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Saturday, October 11, 2003

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Dreamtoons. This one comes via Frau W. Brilliant: Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw. A new strip is uploaded every week on he first minute of Saturday in San Francisco; 3 AM Friday in New York; 6 AM Saturday in Paris, France; and 3 PM Saturday in Sydney, Australia. 6:48:05 PM     |

Sharp. The European Knife Directory. Have some plasters ready. 6:33:39 PM     |

Magazines. Nomagazine, a magazine for photography and illustration comes in Flash, takes a long time to load but is worth every second of downloadtime. And here's Dodge 2, the lost and found issue. Both links via Coudal Partners. 8:30:48 AM     |

Friday, October 10, 2003

This is War. FirstWorldWar.Com. With propaganda posters, vintage audio, video and footage. It sucks - and nevertheless is a great website to browse. Unfortunately. Because without a WWI, there wouldn't be a website dedicated to this crap. 4:36:05 PM     |

Thank You! This goes to Gary Santoro, who was so kind sending me a package filled with lots of wonderful stuff across the big pond. Gary, thanks. 8:44:27 AM     |

Freud und Leid. The painter Lucian Freud. Here and here. And here's his portrait of the Queen. Serves her right. 8:35:30 AM     |

Chaos and Order. Armin has posted some nice pictures and a Quicktime Panorama of the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. 8:22:24 AM     |

Thursday, October 9, 2003

Creepy. Dummies and their Ventriloquists. Brrr...! 7:27:04 PM     |

Scripts. Nothing but movie scripts. Hundreds of them. Shooting scripts, Final drafts, 2nd drafts, production drafts. Brilliant. Now that's something for Colleen. 10:02:57 AM     |

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

This is just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. A guide about "How to write Weblogs the proper way". I always wanted to know that. Really. About time something like this gets published. Good grief. NetGuideWeb .. Magazine Issue 79 - Feature Article Bloggers have lost jobs, friends, and even spouses over things they revealed in their journals. Bloggers have to make the conscious decision from the start that what they write today may come back to haunt them tomorrow, and be OK with that choice. That's the warning from one of the best veteran bloggers. They share their tips and experiences. Found at linkfilter, and it makes me angry. Now there you'll find some blogs definitely not worthwhile reading. 10:52:46 PM     |

Raumpatrouille meets Art. Art meets Raumpatrouille. This gallery of Shag Paintings comes along inspired by an entry in the cleverly made Eye of the Goof weblog. Fab. Another Raumpatrouille Fan! 10:15:28 PM     |

This is so stoopid. To the majority of Californians out there: Hey guys, don't you know what may happen if you import an artist from Austria as a politician? To the rest of the World: Why do we bother voting anyway? Let's just employ Hollywood as a World Government. Gene Hackman could be World President, Bill Shatner would make a good Space Foreign Minister and so on. Let's go for that and anything will be easier and better. If there are any terrorist attacks, one governator or the other will just sort it out. Brill; now that's a great concept, isn't it? 9:06:49 PM     |

Still there. With the old hard drive. An eMac is a bugger to disassemble, so we've postponed everything to the next week, which means I'm back again with my hard drive making nasty clicking sounds and slowing everything down. Even copy and paste. Or writing emails. Terrible. Check out this page and then this one. And imagine the fun I had this afternoon. All you Mac specialists out there: Will it help if I just reformat the old drive? Will the 'bad blocks' go away? Should I try that first? Majo? Anyone? 6:43:51 PM     |

Oh my. My hard drive is acting up and will be replaced later today. I'll spend the morning backing up and then the rest of the day reinstalling the system. So don't expect any more updates today. And if you don't hear from me at all, then it's because I haven't been able to get Radio up and running again. Sigh ... 9:01:47 AM     |

Bellrock. After coming across David Taylor's excellent Bellrock website, I became so fascinated by the lighthouse that I made a 3D rendering of it. Enjoy. 8:54:48 AM     |

Tuesday, October 7, 2003

Good Night. Last one for tonight: General Lydia van Dyke and Commander Cliff Allister McLane having fun down at the Starlight Casino. 8:44:27 PM     |

Create your own tabloid. If you can't get enough gossip or don't like what you read in the rags then Quickbrew is for you. With Quickbrew's Dirt Magazine, you can choose from a menu of "dirt" to dish up your own personalized rendition of BenLo-like article. Pulled from Steve Hall's adrants. 3:57:45 PM     |

The Boxer. A few pages about Max Schmeling: in German, again in German, and here's one in English. 3:43:33 PM     |

The Cartoonist and the mysterious Case of the Missing Cigarettes, or: The healthiest cigarettes in the World. It happened on the way to the station. I had some urgent business in London to attend to and went to the nearest tube station. A bit further up the road is a newsagent, and as I was in the desperate need of some cigarettes, I made the quick decision to buy some. A pack of cigarettes is now £4.70 here in the UK, so it was not an easy decision to be made. I got a pack and luckily opened them just outside the shop. I opened up the cellophane, removed the alu-paper and --- No cigarettes inside. Just some crumpled up tissue paper. Nothing else. My eyes were popping out of my head, my hands trembling. I was in cold sweat, staring at a box filled with tissue paper. Back into the shop I went: "Dear shopkeeper, this must be the most expensive box of tissues I've ever bought. Now do you have a similar box with actually cigarettes inside?" The shopkeeper couldn't believe it either. He took another pack out of the shelf behind him, unwrapped the cellophane, opened the pack, removed the alu-paper and withdrew some more tissue paper from the inside. Same here. Well, the third pack finally contained some actual cigarettes. I was relieved. And wondered all the way down to London where this particular shopkeeper might get his cigarettes from. And as Rocky said: It's healthy. The first cigarettes you can blow your nose with! 3:15:29 PM     |

Paris by Night. Ah, he's a good one. A really good one. Here's Jacques Tardi at Casterman. And here at Lambiek. And finally The first English-language website dedicated entirely to the French mystery sleuth. 9:34:31 AM     |

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Italian movie posters. 8:16:45 AM     |

Monday, October 6, 2003

Gone. Whatever happened to The Reverse Cowgirl? I must have missed something in the blogsphere. She's just gone. 8:58:25 PM     |

Burn Baby, Burn. Found yet another Toaster Museum. No big deal, alright. But it's there, and that's important. Navigation's a mess, btw. But who cares these days, we're all living in a typographic chaos anyway. 7:49:39 PM     |

Weird. Just weird. And great. And even pornographic. But still art. The photographs of Jan Saudek. 7:36:41 PM     |

Oh no, not again... New Tube strike warning [This is London: London News] Tube commuters today faced a new threat of strike action in an escalating row over pay. 1:52:41 PM     |

Bang, Stink and Simmer. Alchemical symbolism, imagery and music at The Alchemy Web Site. Brilliant: Old manuscripts, paintings and illustrations. I found this through The Seventh Tower Laboratory, a chemistry website. Great. Now I'll become a World-famous alchemist and liberate some Oxygen. 1:44:43 PM     |

Game On. 755 Java and Flash-based games are at ArcadePod. 1:31:40 PM     |

Sunday, October 5, 2003

Fantascienza Sexy. A series of articles about the heroine in SF movies and comics. Although in Italian language, the galleries are international - meet up with Barbarella, Jodelle, Pravda and many more. Just click on 'galleria' at the top left of each of the 4 articles and a new World will open up... 11:21:53 AM     |