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11:54:51
Silence will be golden for a while here as I am about to disappear and be
disconnected for a couple of weeks. Normal service will be resumed after
that.
14:07:35
And finally from Janet, the deformed frog cam. I
really do not know what to say about this one. I am wary of describing it as
bizarre since someone took me to task for describing their website as
bizarre.
14:03:12
Another doozy from Janet : Solar System Collisions Wipe
out life as we know it.....
14:00:43
Go now and get "Why We Buy" by Paco Underhill . I fyou have anything to do
with shopping of any kind then it is a must read. The only weak point is that
in his chapter on e-shopping he clearly does not understand the underlying
technology so makes some bad assumptions about what is possible and/or
reasonable to expect. That is a minor quibble - read it.
13:58:48
Lovely page
about snowcrystals. (Thanks Janet)
16:20:28
The Faces of
Giza. Amazing self delusion.
15:38:15
"Comes with facsimile autograph" Could anything be a more tantalising come on
for a product? Especially a life size cardboard cut out of Michael
Jordan.
15:35:46
Nothing like having an up to date page is there? Nothing like it in
fact.
15:32:59
Interested in Avengers
merchandise? I thought not.
15:05:46
Pantani was astounding in yesterday's stage of the Tour. Amazing climbing
ability.
12:15:15
Wow, $1500 dollars for dinner
for 4! (Thanks LG) This is the kind of ludicrous conspicuous consumption that
really makes my blood boil!! Grrrr.
12:04:27
There is a new biography of the Nicholas Brothers : Brotherhood in
Rhythm by Constance Valis Hill.
This may well be a must read book.
11:55:37
Useful
glossary of film terms (thanks Frank) Though I note it doesn't have "best
boy" or "Key grip", though I suppose those are not film terms, just film
industry terms.
11:53:49
Want to buy a skull? I remember
getting a flier from a catalogue that said "Genuine human thigh bones!" on the
front. It was delivered to work and I got the strangest looks.
11:39:47
Odd: ecrush.com - now you can tell the
world without owning up. Or something.
11:33:41
Lots of Japan stuff from a
gaijin resident.
12:22:34
Oh, happy Bastille day.
12:21:48
World Corporal Punishment Rearch - very
bizarre indeed. What this has to do with research is beyond me. I suspect the
creator of the site deserves a good spanking.
12:15:58
This is a good US/UK
dictionary. Very comprehensive.
12:09:07
Transfixion - postmodern reading.
12:06:21
The incense project
15:41:37
Derek's Big Website of
Wal-Mart Purchase Receipts. It really is. Years and years worth of them.
Great.
15:39:53
Found
photographs. This is become a popular website theme!
15:28:42
The Bob Lancaster Gallery of unusual
playing cards.
14:37:52
Another male Lindsay
Marshall! Chief Lindsay Marshall no less! He's a Mi'kmaq rather than a Scot
though.
12:56:31
This is the Ancient
Lindsay tartan. "Ancient Lindsay" just about sums up the way i feel at the
moment.
12:54:39
Here's the homepage of
another man called Lindsay. The Doric poem is fun.
12:48:33
Startrek in the
style of Robert Burns.
12:46:49
Folk songs and tunes - nicely
done.
12:44:08
Women Hymn
Composers before 1900.
12:38:09
Andy's Rant pages
11:15:06
Nice Archimedes site.
10:29:23
"Words of
wisdom from a man claiming to be Fed Rogers" by Daniel Wincenty. Odd
10:18:30
Piccolo
Mondo "blurs the lines between the fiction and fact of those days,
challenging both the boundaries of narrative and the rules of biography. This
hilarious collaborative novel chronicles the coming of age of a generation, a
city and a literary culture. " Beware of any text described as "hilarious"
- a sure of sign of forced humour...though this may of course be very
funny...I've not laughed yet, or been impressed with the quality of the writing
which comes on like someone's "write three pages everyday" free writing
exercise.
10:13:27
Is some music damaging? "Is it
possible that music, as well as TV and the internet are corrupting the youth of
America? Or perhaps it's not the music but the youths themselves, who are
unable to distinguish between what is entertaining and what can truly harm
them, emotionally and even physically." Given that the author of this piece
does not know how to spell "the Beatles", I am not impressed with the
background knowledge brought to this piece.....
10:09:33
Learn about the TeaChestnutPersimmon Japanese folk tale. Listen to the
pronunciations of various Japanese words connected with the story too.
10:06:52
Chinese Chess site.
10:03:29
I'm sure that if you have director installed then scsiwyg.com will entertain you. I don't so it doesn't
me.
10:01:04
The Burro Crane - read the last line of the page and see that the author
doesn't understand how the web works.....
09:55:10
Pokey, the little
burro. Sick bag please.
09:47:28
Adopt a donkey.
09:26:54
RIP Harold
Nicholas Without question the greatest of the athletic tap dancers.The
Nicholas Brothers would have been huge stars if they had not been black.
13:57:29
God's
armour sounds mighty uncomfortable to me. I notice that wearing it turns
you pigeon toed, have knock-knees and makes you look like a character from a
"Love is..." cartoon
13:54:23
I saw a product called "Don't flutter with butter". I don't think that I can
get those words to make sense.
13:53:52
Words that contain all the vowels.
13:32:04
A useful guide to
Occult signs and symbols. Thanks to the kind folks at exposingsatanism.org. BTW Notice the
background at this site. It says "King Jesus", which abbreviates to "KJ".
Invert this and you get "JK" as in Rowling - another clear evidence of the
luciferic link!!!
13:11:47
Thanks to Skinny Rob for even more Harry Potter nonsense. This one is
particularly nutty, not to mention illiterate.
12:19:33
Still can't find a link for the seven Seals v Harry Potter story. (I should
have said that it was mentioned in Need to
Know of course)
12:18:05
More Harry Potter nonsense : "According to
repentant wiccan, David Meyer, the occult instruction presented in Harry Potter
books is an authentic primer for the black arts." Um, where exactly does this
occult instruction take place in the books? I presume it must be hidden in some
devilish way.
12:01:41
Good Lord, there are people bidding 250 pounds for signed editions of Harry
Potter. For that money they could have travelled to every single one of the
book signings and got a copy at each of them. People are very strange.
09:37:22
Playing all weekend knacked my arm even more. *sigh*
09:37:03
It was Newcastleton folk
festival last weekend. It rained but there was some great music around . It
was in fact the 31st festival rather than the 30th as it says on the web page
as they made a fence post error when counting - all the badges they had said
the 30th'ish festival. Some excellent young players in the sesssions this
year.
09:33:50
Oh, I do like the suggestion that the Seven Seals of Revelations are in fact
the seven Harry Potter books. Yesterday my daughter and I queued four hours in
the rain to get her copy of volume four signed by the lady herself. She was
signing at the most amazing speed and still managed the odd word to the kids:
very professional. (Later...on viewing the evidence (see other items) it is
clear that she must be helped by Satan to be able to write so fast.)
15:54:30
MP3s with ads.
So even if they got this off the ground, how long before there was a player
that just filtered them out? Or why not just close the window?
09:10:31
Horrible, wet miserable day.
13:44:04
Article about pangrams -
excellent.
13:40:16
Strange.
13:24:22
A page about plugh. A page about XYZZY.
12:58:26
I tried to find a page about the Warrnambol steeplechase (5.5Km, 33 jumps)
which has the distinction that in 1909 and 1934 no horses finished at
all, but no luck so far.
12:56:21
nice sand dune photos.
09:39:02
I finally got to listen to the Large
Hot Pipe Organ I mentioned the other day - It's great
.
09:22:22
Irony at 24-7?
12:56:56
The history
of Tom Baker's scarves. I used to have a multi-coloured scarf that was 13 foot
long as well.
12:50:40
Are you saved or a reprobate? Can you listen to this without being
scared? I note that these pages use the name Yeshua, so I suspect that they are
real extremists. There seems to be some inconsistency here, how come they claim
that no musician can play well in hell, yet don't they say that the Devil has
all the best tunes? Anyway, this recording really scared me. How could anyone
listen to this crap and take it seriously?
11:37:24
Sing this song
for Satan!! Another neat audio clip.
11:32:00
The Fox in Socks - streaming MP3. I used to read this to my kids all the
time. (via gmtPlus9)
11:15:57
Great spoof guide to creating a
shoot 'em up game. Thanks Karl
08:31:12
Serious muscle pain in the elbow today. Ow.
15:52:43
Talking about the LRB, this
article from the latest issue about the US economy is excellent.
15:51:51
The Literary Review is one of those
magazines that I never quite know whther or not to buy. Like the London Review of Books, I'm sure that there will be
good stuff and awful stuff in equal measure. I suppose anything that made me
want to buy more books is not a good thing, both for financial and storage
reasons.
15:34:38
Good page about Irish
Railway history.
15:34:13
I was reading about the wonderful sounding Victorian cliff path at the Gobbins,
near Larne and that it was now in total disrepair and inaccessible. The only
half decent image I can find is on this page, but i am
glad to say that they seem to have just got a wad of cash to restore the
path.
15:09:58
I really, really, really want a Canon Digital-Ixus. Sadly I
don't have 600 pounds to spend on anything let alone a frivolous (but utterly
gorgeous) digital camera. *sigh*
14:59:40
These personal id
T-shirts seem a fun idea - until the 666ers get hold of the story of
course.
13:14:59
Yesterday i read Clifford Stoll's High Tech Heretic and I must say that I do
rather tend to agree with him. he is a little OTT in places, but his general
arugment is sound. Definitely well worth reading.
12:43:19
Yay! I've got two mice working on my system so I can swap between
trackball/wheel and normal mouse at will.
09:55:02
Haven't had any Jlinks for a while so here's sugu.com for you.
09:50:45
The Campaign Against Piped
Music. I hate the stuff, but the psychology behind is rather interesting I
must admit. (Thanks Val)
09:44:50
What can I say about the Large Hot Pipe
Organ? I want one. Now. Again thanks Patrick.
09:43:20
Whooo: the advanced lightning
facility - an attempt to build the world's largest Tesla coil. (Thanks
Patrick)
09:34:48
Random TV watchings: I loathe football, but the French's winning goal was
rather spiffy. I also ended up watching the Lesley Garrett
program taht is on the BBC - she sang "Let the bright seraphim" (a song I sang
in the choir at school) with a baroque trumpeter and it was fantastic - she was
enjoying herself so much, and of course she is really rather a good singist.
She also had the pianist Lief Ove Andsnes on and he played some haydn which was
amazing.
09:28:02
Ah, the Tour has started again. I wonder
why they haven't got "tourdefrance.com" registered - letour.com is just
perverse. Still too early to see whoses going to come good this year, but all
kudos to Millar.
09:25:52
Weird Nursing Tales? I can get
those from my nextdoor neighbour.
12:37:51
Magnetic therapy. I love the way
they use "mainstream" as though it meant "proven". (BTW many alternative
therapies do work, but I think magnets are really dubious - though not
as dubious as magnetic water softeners!!)
12:36:05
Tim MacInerny, Backside
Noogan, the tom soyale planters, Melbourne, clip: Jamie Driver
12:35:56
Na
Mea Makamae: treasures of Hawai'i
12:27:00
The busted jug of Jerry
Felix. Perplexing
12:22:12
Gonny no dae that - the
Scots translator....
12:20:52
The Souters.
12:16:26
Handknit information - good
volunteerrun site.
12:11:53
A photograph
of people harvesting teasles in 1948.
12:09:21
Web exhibition at Cornell about books and paper. Quite well
done.
12:05:01
I challenge you to find a good use for this background.
11:59:09
This Escher art
applet is entertaining for a while.
11:56:22
Random word Haiku (Aldo
from Val) - this is fun.
11:54:25
On the same theme, a page of thrift store art. These are so
ghastly it is untrue. (Thanks to Val for these)
11:53:21
A page of found
art. Whether it is art is questionable, but it was certainly found!
11:51:44
I got mailed about Stay Free
Magazine, soliciting a link - something I don't normally respond to, but it
has lots of good content. Pity about the use of shockwave though.
11:48:38
Publius sounds
interesting.
14:54:22
I finally added some more books to the reading list, but I am still
a long way back.
14:29:52
I've been writing java all day. What a horrible system it is.
12:01:30
Thursday 29th June seems like a good date to start a fresh page.
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