The Cartoonist

Saturday, November 30, 2002

Lots of Helvetica there, I'm afraid. Nevertheless beautiful posters, which you can send to friends as e-cards: Swiss Poster History 7:42:20 PM     |

Interesting website about the Soviet Union Manned Lunar Program. And the rest of that site isn't bad either. 4:51:24 PM     |

Don't mention the war. Funny interview with John Cleese in Der Spiegel. (in German) Humor: "Narkose des Herzens" - DER SPIEGEL - SPIEGEL ONLINE 2:21:45 PM     |

The famous Karuselli chair is still being produced by Avarte. You can download a brochure and a 3D model of the chair - and of course look at all their other fabulous furniture. 11:36:07 AM     |

A new 'classic' Mac? According to this article there's a new Mac in the pipeline: 12inch screen, 800Mhz G4 processor, slot for TV tuner, airport ... and all for $799?! Via Industrial Technology and Witchcraft. 9:53:46 AM     |

Friday, November 29, 2002

Oh me God! Where am I gonna get my beer then? JD Wetherspoon profits to fall by 10%. Business: Pub chain surprises the City with a profits warning and a decision to cut back on the number of new pub openings. [Guardian Unlimited] 6:37:04 PM     |

More about Penises and laptops: On penis burns, red hot laptops... and badgers [The Register] 6:35:00 PM     |

Wow! I've been waiting for that... UK Govt to post UFO sightings on Net. X marks the spot [The Register] 6:31:51 PM     |

Now what's that all about? Antigravity? Warp Drive? Of course not - just some boring planes. And he sold it to the Russians. Good grief! Defence worker stole plane secrets [This is London: London News] 6:19:21 PM     |

Annette, giving instructions to the Orion for liftoff from underwater base 104. 4:43:30 PM     |

I don't get it. Why should I do that? Google Voice Search Demo: "Search on Google by voice with a simple telephone call To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps: 1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (650) 318-0165. 2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system. 3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results. 4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results." 2:59:13 PM     |

Here's a website dedicated to Apple's Lisa computer. "We're going to blow IBM away. There's nothing they can do when this computer comes out. This is revolutionary, it's incredible." - Steve Jobs 9:42:01 AM     |

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Apollo missions to the moon you'll find in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: Images, videos, press kits, flight plans... 9:01:10 AM     |

Spooky. 1300 Pictures from 174 Ghost Towns and historic places. Via Linkfilter. 8:40:19 AM     |

Thursday, November 28, 2002

More sixties! If you ever need a proper Mod outfit, furniture or records, just go to this website. And in case you desperately need some Cuban Heels, visit Beatwear Liverpool Rocky, you'll love this site...SHOES!!! 8:40:31 PM     |

A great website with free Comic book fonts and tips and tricks about cartooning, a true classic on the web: http://www.blambot.com/ 8:20:09 PM     |

Specialised browsers. Philip Pearson is working on a Blog Browser in Python. [Scripting News] 2:08:45 PM     |

A virus with humour...Nasty virus Winevar insults infected users. What a foolish thing you've done! [The Register] 1:59:30 PM     |

And have I mentioned my own website yet? There are quite a few Raumpatrouille related 3D models to download... 8:39:10 AM     |

More 3D models. This time for all the Trekkies out there. The Star Trek Meshes and Objects Collection offers an incredible amount of free models in various formats, all divided into categories like 'Federation Starships', 'Klingon and Romulan ships', 'Starbases and Stations' and so on and so forth. 8:32:16 AM     |

Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Great. The rather disturbing Struwwelpeter is online in English, German and Hebrew. Via Fact or Fiction Weblog. Phil, get well soon! But that's not all: http://www.fln.vcu.edu//menu.html is a website specialised in 19th century German stories: Wilhelm Busch (Max und Moritz, Hans Huckebein etc), The Grimm Brothers, ETA Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck and lots more. Good stuff, and all in German/English. 7:45:14 PM     |

Didn't I mention Maya below? Well, here's a website with highly detailed 3D models from 2001-A Space Odyssey. The models come in various formats and are amazing. Reimund Bertrams via email. 5:27:12 PM     |

The swinging sixties! Have a look at this website: http://www.sixtiescity.com/Fashion/Fashion.htm 5:10:40 PM     |

Oh - good! Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition Coming In Dec : Maya 4.5 Personal Learning Edition is a limited but free version of the Maya software, used extensively for 3D modeling and animation in television, advertising and film. (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu) 9:39:46 AM     |

Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Fan-tas-tic. Finally a telly that looks like...well, like a proper telly. Retro-TV als Augenweide. In den späten Fünfzigern des vorigen Jahrhunderts baute die US-Firma Philco ein extrem futuristisches Fernsehgerät: das Philco Predicta. Unter dem Slogan "TV today from the world... [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 9:52:17 PM     |

The RatSwine again - this time hassling a bobby. 8:06:37 PM     |

Here's the answer to all questions, and it's not 42: Halley's Comment: What's a Weblog? [Scripting News] 3:33:04 PM     |

Came across a website about the History of Police Uniforms while doing some research for another RatSwine cartoon...quite interesting. 1:23:53 PM     |

London chaos. London's day of discontent [This is London: London News] 1:18:01 PM     |

James Bama. He is best known for his striking cover illustrations of the Doc Savage novels and the artwork of the Aurora Monster Kits, but what is the fellow doing these days? Well, he's busy painting hyper realistic Wild West scenes and - and this is very strange - chinese people. 10:40:59 AM     |

Zettels Traum. The first 200 Zettel to Arno Schmidt's really big book Zettels Traum are available as a zipped PDF download from the Arno Schmidt Stiftung. In german - obviously. 9:45:28 AM     |

WOT?! Ad campaign targets drunk cooks. NZCity Nov 25 2002 8:01PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 9:26:18 AM     |

Monday, November 25, 2002

The Prelinger Film archives - 45.000 short films, educational films, advertising...all free to download. And I'm just downloading the old classic "A is for Atom"! Via Der Schockwellenreiter 7:23:03 PM     |

Formula 1. The belgian artist Carlos Ghys has a website with historic and modern Formula 1 pictures and paintings. 6:14:17 PM     |

More about Spam: The Register: "'If this trend continues unchecked, it's going to make email unusable,' said Salem." So let's make a few more address lists unusable: seakmuv@olgospoibacebkb.br, fvbygmwntj@xremx.dk, qdncbj@wsppocqyxghil.de, yhiumxbr@kmlkpupngzjtkcofd.eu, nouzuayn@kovbmx.es, jbemwiri@nzqcxgzs.it, qphj@aakh.fr, sxr@pbiasbc.ar, xkbclzn@ifuvubdwt.ar, uml@nwwcrcbyyn.edu, hazrplmvjm@ktdtitbfhgsvgg.fr, bxevbhwcs@lqrzhuwywtdmoqwo.ca, zisea@eskispgouqteuvceb.pl, tbmtwybre@jvddipqania.de, adrnx@eblwkbwtkunwvkvwp.com, jazyypwzfk@dhnataxwafudhjezs.org, knd@ebtrfqkwedhlbkkquefy.com, ygkzs@eqxyvdd.edu, gonjvsnaxk@gcgtdzlbc.dk, rrtm@zxfnkpjuimfxksfy.mil 2:52:06 PM     |

Fabulous. Great. Hilarious. Fantastic. Unbelievable.Tube safety storm [This is London: London News] An LU spokesman said: "Someone had urinated in the tunnel. It was steam the driver had seen." 2:48:25 PM     |

The RatSwine strikes again! 2:45:10 PM     |

John Freeman is running a very good website about comics and cartooning: downthetubes: "Welcome to Downthetubes.net - a simple resource for comics editors or other companies looking for an artists who can bring more than a spark of originality to your next design project, be it print, new media or something more." 12:37:28 PM     |

Let's have a cigar then: Churchill voted greatest Briton. War-time leader Winston Churchill is voted the greatest Briton of all time, following a nationwide BBC poll. [BBC News | Front Page] 9:11:32 AM     |

Aha. London "too powerful" [This is London: London News] 9:07:27 AM     |

Sunday, November 24, 2002

The stony heart. Rainer Hendricks has put together a website (in german) about Arno Schmidt's novel Das steinerne Herz, with maps and photos of Ahlden. A few broken links unfortunately, but apart from that very interesting. Ahlden und Das steinerne Herz: "Arno Schmidt: Das steinerne Herz Der "Historische Roman aus dem Jahre 1954" und der Flecken Ahlden an der Aller - Eine neue 'illustrierte Ausgabe'." 9:19:30 PM     |

Grey Sunday and I'm lazy - so here's another Raumpatrouille picture, showing Commander McLane's Astro-Disk, the main control unit of the Orion. Modern technology - fantastic! 2:59:26 PM     |

Look, look... Independent News: "US special forces are reported to be on the ground in western and northern Iraq, and military engineers are preparing and upgrading airfields in the Kurdish zone. In many ways, the war on Iraq has already begun. " 10:52:16 AM     |