:34 PM     |

Amazing. The thingy on the left is a steam engine, invented by good old Heron. This and more at The Museum of Ancient Inventions. 10:52:02 PM     |

Brilliant idea. £100,000 reward to cool down the Tube [This is London: London News] London Mayor Ken Livingstone has offered a £100,000 reward for anyone who can invent an air conditioning system for the Tube. 10:25:51 PM     |

Yes, I'm back. And a thankyou goes to Dave Winer (Arno Schmidt's great nephew btw), who was so kind to mention me in his Scripting News. And now my sitemeter is broken; the '5' seems to be stuck and the '3' pulverised. Anyone out there who has a spare '3' for sale? 10:18:07 PM     |

Sunday, July 13, 2003

Into the Future! I'm off to Atomium City in Euroland. Not quite sure if I'll be back next weekend, so just keep reading the old stuff. 8:09:12 PM     |

It just doesn't stop. More cover art is at Ben Samuel's Classic Golden Age Comic Book Cover Gallery, nicely categorised in Super-Hero & War comics, Good Girl & Romance Comics and Crime & Horror Comics. And now I've had enough of all those covers. 8:01:29 PM     |

Nice and sleazy. Even more old paperback cover art is here. Enjoy. 4:23:35 PM     |

Good grief! A website with pictures of people obsessed with Apple Computers tattoo on their bodies. Amazing. Via The Eye Opener. 4:07:17 PM     |

Felt Suit. Found some nice websites about the German artist Joseph Beuys. Lots of his works are at art meets art; information about Beuys and his weird art is at The Walker Art Center. And the suit is here. More Fluxus! 3:54:43 PM     |

The Agfers of Kodack again. Gazillions of wonderful old camera ads. Great. Found at linkfilter. 9:38:13 AM     |

Dark Art. Really really weird art is at kilfish 3.0. Takes a while to load, is all in Flash, but worth it. Via iconomy. 9:01:08 AM     |

Saturday, July 12, 2003

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This is old. And I'm sure I've blogged this before. If it wasn't me, then it was Schockwellenreiter. Whatever. Here are Sleazy Sixties Smut Books! Hmmm ... I've blogged this before? I did! Didn't I? Via Linkfilter 6:53:04 PM     |

Test. Radio again ... Sorry about that. 5:36:53 PM     |

Just listening. Peter Thomas (the best composer after Beethoven) has thrown a new CD on the market. We can consider ourselves happy to be listening to 'Raumpatrouille - The Complete Music". The CD comes with a really great booklet packed with photos from the series and 10 'unreleased Extra Tracks'. Well, now I know why those tracks were previously unreleased - they're only for hardcore fans. But the booklet is great. This was your Cartoonist's CD recommendation for the week. Be happy. Update: Best bit is 'Enter the Crew'. That one's great. Really! Oh - you know where to buy CDs, don't you? At your nearest Record Shop. *NOT* at Amazon. Just my view of things - I like small dedicated shops. 5:04:15 PM     |

Fun with Photoshop. Check out the fake Propaganda Posters. Via J-Walk. 12:05:51 PM     |

Dry Bones. Call me morbid, but I like it: The Sedlec Ossuary (a.k.a. Kostnice) is a small Christian chapel decorated with human bones. It's located in Sedlec, which is a suburb in the outskirts of the Czech town Kutna Hora. Found at Kosmonautentraum. 9:20:45 AM     |

The Art of the Makonde. The Makonde people live on the border of Mozambique and Tanzania; and the sculptures they create are truly bizarre. And fantastic. Have a look at Makonde-Art; at Makonde Carvings and visit the Makonde Museum. 8:49:24 AM     |

Quite English. Clifton, or Percy Pickwick as he is called in Germany, is a retired Secret Service agent. He lives in a detached house in Puddington, a cozy little village just outside of London, has a maid who does the cooking for him, has lots of cats and drives an old MG. And from time to time he gets dragged back into crime-solving. Everything about the famous comic book character is here. Text in Dutch and English. 8:27:45 AM     |

Friday, July 11, 2003

Kokerei Hansa. Ligne Claire has some impressive photos of the now deserted coke plant Hansa in Dortmund Huckarde. 11:14:26 PM     |

Yes, I'm back. Back in London for the weekend; on Monday it's back to Brussels. And here's a weblog from outer space: Blogging from the International Space Station. Science Officer Ed Lu is 'blogging' from outer space. [story: harvey, photo: NASA] [101-365] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog] 11:03:24 PM     |

Sunday, July 6, 2003

Belgium. I'm off to Brussels, next updates probably in about a week. Our second iChat try was at least partly successful - see the entry at IT&W. See ya! 5:12:54 PM     |

Well, Tony ... ? MI6 chief briefed BBC over Iraq arms fears. · Iran and Syria 'greater danger than Saddam' · Blair stakes reputation on row over weapons dossier [Guardian Unlimited] "This move will put him in direct conflict with Tony Blair, who dramatically upped the stakes last night by demanding a full retraction of the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, saying the charge against him was the gravest he had ever faced as Prime Minister." 10:27:04 AM     |

Yeah, but it doesn't work. The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: iChat might be answer to big long-distance bills 1:53:46 AM     |

Hey-Ho, let's go. Dammit, it didn't work. Another try tomorrow. That's today, Sunday, just after the Grand Prix. iChat. Die Zeiten ändern sich und so stimmt ein Satz nicht mehr: »Der Schockwellenreiter chattet nie!« In einer beispiellosen zweieinhalbstündigen Sitzung haben der Cartoonist, die "hochgeschätzten Bloggerkollegen" und der Schockwellenreiter in zweifacher Ausfertigung (und wir wurden auch noch kurz von WWK besucht) versucht, das neue iChatAV zu einer Audiokonferenz zu überreden. Es ist uns leider nicht gelungen. Wenn also jemand Tips oder Pointer hat... Morgen um 16:00 Uhr wollen wir es noch einmal probieren... Aber Spaß hat's gemacht... [Der Schockwellenreiter We've just tried to get an Audio-iChat done. It didn't work. Any ideas out there? Is it the NAT? Techies, come on! But it was fun! Lots of fun actually. 1:15:07 AM     |

Saturday, July 5, 2003

Dear Friends, this is The Insekt speaking on behalf of The Cartoonist. He's very busy designing a website for his company, The Insekt Limited, where he wants to show off all of his Graphic Design stuff. Most probably there won't be any more updates on this weblog today or tomorrow. Only if you're very lucky. And it gets even better: From Monday on The Cartoonist will disappear to Brussels, where he's got some work to do. Proper advertising work. Next updates in a week's time. 11:45:11 AM     |

Da vorne steht 'ne Ampel. Small webpage about the German art-combo Der Plan. Their record label ATATAK has some additional information. Oh, and records by Charles Wilp! 11:11:34 AM     |

Deserted Farms in Iceland. Wonderful black & white photography by Nökkvi Eliasson. Sometimes linkfilter is really good. 11:05:59 AM     |

There's a war going on. This time between the BBC and the Government. BBC governors to discuss dossier row. BBC governors will meet management to discuss the Iraq dossier row ahead of a report into the government's case for war. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] MoD accuses BBC of 'skulduggery' over Iraq documentary [Independent: UK News] 7:04:08 AM     |

Friday, July 4, 2003

Drainspotting is a website with pictures of manhole covers, drains, grates and trench covers. I actually find it quite interesting. Mhm - this surely must have been blogged before somewhere? Anyway, just found the link at linkfilter. 8:42:51 PM     |

Images of England. Nice website by the photographer Ray Farrar. "The aim of this site is to present various images of England as it is seen from the inside. It is intended to be both an online gallery for browsing and a source of royalty-free photo CDs. All the images are available to buy as high resolution files on CD suitable for quality publishing on a royalty-free basis." 4:06:44 PM     |

Unbelievable. Need a proper outfit for your next trip into town? Look no further. At The Armory you can buy full body armour, swords and other medieval stuff. Unbelievable. I really like the 'Pigface Bascinet' - that one reminds me of Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong. 3:57:52 PM     |

Magic. Famous magicians and their incredible toys are at Classics of Magic. Nice website. 3:47:32 PM     |

Diary of a War Artist. The diary of Edward Ardizzone at the Imperial War Museum London. Fascinating. "Edward Ardizzone was working as an official war artist in North Africa when he heard that the invasion of Europe was imminent "I asked to be present at the landing... so I landed on a Sicilian beach with the Division on D-Day." That was in July 1943. From then on, he kept an illustrated diary ... " 3:41:30 PM     |

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Dave in Japan. Funny website about life in Japan: The food, Society and Culture, Toilet Training, Transportation ... 6:33:31 PM     |

Rip-off Britain, Part 489324: Unbelievable. A book that costs 8 Dollars in the US, is here in UK £7.50???? So the exchange rate is now 1:1 or what? 6:12:59 PM     |

Drink more beer. Greene King toasts profits rise. Business: Brewer of Greene King IPA and Abbott Ale reports 8% rise in profits last year and brisk start to 2003. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:40:46 AM     |

Looks good! Gotta check it out tomorrow. Trafalgar Square piazza opens at last [This is London: London News] 11:37:49 AM     |

I wonder what else might crop up there. Letter reveals Campbell's role. Alastair Campbell suggested 11 separate changes to draft joint intelligence committee dossier on Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:35:28 AM     |

Moritz (R) Reichelt has a few new paintings on his website. He's getting better and better. 10:24:29 AM     |

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Fight the Frogs. More black & white German Television on the official homepage of the 'new' Orion movie: A Space Invaders Game (Flash) in the Raumpatrouille look. And they still haven't managed to get an English translation done... well, at least *my* site can be read all over the planet. Anyway, have fun and blast those Frogs out of space! (Arrow Keys and and Space!) 8:01:03 PM     |

Mostly black and white. The Graphical Appearance of German Television (German text). Brilliant. Warning: Very, very, very slow loading and a lot of broken links. 5:06:13 PM     |

Drosophila Melanogaster. Because Anneke is still missing a box filled with 3267 (dead) flies, here is a very interesting website about fruit flies. Maybe that will make up for the loss. Wonder what happened to those flies ... perhaps somebody was just very hungry? Who knows. 3:22:31 PM     |

Trading Places. Fantastic online exhibit at The British Library about trading in 1600 and the foundation of the East India Company. "Asia used to be known as "The East Indies". Pepper, spices, medicinal drugs, aromatic woods, perfumes and silks were rare commodities in Europe, and therefore valuable. Trading in them could make you a fortune. And for this chance many were willing to risk their lives." 9:22:10 AM     |

Johann Wolfgang von. Welcome to the Text Database of J. W. von Goethe and Thomas Mann. Amazing. Full text search of Goethe's Hamburg Edition in 14 volumes, the Weimar Edition in 50 volumes and Thomas Mann's collected works in 13 volumes. 9:03:55 AM     |

Tony's in trouble. Again. Union goes to war with Labour. Blair and cabinet branded "war criminals" by RMT rail union. [Guardian Unlimited] And Quarsan has an interesting entry about the Reverend and his attitude towards paedophilia... 8:43:20 AM     |

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

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The Bishop's Hat. I have been asked quite frequently why the Bishops are wearing those funny hats. The answer lies in the historical drawing on the left: The 'hats' are not hats, but actually a part of the head. You can even make out the elongated brain. Have fun. 5:03:26 PM     |

A cycling holiday 1953. Fantastic diary of a cycling holiday through France, Switzerland and Germany in 1953. Found at Schockwellenreiter. (Robert, did you design that site? The background reminds me of something...) "In 1953 Roy Jenkin, a 21 year-old student from Exeter, cycled around France, Switzerland and Germany with his schoolfriend Gordon Newbery. They covered 2,286 miles, slept in potting sheds, hay barns, and even a railway marshalling yard, and the whole trip cost them £24 15s. His diary and this website, describes the long-gone Europe of horse carts, cobbles and old fashioned hospitality, a continent which was still recovering from six years of war." 4:21:17 PM     |

Orion Day. Listen to the live feed of Bayern 1; today's Orion Day. 10:52:18 AM     |

The Agfers of Kodack. Fabulous website about anonymous female photographers. Again via linkfilter. "Kodakgirl.com is dedicated to unrecognized and anonymous women photographers worldwide, past, present and future. We thank them for recording and thereby preserving images of ordinary people and their everyday lives over the past 150 years. Their pictures will be treasured by generations to come. Keep on clicking! " 10:06:36 AM     |

Godot. Extensive page about good old Samuel Beckett. Via linkfilter. 9:57:02 AM     |