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Saturday, January 31, 2004 |
 Yes. See this website.The BBC not only serves to inform us, educate us and entertain us; by its very existence it also serves to protect us from a level of commercial saturation that would destroy much of what we currently take for granted. If you've ever watched television anywhere else in the world, you'll know what I'm talking about...
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 Meatball. The NASA Branding Guidelines. And here's the history of their logo.'It's a design nightmare,' sighs Greg Patt, Graphics Manager for Lewis' Publishing Services contractor, Cortez III. 'It doesn't print well on laser printers because of the gradations on the airfoil, and it can't be used at less than 5/8 inch because the stars disappear and the type becomes illegible.' Mhm. Then why don't you create a separate version only to be used for smaller sizes?
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Friday, January 30, 2004 |
 Questions are a Burden. I know I've blogged The Prisoner before, but The Unmutual is a fairly new website - and I think one of the best out there, with lots of information about the deteriorating 6o1 fanclub and an extensive list of links. Fab.Oh - the full quote is:
Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.
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Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
 Political. Cartoons of Our War with Spain, by Charles Nelan. Nice exhibit.The 1898 edition of Charles Nelan's Cartoons of Our War with Spain collected fifty-three political cartoons about the Spanish-American War that he drew for theNew York Herald. Along with the cartoons from Nelan's book, the collection presented here includes twenty additional cartoons by Nelan that were reprinted in contemporary magazines and in Cartoons of the War of 1898 with Spain from Leading Foreign and American Papers (Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co., 1898).
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
 The Mad Genius. The biography of Klaus Kinski. More on Kinski (in German language) here and here.Months ago I told Herzog that he could go fuck himself, and I hung up on him. So he began Fitzcarraldo without me, using someone from New York, plus Mick Jagger as Fitzcarraldo's best friend. Now Herzog fucking shows up in L.A. and begs me to star in the movie. After some four weeks of shooting with the guy from New York, Herzog, even with his moronic brain, must have realized that the result was all garbage and that he had to start all over again from scratch. For the fourth time this blowhard has proved that without me he´s a nonentity.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
 Gone with a Bang. As Ligne Claire reports, the Phoenix steelworks in Dortmund-Hörde are no longer. Last Saturday the remaining structures were pulverized by tons of dynamite. Sad, really. More pictures of Phoenix are here.Update: Even more striking pictures at hebig. Hörde Torch is falling down. More on his main website. Lots of thanks to Robert! Well, you just can't beat old Dortmund connections ... Update 2: Check out the comments. Haiko has posted a few more photo links. Thanks! Fronts harden in the decision whether to blow up the Phoenix Mill Torch in Dortmund Hoerde or not. The 98 meters high central chimney with three large-scale torches for low-caloric mill gases on top has been used to flare gases remaining from the basic oxygen steelmaking process that have too low a caloric value to use it elsewhere in the mill. Even though the sometimes several dozens meters high flame finally went out in 2001, the "Hoerder Fackel" continues to spend identity to the south of the city. If it disappears, there will not a single trace be left of the 160 years long history of steelmaking in Dortmund. There can't be a better monument or symbol for this past era. [hebig]
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 There's something Rotten in the Jungle. I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, ITV1 [Independent: UK News]While the other nine celebrities shuddered at a lecture on spiders they might encounter in the Australian jungle, Lydon cackled: "Eight legs crawling over me in the night? What a thrill. How many people want to see me suffer?"
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Monday, January 26, 2004 |
 Voices. Former slaves tell their stories. Via linkfilter.Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. Several of the people interviewed were centenarians, the oldest being 130 at the time of the interview.
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Sunday, January 25, 2004 |
 20 Years Mac. This comes straight from the American Invisible:Sagan was known to have a bit of an ego. In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Sagan", in honor of the astronomer. Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "Butthead Astronomer". Sagan sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule. Sagan lost this lawsuit as well.
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riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, 
From Behind.
Holidays in the Sun. 
Proper Computing. 
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. A website dedicated to 
Curtis & Moore. Let's stay in 60s/70s TV-land for a while - here are 
Letters. 
Kurtzman. 
The White Stuff. Cold and wet. More snow pictures over at the 
A Change of Identity. 
Mac Stories. 
The Sky Above my House. Today, 17:00 hrs.
The Sky Above my House. Yesterday, 13:00 hrs.
Great Dinner. Had a great night out with 
Seven. A really nice and somewhat different website about the 
Interesting. The website of Trek designer 
Holy Wheels! 
Uncle Tom. Extending the entry below a bit, here's a huge (and I mean huge) 
Dinosaurs and Gremlins. Science Fiction and Fantasy illustrations at the 
New York. The 
London Photos. Lots of 
Simply Fab.