The Cartoonist

Saturday, July 5, 2003

Dear Friends, this is The Insekt speaking on behalf of The Cartoonist. He's very busy designing a website for his company, The Insekt Limited, where he wants to show off all of his Graphic Design stuff. Most probably there won't be any more updates on this weblog today or tomorrow. Only if you're very lucky. And it gets even better: From Monday on The Cartoonist will disappear to Brussels, where he's got some work to do. Proper advertising work. Next updates in a week's time. 11:45:11 AM     |

Da vorne steht 'ne Ampel. Small webpage about the German art-combo Der Plan. Their record label ATATAK has some additional information. Oh, and records by Charles Wilp! 11:11:34 AM     |

Deserted Farms in Iceland. Wonderful black & white photography by Nökkvi Eliasson. Sometimes linkfilter is really good. 11:05:59 AM     |

There's a war going on. This time between the BBC and the Government. BBC governors to discuss dossier row. BBC governors will meet management to discuss the Iraq dossier row ahead of a report into the government's case for war. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] MoD accuses BBC of 'skulduggery' over Iraq documentary [Independent: UK News] 7:04:08 AM     |

Friday, July 4, 2003

Drainspotting is a website with pictures of manhole covers, drains, grates and trench covers. I actually find it quite interesting. Mhm - this surely must have been blogged before somewhere? Anyway, just found the link at linkfilter. 8:42:51 PM     |

Images of England. Nice website by the photographer Ray Farrar. "The aim of this site is to present various images of England as it is seen from the inside. It is intended to be both an online gallery for browsing and a source of royalty-free photo CDs. All the images are available to buy as high resolution files on CD suitable for quality publishing on a royalty-free basis." 4:06:44 PM     |

Unbelievable. Need a proper outfit for your next trip into town? Look no further. At The Armory you can buy full body armour, swords and other medieval stuff. Unbelievable. I really like the 'Pigface Bascinet' - that one reminds me of Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong. 3:57:52 PM     |

Magic. Famous magicians and their incredible toys are at Classics of Magic. Nice website. 3:47:32 PM     |

Diary of a War Artist. The diary of Edward Ardizzone at the Imperial War Museum London. Fascinating. "Edward Ardizzone was working as an official war artist in North Africa when he heard that the invasion of Europe was imminent "I asked to be present at the landing... so I landed on a Sicilian beach with the Division on D-Day." That was in July 1943. From then on, he kept an illustrated diary ... " 3:41:30 PM     |

Thursday, July 3, 2003

Dave in Japan. Funny website about life in Japan: The food, Society and Culture, Toilet Training, Transportation ... 6:33:31 PM     |

Rip-off Britain, Part 489324: Unbelievable. A book that costs 8 Dollars in the US, is here in UK £7.50???? So the exchange rate is now 1:1 or what? 6:12:59 PM     |

Drink more beer. Greene King toasts profits rise. Business: Brewer of Greene King IPA and Abbott Ale reports 8% rise in profits last year and brisk start to 2003. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:40:46 AM     |

Looks good! Gotta check it out tomorrow. Trafalgar Square piazza opens at last [This is London: London News] 11:37:49 AM     |

I wonder what else might crop up there. Letter reveals Campbell's role. Alastair Campbell suggested 11 separate changes to draft joint intelligence committee dossier on Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:35:28 AM     |

Moritz (R) Reichelt has a few new paintings on his website. He's getting better and better. 10:24:29 AM     |

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Fight the Frogs. More black & white German Television on the official homepage of the 'new' Orion movie: A Space Invaders Game (Flash) in the Raumpatrouille look. And they still haven't managed to get an English translation done... well, at least *my* site can be read all over the planet. Anyway, have fun and blast those Frogs out of space! (Arrow Keys and and Space!) 8:01:03 PM     |

Mostly black and white. The Graphical Appearance of German Television (German text). Brilliant. Warning: Very, very, very slow loading and a lot of broken links. 5:06:13 PM     |

Drosophila Melanogaster. Because Anneke is still missing a box filled with 3267 (dead) flies, here is a very interesting website about fruit flies. Maybe that will make up for the loss. Wonder what happened to those flies ... perhaps somebody was just very hungry? Who knows. 3:22:31 PM     |

Trading Places. Fantastic online exhibit at The British Library about trading in 1600 and the foundation of the East India Company. "Asia used to be known as "The East Indies". Pepper, spices, medicinal drugs, aromatic woods, perfumes and silks were rare commodities in Europe, and therefore valuable. Trading in them could make you a fortune. And for this chance many were willing to risk their lives." 9:22:10 AM     |

Johann Wolfgang von. Welcome to the Text Database of J. W. von Goethe and Thomas Mann. Amazing. Full text search of Goethe's Hamburg Edition in 14 volumes, the Weimar Edition in 50 volumes and Thomas Mann's collected works in 13 volumes. 9:03:55 AM     |

Tony's in trouble. Again. Union goes to war with Labour. Blair and cabinet branded "war criminals" by RMT rail union. [Guardian Unlimited] And Quarsan has an interesting entry about the Reverend and his attitude towards paedophilia... 8:43:20 AM     |

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Bill Pang wants me to enlarge my penis. Bill, eat this: Spam report id 318955487 sent to: bill.pang@bj.datadragon.net Food for the spambots. And here's more: 318954751 ( http://www.getoffmylist.com/remove.html ) To: postmaster@netdor.com 318954750 ( 200.67.84.17 ) To: ssradmin@telmex.com 318011641 ( 212.210.222.114 ) To: neteconomy.rete@telecomitalia.it 317815370 ( 61.254.126.11 ) To: abuse@thrunet.com 317056129 To: seguridad.backbone@telefonica-data.com 6:45:55 PM     |

The Bishop's Hat. I have been asked quite frequently why the Bishops are wearing those funny hats. The answer lies in the historical drawing on the left: The 'hats' are not hats, but actually a part of the head. You can even make out the elongated brain. Have fun. 5:03:26 PM     |

A cycling holiday 1953. Fantastic diary of a cycling holiday through France, Switzerland and Germany in 1953. Found at Schockwellenreiter. (Robert, did you design that site? The background reminds me of something...) "In 1953 Roy Jenkin, a 21 year-old student from Exeter, cycled around France, Switzerland and Germany with his schoolfriend Gordon Newbery. They covered 2,286 miles, slept in potting sheds, hay barns, and even a railway marshalling yard, and the whole trip cost them £24 15s. His diary and this website, describes the long-gone Europe of horse carts, cobbles and old fashioned hospitality, a continent which was still recovering from six years of war." 4:21:17 PM     |

Orion Day. Listen to the live feed of Bayern 1; today's Orion Day. 10:52:18 AM     |

The Agfers of Kodack. Fabulous website about anonymous female photographers. Again via linkfilter. "Kodakgirl.com is dedicated to unrecognized and anonymous women photographers worldwide, past, present and future. We thank them for recording and thereby preserving images of ordinary people and their everyday lives over the past 150 years. Their pictures will be treasured by generations to come. Keep on clicking! " 10:06:36 AM     |

Godot. Extensive page about good old Samuel Beckett. Via linkfilter. 9:57:02 AM     |

Monday, June 30, 2003

Raumpatrouille, the Movie. On the Trailer website are a lot of new MP3s to listen to. Dialogues are German, but the music is here to stay; check out "Title 31 - Invasion"(7.1MB, MP3). The startup sequence (2.3 MB. MP3) isn't bad either. This is fun. Update. Interviews with the actors (Dietmar; Eva!) and Peter Thomas, the best (Film) composer ever; he's ranging shortly after Beethoven. Also: Götz Weidner and Werner Hierl, the guys responsible for the SFX. Back in 1966; and I still like them. The SFX of course. Not necessarily Götz and Werner. The spaceship still looks funny. They really should have used my version of the Orion VIII. Thanks, Marc. I have to link your BASIS 104 now ... Done! Oh, and their 'Links' page is now working. They're never going to mention me though, thanks to the (almost) lawsuit. Buggers. I know! My RSS Feed is going bonkers. Sorry about that. But this is important. I'll stop now, ok? 7:36:27 PM     |

Feet. People keep asking me whether Bishops actually have feet, they seem to be hovering above the ground. Well, I don't know; their feet are covered by the black robe they're wearing, so I have no idea. But I managed to get a snapshot of a Bishop getting caught in something smelly & nasty, and I believe I can see a foot there. Hidden under a black robe. 7:17:09 PM     |

Here's another arsehole which has cropped up lately. It's one of the 'remove-here' addresses: seguridad.backbone@telefonica-data.com The main address (where the spam originates) is: Spam report id 317457445 sent to: liwj@public1.nc.jx.cn Have fun. 5:10:50 PM     |

I knew the BBC must have some proper evidence; they're not stupid, are they? BBC has fresh details to support its dossier claim. "The BBC will present fresh details about how the Iraqi weapons dossier was allegedly "sexed up'' by Downing Street and accuse Alastair Campbell of giving "inaccurate'' evidence to the official inquiry into the affair." Publication of the claims, in the next 48 hours, will reignite the unprecedented row just as the Blair Government appears keen to damp it down. According to senior sources, the corporation has decided at the highest level not to give in to the relentless pressure from the Government." 9:09:02 AM     |

Look, look ... Government attack on corporation spearheaded by journalists who quit to join New Labour [Independent: UK News] "The Government's fierce attacks on the BBC over allegations that Downing Street "sexed up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons have been led by three former BBC journalists who now work for the government." 9:00:27 AM     |

Sunday, June 29, 2003

More fantastic art. Here's Mark Ryden. Spooky. 7:00:54 PM     |

The Art of Todd Schorr. Wow. This is fantastic. Just fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Fantastic. Found at Dublog. 6:45:44 PM     |

Ha! News - Ministers knew war papers were forged, says diplomat US official who identified documents incriminating Iraq as fakes says Britain must have been aware of findings 4:27:09 PM     |

The Night of Lead. How strange. Here we have one of the most important expressionist German authors of the 20th Century, and then there are basically no German websites about him? Typical. Here is a short English page about Hans Henny Jahnn; a French one here; and finally, a German page, where the author writes in the first line of his text that Jahnn was 'bisexual'. Now that is important. Good grief. "The Night of Lead , published in 1962, shows Jahnn at his darkest: man is portrayed as the toy of supernatural powers, where his only certainty is a bodily existence which, in turn, is blindly bound to the laws of growth, death and decay and procreation [~] the major themes of Jahnn's writing." 12:26:14 PM     |

Hal Croves. Ret Marut. B. Traven. Little is known about the author and anarchist who wrote 'The Death Ship' and 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. Was he an American? A German? Who in fact was he? Anyway, he was a writer. And a good one too. More here and here. "B. Traven is one of the most mysterious figures in the 20th-century literature. His exact identity is still subject to much doubt. Although Traven claimed to be an American, his most important works were first published in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, before some of them appeared in translation in England. Nothing definitive is known about Traven's origin. However, Traven's novels have been translated into more than 30 languages, sold more than 25 million copies, and they are required reading in Mexican schools." 12:11:40 PM     |

Just laugh more! See you tomorrow. No, later today - it's already one o'clock in the morning. Bye. And laugh more. That's important. 12:54:10 AM     |