Bifurcated Rivets
Eclectica for epopts

Volume 35

22 Nov 2001

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10:05:39

Cover to Cover - this is the company that does unabridged readings of classic novels on tape or CD. A great service, if pricey.

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09:57:51

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!)

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09:53:47

Stereo MPs - this one has probably been around for ages but I hadn.t seen it (Thanks Pete C.)

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09:52:30

Good lord (to parpaharase John C.)

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09:49:46

Cates Garage Sale Finds - check out the cakes (Thanks John)

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09:48:16

Largest bridge in the world (at the moment)

21 Nov 2001

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17:17:10

Enoch Light (via Jen)

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13:30:08

Tokyo Essentials

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10:17:44

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)

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10:12:09

Infidelity Today

20 Nov 2001

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14:50:41

Lovely

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14:46:21

Not a great job, is it? (Thanks Pete)

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13:16:25

Gustav Morbid at the Museum of Depressionist Art

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10:14:16

Fake Stamp Art and the trouble it can get you in to.

19 Nov 2001

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12:19:47

Rizlagami (Thanks Matt)

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12:02:59

Frost-o-matic- build your own snowman

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12:01:37

Mouse art

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10:35:42

Aaaaaaaaaaaagh, a Krankies website. (If you don't know who they are don't try and find out. Just don't.)

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10:34:36

Metal Gear Solid Name Generator - mine is "Licorice Mongoose"

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10:32:54

Some of the ugliest stuff I have ever seen in my life.

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10:30:58

Why would anyone want to visit every Denny's?

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10:28:34

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.

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10:17:46

Ledpants - possibly some of the busiest webpages I have ever seen. (Another John C. gem)

16 Nov 2001

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17:47:54

Andragogy - do you know what it is?

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17:39:55

A-Z art (but no As)

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17:38:33

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!

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17:12:39

Pong

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16:59:21

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?

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14:35:44

Seethruweb has a zine with lots of good stuff on it. Why have I not bounced in here before?

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14:33:47

Timelessmail - sounds all very kind and proper but I think it is exploiting people. (Via Seethruweb)

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14:27:34

Tripotron

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14:10:33

Why Cats Paint - a theory of feline aesthetics

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14:06:19

Society for Interdisciplinary Studies - "The oldest and most up to date society for catastrophist information and research"

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14:04:11

Unknown News - extremely good stuff here.

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13:55:52

Misterpants went to look at the Scientologists the other day. He tells me it was scary and weird.

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12:33:40

I know this was on /., bit it is so horrendous that I thought it worth linking to.

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12:30:49

Good article about War and Language (Thanks JC)

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12:28:06

The Virtual Autopsy (II) (It's OK it's just words - no pictures)

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12:16:37

Surya Namaskar - I used to be able to do this years ago. I've forgotten most of it now.

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12:08:57

Don't forget to check in with the Aki Meguri that I mentioned a while back.

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12:08:15

Fake or Not - a slightly different take...

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12:07:32

Fake or Foto - another cracker from John C.

15 Nov 2001

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17:00:06

The Mirror Project - some of the images are quite fine.

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16:28:00

FreQuency sounds great - I wish I had a PS2

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16:11:43

Alexander Selkirk - good stuff apart from the horrible adverts! (Thanks Brian)

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13:57:10

Only in the USA (I hope) - Beat the Geeks

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10:17:13

Scientollywood

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10:16:19

Stupidity of Scientology exposed by its own web pages

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10:14:50

An answer to questions about Islam and shaving below the navel...

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10:12:18

Oh, I do like this cartoon.

14 Nov 2001

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16:42:52

I just tried out Melody Assistant - simply fantastic. There is even an OS X version so I can have it on my iBook.

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14:09:03

The World's Most Effective External Ashtray (I fixed their errors...thanks Simon)

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13:02:45

World English Billiards - billiards is a strange game.

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13:00:59

Thumb People - what?

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12:57:18

Oh, and Mr P also gives me the joyous chance to have my name carved in cheese!

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12:55:39

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?

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12:39:29

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)

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12:35:57

Dye pictures

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12:25:17

Have you seen this man?

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12:16:02

Can this be hacked to let me turn air guitar into audible guitar?

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10:36:00

Gustav Klimt site (another one via snotverjeppie)

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10:33:21

Nice panoramas (Thanks John C.)

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10:29:16

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)

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10:26:39

My Son Peter - gulp.

13 Nov 2001

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16:25:23

Buzzkiller

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16:22:03

WordLab - sort of words and a weblog and stuff.

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14:55:33

I hope that Princess Masako has a girl.

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14:50:06

The Virtual Wall

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14:35:28

Robot Challenge (thanks Ewano)

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11:45:32

Michael Jackson through the ages (via sharpeworld)

12 Nov 2001

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13:14:16

Christian Classics Ethereal Library - not exactly light reading for the most part.

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12:47:05

Hey, cauldrons.

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12:39:31

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?

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12:38:06

The webpage of Magdalene Meretrix

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12:36:53

The Beast bot (not working at the moment though)

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12:36:33

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?

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12:17:27

There are few things worse than a second rate satire site.

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12:15:48

The Chomsky bot

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12:15:12

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.

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10:28:01

I forgot to mention the Thursday Next website when I was talking about the Jasper Fforde book the other day

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08:45:48

RIP Ken Kesey

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08:12:30

The earth at night - entirely misleading about relative sizes of continents though.

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08:11:38

Stolen property

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08:09:47

Tripping the Rift - excellent

9 Nov 2001

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16:59:10

Fantastic rock writing archive (that's as 'n'roll not as in cakes or geology or a-bye-baby)

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16:57:53

I found the Jocks 'n' Cops I was looking for the other day.

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14:42:53

Guide to LA Beaches

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14:36:48

Binary (0101010001101000011000010110111001101011011100110010000001010111010010010110110001101100011010010110000101101101)

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09:55:02

GPS Drawing - sounds fun (via Sharpeworld)

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09:46:28

Prefixes for binary multiples

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09:34:19

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.

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09:29:12

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.

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09:26:00

Aphorisms Against Work - (YALFJC)

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09:23:08

Nice alchemy page - I even like the animated gif (Yet again thanks to John)

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09:21:46

The Nietzsche Aphorism Page (Another one from John C.)

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09:19:40

Good essay by John Le Carreé (Thanks John)

8 Nov 2001

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17:02:47

Tokimeki Memorial Goods

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16:57:23

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)

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16:51:32

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."

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16:49:51

Wonderful - The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings. This is a fantastic book - read it.

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16:46:48

Adult Fan Fiction - I think there may be an oxymoron floating around in there somewhere.

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16:44:18

the-kgb.com (Knights of Glory and Beer) - ah, it's some game. Nothing sensible.

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16:32:46

Guardians of Forever - SF writing

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16:31:04

Arts Deadline List

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16:30:07

Exploding Dog - odd is how I would sum this one up.

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16:28:23

Alienflower

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16:27:05

Glossary of poetic terms

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16:24:12

An exquisite corpse

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13:32:18

Penguinstein

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12:36:13

The sport of Potat-o-lanterns

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12:35:15

Zane Grey's West Society

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12:25:29

Windsor castle - no, not that one.

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12:21:46

Massage Free

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12:19:10

nicely bryced Celtic knot

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12:18:45

Nogart - lots of Bryce stuff

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12:14:47

Todog

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12:12:04

To Dog

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09:57:17

Bob's world of Liberace (I found this link (and the coin one) at Spantz.com - which has some excellent links)

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09:51:57

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.

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09:50:19

The low down on who said "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"

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09:28:04

There are more Robert Rankin related pages : here and here, but not the ones here or here.

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09:23:46

Went to a Robert Rankin book signing last night. He was entertaining, though had entirely forgotten that he had been here before.

7 Nov 2001

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15:30:36

Some great pictures of my favourite place in the whole world. (Thanks gav)

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10:04:18

Create a fart (Thanks John, I think)

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10:01:26

This flash driven wireframe skeleton is fantastic (via Sharpeworld)

6 Nov 2001

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12:19:27

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)

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12:16:47

The Mills Brothers

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12:16:34

The Def-A-Kators

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12:12:01

Wasted Youth leading to DeviantArt.

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12:11:06

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.

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12:06:15

Melonn leads me to Doodlevision

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11:23:51

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!!!

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11:18:34

The Kazoo in popular music (what about unpopular music?)

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10:08:41

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.

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09:50:01

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.

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09:46:42

I am probably behind the crest of the wave here, but do go out and read Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair UK  USA , it's clever and witty. Looks set to establish him very much in the offbeat Rankin/Pratchett/Adams mould. Definitely someone to watch.

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09:41:09

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.

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09:12:33

How can anyone take knives, pepper spray and a stun gun on a plane "by accident"?

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09:12:04

RIP Ernst Gombrich

5 Nov 2001

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13:24:00

Diloogay Otiot - bible reveals "there is no god"

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11:20:37

The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY of GESTURES, SIGNS & BODY LANGUAGE CUES (thanks John)

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09:53:55

Facade - the most popular divination site on the web. (I wonder if they predicted that?)

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08:45:46

OK, so they were mentioned on NTK, but Spank the Monkey is good and so is the way of the exploding stick.

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08:28:54

Badjocks - this one is closer.

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08:28:11

Cops 'n' Jocks - this is not the page I was looking for with a similar name.

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08:25:22

Blast, the "examples of ragtime and stride" link was missing - so here it is.

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08:19:36

The Japanese Female Facial Expression (JAFFE) Database, and look at the Mouthesizer too. (Thanks Ole)

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08:16:37

The Noh Mask effect - quite remarkable.

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08:08:08

Nettie Weber - buy those pixesl before he runs out. (Thanks william - wonderful!)

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08:07:22

Black Forest photos (or should that be photeaux??) - some excellent images.

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08:06:28

Sensible article

2 Nov 2001

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17:17:27

BMW Nightmares - the horror, the horror!! (Thanks Jan)

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14:44:41

Some fantastic midi explanations of ragtime and stride.

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14:39:41

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)

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14:37:29

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.

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13:18:53

The Psychedilc Waltons don't appear to have a website - is this incompetence or post-post-modernism?

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13:18:05

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)

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13:10:07

Jane's COPCase - I think this sounds scary. (Again thanks John C.)

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12:49:22

Political education via the Prisoner (thanks John C.)

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10:20:42

Buy Stainless Steel Online!!! I would have thought that in a global market calling your company "SameDay metals" was asking for trouble!

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10:12:48

OK, I know it was on /., but you can now download Luxo Jr. from Pixar (and their other shorts too). Such a clever film.

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10:10:39

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)

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09:48:08

The Invisible Library - a wonderful site, thanks Jen!!

1 Nov 2001

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13:42:03

The proper TDA page.

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13:30:43

Real Audio of private acetate recordings of Fats Waller. Not the greatest quality though.

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13:25:22

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.

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13:23:23

I didn't realise that the guy who played the prison commandant in Hogan's Heroes had been held in a concentration camp.

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13:19:20

Ladies' Fetish & Taboo Society - I can't help feeling I've mentioned them before, ah well, it's the first sign of encroaching age.

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13:15:45

Jim's Big Things (via Misterpants)

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13:12:39

From Canoes to Chryslers

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13:07:04

BubbleGun

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13:06:20

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.

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12:59:56

Fake WTO site

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12:57:36

I never saw this reported anywhere in the UK.

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12:48:02

I saw an Orwak van today which displayed the great slogan "making sense of rubbish"

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12:29:17

"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.

31 Oct 2001

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14:36:38

Jackie's Fridge

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08:19:40

yeti@home

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08:19:17

Sexual Encounters with Extraterrestrials

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08:16:50

iVersion digital sculpture

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08:16:09

Manhattan Timeformations

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08:15:30

Stargazer - it certainly wasn't the first weekly TV series on naked-eye astronomy, well I suppose it might be in the USA.

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08:11:05

The Way Back Machine. It has my homepage from April 1997.

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08:08:45

Welcome Stranger - media player only though.

30 Oct 2001

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19:09:16

The Brick Testament (a meme in the making - just watch it snowball)

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16:15:40

The poetry superhighway

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16:15:12

Haiku generation

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14:59:28

Graphomania

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14:59:03

Graphomania

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14:58:15

Graphomania

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14:57:57

Graphomania

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14:55:53

Graphomania

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14:55:33

Graphomania

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14:55:12

Graphomania

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14:54:15

Graphomania

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14:53:25

Graphomania

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14:53:13

Graphomania

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14:49:15

Exceptional Human Experiences

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14:48:41

The Archive of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences

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14:36:26

Curt Teich Postcard archives (Thanks John C.)

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14:33:19

The Rocket guy - didn't Elton John have a song about him?

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14:27:17

Cobralingus

29 Oct 2001

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16:42:15

AOLiza

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16:36:57

Weeeeeeee - excellent

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16:35:36

The Golden Gate Tunnel - strange.

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15:19:28

Ok, the Prime Number Shitting Bear is linked by everyone, but it is still good.

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12:27:38

Check out the FAQ (and more) at misanthropic-bitch (not to be confused with misanthropicbitch) (Thanks John C.)

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12:24:28

Nice flash movie (via gmtPlus9)

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10:21:28

Hop around the ARPAnet

26 Oct 2001

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16:25:44

Synergetics in the 1990s - a load of Bucky balls it seems to me.

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16:24:40

Stuff about running from Hal Hidgon (who he??)

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16:21:44

Why do people write books called things like "The Complete..." or "Effective ...." - who would want a book that was incomplete or ineffective??

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16:20:59

The codes of the wanderers

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16:20:22

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.

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16:19:09

Sundials on the Internet

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16:14:22

The Rockall Times - not all ther yet, try on Monday.

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16:13:25

Pimp Hats

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08:00:24

Paint the moon (thanks John C.)

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07:59:31

I really must try and remember buy nothing day this year.

25 Oct 2001

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17:11:19

Four Corners Paranormal Research

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17:10:43

Four coroners

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17:09:30

VR panorama of the Four Corners area (put your mouse in the image and move it - if you don't you will be unimpressed)

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17:06:19

The art of sacrificing four corners

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17:05:43

Four corners, four faces

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17:04:36

Four Corners Power Plant with a message from Craig Walling.

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17:03:52

The Four Corners

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17:02:50

Four Corners and Beyond - stories and photographs

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17:01:43

The Four Corners Monument in Utah

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17:01:07

The Four Corners Folk Festival sounds like my cup of tea. And hot springs too.

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16:59:51

The Media Dunk Tank (from Four Corners). I failed entirely to dunk anyone.

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16:57:22

Four Corners - on Mt Tamalpais. Not hte most atractive spot I've ever seen.

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16:56:27

Four Corners Hantavirus

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16:56:06

Ancient Indian Ruins in the Four Corners area

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16:55:27

Banner ad tips? Surely the only tip you need is "don't".

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16:52:33

Thursday the 25th seems like a good day to start a new volume.