16 March 2001

17:04:20
I also love these modern ruin pictures via gmtPlus9

17:01:53
I like this animation (via gmtPlus9)

16:54:27
I like this Submariner's FAQ that I found linked via Lake Effect

16:47:26
Dandi Palmer (who I mentioned before) has moved the portfolio of her works.

15:05:00
I've been a busy boy the last couple of days so not many links. Sorry.

14:55:05
textz - seems to be napster for texts. There is some interesting stuff here.

13:43:55
3D Browsing. Ugh. Just like the Zelda Ocarina control panel - vile and hard to use.

15 March 2001

10:21:29
Hot damn, it's world shattering news: Ramen taste must improve

09:45:07
Is Bill Gates related to "Bet-a-million" Gates??? (The answer is probably somewhere in the link but I'm too lazy to look this AM)

09:30:29
I am already offended by St Patrick's day nonsense and it there are still two days to go. I'm glad I'm not Irish - I would be so embarrassed by it all. Mind you the Scots have to put with tartan all year round so a single day is not such a problem i suppose.

09:27:34
I'm sure you'll remember my links about Hopi Ear candles (how could you forget???) of which I am a great fan. I am not so sure however about the butt candle....

09:24:38
I hadn't come across the satirical ezine The Brains Trust before. (Thanks David)

14 March 2001

15:27:24
Poetry in Newcastle. Check out the postcards.

12:46:55
Bootlace walking holidays - run by friends of friends. Nice scenery.

12:29:30
Smuggling golf clubs? Only in Japan

10:39:48
Great spoof flash intro. Says it all really

10:01:48
Sins Mag - another one I haven't quite worked out yet. All this just trying to find that damned naked housepainter.

09:59:32
The 442 byte DECss unscrambler is rather neat.

09:58:03
BoobToob - well endowed televsion

09:56:33
rumor mill news - wish Americans would spell rumour properly.

09:49:49
Circling - seems to be some kind of ezine. Odd, out of date lists of books. Amateurish feel (I should speak!!)

09:48:22
The Piety Page - I can't make out what its message is about at all.

09:46:06
The Army Men Homepage - toy soldier stuff.

09:44:10
Face Painting Examined - Thought this was going some point about kids and getting their faces painted. No, it's a diatribe about the sin of make-up. Back up a level and check out some of the other titles.

09:36:42
Weird Hetero Sex Fiction - odd. The miscmedia site it is part of is quite interesting too.

09:32:11
Imaginations's Edge - I was trying to fix the naked housepainting link from yesterday and found this.

13 March 2001

16:23:13
Jazz Age Chicago - lovely (Thanks Dan)

14:07:16
Norton Juster interview at Salon. The Phantom Tollbooth has always been a favourite of mine.

13:20:03
Have I mentioned the museum of hoaxes before? It's good anyway.

13:19:05
iSketch - a competitive sketching game in Flash.

13:17:57
Today in technology history. (Illiterate name, but good content)

13:16:24
Nude house painting......(Sorry was wrong link and now I can't find it again! If you run into it pass it on. *latest* Now fixed - thanks Dan!)

13:14:10
Another bizarre site.

13:09:51
Timecube - bizarre

13:09:23
The hacker's diet

13:07:11
I received an email message with three recipents, me, the drudge report and Rush Limbaugh. It was about something I knew nothing about either.

13:06:10
Officail cadillac ranch page. (Thanks George)

13:04:23
This is excellent.

13:02:51
Roadwaffles

13:02:46
An adult webcomic.

13:00:42
Searching the world for unknown animals. - the Global Underwater Search team

12:59:25
Play tunes on buildings (Thanks Frank)

12:58:36
Tudor Sumptuary laws

12:57:13
The prudes amongst you will not want to find out more about the star of the below mentioned Weatherwoman movie.

12:54:14
Another not to be missed Japanese art house movie? I haven't seen it myself. I do like the description of it as a "roman a cleavage" though.

12:41:05
Send a message to Christ. Go on, you know you've always wanted to. And don't get that nasty cheap paper. Do it on the expensive stuff. (Notice that they sell things other than wishes printed on paper that appear to be called "Holyproducts" - no space.) Canyou spell S.C.A.M. (Serving Christ And Mammon)

12:20:00
RIP Morton Downey Jr - composer of Wipeout. (*update* it seems that he had nothing to dowith composing wipeout after all)

9 March 2001

16:19:55
Just what we all need.

16:09:52
Lovely Kevin Warwick put down at the Register. What a plonker.

13:56:05
Very bizarre item at the BBC. It makes no sense whatsoever. Cyberwoozle is defined on this page.

13:43:33
Tonight's episode of Spaced sounds great. It is the best program on television at the moment. Utterly weird, but a lot of us have lived like that too. The website has loads of geek information about the program too so you can wallow in the referencing.

09:13:08
Beautiful - earthquake art. A sand pendulum trace from during the Seattle earthquake.

8 March 2001

14:46:25
Misterpants points me at Bloodhag - warning may induce literacy!!!

12:33:50
I should have mentioned this ages ago, but a great place to go is Robert Heckendorn's Today in History site. Lots of interesting snippets, and if you ask nicely you can get sent everyday by email. There's some other good stuff lurking on Robert's site as well. Some of the bike rides sound great.

12:13:57
What surprises me about yahoo is not that it is in trouble, but that anyone uses it at all. I have always found it to be a singularly useless system and that was before they added all the other crap to it.

12:08:47
Hmm, a cable laying robot in the sewers. Imagine sitting quietly on the toilet when you suddenly get a high speed connection to the net in an uncomfortable place.

09:48:28
I am using the KDE Konqueror browser on a day to day basis now and it is working pretty well, though it still can't handle SSL without crashing - that may be an installation problem on my part though and I haven't investigated it yet. Netscape for some reason just keeps crashing on me - I've changed nothing that I am aware of so I'm puzzled.

09:43:38
Why are they surprised that people don't want convergence of wireless devices? Convergence is a daft idea for lots of reasons (including that manufacturers can sell us more kit that way!)

09:31:01
I've been reading a book (Yankee Doodle Dandy by John Dizikes ) about the American jockey Tod Sloan. He was the person who popularised the far forward seat that jockeys all now use and was rode many many winners. The really interesting thing is that the expression "on your tod" that we still use is rhyming slang for on your own/Tod Sloan. BTW I recommend the book as a fascinating picture of life in at the end of the 19th century amongst the racing set. I should add that I have absolutely no interest in horse racing at all - in fact it is up there with formula 1 racing for boredom factor.

7 March 2001

17:34:31
Van Gogh Museum

17:29:59
Check out rga.com - an interesting start up page. But I bet it breaks browsers :-)

12:31:27
Dictionary of corset-related words and terms

11:48:56
I'd really like a digital radio, but the prices are ridiculous. Nobody will adopt this unless the prices come down sooner than this. - and digital radio is definitely the best of the digital technologies.

11:34:35
Swear in Polish.

11:32:36
Get clean whilst watching TV? My son would love this.

10:17:38
The US Secret Service. The counterfeiting section is interesting.

10:13:09
Luther Burbank's birthday today

09:52:24
Ah, the new iPaq link.

09:44:23
The new iPaq sounds great - I've lost the link to the page though.

6 March 2001

16:26:25
gmtPlus9 has a whole host of great links this past few days - too many copy here, just go and enjoy yourself amongst them.

09:24:16
Heating knackered in my office again. Brrrr.

5 March 2001

09:25:25
I was thinking about the destruction of the Buddhist statues by the Taliban, and realised, 1) that many of the people who are shouting about it ought to take a look at their own history and also at what some of their compatriots would do given the chance, and 2) I bet the Budhha wouldn't have been bothered at all - change is everything and you really have to avoid clinging to things, he'd probably also have said that they were storing up some pretty bad Karma too.

09:15:15
Need a bigger car?

2 March 2001

17:22:06
The Tornado Project

17:20:21
Paul tell's me that this virtual trainset is good, but needs IE > 4 to view so I haven't seen it.

09:31:17
Bill Gate's 37000 sq. ft house is "designed for a bachelor"!

1 March 2001

13:43:48
The Stonnington Intelligencer - there's a good weblog name in there somewhere, you know - the Newcastle Stupidifier or something like that.

13:41:22
Your complete guide to beans and lentils. I love lentils, ans some beans, though not all.

13:40:37
Exotic seeds bulletin board

13:12:58
Building Small Cupola Furnaces and the author's machine engineering works - nice pages

12:38:26
Repertoire of the Knit Your Own Yoghurt Ceildh band

09:35:15
It was National Potato day at the HDRA a couple of weeks ago. One year I really ought to get to it. (BTW if you garden you should be a member of the HDRA - do it now!)

28 February 2001

11:54:45
The Farmer's Alamanc of Celebrity Worth - fametracker.

11:51:10
Pictures of potatoes (via Misterpants) Potatoes are great.

11:40:20
This sound likes a neat machine. The Sotec page itself is in japanese.

09:38:43
Ray Vermey's Coaching page "How to become a successful person" has moved.

27 February 2001

16:49:22
The John Fahey website, though no obvious information about his death. (Thanks George) And, damn it, I would have sent him 25 bucks for an autographed book and now I can't.

14:51:56
Internet washing machine, and she's female too....

13:06:33
RIP Claude Shannon

13:02:43
I just received the following email:

> i need a detailed account of what causes car brakes to fail and a<br> > background of car brakes + how they work

12:41:01
Just installed the stable version of KDE2.1 - it is excellent. I've also just got tcl/tk installe don my i{aq and have got my IRC client Zircon running on it too.

26 February 2001

12:15:07
Nice analysis of National Missile Defence... Dubya please read.

09:54:27
I've just been exploring the Proper Records website - I want almost every single one of their records. What a great company.

09:37:30
I got a fantastic 4 CD set of Western Swing at the weekend . Called "Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys" it's produced by Proper records who seem to specialise in 4 cd boxed sets of interesting material. Check out the linked samples.

09:21:48
great 404 message.

09:20:45
The Great Culinary Search for Delicious Aliens - one way to get help I suppose. (Thanks Mike)

09:14:44
Incredible image (thanks Brian)

09:08:35
RIP Don Bradman - I can't stand cricket, but he was a great.

09:06:58
RIP John Fahey - a fine musician

23 February 2001

16:44:26
American Variety Stage - nice Library of Congress site.

13:49:35
There are some tantalising glimpses of interesting Linux PDA stuff at sikigami. I can pick odd bits out of the japanese but not enough!!

13:34:12
Quiet day and a busy day.....

09:56:21
Good lord, there is an avantgo channel that allows you find masonic lodges in Asia. How useful!!

09:53:26
Can you spell publicity arrangement. I wonder if she is a "beard"? Or do they not do that in Japan? Notice that she is already "Kurisumasu keki" as she is 27.

22 February 2001

16:25:25
Steely Dan win a Grammy? Bizarre.

16:22:26
Kansas re-enters the 19th Century.

14:45:32
Just been playing with Avantgo - very impressive. A very, very large amount of effort has gone into getting the system to be so easy to get going with (I did it via Netscape on a Mac and it worked like a charm - how many things can you say that for!)

13:48:41
What's happening in Pretoria - quite a lot in fact.

13:29:11
The exhibition of photogrpahs of everyone in the street where I live opened last night. What great images. They were taken by Jaakko Heikkila from Finland - a great photogrpaher and a great person too. You can see them at the Northumbria Universty Gallery.

13:24:58
The ALl your base song is done by the Laziest Men on Mars. (Thanks Gordon)

21 February 2001

17:41:59
Some nice upholstery trimmings from Spain.

15:57:04
All you ever wanted to know about Freecell (Thanks Frank)

08:50:31
I was updating my reading list yesterday and I was looking for an Amazon link for the book Intellectual Impostures. Couldn't find one, but it looks as though the bookhas been brought out in the US retitled Fashionable Nonsense - assuming it is the same book (and it certainly seems to be), what a classic example of dumbing down. It's a much weaker title too.

08:44:03
Amazing computer stories

08:42:59
Bin Laden has better technology than the NSA???????????? Can you spell propaganda?

08:40:15
Virtual Community of Ill Will - quite bizarre.

08:37:18
Life in the Finland Woods: The history of New Finland, Saskatchewan

08:35:57
Here's another ball of stuff page. And it has a set of links to other ball projects.

08:34:29
The croydon ball - so far I have been unable to work out what this is about.

08:32:23
Modern Moist Towlette Collecting. Seriously.

08:31:23
Another flashed site - the museum of dirt

08:28:29
All your base are belong to us. This is really good - has someone actually released this as a single? (Sadly, needs flash)

20 February 2001

17:07:05
Catering for your water cooling needs.

16:51:34
Guess the dictator

13:56:27
Strange audio clips.

13:53:25
The net seems slow today for some reason.

13:50:30
Get a pibroch on mp3. Pibroch is wonderful.

12:12:04
Ah, we have sound again - goodness knows what I did! What a great tune Lovecats by the Cure is.

11:57:35
HYmm, having my speakers plugged intot he microphone socket won't have helped. However, it's still not working.

11:34:41
Harvard bloke reinvents the one-time pad (as far as I can make out - YMMV)

10:39:36
I can't get my damned sound card to work under Linux 2.4. How really, really annoying.

10:28:24
Get pooted

10:26:12
News from the dear leader (Thanks to Jan for this one and the last two)

10:25:19
Great article and photos about Panmunjom. The other parts of the trip are good too)

10:23:43
Find out what the other side are saying : the Iraqi news agency.

10:22:36
Meet Mr Serpent (Thanks Jan)

19 February 2001

16:11:00
For some reason I like this, though it isn't really that funny.

16:06:40
Lynching photography in America. Ah, 20th century civilisaation in the land of the free!

16:04:14
Ouchy the clown. I've always hated clowns and this one is particularly nasty.

16:00:58
A lot of photos of a singer you've probably never heard of performaing at events you will never have heard of. She is Canadian I suppose.

15:59:38
"We want Amway to be thought of as a company that undertakes bold reforms and which energetically protects the consumer," Amway Japan's president Steven A. Robbins is quoted as saying. Excuse me while I laugh.

15:52:06
Maps and stuff.

15:44:58
Duct Tape clothes (Thank you Misterpants)

15:11:34
Mad Monarchs

09:16:17
Dead pet rabbit at weekend which engendered much trauma in daughter.

09:10:17
Whilst I find the Annals of Improbable research only mildly amusing, their links page is good.

09:09:23
Support the dateline dig!

16 February 2001

12:44:29
Great experimental write up - I did experiments like this too in Physics. I remember getting g to be equal to 146. I should say the that the lab supervisor ended up as a director of the Edinburgh folk festival.

12:40:36
The Furby Hooker Network

12:38:56
Past Life Analysis - I was a Mongolian Musician

12:33:35
Vegetable diseases - can't work out what goes wrongwith my potatoes though.

09:32:39
I just hacked my Netscape so as to play animations only once - very useful and easy too. I tried the new mozilla (0.8) in which you are supposed to be able to turn it off totally, but I can't find a switch to do it and playing with appears to be the setting in the prefs js file just stops pages loading. Mozilla is a truely classic example of how not to build software - bits of it are really good, but so much of it is just shoddy and shakey that it makes it unusable.

08:04:35
Customs declaration for Apollo 11

07:55:17
I just saw a book called "The perfect Resumé: second edition" - do the people who bought the first edition have a case for their moeny back?

15 February 2001

16:21:14
I just discovered that a paper of which I am co-author has been included in a collection of classic operating system papers edited by Per Brinch Hansen. AH, ego massage - wonderful stuff.

16:18:43
Aaaagh, something keeps tickling my disc and it is making a really really annoying seek noise. Haven't worked out what it is yet though.

11:41:22
Yeah! I've got my wireless network card up and running on this machine. After much pain and struggle with IRQs etc. Why do PCs have such a terrible architecture?

10:22:44
London Bridge visualisation. Great stuff, thanks paul

09:50:02
Ah, the wed, 'tis a wonderous thing: You express a desire for Foxy Lady and it appears in your mailbox in less than five minutes. (Ta Spo.) Now, about that Million pounds I was hankering after....

09:36:07
Is anyone else finding that User Friendly is becoming so obscure that it is almost incomprehensible (as well as not being at all funny anymore)

09:28:37
I had a sudden urge to listen to Foxy Lady by Jimmy Hendrix, and of course I don;lt have it here. (No, I'm not even going to think about Napster!)

09:27:58
Atomic Books - I can't remember if I've linked this before, but there is some good stuff here.

14 February 2001

09:21:27
I'm of to a voice training course now.

09:21:11
This is a really bad idea. "Enhanced browsing" indeed. "Tuned to what the consumers are searching for" - I wonder what it would do for some of the search strings I come up with! Of course, I can still filter most of the crap out on my desktop anyway so it isn't that critical.

13 February 2001

16:37:27
Hmmm, I've got 2.4 running but can't get the sound card set up right yet.

13:00:11
Tried to build a Linux 2.4.1 kernel, discvovered I'd left out disc driver support - no wonder it wouldn't start!!

09:41:27
Opera seems to work very well, if only they would get rid of the utterly stupid MDI interface. I want windows and I want lots of them. I hat MDI systems! I also hate the stupid advertising box at the top which I am sure someone will have a hack to get rid of shortly.

09:39:23
OK, you'll probably have seen this, but these huge crystals sound incredible. I say sounds because the page wont render under netscape, ah, but it does in opera - lord, they are big!!

09:29:10
JeffGlover.com - nicely done pages, funny too in parts. (Ta P)

12 February 2001

14:36:07
RIP Herbert A. Simon

14:28:35
He might be a whizz at feng shui, but he can't do websites!

12:53:34
I've been listening to a great CD of music by the mandolinist Jethro Burns - simple, direct and virtuoso playing.

12:05:04
Installing a network PostScript in BSD UNIX. As illustrated through interpretive dance

10:19:39
An excellent article about people who still fear Y2K. Really quite bizarre. I'm a quite sure that there are conspiracies out there, but the cock-up theory of governement definitely seems to rule out any really cover ups of this magnitude. (Though look at the moon landings I suppose :-) )

10:13:37
Great delta blues site (Thanks george)

9 February 2001

13:58:32
Funny front page. But who is Mike Gallay? SHould I know the name?

09:55:30
More pedantry - have you noticed how many people cannot spell particular? The number of times I've seen "perticular" in the last couple of weeks is astounding. (5,530 google hits)

09:31:42
From the number of tags left at the bottom I assume people thought there was a catch.

8 February 2001

20:27:15
Great WAP hack: <card id="card1" onenterforward="#card1"> puts many WAP phones in a loop.

15:39:50
Well, I've got Linux up and running on my iPaq now. Very fast.

15:26:43
A Mac installed in a Nissan Pathfinder.

10:05:01
Something that has really been bugging me recently is the increasing prevalence of people using "myself" instead of either I or me. Is this because they think that "myself" sounds more important or is it because they know so little about (English) grammar that they cannot tell when they need to use the accusative? Whatever the reason, it drives me up the wall!

09:20:59
RIP Dale Evans and J.J. Johnston - an unlikely pairing, I think you'll agree!

7 February 2001

17:13:35
The attack on libraries and comment on it introduced me to this cartoon. Truely fine. When they start attacking the public libraries then it is time to get worried.

16:42:45
Cobralingus - metamorphiction by Jeff Noon. Interesting stuff. Noon is a good writer.

14:53:17
Bugger, something fell off a desk onto a power switch and shut off my machine which I had then to get rescue discs to recover! I wonder what got corrupted?

12:41:11
The British Eugenics Society

12:14:35
How come you never ever meet any of these in real life?

12:13:11
Another gmtPlus9 classic : these photographs are fantastic. So are these.

12:09:29
Say it with bile!

12:08:51
The latest ghost sites has a great set of images of defunct e-commerce sites.

12:03:12
We got some iPaqs yesterday. Quite neat, but I think the kind of retro-fifties science fiction look is not very nice. I don't think that the build quality is particularly good either.

6 February 2001

12:09:23
The Yerba Maté page.

11:56:24
Only in Japan - a toilet that won't smell.

08:50:03
These USB keyring hard-drives look great. Now if only I had a machine with USB...

08:40:39
USAF Gallery of Pursuit Aircraft - if that floats your boat.

08:34:06
The slashdot story generator is wonderful!!

08:29:42
Fake Moonshot theories - whilst I think that it would have been perfectly practical to fake the moonshots, the theories based on photpgraphic evidence have all been debunked by photographers. Also I don't think that the people involved were clever enough to have even considered the idea of faking it!

08:23:49
Oh no!!! Tom and Nicole have split up! Why was this front page news on at least two "newspapers" today?

5 February 2001

12:41:11
Messiest college apartment contest winner - looks pretty clean to me. Students these day - they can't even dirty up a room properly!

10:31:22
How aliens invented the Internet to analyze the human collective unconcious. (The author seems to think that Win2K is a word processor, so that tells you almost all you need to know about his computer smarts)

10:16:52
Hmm, the CyKey - I thought this was no longer available. Microwriting is a great system for chording and there is a great dearth of products that support it. This is a little too expensive though I think.

09:54:52
Castles in the USA? I am astounded.

09:54:01
Experience music live. AN excellent idea in fact - live music is always better.

09:49:55
This site is really rather bizarre - I really can't fathom out what is going on at all. Oracle8 notes for supermodels?

09:43:12
The DMarie time capsule - time in a date and fine some (US centric) information that was current within a few months of it. ALmost a good idea, but really doesn't cut it.

09:40:09
The celebrity nude database - no pictures, just references. How quaint.

09:39:17
The Gallery of the Absurd - much strange stuff. (Thanks J.)

09:37:22
The stick figure site has been upgraded.

09:34:20
Make sense of this site then.

09:32:56
Firediving - almost certainly a spoof, though there are people who seem to think otherwise.

09:32:03
Another Literary Review - not the one I was looking for though (Thanks Leonard)

2 February 2001

17:53:40
I'll have one of these, please.

16:30:10
I can't find the website for the Literary Review which is annoying - some of the deeper bits are still their, but the top level seems to have vanished. I wonder if they didn't pay their registration for the domain name or something.

15:43:45
Some great shots of vintage US caravans and trailers (Thanks George - stay warm!).

13:57:45
Finally found the unix real player, but it is sloooooow to download.

13:28:04
Nice article about ragtime and early recording. Sounds like a good record that it is reviewing too! Must see if I can find it.

13:24:05
Several articles about the St louis Tickle say that the B part is based on a well known street song. This page has more information about that.

13:20:52
Ooops, apologies to the late Mr Navratil for linking him to some scientologist propaganda! Now fixed.

12:47:11
A great ragtime midi site!

12:44:22
Some notes about ragtime tunes including the St Louis Tickle which I am trying to learn on the piano at the moment. It's a tune I first heard as a guitar piece by Dave Van Ronk. I can't play it on the guitar either. Here's a sample of him playing it.

12:32:21
Lots of pictures of members of the Tickle/Tickel family.

12:25:33
RIP O. Winston Link - taker of astonishing photographs of steam trains.

1 February 2001

16:21:32
Dion Nash: cricketer

16:20:09
A litho by Mark Dion.

16:18:33
Guido and Dion Hibdon - The only Father-Son World Champions in Bass Fishing today. I've nver understood the desire to kill fish.

16:14:41
Dion Boucicault: His Life and Times

16:08:56
Dion and the Belmonts

16:07:03
Dion Fortune - caballist and mystic The Society of Innerlight uses her teachings.

16:05:58
Dion by Plutarch

16:05:18
A site by the Institute for Survival By Design - Richard and Dion Neutra Architecture. Some nice pictures around.

15:44:54
Robot nurses?

13:49:07
Well, I hope someone jumps on this straight away. The patent system in the USA has got way out of hand. I used to think that the Brain people were OK too. (Given the amount of prior art there is for this, goodness knows how he got away with it anyway!)

12:11:55
RIP Michael Navratil - philosopher and last male survivor of the sinking of the Titanic

10:27:41
Take the Spark Gender Test - it got me wrong I should add. Lots of other tests to do on the site as well.

10:21:00
The 23 Enigma

10:20:30
Article about Flann O'Brien with lots of good links.

10:16:02
Nice engraving of a diamond saw machine. This archive at Cornell has some great stuff in it - someone must have spent a lot of time scanning old magazines!

10:13:47
The Maritime History Virtual Archives

10:09:18
How to survive a fire in your home, courtesy of the Shriners. Do you have to wear a Fez though? And why is that suspicious looking man, who appears to be carrying a shotgun, taking that little girl away?

10:06:52
Why be human? How radical, dude.

10:04:16
Making fire with flint and steel.

10:03:24
Incendium Fire Circus

10:02:36
Fire-by-Friction with Damp Materials

10:01:45
Fire Eating FAQ

09:53:53
Snippets from Japan Today : 61 seconds to steal an ATM - not bad going there.
Evidence may have been eaten.
Life as a human punch bag

31 January 2001

17:23:12
Into the "Erotic Lifestyle" (whatever that is)? Speak German? Then condomi is for you! (Acording to the Register they advertised themselves on the back of a boxer.)

11:14:35
The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing courtesy of Compaq (Thanks Frank). Some good stuff here.

30 January 2001

12:35:23
I picked this Ubiquitous Computing Log up from Scribble - thanks Kulesh.

11:57:03
Saturnalia - may offend, though if it does, why are you reading this page?

11:44:45
The sheep brain dissection guide - might be useful for the cuts of lamb.

11:44:01
Proparanoid - reacting to ACTUAL persecution

11:40:51
Champion Sheep - sheep stuff

11:40:02
Do you know your cuts of lamb? (There is more than one?)

11:39:02
The Sheep Research Foundation

11:35:32
An Anime Pippa

11:34:46
The famous Pippa Passes picture.

11:32:30
Pippa the laughing bear.

11:31:05
Singer, actress, model - so why is she shown palying the Sax?

11:29:08
This Pippa page I cannot make out at all, but there again I never saw Tiswas so that may explain it!

11:27:59
A boat called Pippa.

11:26:49
A staue of Pippa (of the Robert Browning play)

11:26:16
The London Open Drumming group. I must admit, that even though I am open to most things, I find modern day, western shamanism rather hard to take as anything other than ludicrous. My fault I'm sure - I probably just need a good sweat and a bout of drumming.

11:23:38
More Pippa dolls - I have no recollection of ever seeing Pippa dolls, though I suppose there is noreason why I should have.

11:18:54
If your first name is Pippa.... (I hope you are reading these, Pippa!)

11:17:47
Pippa.org - nothing there but a nice graphic.

11:17:28
Pippa L'vinn, lady wrestler - how do you pronounce that last name?

11:15:44
Pippa dolls

11:13:21
WooHoo - why is the woman with mad eyes standing on one leg behind the man in the hover chair?

10:01:19
Soap making

29 January 2001

16:32:42
Lots of illusions and interesting stuff. The shop is great and I would gladly own any of the items, particularly the Chinese Singing Fountain Bowl (Whose page is currently giving an error) It's all a bit pricey though.

16:25:10
Get that Robert E Lee look!

16:24:14
The international society of water jet technology. (Sadly very dull)

16:02:09
We all clearly need Gold Ox Brand boilers.

15:58:04
Boring! sorry I meant Boeing. Whatever turns you one, I suppose.

14:56:55
Pop Talk - really badly put together as well.

14:54:23
What do you think fenitilia.com might be about? Have a look and see.

14:53:19
gmtPlus9 does it again with this Japanese Sign site.

12:46:32
Some really good music to listen to. Needs Flash though. Done by Matthew Samson now of our Music Department.

12:21:09
I think I like the before better - she looks like a human being there!

12:19:51
Need a roof-rack?

12:17:07
Why am I not surprised that this happened on a Quantas flight?

26 January 2001

13:40:43
I got bored with that background so I got a new one.

13:35:01
Nothing like changing your cover illustration every issue. Nothing like it.

13:34:00
The two Babylons

13:28:15
Lindsays Ancient and Modern, and Muted!

13:20:10
Strange photo.

13:09:28
The DegerPipes Electronic Chanter. Even has MIDI output. Great stuff. Check out the wav files too - sounds fantastic, and you can get different sounds out of it. I want one! Trust the Germans to make playing the bagpipes efficient :-)

13:03:39
Nice image on cannabis.net and another one. (Thanks Brian)

12:57:28
Rocket video - looks fun. Firing rockets is good fun - very satisfying.

11:46:30
I'm sure this is one that is being linked all over the place at the moment, but bonzaikitten is good - and some people even think it is genuine!

09:50:20
I want a cybiko

09:46:14
For ages I have been wondering why my error log was filled with people trying to execute colour names. I know I have a colour selector page, but I couldn't work out how people were generating colours in URLs. I finally worked out today that people can't read simple instructions and were typing into colour names into the box where you can specify the URL for a background image file. *sigh*

09:31:25
Someone keeps trying to retrieve a file called "msadc/..À¯../..À¯../..À¯../winnt/system32/cmd.exe" from my server. I wonder what they are trying to do!

09:29:59
Johnny, who complains I habven't been using his links, points me at the Complaint generator.

09:08:36
License plates of the world (thanks J, again)

09:06:54
Make a (US) license plate... (Thanks Johnny - see I do use them)

08:20:28
Check out this rip-off set of connectors (via the Register)

08:07:57
Great story about MI6 using Pentel pens for secret writing. (Needs registration, sorry)

08:02:39
I don't know what to make of Huge Disk - "The men's magazine so manly it sweats" Some of the Huge Toss-Offs are entertaining though.

25 January 2001

12:52:35
I cant find a version of Real Player that I can install on Linux that runs. Bugger.

12:37:02
A Real Audio of Earle Brown's 25 pages - guess what the score consists of....

12:35:29
A history of the Minnesota State Highway patrol 1929-Present. A candiadte for most boring page ever I think!

12:32:42
More invented instruments.

12:28:50
A really hard to read page about Ern&ouml; Kir&agrave;ly, featuring some pictures of some rather odd musical instruments he built.

12:26:18
A couple of pictures of Earle Brown on this page, and an image of his signature as it appears on the score for December 1952, but not the score yet....

12:22:01
Earle Brown wrote a piece of music called December 1952 which is of course when I was born. It is, to say the least, unconventional in that the score is just a large square with some short lines drawn in it at various places. So far I haven't been able to find a linkable image of it though.

12:08:13
I watched Testsuo: Iron Man last night. It was described as a "cult movie". As you would therefore expect, it had an incomprehensible plot, was badly filmed and was generally an utter waste of time. The "nauseating effects" mentioned on the linked page were ridiculous and laughable.

11:53:08
Waaaaasabi!! - try horseradish toothpaste.

09:14:26
Watched the new Series of the Adam and Joe Show on E4 last night. It was really funny - the best thing of all was the Star Wars models doing the Royle fmily. Jabba as Jim and Han as Dave and of course the Emperor running Who wants to be a Millionaire. Very, very clever. Of course the E4 website only works with IE at the moment which is not exactly clever. When will people learn?

24 January 2001

13:01:52
Useful XML portal - lots of good links here.

12:53:49
Bath House Blues - Russians upset the Japanese.

12:33:02
OK, so this one has appeared all over the place already, but I do like the origami CD case. Mind you I haven't tried to make one yet.

12:31:23
"Stories of random encounters in everyday life" at strangelyfamiliar. Sadly it suffers from tiny text so is impossible to read on my display.

12:29:20
Thanks, George, for the pointer to Common Dreams - lots of depressing news about the state of the world.

12:28:30
Strange missing site - at commonground.net. Lots of statistics though!