Cover to Cover - this is the company that does unabridged readings of classic novels on tape or CD. A great service, if pricey.
Nature's Platform - this sound weird but I reckon it's a good thing. I could tell you about the principle of voidancy as promulgated by mate 3Nik (the 3 is silent), but I won't.Thanks snotverjeppie and william. (I wish I could read Dutch so that I could actually know what was being said at snotverjeppie!)
Stereo MPs - this one has probably been around for ages but I hadn.t seen it (Thanks Pete C.)
Andrew Vicari - King of Painters. Now read what the Guardian art critic says about him. (Vicari sells pictures to Saudi Arabia for enormous amounts of money - he is the richest painter in Britain)
Aaaaaaaaaaaagh, a Krankies website. (If you don't know who they are don't try and find out. Just don't.)
Nikc sends me this link to a page of Eno inspired quicktime. The odd thing is that the page says that Music for Airports was recorded between 1979 and 1982, and it clearly says on the CD label 1978.
I was reading about Gustav Moreau and how nobody visits the musuem of his work in Paris and how weird his work is. Here is his Oedipus and the Sphinx - it is very odd. I don't think I would look like that with a lion thingy clinging to me!
I've been listening to ENo's Music for Airports which I like a lot. I was astonished to see that it was recorded in 1978 - I wonder how I never got to hear it before?
Seethruweb has a zine with lots of good stuff on it. Why have I not bounced in here before?
Timelessmail - sounds all very kind and proper but I think it is exploiting people. (Via Seethruweb)
Society for Interdisciplinary Studies - "The oldest and most up to date society for catastrophist information and research"
Misterpants went to look at the Scientologists the other day. He tells me it was scary and weird.
I just tried out Melody Assistant - simply fantastic. There is even an OS X version so I can have it on my iBook.
Misterpants alerts me to the horror of Air to the Kingdom. I wonder what people would say if he were a Muslim or a Buddhist or a Zoroastrian?
Good grief - when I looked at the page, the ad at the side said "Find poetry at Barnes&Noble"". Inappropriate placement is a little discussed danger of web advertsiing! (OK, so now you'll send me 400 sites devoted to inappropriate placement, but you know what I mean really)
Hmm, is this real?? (this and my son peter via snotverjeppie, thanks William - but what does snotverjeppie mean? (My local Dutch speaker is not around at the moment - I am guessing it's Dutch)
Avatar Search - the search engine of the occult internet. Is that a different internet from the one we normally use? Why do they need a search engine - why not use magick?
Did you know that Edward Gibbon died during an operation to remove a swelling "almost as big as a small child" on his left testicle?
Went to see the Harry Potter movie at the weekend. I can recommend it highly (though it is about half an hour too long). In fact, I think that it is much better than the book (which is not that well written) as it all hangs together better. Some good SFX (and some not so good ones). I was disappointed in the look of the wands that they used as they were heavy looking - I wanted something much more elegant and magical.
I forgot to mention the Thursday Next website when I was talking about the Jasper Fforde book the other day
Fantastic rock writing archive (that's as 'n'roll not as in cakes or geology or a-bye-baby)
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Last night I was an "Internet expert" for a phone in on BBC Midlands Radio on the Alex Trelinksi program. Of course almost all of the calls were about software problems rather than the Internet, but I expected that.
How to Make Money in Soft Tissue Injury - an exposé of a whiplash lawsuit mill. It's just like an episode of the Simpsons, but entirely true.
smile.com - this was not what I was looking for and I haven't worked out what it is yet. (Except that it is strange)
Quantavolution and catastrophe "5,000 Pages of text and illustrations including three volumes with Earl R. Milton and collaborating scholars, and with the participation of I. Velikovsky, and two by Hugh Crosthwaite."
Bob's world of Liberace (I found this link (and the coin one) at Spantz.com - which has some excellent links)
Elongated coins anyone? I always get these when I am in the USA and see a machine. I think it is illegal to deface the coinage here (or at least it used to be) so we don't have them.
Went to a Robert Rankin book signing last night. He was entertaining, though had entirely forgotten that he had been here before.
Swingin' Chicks of the '60s - I am not really sure that Sylvia Plath fits the description though, or the Singing Nun! (I do like the "officially in the top 100% of websites" tag)
I wonder if I should do a an over-designed, themed and skinned look for this page? Maybe not. (To be honest I don't really understand the whole Skin/theme phenomenon - maybe I am just too old.
Zounds in Cyberspace - strange is the word that comes to mind. Check out the Daxophone pages too (needs flash) (I couldn't work out how to move on from this page so I hacked the URL in the obvious way and I can highly recommend the next page. Sussed it out - the site is fantastic!!!
Terra Fly - I am tryin gto fly over Ole's house (the only zip I have to hand), but nothing is happening at the moment...nope, it failed. Not impressed.
I was going to have a moan about amazon.co.uk not listing a book that is available from amazon.com, but I discovered that it is not out yet, which probably explains why.
I am probably behind the crest of the wave here, but do go out and read Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair , it's clever and witty. Looks set to establish him very much in the offbeat Rankin/Pratchett/Adams mould. Definitely someone to watch.
Celebrity Smokers (thanks John) - Smoking is an odd phenomenon, Richard Klein's Cigarettes are Sublime (out of print it seems) is well worth reading for a look at all the resonances.
OK, so they were mentioned on NTK, but Spank the Monkey is good and so is the way of the exploding stick.
The Japanese Female Facial Expression (JAFFE) Database, and look at the Mouthesizer too. (Thanks Ole)
The Stride Piano site - I just can't get my lefthand to do the right stuff (if you see what I mean). *sigh* It would help if I could my left hand to do anything of course! I really ought to try to find someone who could teach me. (Lots of good links from this site too)
I just noticed that yesterday's Fats Waller link is missing and I can't find it again. Ah, there it is. The party one is good - no piano, but it seems as though it has the voices of lots of famous piano players on it.
The Psychedilc Waltons don't appear to have a website - is this incompetence or post-post-modernism?
The Hogan's Heroes info yesterday was wrong - what else can you expect from the Internet? Here's an interview with Klemperer. And also try the Werner Klemperer Experience. (Thanks David H.) (Also this means that he is an Austrian not a German)
Buy Stainless Steel Online!!! I would have thought that in a global market calling your company "SameDay metals" was asking for trouble!
OK, I know it was on /., but you can now download Luxo Jr. from Pixar (and their other shorts too). Such a clever film.
I meant to rant a little last week about musicians. I went to a gig where a group of people playe dWestern Swing. The two fiddle players were the lead violinists of the Northern Sinfonia (they appear in the graphics on the home page). They played with the most astounding technical facility, and they even managed to swing which many classically trained musicians can't do, and the band was altogether really tight - the singers they had were excellent. But, and I don't know if I am being mean-spirited or not, the fiddlers were sight reading everything, including the breaks, and this just spoilt it for me. Now, the sheer skill involved in sight reading high-speed western swing fiddle parts is astounding, but why not just improvise? One of the violinists also did a version of Paddy on the Turnpike which he played so fast that the guitarist couldn't take a solo, and he sight read the whole thing - why didn't he learn it? They somehow missed the point of the whole thing I thought. (I'd go and see them again though)
Burmashave slogans - Bill Bryson always goes on about these but of course it is all entirely meaningless to people who didn't grow up in the USA.
I didn't realise that the guy who played the prison commandant in Hogan's Heroes had been held in a concentration camp.
Ladies' Fetish & Taboo Society - I can't help feeling I've mentioned them before, ah well, it's the first sign of encroaching age.
Two local links - the Whitley Bay Citizen and the Geordie Citizen. Presumably both from the same stable, and almost certainly not remotely entertaining to people who don't live here. I laughed though.
"I was going to wear some clothes, but then I got high....." - either he has had some radical plastic surgery or he is wearing something more than CDs.
Stargazer - it certainly wasn't the first weekly TV series on naked-eye astronomy, well I suppose it might be in the USA.
Check out the FAQ (and more) at misanthropic-bitch (not to be confused with misanthropicbitch) (Thanks John C.)
Why do people write books called things like "The Complete..." or "Effective ...." - who would want a book that was incomplete or ineffective??
The Platonic solids - I am glad that they are keeping their relationship on such a basis, goodness know what would happen if they didn't.
VR panorama of the Four Corners area (put your mouse in the image and move it - if you don't you will be unimpressed)