28 September 2001

14:52:12
A letter from my father. (No, not my father)

14:49:59
The Alger Hiss case

14:48:26
Could it be your fabric softener? (fabric softener one of the simplest products? Hardly!)

14:46:28
The Vaults of Erowid - documenting the complex realtionship between humans and psychoactives

14:33:54
The International Shakuhachi Association - good site, but some samples would be nice.

14:32:55
The Robotic Chicken

14:32:36
Lucid Dreaming

14:22:38
BASE jumping FAQ (though not updated recently)

14:21:34
Quillayute

14:15:32
The art of hype (or is that hyxpe??);

12:43:25
Dragon activity on earth (page loads an annoying sound...)

12:41:28
Dragons in literature. (That's literature in the sens of "printed books"!)

12:40:53
Dragon dreams

12:39:38
A tile trip to England and Wales (that is, of course, nothing like an acid trip)

12:38:59
The fire types

12:37:37
What is a dragon?

12:34:56
Plugs around the world

10:00:34
Astonishingly detailed review of the Minolta Dimage 7 camera. Wouldn't mind having one to play with I must admit. (Actually I wouldn't having one to own, but that's entirely different)

09:48:36
Some of the Photoshop tennis images.

09:47:38
Lovely rant about meaningless techno-bollocks

09:41:05
The Boundary Institute on randomness

09:39:37
The Book of Forbidden Knowledge (featuring exceptionally cheezy porno-movie style background music!)

27 September 2001

13:23:57
Nano spybots

10:10:04
Jen has some gems this morning, go check them out, but I will steal this link as I think it is particularly frightening.

26 September 2001

12:59:29
Connected Japan which led me to a site with Hiroshige's 55 Tokaido prints (the thumnails are dreadful, but click on them and the reproduction is not bad at all)

12:37:19
A nice quote from Rumi (who was from Afghanistan of course). Thanks Youssef.

THROUGH LOVE all that is bitter will sweet
Through Love all that is copper will be gold.
Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine
Through Love all pain will turn to medicine
Through Love the dead will all become alive.
Through Love the king will turn into a slave!

12:35:56
I've been listening to the Peatbog Faeries. (Their "official" page is under construction and this one has not been updated since November 1998...) Their music is interesting but I am not overwhelmed. Some of their stuff sounds like prissy, Celtic twilight Enya-style nonsense with a taste of Mike Oldfield thrown in. And they need to ditch the rockband drummer - his beats are just diminish the whole thing. (And he is far too loud in the mix - a common problem with electric folk bands in the UK)

12:21:54
The Skinema

10:36:31
Sea Stars

10:35:44
Managing Abrasions and Lacerations - you need to if you fall off your bike!

10:34:07
Reptilia lab - learn to identify reptiles

10:17:25
Suds in Space (Thanks Tom)

10:16:24
God Photos - this page really annoys me. First there is the "I won't listen to whatever you might say because you couldn't possibly know anything about it" text and then there are the photos! I am deeply suspicious of Sai Baba and events associated him. I mean who wants a god that doesn't write neatly and who sprinkles dust all over the place!!! I want a clean god with nice handwriting thank you.

25 September 2001

14:44:23
Just watched the LotR trailer - seems to have lots of good SFX, lots of outrageous overacting, and what have they done to the hobbits? Hobbits aren't humans!!! Sheesh.

14:38:54
As I am a sad old hippy I've downloaded the trailer for the Lord of the Rings. I probably wont go and see the film though. It might be a fantastic film, but it won't be like what it was like in my head when I last read the book. (Of course inside my head is not like what it was when I last read the book either...)

14:32:43
Hmm, I see that Deepend have gone bust - looking at their home page I wonder why they had any customers at all. Way too flashy and clever. (And incredibly annoying too)

12:33:07
Professor Holmgren's Test For Color Blindness

11:54:31
A Beardsley drawing I have not seen before - very odd.

11:51:24
Fantastic Gustac Doré gallery (via gmtPlus9)

11:25:53
Virtual tour of Capone's cell (via Jen)

11:24:32
I went to the theatre on Saturday night to see Glengarry Glen Ross and most enjoyable it was too. I'm not sure that I really understood what happened in the end, but it was well acted and fun.

11:23:38
The net is still snail-like today - utterly painful. How do they expect us to weblog if the network is so slow? There ought to be a law against it.

24 September 2001

12:59:06
Hmm, the net appears to be entirely impossible to use today - I assume that there is some local/national/international bottleneck. (Seems to be international in fact as I can get to UK sites, though they may be cached locally too)

08:43:36
There was a mention of a short film called "Stanley Kubrick goes shoppping" in the Observer yesterday. It is reputed to be on the web but so far I can't find it. Sounded entertaining. Even the Kubrick site doesn't seem to mention it. (Though it does have the Zero Gravity Toilet instructions from 2001...)

08:35:44
Neumu magazine - as Jen says, undoubtedly a way to keep up with the cool.

08:02:35
RIP Isaac Stern

21 September 2001

15:59:01
I have been poking around in old mailboxes and found a message from someone who asked me "What does WWW mean in your signature"...

13:49:37
I tried looking for abandoned women, but as always no luck. Story of my life really.

13:42:36
Abandoned places

13:39:12
I'm sure that I've linked to Infiltration before, but here it is again. I like the Canada Malt plant section.

12:22:52
Good piece on uptalk.

12:20:32
WapWarp - some useful links for wappers.

12:19:20
Building Cathedrals - nothing to do with cathedrals...

12:12:07
Schroedinger's Toast (Thanks Ramji)

10:17:27
I've been struggling to synchronise my Handspring and I found that the problem was battery related. I presume this is a USB thing - I might just go back to serial port!

20 September 2001

14:20:57
I started back at my Tai Chi class again last night after a long time away and found that I could still get through the whole form with only the visual prompt of watching what was going on around me. It was good to get back to it.

14:14:48
The Office Museum - good stuff! (also via Jen)

14:13:42
I pinched this link to a paper cut out Taj Mahal from Jen. There is even a paper cut out of Bill Gate's house (though you have to sign up for that one - typical , eh? :-) )

09:31:19
/. points me towards Atollo - I hadn't seen this before. The idea seems to be good, but, there have been things like this around before and there are always disadvantages - I mean, if you look at the front page there is a link whose description suggests that the peices are hard to break apart. Lego can be bad enough, this looks tem times worse! (I also suspect that as it wears it will get less and less robust)

09:27:25
A peer-to-peer genealogy network - interesting.

09:16:33
The present world situation has produced some very hard to parse headlines. I saw one that read "US attacks prompt EU action". A sentence with diametrically opposed readings.

09:15:02
This looks like Secret Agent chic to me. Someone has reviewed it.

19 September 2001

12:28:38
Hmm, can't get anywhere today - I don't know whether it is this new virus clogging the network or the fact the Internet Explorer is not very good! (Mind you Netscape 6 is pretty dire too)

18 September 2001

13:37:50
Bad Astronomy - and there is a lot of it about.

13:36:38
The Church of the Eternal Question

13:35:46
Slightly odd chess site.

13:03:31
Tom fed "Hippie Chicks and Sippin' Whiskey" through babelfish into chinese and back again. The result is very strange, but it is proving a tad hard to organise that you can see it...

08:32:09
The Salon piece on WTC conspiracy theories and kookery is excellent.

08:24:15
Also going missing yesterday was the album featuring Ginseng Sullivan - it wasn't on the New Grass Revival record and I couldn't find out which of my records it was on. It may be that I heard the song on the wireless or something, I suppose.

08:22:34
Yesterday I saw a good quote from Benjamin Franklin in the Guardian (I think) and I cannot find it again - I have reread all the articles and it just isn't there. I hate when that happens. However, as ususal the net cavalry comes galloping to the rescue : "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety". Found (amongst other places) at the QuoteGeek Benjamin Franklin page.

08:19:14
Banjo Players Anonymous - I answer yes to several of the questions... (Thanks Steve)

17 September 2001

14:58:17
Hippie Girls and Sippin' Whiskey

14:56:13
Here's the words and chords for Panama Red - another of the great songs

14:15:12
Since when has "herbologist" been a word? It's"herbalist" for goodness sake! If can't get their title right would you trust their prescribing???

14:12:37
The snare shop - though don't let this think I approve of hunting in any shape or form!

14:05:19
Ginseng Sullivan in mp3 (to be brutally honest, not a brilliant version)

14:03:59
Ginseng pest control

14:02:00
Here's a banjo tab for Ginseng Sullivan

14:01:37
Ginseng Sullivan sung by steelBlue in Real Audio, and Willin' too - a band of taste and discernment clearly.

13:53:43
I was poking around some old mail boxes and foundsome mail about the Norman Blake song Ginseng Sullivan (Inaccurate words methinks). Now I have to go and find where I heard it 'cos I remember it as being fantastic. (I know it wasn't NB's version of it that I heard though - some searching suggests to me that I know it from the New Grass Revival's album Too Late to Turn Back Now)

09:31:19
I wouldn't rely on electronic translation just yet... (thanks Greg)

08:17:53
Beautiful beads

08:15:10
History of the WTC (thanks Paul - I did mail you, but I think I had mailer trouble...)

14 September 2001

16:31:41
Masters of war - real audio and the words. (Thanks Gavin)

12:05:48
Excellent theatre site - I didn't know about the light dimming.

11:41:06
As usual Noam Chomsky talks sense, though I suspect it is not a popular kind of sense.

11:01:50
List of US police "10 codes"

11:00:04
Pictures from around the world

13 September 2001

16:18:29
Shattered - a photo essay. Incredibly good photography, some of them are chilling.

14:50:32
Professional Pilots' Rumour Network

12:28:52
More photos

09:35:39
This Manhattan infra-red photo is linked everywhere, but is worth seeing.

09:20:08
Some New York photos (via gmtPlus9 )

12 September 2001

15:57:20
Good grief - they just rescued a fireman who had been on the 83rd floor.

15:29:23
BBC and CNN are still entirely clogged.

15:26:44
Very interesting how most of the UK newspapers have all chosen the same (even if cropped) image for the their front pages.

15:25:06
One thing that people keep saying that I really don't get is to do with how the WTC was a "symbol for the West" and other such comments. Frankly, I (and everybody I have spoken to) thought of it just as building in New York which had no other significance than that it used to be the tallest building in the world at one time. I certainly didn't associate it with being a financial centre of any kind - World Trade Center sounding like just a name of a building rather than a description of what it did. I am astounded to find that so many crucial (at least in capitalist terms) operations were located in a single, very vulnerable building - yes it is convenient for everyone to be in the same place but is it sensible. I think yesterday proved that it isn't, especially in this age of networking.

09:26:57
Dan is thoughtful and sensible (unlike others who are jumping to conclusions and not really thinking things through) - there is an awful lot of pointless sabre rattling going on (though not from the US administration who are being very cautious). This whole event has demonstrated rather forceful how good the "old" media are, and how "new" media just cannot keep up. It was essentially impossible to get any information off the web yesterday PM (our time), apart from the Guardian site and Ananova. Live broadcast media do it better than anything that can get bottlenecked or that has bandwidth restrictions. Sure, they kept repeating much of the same stuff over and over, but they were very quick with any fresh info, such as there was.

09:06:36
This list of the companies that had premises in the World Trade Centre just brings home the scale of what has been happening.

11 September 2001

14:53:56
And now the pentagon. Makes that Star Wars Missile defence seems like a really bright idea doesn't it.

14:24:54
I read on Slasdot that two planes have crashed into the World Trades Center and I can't get to any news sites at all. What is going on. Hmm, I got on to the Guardian site but it really doesn't tell me very much.

09:22:53
Well, I suppose that I had better link to this page.

09:22:08
Last time I was travelling I inevitably ended up looking at the International Herald Tribune - there is nothing else to read on aeroplanes. Some issues had the amazingly unfunny Dave Barry (is davebarry.com really his site?)column in them, but others had an Art Buchwald column. Don't think that that but means that I thought the Buchwald column was funny - it was at least as unfunny as Dave Barry, if not unfunnier - but the photo of Art Buchwald was the same one as I remember seeing of him from about 30 years ago! Looking him up it seems he is not as old as I thought (b. 1925). The sad thing about these "humourists" is that not only are they not funny, they are not witty which seems to be a prime requirement for the job. Mind you I'd been churning it out as long as Buchwald has I suppose I might be becoming a little stale too.

10 September 2001

17:16:32
The Monkey Power Trio

17:14:16
Words From Here - sadly a flash based site, but has interesting things, such as film scripts.

17:11:24
Taglines galore

17:09:18
Sadly probably defunct, but a nice idea - neat stuff of the day

17:08:08
Synonyms for masturbation

14:19:18
I'd really like to get hold of a Psion Wavefinder digital radio box, but they seem to have been discontinued (and were too expensive anyway) I wonder if there are any floating around out there in discount bins?

11:44:54
I picked up the most recent Banana Yoshimoto book Asleep at the weekend - I can recommend it highly. Three short stories (or "novellas" as they seem to want to call them), all with that slightly haunted feeling that she does so well.

10:32:48
Model rollercoasters

10:24:54
Well I certainly didn't know what a fluffer was before I read this. (If you are easily offended don't bother finding out)

10:20:19
Tom also pointed me to JumpTV which is a good source of TV links. He alos sent me Wacky patent of the month - another gem.

10:09:40
Cool! Live Japanese TV - thanks Tom! Now I will have to work at learning the language. Tom found this at the excellent broadcast-live site.

10:06:04
Interesting article about the randomness of the digits in pi (via Kulesh)

09:59:30
Some good stuff about words on this page.

09:51:04
I was doing some looking around for info on building saunas and came across the fabulous word "löyly" which is "a sauna-specific word meaning the steam rising from the hot stones, and more importantly, the feeling of the warmth". They even talk about löylymasters. Great.

09:44:45
This review of colour pickers is useful (via Whim & Vinegar)

09:43:06
I must admit to a genuine worry about the safety of ceiling fans. It's probably to do with being tall. (Thanks Damien)

7 September 2001

16:37:12
Nice piece about the Ise Shrine

16:35:31
Akebono is retiring - I wish there was more Sumo on TV here, it doesn't seem to have been for ages. Why can't I have a channel where I can watch Sumo, cycling, and various forms of boarding, and *NO GAMES INVOLVING BALLS OR POWERED VEHICLES*? Is this too much to ask?

16:28:58
The Kanji site - this is a good resource and I wish I had found it sooner.

16:25:29
Some nice typefaces by Emigre. The way it scrolls through all the different weights and style sis interesting.

08:43:39
I just found someone using an HTML tag that I didn't recognise. I must be slipping.

08:35:12
Odd. The caption under the picture seems to say something about someone's home.

08:30:36
The Librarians' Index to the Internet - another one I should have come across before but hadn't. Tut.

08:27:09
Some shockwave experiments - some quite nice.

08:24:57
Hydrogen Duke Box

08:24:08
While searching for information on the Ondes Martenot, I found this fantastic history of electronic musical instruments. Wonderful (The quest for information in the first place was sparked by the death of one of the world's few Ondes Martenot virtuosi)

08:21:14
Haruki Murakami interview

08:11:10
Learn to be a town crier (at a distance)

6 September 2001

12:53:43
OK, so this one is a meme and is doing the rounds, but it is good.

12:28:48
Nanospan - lots of nice flash (OK, I know that that's an oxymoron)

12:27:07
kites.org - excellent kiting site, lots of plans and things.

12:16:14
I really want a mountain board (though would probably be too scared to use it!). This is a nicely designed site and you should check out the advert videos - especially 911 (avi, mpeg) which is excellent.

12:07:32
Black mountain, Queensland - a strange place where strange things happen.

12:05:30
A photo of a mimc octopus

12:04:44
The mimic octopus

12:03:15
Yet another Hampton site - check out the stuff on his secret writing.

11:59:02
Another James Hampton Throne link.

11:56:43
James Hampton Memorial Plate of the Cosmic Baseball Association

11:55:56
James Hampton and his Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium Grand Assembly

5 September 2001

16:24:22
Alistair and I flew our new Flexifoil kite at the weekend. It's only a six footer, but what a blast!! Absolutely the best kite I have ever flown. I can't wait to get some more and build a stack of them. I want to build a kite buggy too...

15:55:01
Cyborg Metaphysics - I'm glad someone had a go a Hawking over this.

14:55:17
The Virtual Texan

14:45:52
Listen to some J-pop

14:35:26
The Sea Slug Forum

14:21:36
Lovely flash site - great design (Thanks Jan)

13:18:45
Sight vs Sound Reflex tester (needs flash)

12:29:02
Divination - a Japanese page, what I like about this is the navigation bar that reads "Up home eroticism about author". Now I can conceive of what downhome eroticism might be, but not up home!! (The eroticism link leads to all kinds of stuff in Japanese with strange flow diagrams)

12:28:42
I bet you have all been dying to know how to make sigla. (I don't believe that sigla is the plural of sigil)

12:24:52
Mancys (or is it Mancies - they clearly can't decide) Check out the other lists too.

12:22:43
The Dictionary of Divination

12:20:28
The Occultopedia - "An Encyclopedia of the Occult, the Unexplained, Myths and more" I always wonder what "and more" means. "We have run out of words", "There is some random crap here as well", "We want to sound much more comprehensive than we actually are"

12:18:01
The Bonny Doon Vineyard - strange flash intro

12:16:01
Foam Bath Fish Time

12:14:20
Roadside America - yet more good stuff. I especially like the National Plastics Museum

12:11:59
Book-a-minute - good stuff

12:11:16
Book shops around the world

12:09:59
To the Person Sitting in Darkness

12:06:01
CelebArt - I just ask myself "Why?".

12:00:46
Police Magazine

12:00:26
Michael Winslow - the man of a thousand sound effects. I have never heard of him of course. But that's just me. (And I listened to the clip, and I didn't think it was funny, but there again I am entirely humour impaired when it comes to prank calls: when people are just trying to do their job you really shouldn't make it harder for them.)

11:55:20
The Sierra Times. I particularly like the heading "An Internet Publication for real Americans" - that will be as opposed to any publications for artificial americans, or perhaps unreal americans?

11:52:59
The Ear Foundation

11:30:06
I have finally got anti-aliasing to work under X and it makes a big difference.

09:14:33
Many thanks to all of you who told me about Madlibs - it's a variant of what we call "Consequences" (Or in my family, Guiness, as my daughter misheard the word cponsequence....). Consequences has a standard structure rather than the more free structure of Madlibs (which of course renders madlibs much more amenable to commercialisation.....)

4 September 2001

15:29:45
Why had I not come across Manbeef before?

14:51:37
One liners (Mostly not very good though)

14:51:00
Who are Aeneas and Ferris?

14:50:33
Another one of those things that I can't quite work out what it is. I have no idea what "the old game of madlibs" is/was!

10:00:19
Wacky Uses - just what the name says

09:53:07
Taipei Taxi - digital image by Ole

09:39:24
Nicotine Water - I think they miss the point of smoking entirely here. Sure, people are adfdicted to the nicotine, but there is more to it than that.

09:35:37
Fractal Psychiatry very strange indeed.(Thanks Vincent)

09:09:01
RIP Pauline Kael - a great movie critic

3 September 2001

17:01:45
Nice furniture by Simon Crabb

16:39:28
Illusion Works (Thanks Rick)

14:21:36
I found this link in a message in a mail folder which I found. I haven't a lot of clue as to what it is all about though.

09:41:43
Great FAQ - all questions and no answers!!

09:15:46
I've decided to try browising using Konqueror rather than Opera as opera is really not performing up to expectations and I really, really hate the MDI interface. Really, really, really hate it. I don't know how long I'll last with it but we'll see - now that I have worked out how to remote control it, it is much more useful

08:47:31
Dentistry in films (found on linkfilter - hey I can steal links as well as the next person!)

08:38:41
I was trying to find the lyrics to the Locktender's Lament (as sung by Burl Ives) and the net has failed me - not a trace of them that I can find. How disappointing.

08:24:22
I saw one of the new UK number plates this morning. I am entirely puzzled as to why there has been an outcry about how confusing they are. I assume this is just tabloid noise rather than a real complaint - I mean, it;s just a sequence of letters and numbers for goodness sake! You can read about the history of UK license plates at this site. More detail on UK number plates. And here's a whole site devoted to license plate pictures

08:17:52
I am decidedly hacked off at the person whoever you are who is cutting and pasting text and links entirely unchanged from here into linkfilter. Fine, pinch the links, but not the text as well, OK?

08:16:51
Fun flash - once you are there try changing the 98 to some other numbers, there are many good movies here such as number 80.

31 August 2001

20:41:07
Tchertkoff Memorial and Cultural Foundation Inc.

20:31:00
Find those hard to get edible insects

20:30:42
Slug Gifts (Thanks to Ron for these invertibrate links)

20:26:43
Insect recipes

20:15:01
Planet Krulik - parking lot videos

20:10:52
The Mole Antonelliana in Turin - an entirely bizarre building. (The Vitruvio site is a good resource)

20:07:39
The Virtual Museum of Turin

20:06:30
The Colorado Railroad Museum

19:51:39
Why had I not come across Tokyo Tales before? probably because I hadn't looked. Check out the Japlish page.

19:45:42
Fantastic blind spot demo (via lake Effect)

19:29:42
Museums around the UK on the web

19:26:39
A petition to get Disney to release more Hyao Miyazaki films. Lot so fother interesting petitions on the site.

19:21:28
Jack T. Chick Museum of Fine Art (Thanks George)

29 August 2001

09:53:34
The Codex Idiotica

09:47:57
Last night I could feel the start of autumn in the air. I bet there is a Japanese word for this, because I suspect that it is a very Japanese feeling.

28 August 2001

13:55:23
World Wide Wheelie Bins

13:54:06
I can highly recommend the sticky toffee pudding.

24 August 2001

11:33:09
Updates will be sporadic next week....

10:16:49
Puroresu Dojo

10:10:22
Dangermedia -" best viewed with a computer connected to the Internet"

09:47:49
"Why would [anyone] want to label themselves? I say, "Lick my decals off, baby!" I'm not interested in making any new mustard or ketchup. I make very good mustard." Van Vliet Quote of the moment at the Captain Beefheart site.

09:44:10
Pore benighted 'eathens (and first class fighting men) - wargaming site. I have never understood the urge to play war games.

09:41:58
The Karl Popper web

09:41:38
I was (briefly) thinking about renaming the weblog - it would be a lot easier than doing a redesign - and thought about "Naked under your clothes" or "The raft of Diogenese".

09:37:38
Dance Hall Reggae (.com) with a useful list of dead reggae performers. (well, I suppose they are no longer performers but you know what I mean)

09:35:00
Beijing Scene - Chinese culture magazine.

09:33:48
I was looking for the lytrics to Willin' (one of my favourite songs) because I have never been able to work out what the line after "And I've been from Tuscon to Tucumcari". I suppose it helps if you have an intimate knowledge of obscure US place names! There are still bits of "I've been everywhere, man" that I have no clue as to what the words really are, and of course the Internet helps me again. I love the Internet.

09:29:25
A misheard lyrics site I hadn't seen before. It leads me to Dictionaraoke which is entirely bizarre and utterly wonderful! Why have I not heard of this before?

09:10:53
We went to the Hyena Comedy Cafe last night (first time this year we have managed to get out together!!)) which was a new experience for us as comedy clubs were not around when we went out a lot (i.e. no children). We laughed and enjoyed ourseleves which is all you could ask for, though the acts were not exceptional by any means.

23 August 2001

14:38:55
Circus Baobab

14:38:07
The Baobab factory

14:37:17
The Baobab project

14:08:12
Understanding bird droppings

14:06:19
White Lesbian name generator (mine would be Hazel DeepShadow, were I to be one)

14:05:16
Witch Eye - a zine of feri uprising

14:03:34
Division Two magazoine - I assume this is a spoof!!

14:00:41
How do you dominate someone over the phone?

12:05:38
Jerry Murad's Harmonicats

12:03:44
The Lewis Carroll Society of North America

09:32:16
Jet Set Radio page - I'd really like to have this game. There may be a window when Dreamcasts are cheap enough to be worth buying one just to play this game!

22 August 2001

14:41:22
Duck calls

14:38:35
Japanese bondage tutorials....

14:32:40
"There are a number of differences in body shape between men and women"

14:26:54
The Coleopterists Society

13:22:43
Lovely 40s clip art at Havana Street (not free though)

13:20:58
Dirty Boogie - XXX radio. I can't get it to connect at the moment so I have no idea what the level of XXXness is at this station but it may well not be for the faint of heart.

13:17:31
Listening to Cuzin Al's Bluegrass show for Jul 8th on KPIG at the moment. Good stuff. (Thanks for the year old heads up on that one Randall - it takes time but I get round to them!)

12:46:11
The Utilitarian Theory of Punishments - amazing what kenosis can lead. Definitely a dangerous heresy even when you just look it up.

12:45:14
How shall we tell the Children? More daft ranting.

12:40:01
The empty god : A Biblical and Theological Answer to the False Doctrine of Kenosis (This is a wonderful example of theological ranting - it sounds like the Inquisition in full flow)

12:39:26
Physics and Christianity

12:38:46
Religion online - a good resource if you want this kind of thing, and accept that "religion" is almost identical with Christianity. Perhaps we need a campaign for truth in domain naming. (But don't start in on me about catless then!!)

12:36:17
Ah ha, this tells me what Kenotic theology is! Angels and pinheads spring to mind.

12:35:37
Kenotic music

12:34:48
Concresence: The Australasian Journal of Process Thought? I don't know what this is about. There is a paper with the title "How kenotic process theology underpins humanist deep ecology" which means almost nothing to me.

12:31:03
Ploughshares - a literary journal

12:25:00
How do we hear? Good description.

12:19:59
Famous stuff that sucks - not that I agree with most of them. Also check out how mathematics is a pernicious cult.

12:18:35
Temporality - a writing site

12:17:14
Gertrude Stein on-line

11:47:10
RIP John Walters - radio producer par excellence.

11:44:16
RIP Fred Hoyle

11:42:47
Good seti@home team name!

10:31:20
Zapato Productions

10:02:34
RoboCup-Rescue Rules 2001

20 August 2001

17:30:52
Amazing rubbish. (Via the Register) and make sure that you follow the design a logo link!! (I am having keyboard problems so I can't make the link, but it's there, at the bottom of the page)

16:16:42
Early texts on television

16:16:17
An electric telescope

16:01:20
Hey, that big cat picture was a scam!

16:00:06
Strange Attractor

15:56:38
Mirach - the home of the practical kabbalist. Where do impractical Kabbalists go then?

15:55:31
FIRST THINGS, the Journal of Religion and Public Life. Note that by "religion" they seem to mostly mean Christianity with the odd sop to Judaism thrown in.

15:15:27
A look inside the wacky world of Bob Jones University. Wacky is rather milder than the words I would use.

15:14:45
The Imperial Edict of Worms

15:12:27
Want to be a gladiator?

15:10:46
Scrappin' with Lisa

14:16:56
Odd flash intro - leads to more flash too.

14:15:26
Pop Avant-Garde: A Critical Inquiry into the Various Performances of Sonic Youth

14:14:28
Kitty Lick 3 (Thanks Ditty)

14:13:18
Gender targetting in graphics

14:12:33
Critical Pedagogy Web

14:09:55
List of possible ufo/et craft crashes and retrievals

14:09:13
Formorian

14:04:13
The Mitsubishi Virtual Design Museum

14:01:32
Deterrent Park

14:00:31
And just for balance : the Anti-submarine Officer's Association

13:58:39
Submarine Sailor - where submariners stay in touch. (Doesn't the fact that Tom Hanks supports there memorial appeal really change your opinion?)

13:57:09
I watched Charlie's Angels last night - entertaining Hokum (and some pretty dire acting), but it would have been much better if they hadn't tried to "explain" why they had to do all the stuff they did. I mean, why do you need voice recognition to find the location of a phone? Just get on with the action I say - take a leaf from Jackie Chan.

13:31:14
Toxic Electricity . The stray voltage stuff is weird. There is clearly something going on here, but what is it?

17 August 2001

17:13:59
Afro Ken

16:22:48
Oozing Goo

16:22:33
Shag art

16:03:10
Charlotte's Web: A Jane Eyre hypertext

16:02:16
Aoyama - lots of good pictures of birds and japanese hunting dogs.

15:58:59
The KYGO Dixie Chicks dive. Ugh.

15:48:57
Manx/English Dictionary

15:45:43
Flying Dragon & Dancing Phoenix Dai Dances

15:45:19
The Peachick baby page

15:43:01
The birth of a peachick

12:07:42
The Transtopian principles

12:06:31
Onomatodoxy as a Philosophical Premise

12:04:13
Mirrors Edge - a UFO website. Probably one of the nastiest looking websites I have seen recently.

12:02:38
When meaning goes by the board, what about philosophy? An interesting question.

12:01:05
Peony Paradox

11:50:13
MSU Comic Art Collection - check out the Real Heroes

11:37:25
Well laid out portal (horrible concept) to lots of useful UK links

11:35:21
Anonymous Juice - very strange

11:32:13
Cat lick

11:30:44
The rock of travolta

11:20:08
Del Rio Citizens' Police Academy

11:18:57
The Crystal Oasis spiritual magazine

11:17:18
Oasis Reiki Institute

11:16:21
Last night we had one of those ghastly salesman in the house experiences you read about. We keep trying to find some company who can replace some windows for us but in a style that we like so a new (to us) bunch called, said they could do it and this bloke turned up. We got to the point where he had got to a price quote (after much calculator bashing - have these people never heard of computers??) and then we got to the "well we can do part of the job for this much lower price so that you can see what the work is like". This price was pretty good so we said "give us a few days to think about it". But of course this was a one off, only tonight price, so we said that we didn't do business like that and that we would consider his other quote and let him know. He then tried to convince us and we just kept saying no, and as it became clear that we were not going to do it he lost his cool entirely and started becoming ruder and ruder. He ended up threatening to bill us for his wasted time and stormed out! Pen was completely traumatised by it all - we had been entirely reasonable but stuck to our guns so could not see why he had behaved the way he had. I have dealt with pushy salespeople before but none as bad as this.

11:05:14
Lots of links on Lyme Disease.

11:01:57
Infinite Coolness Website

10:50:32
Water Gun Tokyo 2 (from gmtPlus9 - where else??)

10:32:07
The 1952 Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Champion. I assume that is "world champion" as in "world series"...

08:35:49
Thanks to who ever it was who sent me the URL for the fastest entry point to google. Excellent.

16 August 2001

15:38:34
Einstein body slant (No it's not a disease)

15:37:29
Some songs

15:36:27
Einstein slideshow

15:34:22
Eyes of the Einstein Zoo - not the slightest idea what this is.

15:32:16
Lenin's Brain

15:31:55
Einstein's Brain

15:28:51
Oops, this seems to be the correct link for the national four string banjo museum. Check out some of the gorgeous banjos.

15:27:30
National four string banjo museum and hall of fame.

15:25:30
National Surfing/Wrestling "Iron Man" Hall-of-Fame

15:17:57
Ancient surfboard making

14:37:52
What other kinds of chair does God have?

14:23:12
Bibliotecha Augustana "AppleMac et Netscape his paginis optimum visum dant cave Gatem et Exploratorem!" Lots of good literary stuff here.

14:20:15
Self Promotion

14:18:51
Musa Dagh Dialect and a glossary

14:17:33
Japan Transcendental Cacophony Association

13:59:10
Chengwin

13:50:06
Talking of radios, I spent a few evenings spinning round the AM dial on my little wireless. Down in the South West you pick up more stations being nearer to the continental mass. It seems as though you can always find either, blues, jazz or salsa on AM if you look and listen hard enough. Trouble is that you hear a fantastic track and then the announcer talks a language you don't know or just seques into something else. I heard a piece that was using a sample from a Robert Johnson track and ti was great but i have no idea who it was by.

13:44:48
The Radiohole

13:05:28
Ahhhh, vinyl

12:58:50
Toilet mufflers (In fact many Japanese toilets already continually play the sound of running water to drown out noises)

12:57:35
An exciting new concept in Christian entertainment! I assume this is a spook, but who can tell these days.

12:47:24
This is funny, and of course, true.

12:32:47
That's just incredible (.com)

12:20:54
Hats for hire

12:08:47
Some Japanese game trivia - how can anyone not understand a fascination with the Japanese?

11:41:20
Put KDE 2.2 up this morning - it's fine, but I really wish that they would improve the installation process, it's a nightmare.

15 August 2001

17:03:45
Prozac pez

09:42:19
Zoom in on the UK at Lasoo. Note that the towns it marks first - Dublin and Douglas. Bizarre.

09:36:36
My gas company sent me a an advert for the new Disney film this morning. Nothing to do with gas at all, though there was some attempt at spin in the accompanying letter. I really hate junk mail.

09:15:55
Watched Otis Lee Crenshaw on TV on Sunday. Very funny and excellent music - "We were so poor that blues singers with writers' block came to stay with us". I don't know what people that really come from Tennessee would think about him though.

09:14:31
Jungian novel writing

14 August 2001

17:29:46
Zoot Horn Rollo, play that long lunar note and let it float.......

16:16:53
Vintage Coleman Lanterns

14:38:40
Which bird did that?

14:33:16
Miss Behavin's Bedtime Stories

14:07:55
Technical Virgin

13:52:55
Forced feminisation

13:39:55
Light pollution map

13 August 2001

15:36:33
Fancy a new case for your machine?

15:35:57
We also went to the Eden project - it will be fantastic in 10 years time when things have had a chance to establish and get larger. At the moment there are too many people and not enough things of interest to see.

15:33:07
This service from google is rather nice.

15:20:02
We also went to see round Pencarrow which has some amazing stuff in it - a room with 8 Joshua Reynolds paintings in it, a fantastic Henry Raeburn and more percelain than you could imagine - lot's of lovely Imari. There was a piano that Arthur Sullivan had played which we got to play too. The grounds were not well looked after sadly, and the whole place raised my socialist hackles as it reeked of privilege and the owners still lived in the largest part of the house, but worth a visit if you are in the area.

15:16:45
We finally got to go to Trerice which is lovely, and has a great lawnmower collection on display. It's one of those houses with human scale that you feel you could live in. We bought a nice white abutilon from the shop - it'll probably die inthe Northern cold though.

15:14:13
Interchange stations on the London tube map

14:47:14
Nice 404 message - thanks Jan

14:44:55
Well, I'm back afer two weeks of sun, sand and, sadly, no sin.