Volume 30
4 May 2001
16:29:30
This is an interesting risk.
15:42:50
My cat went to sleep in the fruit bowl yesterday and I have this nice shot of him, but I can't get the USB stuff to work on Linux yet so I can't get it on-line at the moment.
15:36:46
Hmm, why won't xmms play more than 12 tracks of any of my CDs????
15:17:29
Now I'm listening to João Gilberto - Bossa-nova music.
15:02:31
I'm listening to Rock Salt and Nails - their traditional instrumental stuff is really, really good and their "contemporary" stuff is completely mediocre, sub-Brit pop mumbling. The singer can't sing which is the main problem, especially when compared with the quality of the instrumental work. (The bonus track on the album - Jean's Reel Set - is fabulous. Just, a great Shetland sound.)
12:55:51
The Bray Road Beast
12:55:37
Get your coffin on the net. Check out the masterpiece series, note the compassionate pricing and of course the unutterably, execrable taste. Wrap me in a sheet and stick me under a tree!
12:31:49
Had a horrible nightmare last night about flights of stairs. I often feel panicy on open, high staircases and in this dream I was really high up on this landing and the stairs were just suspended slabs with no risers. Ugh.
12:27:48
Today is Internatioanl Tuba Day
3 May 2001
17:16:37
I hop you are all going to pick up on this. But, no, I won't sponsor you.
13:33:03
The Free Sheet Music Ring
13:05:28
I hadn't heard that the Liberty Bell had been attacked, or at least struck with a hammer. How odd. Why would anyone want to do that (aprt from to hear the noise I suppose)
12:54:30
Hmm, zakka appears to mean dry goods, according to Jim Breen's dictionary. That covers a multitude of sins.
12:03:11
I've found a Linux driver for my Digital Ixus - I'll need to bring the cable in and see if it works. It also lead me to the gPhoto site which I was not aware of before.
11:41:32
Zakka workshop - I am starting to think that zakka is the Japanese word for really, really horrible tat.
11:40:53
Yummy
11:38:51
Ladybug51
11:38:23
Some rather odd looking zakka
11:36:55
Let's make enjoyable webpage. Perhaps zakka are bags?
11:35:57
Nicemix - odd
11:34:21
Well, there was a zakka shop here, but it appears to be closed
11:30:57
I'm still trying to work out what "zakka" i/are. Sometimes it looks like kitchenware, sometimes nostalgia stuff. perhaps it is just emphemera.
11:29:55
Suryoyo world - seems to be related to Armenia.
11:26:49
Now, here is an example of the world is entirely intertwingled. A page owned by someone with the nick fulcanelli that mentions alchemy and sugar gliders. Clearly the course of my weblog is entirely pre-ordained and if you only knew where to look you would be able to find all the multifarious trands of it winding off into the future.
11:23:49
The Guild of Navigator's Tarot Pages (ugh, horrible new age background music, but you'll find Fulcanelli in there)
11:22:00
Alchemy in France today.
11:21:34
Magic Journey - sacred travel company. (with the obligatory reference to Fulcanelli)
11:19:53
Alcehmical pepper sauce? (This only makes sense if you read from the bottom up of course....)
11:19:05
But who was Fulcanelli
11:18:20
A Monument to the End of Time
10:20:11
Some rules of thumb (the owner of this website spammed me, and probably loads of other weblogs, but it was quite funny so I gave jim a chance....)
09:47:54
This is the homepage for an entirely bogus and non-existent university as mentioned in this LA Times article that has been doing the rounds.
2 May 2001
12:43:21
Erewhon - all that animation is really really annoying. (But some really nice hand woven stuff for sale)
12:40:05
Wear Peewee
12:38:11
No. 305
12:37:37
Zakka Stores? I ownder what Zakka means? A gazillion hits on the word but nothing that tells me exactly what it means - something to do with retro or nostalgia perhaps?
12:31:20
The Bowery Kitchen???? For me that conjures up weak soup, stale bread and the Salvation Army. Not perhaps what you want from a place to eat. (Bowery Kitchen Supplies is also a US company that supplies kitchens....)
12:22:01
Mr Coffee Nerves
12:19:14
"signage" is a very odd word.
12:14:10
Lileks presents Curious Lucre and some other new stuff. As usual well worth the time.
12:08:20
Arthur Ganson - nice
11:55:38
The Colossus of Rhodes
11:53:32
Rootjoose - I like the idea of them having an "almost cult following". How does that work then?
11:48:36
The chick tourney (via Lake Effect)
11:40:52
Now obligatory bad flash animation - Pokerap
11:20:57
The Dot Eaters - video game history (Thanks Bob)
10:15:25
Klabauterland
10:07:06
Hmm, nobody seems to have spoken for several years at the Dry Town tavern
10:02:52
The poems of the Dud Chameleon.
10:01:53
The Graveyard Church of God
10:00:28
Psychedelic Mind Expander 2000
09:54:56
Classic heavy metal fan entry page.
09:52:51
Technos and Psyche - A prelude. (a pretentious load of cobblers more like)
09:40:28
Listening to Miles Davis this morning.
09:14:30
DubyaDubya for dubya stickers
09:13:08
I want one of the new iBooks, but they are way to expensive in the UK (and probably everywhere else too)
1 May 2001
12:07:21
There are some acronyms in here that I had not come across before.
12:01:23
Deconstructing Varro Tyler's Honest Herbal
11:57:39
Kresky FAK - never heard of it.
11:56:14
The Witches Voice
11:30:09
I wish I knew how to make xmms connect through a proxy to CDDB. (I know, I;ve said this before - but I still don't have a solution)
11:27:23
US Submarine Launch souvenirs and Charles Atlas diplomas
11:17:32
The William Gropper site.
10:19:37
Biff and Chet and the Haunted Cave - a serial story that was written backwards. An interesting idea. (*Warning* - christianity and creationism alert!!)
10:18:48
The Struggle for Survival - the art and Philosophy of Robert Carrico
10:13:29
The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate - I had a quick look at the Arcades Project 
since everyone has been going on about it, but it looked hard (or just dull - not sure which), and I suspect that as on eof the amazon.com reviews suggests that there is an element of emperor's new clothes about it. I do like the name of The Pansophist Electric Bibliothek though.
10:10:35
Taming your turbulent past - now free on the web!!! (second edition)
10:07:30
Reveries of Light by Kana Tanaka "I search at the intersection of glass and light for a moment of discovery. The seemingly everyday phenomena of light contain ephemeral moments of the sublime. I have come to use glass as an expressive material to harness and share these moments"
10:05:41
Ahhh, a gourmet meal of kookery at Fixed Earth - "The non-moving earth and anti-evolution web page" Deep joy, happy, happy joy. Read what he has to say about Tides - utterly, utterly mad.
10:01:35
The Eddie Cochran Story
10:01:10
Path of the Mother - "Whoever comes into the River of Love will be bathed in it, whether the person is healthy or diseased, a man or a woman, wealthy or poor. Anyone can take any number of dips in the river of Love. Whether someone bathes in it or not, the river of Love does not care. If somebody criticizes or abuses the river of Love, it takes no notice. It simply flows. " Is that meant to be deep? Seems more like the verse from inside a Hallmark card.
09:57:49
Chinese-art.com - lots of good stuff here.
09:55:47
The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
09:54:06
Birding Outback Guyana - check out the spectacular waterfall photographs.
09:53:02
English/Maori vocabulary - mostly botanical. Maori has some great words in it.
09:51:34
Fishbase - the database of fish. Excellent resource for fish lovers.
09:50:11
Epizootic Catarrhal Enteritis in the ferret (fairly gross!!)
09:48:30
Vesicular Stomatitis - a bit like foot and mouth it seems.
09:44:22
A Business and Marketing glossary - useful if you ever have to read marketing bullshit.
09:43:04
Broken Pencil -t he guide to alternative culture in Canada
09:42:04
Wasichu Dictionary - I'm not sure what this is about at all as it just seems to be a list of fairly well known words and their definitions.
09:40:25
Highlights of the Gilder Lehrman Collection
09:39:24
Captain Canuck - a Canadian Superhero it seems.
09:27:18
*WARNING* - "May pre house the steamy side volitation" could be the next "all your base". You heard it here forty second.
09:21:13
And Len mailed me to say that he won a case based on Collateral Estoppel, so he obviously knows what it is.
09:20:07
I made rhubard and strawberry crumble at the weekend - a frankly, delicious combination, particularly if there is a bit of orange juice in there as well. Definitely recommended.
09:19:31
I am told (by Deborah - thanks) that, of course, 151 is the number of Pokemon which, naturally, goes no way to explaining what yesterday's animation was about, but at least solves taht riddle.
30 Apr 2001
16:38:40
Ever wondered what Collateral Estoppel was? Me neither.
16:36:44
Nudibranchs of the British Isles: Ancula gibbosa
16:35:18
Hector Parr's Pages - Cosmology, Physics, Philosophy and Organ Music.
16:25:01
The Village Music Project
15:36:31
Creating your own funeral or memorial service.
14:04:01
In Context - a Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture
14:00:06
The Mercurial Mind - living with Bipolar disorder. Interesting
13:59:36
Collecting Sarah. Why? why?
13:55:36
The virtual cave
13:55:21
The Gropper Windows (Thanks Len)
13:52:30
Nanofiction
10:30:34
Nicky Macks Pimp Poetry - potenitally offensive (particularly if you appreciate good poetry)
10:27:25
I wonder what Electronic Whore is about. Can't find a way in that works. (Maybe I should rephrase that...)
10:24:14
Anyway to make up for dissing what is probably a wonderful organisation, here is an Interview with Jesus Christ.
10:23:20
Why does Covenant House sound really creepy? Sister Mary Rose looks none too friendly either. I'm sure there aims are good but...
10:18:03
I'm listening to Hot Rats. I was going to do a lot of Hot Rats links as it is a popular name, but most of them are even more boring than usual.
10:16:35
The Museum of Garden History - I must go when I get the chance. I spent Sunday cleaning the greenhouse which was a mess because ithad had rabbits in it over the winter.
10:10:38
More Flash stuff - hyakugojyuichi means 151, though what relevance this has to anything I don't have a clue. Anyway it has some great moments.
09:58:22
Nice picture of a dead barn owl taken by my Dad on the Dunbeath estate in Caithness. It had been ringed in Helgoland which is across a lot of water from Caithness! They stuck it in the freezer and have handed it in to the RSPB.
09:54:00
Ugh, weekend from hell. Saturday Morning take daughter to doctors' - end up at hispital having her checked for appendicitis (negative thankfully, though no other diagnosis for stomach pains provided...). Then that night someone slams a door on son's head - arnica 30 every 30 secs for a while and he was OK, but it was a close call from having to head up to A&E at 10pm on s Saturday night and join the queue of drunks.
09:51:17
Conspiracy piece about the South Pole
27 Apr 2001
16:54:50
Irresponsible Captain Tyler
16:53:15
The Aptenodytian Empire
16:33:10
Ah, it's spelled Kenan and Kel. There are as I expected a gazillion pages dedicated to it. Here's one, but don't think that this means I am any more in favour of this trash.
12:44:19
Art Glass on the web
12:41:45
Reflections in Stained Glass
12:41:16
Dichroics - making coloured galss filters.
12:35:52
Wild Pink Lemonade - I might try this as we have Sumac growing in our street.
12:32:35
Blue Ruin Brewery
12:31:32
Blue Ruin - a novel of the 1919 World Series
12:29:12
Blue Ruin the Band
12:27:53
The Blue Ruin Gallery - erotic art (well they claim it is anyway)
12:27:33
The Plainsfolk Page
12:07:47
I was going to make a comment about the TV programme Keenan and Kell to the effect that I think that it is amazingly racist and am amazed that there hasn't been an outcry about it, and so i went to look for a link and the search on "Keenan Kell" didn't turn up a hit at all. Odd. Maybe I am spelling it incorrectly. Anyway, it's still a load of racist nonsense.
12:05:32
The Durham Mining Museum
12:03:38
A history of Special Branch
11:50:39
Frank's Compulsive guide to postal addresses. Why he thinks that UK postal addresses are the most confusing I have no idea - they seem to me to be a model of clarity compared with some that I have seen! I suspect a confusion with the old issues of naming, routing and addressing here...
10:09:35
Gosh, they've changed the rules of table tennis so that first to 11 wins and you change serve every 2 points.
10:04:11
Extinct video player links (Thanks Martha)
10:00:34
Well I installed the Linux version of Sensiva, but I still haven't actually managed to work out what it is supposed to do for me! The web page is singularly lacking in such information. (Oh, and the Linux install doesn't work properly anyway) I assume it is some kind of gestural interface.
09:43:19
Good item on how night vision works.
09:37:05
The latest excuse^H^H^H^H^H^Hreason given for the failure of WAP is that it is text based and that the essence of the web is images. What a load of rubbish. WAP fails because it is hard to use and the screens are too way too small.
09:35:27
Driving in to work I saw someone weaving in and out of some bollards by the football ground - this is exactly the sort of thing that I do, but which you rarely see other people doing. It made me feel pleased.
09:34:24
All say "awwwww, cute" now.
09:23:25
Another strange flash animation (BTW, do not think that the fact that I link to flash animations in anyway means that I condone the use of this obnoxious technology!!)
26 Apr 2001
15:59:15
Fighting flash
15:06:42
World Wide Words - this looks as though I ought to have seen it before, but it doesn't ring bells.
15:00:08
Daredevils of Niagra Falls - lovely archive, though it could be better set out.
14:56:49
Miss Indian World
12:55:32
Elbow Dysplasia (in dogs)
12:53:18
Ectoplasm courtesy of Mrs Henderson
12:51:45
Attending to photographs
12:51:13
All elbow pictures are special for Ditty......
12:51:03
The Elbow
12:49:59
Big Elbow
12:48:51
Elbow Crater
12:47:45
Aluminium elbows
12:45:28
Rockart of the Malheur Marshlands
12:44:34
Elbow the band photographs
12:44:17
Elbow pond pictures.
12:23:37
A place for (tooth) Braces fetishists....
12:13:36
More feet photos in the gallery... dull, aren't they.
12:06:21
Bizarre Alastair Campbell fan site....
09:56:22
I hadn't come across Ironminds before.
09:31:02
Get yourself a Utilikilt - the kilt is a very practical garment, though you do need to have the legs for it. Better than a pair of shorts certainly. (Thanks Len)
25 Apr 2001
16:32:24
Sony make some nice mobile phones. I have one of the less flash ones and it is very nice to use - in particular the "intelligent" text entry support for SMS really works well, so you dont have all that multiple key clicking nonsense.
16:22:04
I've add a link a the top and bottom to a page where I'll stick some of my digital images. Not much there yet and they're not very interesting but if you can't publish them on the web where can you do it?
15:39:30
I'm currently listening to Blind Willie Johnson.
15:35:30
Scorzonera
15:34:41
Freesias
15:33:11
turnips
15:32:44
Daylilies
15:09:32
Seeing double - the multiple man page.
15:08:14
Jewelry for single people. I bet they stay that way too.
14:44:05
Games for the blind
14:42:57
The David Rumsey Historical map collection (Thanks Bruce)
14:37:25
The Journal of Craptology
14:31:46
Colour Vision page - excellent resource
14:30:22
Footnotes to history
12:34:56
Great Victorian Turkish Bath site - find out where your nearest one is and go!!!
12:28:23
Cult news (that's news about cults not fashionable news) Interesting anti-TM stuff.
12:26:59
Zillions of tests.
11:50:33
Upgraded my machine to Redhat 7.1 and had a small woopsy, but now fixed....
24 Apr 2001
14:47:04
I like the idea of these Micromaps.
13:16:27
Neat - paper models that can move.
13:15:38
A Goth shop.
13:14:10
The Eerie network . What is The Eerie Network? "The Eerie Network is a site dedicated to providing communication facilities to the paranormal community" What the hell is wrong with using telepathy like the rest of us?
13:11:20
Rare and unusual plastic models and kits.
13:10:26
Rennes-le-Chateau - the Mystery. Actually the mystery is why anyone is interested in this at all.
13:09:16
Ancient American magazine - pre-columbus archeology, not a magazine for aged americans.
13:08:07
Everything the head could require at the Bong shop
12:54:59
Collected MS joke images.
12:54:37
Bad movie reviews (i.e. reviews of bad movies) - great stuff. Thanks Martha.
12:49:09
The new Apple iBook sounds rather neat. if the rumours are to be believed. I still want to have a Newton replacement though - none of the other PDAs can hack it in comparison.
12:32:51
I just did a TV interview - lots of little soundbites to be cut up and scattered through a series of 6 programs.
09:55:16
As they say, here's one for the ladies - the sperm bank of California catalogue. (Thanks Tom) I especially like the note that says "These donors cannot be shipped to new York State". Why?
23 Apr 2001
16:09:34
Somewhere between me and lots of places, the net is dyin on its feet so I think I shall give up for today.
15:45:30
Movie reviews at Rotten Tomatoes - a new one on me (Thanks Al)
15:36:22
This is entirely bizarre.
15:36:07
Ugh, file got emptied for a while - sorry about that.
12:53:10
The number 47 in Star Trek (Ta Frank)
12:28:53
The mechanical hit counter.
11:46:07
God Almighty's homepage
11:45:27
The hero machine
11:42:22
This is entertaining.
11:40:48
Hmmm, here we are again. Backlog of links - probably all not fresh enough though. Weather in Spain was good, but was not thrilled by the Costa del Sol. Nerja was OK as a town, but, for example, you could buy English sunday papers there on Sunday - what's the point of going away? Went to Granada and saw the Alhambra which was fantastic, though there were way too many people. I was particulaly taken with el Generalife (and very impressed by this early example of insurance company product name placement!). I'd really like to spend more time in Granada - I wonder if they have a CS department....
The caves of Nerja proved to be much better than I expected and I would certainly recommend them as worth a visit. I also popped up into the Alpajurras to visit my friend 3Nik (the 3 is silent) and that was a good day out too. There were Internet cafes everywhere - even in small villages. Quite odd really. I liked Frigiiana.
11 Apr 2001
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.
10 Apr 2001
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.
9 Apr 2001
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!
13:43:46
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.
6 Apr 2001
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
5 Apr 2001
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)
4 Apr 2001
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.
3 Apr 2001
16:04:00
Violet's Summer adventure
15:44:18
Trash FAQ
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
2 Apr 2001
14:39:31
Sidewalk petroglyphs in flâneur-ny
14:38:26
Some nice images of flânerie
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.
12:51:20
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.
12:13:26
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.
28 Mar 2001
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
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.
09:07:13
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...
27 Mar 2001
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.
14:01:56
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
26 Mar 2001
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.
23 Mar 2001
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
22 Mar 2001
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)
21 Mar 2001
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
20 Mar 2001
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
19 Mar 2001
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