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Friday, April 16, 2004 |
 Fortean. The strange case of the Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic. Thanks to Alan at HistoryLink.On April 15, 1954, Bellingham, Seattle and other Washington communities are in the grip of a strange phenomenon -- tiny holes, pits, and dings have seemingly appeared in the windshields of cars at an unprecedented rate. Initially thought to be the work of vandals, the pitting rate grows so quickly that panicked residents soon suspect everything from cosmic rays to sand-flea eggs to fallout from H-bomb tests.
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 Just in Case. If anybody wants to have a look at my resume, feel free to do so. But don't expect the links to be working - the Pipex servers have been down for at least 48 hours now. And they still are.Update: They're back. And now they're down again. This is fun.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
 Mapped Out. Lie of the Land - the secret life of maps. Some maps deliberately set out to deceive. Many show a selective view and reflect only the interests of the people who made them. Stunning maps from ancient to modern reveal a secret world. In every case there is more than meets the eye.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
 Absolutely British. Britain in 2004.The 2004 edition of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Great Britain paints a picture of a land where everything stops for afternoon tea, everyone wears tweed and the trains run on time. We look to the web to see if this alternative-universe Britain really exists.
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Monday, April 12, 2004 |
 St Pancras. Gone. Michael McCarthy writes in the Independent: It was grimy but grand, murky but magnificent, and when it closed last night, something that was the very essence of railway travel in Britain disappeared. At 20 minutes to midnight, St Pancras station in London ceased to be the great Victorian gateway to the cities of the English East Midlands when the last express for Loughborough, Nottingham and Derby pulled out from William Barlow's steel and glass trainshed, one of the engineering wonders of the world when it was built in 1868.Thanks to this thing called Internet, here's a Virtual Tour of St Pancras, created by Jonathan Hall.
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 |
"bob"Country & Western. The writers who came up with these song titles deserve an award. At least. Some of my favourites are: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?
I Wanna Whip Your Cow
She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger Fantastic. Enjoy.
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From the Zone. Huge website in German language about 
Project Dalek. Unbelievable. A 
Quack! 
Sophie. Crumb, of course. She's as weird as her father. 
Want. Laterna Magica. A Newton Telescope. And everything else. At 
One for the Stamp Collectors. 
Even more Disney. Ub Iwerks, the hand behind the mouse. 
More Disney. The history of the 
Dark History. Willibald Wundermild, the author of the website, writes: This site is dedicated to Floyd Gottfredson, one of the world's almost forgotten artists, which is, by no means, justified. Quite right. But it comes better. The subtitle of this wonderful page is: 
Dear Mr and Mrs Blair ... 
DIY. 
Kraftwerk. 
Kurt. The Site for English-Speaking Fans of 
Trek. This is gruesome. 
Der Blöken. Dem Blöken. Des Blöken. Wegen dem Blökens.
Dry Bones. 
Fab. The illustrator
Virtual. The 
There's no Escape from 
Still Easter, innit? Build yourself a 
A peaceful Easter link.