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Saturday, March 29, 2003 |
 Humboldt. A special reunion, initiated by Robert. Please - whoever graduated from Humboldt Gymnasium Dortmund in 1978 - please go to this website. Now. That's an order. And everybody else please have a look at my Bishop cartoons over there. I'm an artist, I need this. Appreciation. Fandom. Love. Fame. Money. And all the other things that come with it.Robert, where's my Raketenfoto?
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 Idiots. iWon - News"The United States mistakenly named Slovenia as a partner in its war against Iraq and even offered it a share of the money budgeted for the conflict, the tiny Alpine nation said on Thursday." Via Quarsan's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. And those Grappas ... we have to repeat that. But don't tell Zoe.
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 Punk. Not. New at The Bunker: Golden Earring with Radar Love (3.9 SMEG movie download)."Drummers Who Jump Over Their Drums...It's Golden Earring With 'Radar Love' "
2:19:24 PM |
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Even more democracy. Sigh. I just heard that Henry Norr, who I've known for almost 20 years, has been suspended from the San Francisco Chronicle because of his anti-war views. There are quite a few articles about this. "I don't write about national affairs, I don't write about national politics, I write about things like spam," Norr said in an interview. "To me, in any normal understanding of what is a conflict of interest, I didn't have one." [Scripting News]
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 Turn your radio on. An archive of Collins Radio ads from 1945 to 1983."What follows is the progression of the Collins Radio Company's Amateur Products Program as chronicled by its advertizing in QST Magazine. Every ad between January 1945 and December 1983 (when Rockwell-Collins ceased serving the amateur community) is presented here for your review. "
9:19:17 AM |
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 The Page of the Dead. Pictures of cemeteries in London and Vienna, along with a gallery of the graves of famous people."This page proposes to take you to some places of death. Let's have a look at a few tombs, and reflect on their illustrious inhabitants. "
8:57:40 AM |
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 Einstein/Freud. 2 letters about war. All in German I'm afraid. Kabumm-Net: Wenn's mal weh tun soll..."Unterdes dürfen wir uns sagen: Alles, was die Kulturentwicklung fördert, arbeitet auch gegen den Krieg." "koewi" Personality Crisis. What am I gonna do? This weblog is getting messy. Originally I intended to post my cartoons and links about art, literature and London. Now I find myself posting more and more 'war links' and 'commentaries', which I actually don't want to do. But the whole injustice of this war, all the lies, the speed-ridden face of Tony Blair just make me mad. Where shall I go from here? Readers, please post your comments.
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Friday, March 28, 2003 |
I'm getting fed up with this shit. 'Dying.' 'In large numbers.' Great. BBC NEWS | UK | 'Showdown' looms - UK army chief"Chief of the General Staff General Sir Mike Jackson said irregular Iraqi forces were being "pinned down" and "dying in large numbers". "
11:39:37 PM |
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Hoon. Blair. Straw. What planet do those guys live on? William Gibson""Umm Qasr is a town similar to Southampton", UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr", said one British soldier, informed of this while on patrol in Umm Qasr. Another added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes, and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."
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Democracy in Pittsburgh, US of A. Rachel went on a peace march:"We were all rounded up and arrested. 122 of us. I heard later that the cops had prevented anyone who looked older than 30 from continuing to march. That there were federal marshals there, who had given the order to arrest everyone, even those who weren't causing any trouble." "I spent the next 30 hours in jail, being called a coward, an asshole, a fucker, a traitor to my country, ungrateful to the troops dying for my freedom, a bitch, a lesbian, a pinko (yeah--really, a pinko!), etc." [...] Via a comment by The Fabulous Flemish Blogger at The Ministry of Propaganda
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 Where's his TARDIS? Yahoo! TV: Entertainment News & Gossip - 'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING"NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!" "However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could 'fall into the wrong hands.'"
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 Back for a week. Be well prepared for daily entries. I'm a whole week back at home in London. And here's a very funny Irish joke I found at Zoe's My boyfriend is a twat:Saddam Hussein was sitting in his office wondering whom to invade next when his telephone rang. "Hello! Mr. Hussein," a heavily-accented voice said. "This is Paddy down in the Harp pub in County Sligo, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you." "Well, Paddy," Saddam replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?" "Right now," said Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is meself, me cousin Sean, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire dart team from the pub. That makes eight!" Saddam paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have one million men in my army, waiting to move on my command." "Begorra!" said Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back!" Sure enough, the next day, Paddy called again. "Mr. Hussein, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some equipment!" "And what equipment would that be, Paddy?" Saddam asked. "Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's old farm tractor." Saddam sighed. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 4,000 armoured personnel carriers. I've increased my army to 1.5 million since we last spoke." "Saints preserve us!" said Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you." Sure enough, Paddy rang again the next day. "Mr. Hussein, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We've modified Harrigan's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock pub have joined us as well!" Saddam was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 1,000 bombers and 2,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites, and since we last spoke, I've increased my army to TWO MILLION!" "Jezus, Mary and Joseph!" said Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back." Sure enough Paddy called again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr.Hussein! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to call off the war." "I'm intrigued," said Saddam. "Why the sudden change of heart?" "Well," said Paddy, "we've all had a long chat over a few pints, and there's no way we can feed two million prisoners."
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Sunday, March 23, 2003 |
 Klasse. A weblog from my hometown, Dortmund.So, nu muss ich aber los ... "koewi"
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 Pop! Mark Hiner is a 'Paper Engineer' and designs those wonderful pop-up books. On his website are samples of his work, a history of pop-up books and even a 'make your own' course."What does a paper engineer do? I don't remember my careers advisor mentioning it as a possible career option."
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The War Dance. Killing Joke.The atmosphere's strange
Out on the town
Music for pleasure
It's not music no more
Music to dance to
Music to move
This is music to march to
To a war dance A war dance Look at the victim
Scrawled on the wall
You know the reason
Outside the door
You got something
Nasty in your mind
Trying to get out
To a war dance A war dance We walk round the pitch
Honesty is sick
Try to be honest
Look what you get
The food runs short
And then the money talks
One way out
Look for a nationist command A war dance
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ho-hum. Terminator. LOL. Good for about 15 seconds, then it gets boring. Why not. 
Cards. All the cards of the old Raumpatrouille-Quartett from 1966 
Colourful Language. Owen Jones's book The Grammar of Ornament does not seem to be online anywhere, apparently due to licensing problems - which I find a bit strange, considering the fact that the book first came out in 1856 - but I found two websites with quite a few sample pages. They're located 
Grrr...
Artforms of Nature. Wow. I didn't know something like that exists; 
Das Potential Mengele. (For my German speaking readers) Although Hans Wollschläger's complete works edition is apparently progressing rapidly, his excellent essay "Tiere sehen dich an" oder Das Potential Mengele is still 
Important Message. The Platypi are conquering the world of weblogs. First victim is 
Off. Back to 
Have Faith. Another tasteless Flash game: