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Saturday, January 18, 2003

More Ruhrgebiet. Photos by Thomas Lehr. "Over a period of 250 years the effect of coalmining and heavy industry changed the appearance of this area. Villages here grew into small towns, and these in turn grew and expanded into one large town. Today with the disappearance of the mines and the furnaces, this region is again going through a change. Because of this, only in a very few places you can see the origins of the towns development on the landscape. These photographs try to show both the origins and the changes, but most of all they look at the people living in the area." 5:31:01 PM     |

Ruhrschnellweg. Ruhrgebiet photography by Reinhard Krause. His series of black and white photos, all taken in the eighties, is fantastic. I found this fabulous link at cursor's brilli.ant weblog. 4:11:36 PM     |

How old fashioned. Why can't they just build a warp drive? Look at those spacemen go.... The US hopes to send an astronaut to Mars in a nuclear-powered rocket. [Guardian Unlimited] 3:38:27 PM     |

"tube"Having Fun on the Tube. Tube Announcements. "To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage, what part of 'stand clear of the doors' don't you understand?" 12:30:05 PM     |

I told you. Suicide. Live in Paris. Real player. Have fun ... no, be scared. 12:47:05 AM     |

Friday, January 17, 2003

Suicide. I'm desperately trying to find the original ticket of the Suicide/Elvis Costello gig in Hamburg 1978/79? Audimax ... where the hell can it be? I was there! Must be somewhere, I just can't find it. Go: Instead of the original just an iTunes impression then. Well, Suicide were great. New York madness. The audience, they just ... left. Alan Vega tried to force them to stay , but - they didn't like to be 'touched' by a crazy NY Rock'n Roll Star ... there you go. It was fab. Best gig ever (except The Damned at the 'Markthalle'). Here's Suicide. Be afraid. Be very afraid. This is Suicide; dream Baby dream. 11:46:30 PM     |

London at Street Level. London's favourite streets. Entire streetscapes showing over 2,500 shops, bars and restaurants in the liveliest areas of London - Oxford Street and Regent Street; Portobello Road and Notting Hill; the King's Road in Chelsea; Carnaby Street; Covent Garden, Bond Street; Knightsbridge; Soho; Islington and Camden. Via "boing" I can recommend the Blue Posts pub at the corner Ganton Street - Kingly Street, opposite the famous Bartle, Bogle, Hegarty ad agency. Great website. 10:22:39 AM     |

Danger on the tube. Again. 'Poison gas checks' on Tube [This is London: London News] 10:05:16 AM     |

Thursday, January 16, 2003

Mhm. Comments seem to be kaputt again. I just hope they'll get a proper server soon. 9:28:27 PM     |

Treasure Island, Part 2. I already had a Treasure Island link a while ago, now here is the man himself, Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a compact little website with a wealth of pictures and illustrations. "The University of South Carolina marked the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death in 1894 with a special exhibition illustrating his life and writing career. Drawing on the excellent Stevenson holdings in the University Libraries' Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and on additional items from the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature , the original exhibit included most of Stevenson's first editions, the early magazine publication of Treasure Island and other adventure stories, and a full range of his travel writings, sensation fiction such as the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , and later Scottish novels. This online version includes additional materials not included in the original exhibit as well as hypertext links to other sites of interest. " Another interesting site about the Scottish author is The Robert Louis Stevenson Website with links to e-texts, museums & libraries and more. 7:35:11 PM     |

Copying the Copyright. A few articles and commentaries about the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the US. Forbes: "Somewhere in Burbank a mouse called Mickey is smiling." [Scripting News] Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Supreme Court Endorses Copyright Theft. "Swipe a CD from a record store and you'll get arrested. But when Congress authorizes the entertainment industry to steal from you -- well, that's the American way." ["boing"] Gawrsh! Another 20 years in copyright jail!. Andy has brilliantly remixed an old Mickey cartoon-strip (a fair use), to form a commentary on the Eldred decision. ["boing"] 9:42:05 AM     |

Even more British Rail chaos? Train services to be cut. More than 150 trains a day are to be scrapped by the government body overseeing the railways, the BBC has learned. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 9:31:01 AM     |

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

More of the beautiful, bizarre and weird. At The Scrap Album you will find Victorian Greeting Cards, Valentines & Scraps. Wonderful website. 7:32:23 PM     |

Fancy a game? Bizarre, beautiful and weird historic card designs at The World of Playing Cards. 7:21:34 PM     |

No comment. BBspot - Saddam Actually Just Doing Research for Book on Weapons of Mass Destruction. "Baghdad - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein today told investigators he is not developing nuclear or biological weapons, but instead has been doing research for a book on weapons of mass destruction he hopes to see published next year." 5:38:40 PM     |

Expedition Time. Looking for Lewis and Clark? They're right here, at Discovering Lewis and Clark. Very nice website with a choice of Flash on or off. Another one is Lewis and Clark, which also deals with the movie. And their journals are online here. Lots to read. 10:11:36 AM     |

Pete hires an army. Former SAS squad to guard Townshend [This is London: London News] 9:53:35 AM     |

Engrish. I LIEK MILK!!!!!!!! "My name is Hitoshi. I live Tokyo capital city on Japan. I liek play amercican sport baseball i play at weekend. My intrest is musics. I liek listen with my 'Chesney Hawks' tapes. is good english singer liek Mr Cliff Richard." "link" 3:47:54 AM     |

Tuesday, January 14, 2003

More Celebrities Trouble. Mike, Pete, Gary - you all seem to be in bad shape these days. How very sad. Who was the other bloke who's on bail (or still in prison?) for rape? The news announcer? Well, this would never happen in Germany. New Barrymore pool death inquiry. The death of a partygoer at the home of television presenter Michael Barrymore is to be re-investigated by police. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 4:43:02 PM     |

Married with Simpsons. Oh no ... please don't. The Prisoner was enough already. ReMarried with Children. The Simpsons will get a surprise visit for their 300th show from old neighbors on the Fox schedule -- the Bundys. Fox will air a one-hour "Married ... with Children" reunion special Feb. 16, the night "The Simpsons" marks its 300th episode milestone. [linkfilter.net] I'm actually looking forward to it. 4:37:14 PM     |

Exactly. Bloated code. The DTP application Calamus for Atari ST/TT fitted comfortably on two Floppy Disks; was much better than today's Quark and used only little RAM. In fact, Calamus still has functions I'm missing in Quark and InDesign. So why do we have all these huge big applications nowadays? Perhaps I'm just stupid. After all I'm not a programmer. But I'm an Art Director and I know what I want. Mozilla Hurt By Apple Blast : AOL Time Warner's Mozilla project is facing new questions about quality after Apple Computer's release of a browser based on rival open-source code. (ZDNet via MyAppleMenu) 3:56:48 PM     |

Toys, toys, toys. My favourite shop here in London is without doubt Comet Miniatures. They're specialised in all sorts of Science Fiction and Movie Toys. Oh - there's only one Time Machine left, so you better hurry. 12:28:32 PM     |

Oh Ronnie! Biggs "kicked to floor in prison attack" [This is London: London News] 12:06:14 PM     |

Monday, January 13, 2003

Another fallen hero? BBC NEWS | UK | Police arrest Townshend . "Rock star Pete Townshend has been arrested by police following a search of his home after he admitted viewing images of child pornography on the internet." 9:39:20 PM     |

Im not too sure if I'll be able to do anything on my weblog tomorrow. I'm off to the dentist, having a wisdom tooth removed. Now that sounds like fun to me... 9:10:21 PM     |

The City as Hero. Victorian London in Life and Literature is a nice collection of articles about life in victorian London. I especially like the article about phrenology, mesmerism and spiritualism. Another article about mesmerism is here. 4:39:19 PM     |

Unbelievable. I think I'll have to throw up a little. MPs in child porn inquiry. UK: Former ministers reported to be under investigation in same operation which embroiled rock star Pete Townshend. [Guardian Unlimited] 1:17:07 PM     |

Intel inside. Heathrow thieves nick £6.2m of Intel chips. Then leave £1.5m-worth behind [The Register] 1:14:53 PM     |

Oh, really? Bellens: advertising slump is not over yet. Guardian Unlimited Jan 13 2003 6:23AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 1:13:17 PM     |

Sunday, January 12, 2003

Puppenkiste. Great. Oliver from Stör-Signale has assembled quite a few Augsburger Puppenkiste links. Fab! Go and have a look. Now where is Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong? Update: Found him. He's here: http://www.borwinsite.onlinehome.de/AP-default/Ausstellung/Oblong.jpg Thanks, Oliver! 9:58:40 PM     |

I've tweaked the Adrants logo a bit - it looks much better now. Edlef, send me an email! 5:40:10 PM     |

Räuber Hotzenplotz. Schockwellenreiter posted a link to comp.kids, a weblog run by three children. And what did I find? Lots of entries about Otfried Preussler, who used to be my favourite author when I was little. And he's now running his own website. So who's going to post an Augsburger Puppenkiste link then? 2:40:07 PM     |

The German author Friedhelm Rathjen now has his own little corner on the web: Kein Tag ohne Zeile - Fördererkreis deutscher Schriftsteller in Niedersachsen und Bremen. "Außerdem veröffentlicht er in internationalen Fachzeitschriften und Sammelbänden literaturwissenschaftliche Aufsätze, hauptsächlich zu Arno Schmidt, James Joyce und Samuel Beckett. Ab 1986 kamen Vorträge und Tagungsreferate in Europa und den USA hinzu. Außerdem schreibt Rathjen für Tageszeitungen und für das "irland journal" Reiseberichte (v.a. über Irland, auch über Schottland, Rom, Nordfriesland und den Nordwesten der USA). Seit 1989 arbeitet Rathjen als literarischer Übersetzer. Eingedeutscht hat er u.a. Werke von James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hermann Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain und jungen US-Autoren." 12:30:41 PM     |

And don't miss the old pictures of Reno. 12:05:03 PM     |

Vintage Vegas. A combination of a postcard museum, old casino chips and a 'matchbook lounge'. Nice. "link" 11:58:18 AM     |

Armin's back. He's now blogging at the Ministry of Propaganda. 11:45:20 AM     |

I knew it! Official: commuting is bad for you. Millions of rail passengers are suffering chronic health problems as a result of travelling on grossly overcrowded carriages. [Guardian Unlimited] 10:18:14 AM     |