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10:00:07
I will be away on holiday until the 23rd so you there will be no activity here
till then. We are going to Nerja.
09:25:39
Public Domain cartoons
online. And the Toon
Tracker clip archive. (Thanks Martha)
09:21:48
Blast, some wrong links yesterday - I need to check better before I hit update.
The Sugar Glider item now points to a sugar
glider site, rather than an article about Nazis. And the Metrology link which was
missing has been added.
09:06:57
Old telephones. More old telephones. Some more
old telephones. Who
would have believed it - old telephones! How about some
telephone art for a change? (But
don't worry there is a page of old telephones in
there.)
09:03:34
Old radios.
More old wirelesses. Thanks
Ole
08:52:02
BTW I think my hat is blue.
08:41:45
You'll see this
story everywhere soon, but it's great.
16:49:13
Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey -
up the valley from where I live.
16:38:13
Rhythm Culture (But only
in Northeast Ohio)
16:37:40
Ancient sites in the Irish
Landscape
16:36:02
A discography of
recorded traditional music
16:33:46
Idiophonics in
Early Japanese Women's Nature Poetry. Some good writing here.
16:27:23
I read a definition of a redneck as someone whose home was mobile but who had 5
cars that weren't.
15:38:44
A
Water Imp's Fart
15:30:02
Design Festa gallery in Harajuku
15:11:35
My First time (.com)
14:47:04
New Robert Rankin - "Web Site Story"
14:44:25
Japanese
Cuisine
14:43:12
Dancing
etiquette
14:42:27
The bear etiquette site
13:36:17
Trixie Beldin nitpicks - I
don't know who Trixie Beldin is of course, clearly one of these US things.
13:22:59
This is utterly bizarre. What is going on here?
13:19:33
Pattaya Mail on-line
13:18:22
Boudicca
13:17:02
Why you should study Metrology.
13:15:24
I think that you would be very surprised at how many sites match the google
search "
pneumatic pig throttle" (Though none of them refer to a device of that
name, sadly)
13:12:07
How loud is it??
13:04:46
Note the interesting time bug on this Amazon
page.
13:00:56
Having mentioned the Giant Glossary yesterday, Gordon O points me at refdesk which looks more familiar to me and has
even more stuff.
12:57:37
Bluffcam
12:20:19
Modern Japanese Fiction -
useful
12:19:01
Kangaroo Notebook by Kobe Abe. Sounds like something I ought to read.
12:00:14
RIP Luiz Bonfa
10:35:27
What on earth is a sugar glider? Petaurus
breviceps. Looks like some kind of pointed nosed rat. (I had the wrong link
here, and the one I have corrected it with is not the one I meant, but it
doesn't matter)
10:33:33
Costume tips for Belly
Dancers
10:30:10
Only my friend Ole would take a picture of the media plug-in boxes in
Washington.
10:27:47
DC cherry blossom
10:02:52
Talking of baby trading did you know that a young, female slave cost $998 in
1850 in Georgia. That was a lot of money, OK we are talking about buying a
human being forever here, but I bet most people haven't a clue how much people
actually payed for slaves. (Try asking some people and see)
10:00:37
Baby trading?
08:44:20
Damn, I upgraded something and now my database refuses to let me connect to it.
Very annoying and I am not sure how to solve the problem either.
15:20:36
These design
rationales of the Register logo are excellent.
13:48:40
There was a piece by William Gibson on Japan in the Guardian two Saturdays ago
(whihc was good and was linked by /. amongst other places), and it suggested
that Gibson has a new bookcoming out called "Pattern Recognition". I can't find
any trace of it though which is frustrating. Also, given that people search on
the internet for stuff isn't it about time that authors selected their titles
with rather more care. I mean, "Pattern Recognition" - think how many hits
that's going to get that aren't related to your book!
13:45:45
How to evoke the
self-awareness and consciousness of the Internet. The scientific
project.
13:43:46
I just got sucked into reading people's book lists at Amazon. People like the
strangest things. I know I do.
12:21:19
Sixtiesstuff - sells just what the
name suggets.
10:29:23
Giantglossary - a
gazillion links to dictionaries and stuff.
10:28:02
Virtualology -some good stuff
here.
10:22:19
The Virtual Museum
of Dead Places (via gmtPlus9) sounds interesting
but and GMTplus9 says it is fantastic, but I can't make it give up its
secrets.
09:24:20
Great picture.
09:21:40
Well, I laughed.
09:18:00
Quite fancy one of these laptops, though they
are a bit heavy. (Actually any laptop would be a nice thing to have!)
09:09:52
Ed
Sander's album from 1969 - funny lyrics. Thanks George, who also tells me
that the world annual production of sesame seeds is 4 billion tons. I wonder
who's eating my share?
09:05:29
Parking Lot is Full - a strip I had not come
across before. I hid the random button a few times and they were all very
funny.
16:40:00
End daylight saving time
15:06:55
Pre-1860 American Photography
14:04:16
Centuries ago religion and great artists really worked well together. Now we
have Inspired Art. Nastier, more
tasteless drek have I yet to see. The artist may wish that the images bless and
uplift me, but the only uplift is in my stomach area and as for blessing , I'm
blessed if I know how he gets a way with it.
12:23:06
I've been trying to get freenet
to work, but it seems impervious to intelligent effort. I suppose I'll have to
use stupidity.....
11:30:05
There is a digital version of the Lomo action sampler on this
page, and the fantastic Sascom universal plug which my friend Ole swears by
when travelling. I'm not sure how much use a caculator that converts yen to
euros would be though! Certainly none int he UK.
11:24:50
Wow - music
pillows. Another daft idea.
10:27:48
You can see baby pictures of
several UK webloggers should you so wish. I'm much cuter than any of the rest
of them I think.
10:26:01
Natasha Nakamura's Diary (set for
imode!)
10:23:53
Chronology of
wireless
10:22:07
Early History of radio in
the USA
09:46:06
I've added some pictures
of me as a baby and and a small boy. All say aaahhh.
09:13:23
RIP Ed Roth
16:37:20
More hysteria
16:13:25
I am sitting here with tears of laughter running down my face (where else would
they run?) over Lileks. This page in
particular got to me.
16:08:26
I am trying to remember a site that I really ought to check more often and I
cannot remember what it is called! I can see it in my head and I can describe
what is on it (though not to a search engine). How annoying..... Got it!!!! Lileks - and yes there is a load of great new
stuff I hadn't seen. Check it out.
14:20:10
I
just popped in to our University gallery to have a look at the latest exhibition
which had some interesting works (and some junk). I especially liked the pieces
by Manuel
Franquelo who is a hyper-realist. There a few sites with reproductions of
his work. more. There is
also a selection of works from the permanent collection which featured a couple
of fantastic Victor Passmores and a lovely Whistler engraving.
13:02:42
Great anti-cigarette ad.
12:51:01
This (via Misterpants) advert for
Bomberman is
brilliant.
10:08:12
Damn it, Netscape has stopped accepting -remote operations on it. I hate
software rot!!
09:22:26
The Linux Pimp intro made me
laugh.
09:02:51
B&W Underwater
photography (Thanks paola)
16:34:04
Tagmag - karaoke can be better than
sex.
16:30:59
Nice images, rotten
spelling.
16:29:06
The chorlton and the
wheelies shrine. I have never heard of them.
16:22:21
Band names, more band names, guess what -
band
names! Need a name for your band? How about
a name for that band of yours?
Even more band
names
09:17:06
Real Magick - the
occult library.
09:14:25
Herman
de Vries, artist
09:13:35
Welsh Witchcraft - not the easiest url
to pronounce is it.
09:12:12
sheesh - Blood Can Be
Pretty, a page about self injury. Don't try this at home children.
09:10:24
An article about the Fugs - who could be very
funny, but also painfully dull.
09:09:12
Islam and medicine
09:07:24
Between the covers - a
bookshop in Telluride (A place that I have never known how to pronounce)
09:02:52
Enter the world of modeeling at models.com.
See annoying flash animation.
09:00:18
Tom C raises with me the dilemma fo swopping from SETI to the new cancer busting screensaver. WHat if your SETI
run was just about to discover alien communication? Mightn't they already have
a cure for cancer? Hard one that.
08:51:42
Areaology - that is pretty
weird, so I slightly take back what I just said as I got it from
weirdlinks.
08:50:16
Weirdlinks is one I hadn't come across
before. Pretty conventional weirdness though.
08:24:53
Life Raft - lots of text but I still
can't quite work out what it is supposed to be for.
08:11:00
Finally got the sound working again and listened to yesterday's pick of the Handlebars. Hmmmm, doesn't really
quite work - the idea is fine but the realisation is a tad staid. In particular
the frailed banjo - really needs to be a driving, high powered scruggs style
sound.
16:04:00
Violet's Summer adventure
15:44:18
Trash
FAQ
15:14:14
Dr Verne's Northern White Trash
Etiquette
15:13:48
Red trash can filled
with something (not sure what!)
15:10:49
Yellow Trash
- the Simpson's : what else?
15:10:11
Blue Trash
can - one of a sequence of nice images
12:39:07
The Handlebars - Blue Trash,
Mountain Metal and Hillbilly Grunge. I want to listen to them playing Smells Like Teen Spirit but my
sound is on the fritz again *sigh*
12:14:50
Make sure you don't have any green trash
in your soybean bin... Are green trash like white trash, only aliens?
12:10:07
The Vines Network - another one I hadn't
come across before. probably lots of good stuff in there....
12:03:56
Scona Brae - that's my friend John right at the
front. (The one who doesn't look Canadian) He plays English concertina and he
was visiting us last night with his family. Which was nice.
11:54:55
BMJ says fat
diet isn't that bad for you (from a coronary point of view at least - it must
still make you fat)
11:52:07
Gordon also pointed me at the Leonardo diCaprio website (don't blanch)
which is actually quite good and features this interesting
exhibition.
11:50:38
Gordon O. (who makes earcones) tells me that someone he knows asked a Hopi
elder about earcandles and he said that the Hopi never used them. So why are
they Hopi ear candles?
09:39:09
The WorldSpace satellite radio stuff
sound interesting - it would be great for listening to japanese but there is
only one station in Japanese and it isn't on the satellite that you can get in
Europe. *sigh*
09:28:35
I felt a rant coming on yesterday and now I can't remember what it was to be
about. I wish Sourceforge wasn't so slow, but that wasn't it. Why do people say
thank you to bus conductors? Nobody says thank you to me when they leave my
lectures. That wasn't it either though.
09:12:45
RIP John Lewis
14:39:31
Sidewalk
petroglyphs in flâneur-ny
14:38:26
Some nice images of
flânerie
14:37:23
An essay about Zane
Grey in the Flâneur
maagazine
14:36:13
Le Flâneur Vert
14:21:46
It's depressing to be predictable - I order something from amazon and of the
"books you might also enjoy" that popped up at the end, I had read (and
enjoyed) 5 out of the 6 shown. The remaining one sounded pretty good actually.
*sigh*
14:01:30
The Digital Photography Bible sounds good. Bit expensive
though.
13:10:35
10
creepiest celeb websites - these are truely loathsome. (Um, I haven't
actually heard of more than half of them, so what does this say about their
supposed "celebrity"???) The Melanie
Griffiths site is astonishingly vile.
12:53:32
The Cult of Nobody - a weblog I
think.
12:52:07
The
Bastard at the Family Reunion: Classics and Medieval Latin
12:51:20
Kult Kraut Koncerts
12:49:20
THE FOURTH TEMPLAR SECRET OF
FATIMA
12:48:02
Xrefer - I don't remember coming across
this before, but Iprobably have, my memory being what it is. It's good
though.
12:47:31
Turbulence
12:43:54
Mad anti-socialist site.
These people need to get out more. Maybe meet some people.
12:40:52
Crew-Sprang -
this may do something under IE, but it just boggles my brain
12:39:15
Terrible poem called Sprang
12:37:56
Robert Sprang - photographer
12:36:37
Dick Sprang - comic
artist
12:35:48
Sprang bags
12:32:33
The techniques
of sprang - but it doesn't tell me what sprang is, so now I have to go and
search for it....(ah, plaiting on stretched threads)
12:29:01
Bits of books other
than words. (Even though it's called marginalia the page is about more than
that)
12:25:03
Yesterdayland - your childhood i
shere. Wel, actually only if you grew up in the US, so that rules out a lot of
us, but who cares about most of the world's population.
12:19:11
Japanese Starbucks fan page
(I think) - check out the gallery of pics.
12:13:26
Free Freak - seems to be
makeup I think
12:10:37
What is a buddy icon? (Or am I just
exposing my ignorance?)
12:06:22
Article on Japanese new year
cards
11:40:56
Astronomy Internet Directory
11:28:36
Williamson's Tunnels - good
stuff
11:23:01
The page of Fu Manchu
(tnks frnk)
10:41:30
Nice character set
gif. (Thanks ole)
10:12:54
How to
dance properly
10:01:42
Bizarre piece about the sex
life of RMS. I don't think i wanted to know any of this, but since I now
do, you have to as well.
15:44:01
Some ads to check out: the kinky
bugger ad at french connection and the nintendo girl at
adcritic.
12:56:10
Whitedot's waste-o-rama
12:40:55
Cherry
blossoms in second fastest peak ever
09:18:41
The
realm of the Hollywood Vampires Don't you just know that they are all
15.
09:17:35
Random
books - from the XLibris book list. I got one called "
The Reality of Professional Pet Sitting". It's a real book.
09:10:45
Computer
Psychiatrist meets random Quote Generator
09:07:13
Empty Decadence - your guess is as
good as mine (unless you happen to read Japanese)
09:05:15
Daphne's Diary - *warning* enirely unsuitable for anyone, features
hard-core alien sex and anime still pictures.
08:57:59
In J-K Huysman's Les Soeurs Vatard a character expresses a longing to "embrace
a woman dressed as a rich circus artiste under a wintry, yellow-grey,
snow-laden sky, in a room hung with Japanese silks, while some half-starved
beggar emptied the belly of his barrel-organ of the sad waltzes it contained".
Ah, decadence...
15:33:23
Phew, got midi working properly. What a hassle all those patches are.
14:55:04
Chaos von
Eschenbach - chaos music generator software. I really must work out how to
configure my midi softwware properly so I can listen to stuff. I don't have any
patches for some reason.
14:48:23
Try searching for "stanist" at your favourite engine. You'll find all these
devil worshippers who don't proof read. (I should speak!!)
14:46:21
Bizarre, insane ranting
14:43:56
blue skins, brown skies, alien
sex - a weblog. Odd layout, not much in there but I like the name.
14:41:34
This page was last updated
1996-11-29
14:37:45
Random Russia Experiences
- Women from the Belly Button Window website.
14:36:00
William Calvin (.com)
14:35:00
Stuffing
tips from Fairfield Processing.
14:34:04
Fantasy Jerks - I have never
understood the fascination with fantasy sport. Actually I've never under the
fascination with sport.
14:31:04
The Mull Historical Society
- not what you think.
14:26:27
I discovered Books and Company
today whilst down at the Lit and Phil. I may have to
subscribe - it is an excellent little magazine. I liked the Will Self
piece in the most recent issue. (The website is way too complicated
though)
14:22:20
Free Stuffing Tool Inside
-it's a zine.
14:20:10
Nice animation
(via gmtPlus9)
14:01:56
Oh, and check out LoopScooper - nice
sounds.
14:00:38
Gordo points me at Loopzilla
11:36:23
Aviles Brothers duck and dove hunting.
"Ducks and doves come by thousands every year to this bird paradise, where they
enjoy the beautiful weather and agricultural valley." Where idiots proceed to
blow them away. Come on, dove hunting? Are they serious?
11:29:46
The idea of a Brixton
Centre is bizarre! I wonder why it is called that?
11:28:42
Alistair (my son) went off today to Aviles in Spain for an exchange
visit.
11:26:30
Popping over to eatonweb reminds me that I
hadn't mentioned that I'd lost nearly a stone in weight. Not that I was ever
overweight or anything, but my natural shape is stick like and I was turning
into a stick with bulges. I feel much better for losing it as well.
09:28:20
The biography centre - it
appears to be a collection of links to anyone's biogrpahy that happens to be on
the web rather than of people we might be interested in. Try the random
link and be underwhelmed.
09:25:58
American currency
09:25:25
Tongue twisters
13:41:50
For some reason I hadn't come acorss (or have forgotten) ibiblio. It's very sad that they have all these
good aims yet their website doesn't adapt itself to my window size and much of
the text is too small to read. Why do people persist in doing this kind of
thing?
13:01:32
Lots of alternative bands that I have never heard of. (Thanks George - he
hasn't heard of any of them either)
12:57:57
Keslin the partially naked geek girl.
12:56:53
My Litle Phallus
12:56:19
psycho
ex-girlfriend voicemail
12:51:41
Naked Scottish Weathergirls. No, I have
no idea what it's about either.
12:50:14
All your brand are belong to us.
11:48:43
I discovered why some ISBNs have an X in them - it is part of the check digit
scheme which can generate a value of 10. I wrote a little program today that
takes an ISBN or barcoce off a book and looks it up at amazon. Very useful.
11:44:14
undo.net - contemporary art network. Parts
of it are in italian and the start up page objects to my browser, but of course
it displays perfectly well when you force it.
11:39:21
Photographs by Jan van
Leeuwen. He usesa 19th century processes. I like them.
11:34:53
Verbal Intercourse - I haven't
yet worked out whether this is a parody of a bad design or just bad design.
11:33:07
Ambient Brunch
11:31:54
The Walking Tangent
Page
11:30:58
Clavichord page.
I'd like to have a clavichord. They're nice.
08:28:54
Oh, oh, oh,oh, look at this micro pop
animation from flip flop flyin. I love Postman Pat.
08:27:41
Titler - most of it doesn't work for me as
I don't have all the plugins etc., but it looks interesting.
08:25:13
Flip Flop Flyin' - check
out the minipops. They're
great. (to quote a well known tiger) Also check out the minimoma - sadly there
is no Jackson Pollock in there. In fact check out everything on the site. it's
all fantastic.
08:18:37
Flip Flop Fly dance
08:18:05
The Flip Flop Fly Rock
and Roll Club
08:17:35
The Koki Boga Big Band
08:00:18
RIP WIlliam Hanna
13:16:58
The Mangelwurzel Mulled
Wine Appreciation Page
13:14:04
Try the dead quiz, and see if you too get
ASP errors......
13:12:08
A child born with no eyes, an unusual
condition, but I don't quite understand all the media interest.
13:09:05
Lots of stuff at the Portal of Evil.
Some nice links to horrendous evangelical churches.
12:26:09
Mobiles make you
more clever?????
11:20:06
Listen to some Japanese. it is about candy
apparently. (Again via Misterpants)
11:17:28
Good piece on
numbers stations (Thanks Misterpants)
09:30:25
Bad day with missing links yesterday. I blame MIR
09:29:04
Gurner of the
month. (Thanks Frank)
12:22:52
The demise of the cent
sign. (via lake effect)
12:14:03
MIR Re-entry page
12:13:47
Sounds like the
phone to have, but when will people learn that an all in one PDA and phone
is *not* a good idea.
11:52:03
Japan is warning people to stay indoors during the MIR crash. I am not at all
sure that indoors is the best place to be!!!
11:19:11
I'M reading the new David
Sedaris book - it's very funny. I must
read some more of his stuff.
11:17:31
Taco Bell v Mir
17:17:28
Here it is described as mutant.
17:16:38
OK, here is something on space fungus. (oops missing link...)
17:16:15
I'm trying to find some stuff about the possibility of mutant space fungi
coming in with MIR. George in Idaho (probably in a bunker) sent me a copy of a
Reuters item about it.
17:14:56
Wild Style the Movie - my son
wants me to get him this.
15:36:54
Mysterious places
15:35:51
Every rule for every game (they claim).
I am not impressed with the organisation though. Doesn't have Halma in the
board games section.....
13:02:31
The emerald tablet of
Hermes
12:44:35
Ho hum, busy day
17:12:40
Have I mentioned the toonopedia
before? I may have, but here it is again anyway.
13:19:20
More on how
Microsoft are reinventing the Newton 2K. or at least trying to.
12:41:58
I read an interesting article about Solresol at the weekend.
Apparently Beethoven's fifth sounds as though it is all about wednesday.
12:38:35
Truely wonderful flash animation. Clock on Sheep#29 and enjoy.
10:12:12
The Museum of Depressionist
Art (Thanks Ditty) Check out the Gladys Dwindlebimmers Ralston Gallery
of the Unidentifiable
09:52:16
Maths Awareness Month - April
2001
09:29:27
License
plates you can't get in Florida
09:24:35
Form for
laid-off dot commers.
09:16:56
I really must fix my weblog tool to remind me to make new editions when they
get too big.
09:10:43
RIP John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas
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