The Cartoonist

Saturday, June 7, 2003

Oi. Listen to this (MP3). It's gone now. 5:31:38 PM     |

Raumpatrouille. Science Fiction author Pieter Paul Ibsen in trouble. Screenshot of the definitely best episode, 'Die Raumfalle' (The Space Trap). 4:34:01 PM     |

Creepy. And almost pornographic. The Mannequin Shop offers mannequins for museums, stores, window-dressers and private persons. Go and check it out, it's amazing. And creepy. And pornographic. And don't miss the museum. Via iconomy. 12:42:48 PM     |

Friday, June 6, 2003

Brilliant. Plain brilliant: The Credit Card Prank. "How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice? In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature." 4:02:09 PM     |

How interesting. Those guys have done basically everything to ruin the company, and now... GBP2m bonus deal for Cordiant chiefs. Guardian Unlimited Jun 6 2003 5:22AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] This is unbelievable. What is going on in this world? Whatever happened to all the employees, talented people that have been made redundant? Are they going to get a payoff? Surely not. See me in the bathroom - I have to throw up. Both men will receive payoffs equivalent to 18 months' salary as well as guaranteed bonuses in the event of a sale or a debt-for-equity swap, which would leave shareholders with virtually nothing. 3:41:47 PM     |

Photographer to the World. Fascinating exhibition of the Detroit Publishing Company materials, hosted by The Henry Ford. Amazing historical US-photography. "The material in the museum?s collection today consists of 30,000 vintage photographic prints, 15,000 postcards, and 5,000 color and sepia lithographic prints. The photographs are contact prints made by the company from the original glass-plate negatives. They often contain written information about the topic and the photographer, instructions concerning reproduction methods and retouching marks. This current online exhibit is based on the museum exhibit and includes over 250 prints, photographs, postcards and documents relating to Detroit Publishing Company. The website was created in 2002 and was funded, in part, by a grant from the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET). 3:24:46 PM     |

Images of England. Images of England, working in partnership with over 1,500 volunteer photographers, is building a digital library of photographs of England's 370,000 Listed Buildings. Text and images will be added to this site regularly during the project and many thousands are there for you to view now. Via Haldur Gislufsson's fabulous Saunablog from Vienna ('a crackpot Austrian blog!'). 3:05:57 PM     |

Thursday, June 5, 2003

A few headlines from today's Independent: The Niger connection: Tony Blair, forged documents and the case for war PM must quit if weapons aren't found, says Healey 'The truth is, nobody believes a word now the PM says' 7:53:15 PM     |

A man, a hat, and his pipe. Rupert Davies was the best Maigret ever. Basic information about the BBC classic can be found here; the videoclip-links don't work, but that doesn't matter, because the title sequence is in RealMedia format at BBC. A complete episode guide is here and more about Rupert Davies here. Should be enough. I'm exhausted now. 7:23:59 PM     |

TV-mania, day 2. This surely must have been blogged before? I honestly can't remember where I found it. Maybe I found it myself. Whatever. One word: BAMBY. A German website with everything about German TV series from 1956 to now: Episode guides, plots, soundbytes, videoclips, pictures, animated gifs. Just amazing. And it's still a work in progress. Have a look for yourself. More German 'Fernseh-Sounds' are here; thanks to Edlef for the link! 7:07:42 PM     |

Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Women at War. Huge big online exhibit with lots of posters, photos, letters and whatnot. 7:17:30 PM     |

100% Kitsch. At Deutsches Haus (which incidentally is an American company) you will find - erm - 'German products', perfect for every occasion! Have fun with this colourful website. Reminds me a bit of the 'Sauerbraten' I once had in a so called German Restaurant in Chicago. 7:09:03 PM     |

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

More TV History. Pictures and short text (German, I'm afraid) about the French series 'Belphegor, or the mystery of the Louvre'. 7:12:38 PM     |

Long John Silver. This is a special for my German readers: Remember the 'Adventsvierteiler im ZDF'? They're all there, together with soundtrack information and lots of pictures: Robinson Crusoe, Die Schatzinsel, Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn ... even the bearded guy with the potato, 'Der Seewolf'. 7:07:27 PM     |

Time for some space toys again. Have a look at Alphadrome - Vintage Robots and Space Toys. Nicely done website. 6:56:54 PM     |

Unbelievable. Sacked at the car park gate [This is London: London News] 6:44:11 PM     |

Monday, June 2, 2003

Old Schoolbooks. Looooong list of 19th Century schoolbooks, all online as digital editions with the original illustrations. 9:45:06 PM     |

Memories. Time tales is a wonderful, almost poetic little website: "... a collection of found photographs. found at fleamarkets, thriftshops, some are scooped up from streets and alleyways, fallen from an overstuffed bag or torn pocket. others turn up in a cabinet's hidden compartment, found while wandering the rooms of an abandoned house. now the photos exist by themselves, lost in time. time tales does not want to reveal their mysteries. time tales asks to be the new home for lost photos, a resting place, for the nameless and the lost." Found at iconomy. 9:10:42 PM     |

Sunday, June 1, 2003

Naughty bits. Here are James Joyce's Dirty Letters to Nora in all their glory. Thanks, Robert; thanks, quimbo. 9:12:06 PM     |

Yeah, right. That 'secret proof' hasn't been downloaded from someone's website again, has it?Blair: I have secret proof. Prime Minister Tony Blair last night insisted he had secret proof that weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited] 12:46:05 PM     |