The Cartoonist

Saturday, December 28, 2002

Fast Space Cruiser Orion VII. Last picture for 2002! 4:33:48 PM     |

Beer! A website listing London pubs, together with the history of pubs. PUBS.COM Pub Guide "Welcome to pubs.com, your independent guide to London's best traditional and historic pubs." 12:02:08 PM     |

Magic tricks. A magic linkpage. WannaLearn.com: Just for Fun : Magic Tricks: "...free magic trick instructions for new magicians, including the self-tying handkerchief, coin through elbow, Houdini rubber band escape and more..." "link" 10:23:11 AM     |

How to configure the firewall in OS X. O'Reilly Network: Configuring Jaguar's Firewall [Dec. 27, 2002] " Many of you already know that Jaguar, Mac OS X 10.2, comes with a built-in firewall. In an effort to keep things simple, Apple provides the basic ability to configure this firewall via the GUI interface in System Preferences, but otherwise is silent on its extensive benefits and usefulness." Via Industrial Technology and Witchcraft. Well, I'm using BrickHouse - another fantastic Shareware utility. 9:50:26 AM     |

Friday, December 27, 2002

"bob"Just a quickie for all Radio UserLand users: Al Macintyre has collected a massive amount of links to Radio Doc Sources. 11:44:42 AM     |

Everybody seems to be talking about Samuel Pepys these days (netbib, Schockwellenreiter, BoingBoing, Kellerkind ...), so here is a proper Pepys link: pepys.info. Have fun! 9:53:32 AM     |

Another good guy. Like Strummer, he was only 50. Herb Ritts is dead. Yahoo! News - Famed Photographer Herb Ritts Dies in L.A. 9:13:54 AM     |

Edgar Pierre Jacobs was, just like his friend Hergé, a master of La ligne claire. Les Aventures de Blake et Mortimer is a big french website about the Belgian artist and his work. The Comiclopedia has a short biography with some nice pictures and links. 9:10:08 AM     |

Thursday, December 26, 2002

Pornography for Macs. Funny. Welcome to MacSleazy ! 10:09:32 AM     |

Really good stuff never dies. And the truly bizarre Magic Roundabout was good. At Welcome to the Magic Roundabout you can see them again: Dougal, Zebedee, Ermintrude... and apparently there's now a movie being planned. So then: Tournicotti-Tournicotton! 9:59:52 AM     |

We really don't need that. How about first getting the NHS working again?2012 only chance for London [This is London: London News] 9:44:56 AM     |

Wednesday, December 25, 2002

Flattermann. Für Ted. http://www.ono.de/messetip/si70det28592.htm 1:19:03 PM     |

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German humour. This German website is quite funny. Christen-Front für Tugend, Sitte und Moral 12:01:18 PM     |

So what? Confirmation: Entourage X Is Sold Separately From Office v.X : Mac Net Journal via MyAppleMenu [Just noticed that it's around $90. For some email software? They must be crazy.] 10:44:48 AM     |

A Christmas present from my son. The book starts off with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood opening a certain shop on 430 King's Road... Well done, Michael! 10:42:04 AM     |

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

"bob"And what about me?! Ad agencies name creative directors. San Francisco Chronicle Dec 24 2002 12:51PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 8:23:58 PM     |

Proper Branding? Cult Brands: Lessons Learned At Apple, ESPN, And PepsiCo : What gives some brands an extra lift? An avid cult following, that's what. At a session of the HBS Marketing Conference, experts debated the pros and cons of managing a brand that customers truly adore. (HBS Working Knowledge via MyAppleMenu) 1:54:42 PM     |

I want one of those. Wired News: Forget a Maid, This Robot Vacuums " Billed as the first autonomous vacuum cleaner in the United States, the $200 Roomba is a round, battery-powered vacuum that looks like a flat-bottomed wok on wheels. The Roomba is more-or-less autonomous, capable of navigating rooms unattended, sweeping up as it goes." See also http://www.roombavac.com/ 1:20:24 PM     |

Rip-off Britain, Part 1496. Bus passengers are overcharged for poor service, report says. UK: Bus passengers pay too much for 'poor or non-existent' services while local transport policies discriminate against bus travel, according to a report by Transport 2000. [Guardian Unlimited] 1:13:36 PM     |

This website is incredible. It's a Virtual museum of small early electrical appliances, like razors, irons, vacuum cleaners and 'table-top electric cooking gadgets'. Fabulous. 1:10:59 PM     |

This will be shown on worldwide telly during the holidays anyway, so I see no reason at all why I shouldn't mention it here: A Christmas Carol by a certain Mr Dickens. Those who don't want to read the text online will find a description of the plot together with the old illustrations on a page titled not unsurpringly A Christmas Carol. And even more about Christmas and Dickens is on the Dickens Christmas Page. Happy Christmas then! 10:59:28 AM     |

Monday, December 23, 2002

Some Joe Strummer links. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. Joe Strummer of "the Clash" official page Joe Strummer.com - Strummer News.com [linkfilter.net] Although - my copywriter Paul (the old marxist) wrote: "He died the day they signed to CBS - along with punk" That's a bit too harsh, I think. 7:18:49 PM     |

Happy Christmas, everyone! 6:46:07 PM     |

Of course they want Flash. According to the Register, Microsoft is lining up to buy Macromedia. It's Flash they want. [Scripting News] 5:49:26 PM     |

Are there any other 'comments' servers around? The Radio UserLand comments server seems to be down most of the time and I'm really pissed off now. Any suggestions? Oh - please send me an email, because the comments server is down. There's a yellow envelope icon somewhere on this site, you just have to click on that. It's because the comments server is down again. Thanks. You know, the comments server is down... 5:44:24 PM     |

Pictures of the Dead. Very spooky site. MEMENTO MORI: DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA "A memento mori is a form of image that urged a European person of the late Middle Ages to "remember thy death." To do this, a memento mori might represent death as a human skeleton--perhaps as the Grim Reaper gathering his harvest--or it might depict human bodies in an advanced state of decay. Its purpose is to remind the viewer that death is an unavoidable part of life, something to be prepared for at all times. Memento mori images are graphic demonstrations of the fact that death was not only a more frequent, but a far more familiar occurrence in medieval Europe than it is today." Via Kosmonautentraum. 12:46:34 PM     |

Sad. No more White Riot. "23 DECEMBER 2002: Joe Strummer died yesterday. Our condolences to Luce and the kids, family and friends." From http://www.strummersite.com 10:20:29 AM     |

Because it's Christmas. André Franquin's Idées Noires are here. In French. 9:56:58 AM     |

Rip-off Britain, Part 1238. The The Unsuspecting Tourist had an encounter with Santa: "Today however, this icicle laden world came crashing down on me. I saw a sign that demanded 3 pounds (sorry, can't make the pound sign on this American computer) which is about $4.50 to meet santa." That's in Euros: 4.66! 9:32:18 AM     |

Lucky Luke. Good old Morris - I'm a fan of his stories. Sadly, he passed away last year. Here are a few Lucky Luke links: Svein Are Tjeldnes maintains a website with a list of the main characters, the authors and the stories; Giesbert Damaschke's pages haven't been updated for a long time but are still worth a look; and this page is about the albums and has a link to Suske en Wiske. 9:24:30 AM     |

Sunday, December 22, 2002

Farewell, Mike... Cordiant's Bungey Moves Up Resignation. Adweek Online Dec 22 2002 5:16AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 11:26:17 AM     |

Free speech? I don't think so. Interesting article about the legal implications of blogging. Free Speech -- Virtually (TechNews.com) 9:34:53 AM     |