The Cartoonist

Friday, April 30, 2004

Long Weekend. Bank holiday weekend. See you back on Tuesday. Cheerio. 8:45:26 PM     |

Dutch made. The DAF, the funny little car with the 'clever stick'. Via Ye olde Phart. 8:43:06 PM     |

More strange Music. Sammy Davis Jr. singing the theme song from Hawaii Five-O - thanks, Alan! Venus in Furs performed by a band from the Ukraine - thanks, Dirk! 3:24:24 PM     |

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Rrright ... Now! Seems as if Schockwellenreiter and IT&W are in some sort of an "old fart" MP3 competition ... well, I'd like to participate and offer Anarchy in the Uk played on a Ukulele. Am I the winner now or what? Found at nofear, btw. 11:08:06 PM     |

Test. How grammatically sound are you? Via Coudal. 8:48:43 PM     |

Ahhh... Ladies and Gentlemen, the fabulous Jules Feiffer! 8:40:31 PM     |

Panorama. Tutorials, tips and techniques for creating panoramas. 1:14:07 PM     |

Even more Logos. I know someone who will be very happy about the logo on the left. 5000 logotypes as Illustrator files. Great. 12:56:40 PM     |

Counting. A long, long, long list of online Disney Comics. 12:47:03 PM     |

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Sound. The history of sound recording - Geschichte der Tonaufzeichnung. Wonderful website, German language only. Via Kosmonautentraum. 9:17:16 PM     |

Sachsenhausen. Photos at Ligne Claire. 8:12:56 AM     |

Virtual Cockpits. The picture on the left shows the interior of the Mercury Freedom 7 capsule. And more Quicktime VR cockpits are here. Nice. I wanna fly. 7:56:50 AM     |

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Greek German. German Greek copy. Greek German copy. Dummy ... text. Whatever. Blindtexte. Rechts geht es schneller, irrerweise wegen der Lkws. Die wollen nämlich alle noch vor zehn zu Hause sein. Osnabrück. Dammer Berge. Tanken, weil kleiner Tank. Nach Wildeshause wird die Autobahn dreispurig. Klasse! Alles stürmt nach links, auch ein Kadett City mit Bochumer Kennzeichen. Bleibt hartnäckig. Blinker bringt auch nichts. Lichthupe ebenfalls zwecklos. Muß rechts vorbei. Ein Mittelscheitel macht den Breiten. Der Verkehr verzieht sich. Nach Stuckenborstel gehe ich vom Gas nicht mehr runter. Den Abzweig zum Elbtunnel mal wieder viel zu schnell genommen. Der Rest geht schnell. Entscheide mich natürlich wie immer für die linke Röhre, um dann nach Tunnelende dramatisch blitzartig vier Spuren nach rechts in die Ausfahrt hineinzubremsen. Das einzige, was auf der Stresemann wieder aufhält, ist eine kuriose Ampelschaltung. Am Phantom der Oper links, auf dem Ring einmal rundrum bis zum Winterhuder Marktplatz, dahinter noch mal links, zum Stadtpark hinunter. Ich bin da. Wieder zu spät. Blogged before, but found again with DEVONagent for OS X. Fab software. Und ich hoffe mal, der Autor der obigen Zeilen meint das nicht wirklich ernst... 9:02:04 PM     |

Because I like it. Robert Falcon Scott. And because I wrote a book about Antarctic stuff like that. 8:22:03 PM     |

Of special Interest. For all of my German-speaking readers presumably. Everything, absolutely everything - if not even more than everything - about the comic magazine YPS (with Gimmick!). 10. März 2004 Inhaltsverzeichnis und Coverscans der Hefte 876-900 sind online. 24. Februar 2004 Start des neuen Bastelbogen Archivs! Für den Anfang stehen schon 10 Bögen zur Verfügung. ... 5:34:58 PM     |

I was wondering. In the "old days" I used to report each and every spam I received straight to spamcop. The "old days" were when I got about 30 spams a day. Now that I'm getting between 200 and 350 a day, it just doesn't seem to make sense anymore - even with an automated reporting system I'd just lose precious time. I was also thinking that reporting 200 spams a day might just add to the bandwidth already being used by spam? And it doesn't seem to help anymore; I reported one especially nasty mail this morning. Ten minutes later I received 50 mails, well, I guess they were spams - all from different addresses, blank subject line, blank body; they must have been from the person I was complaining about. I think reporting doesn't make sense anymore. Or did it ever, apart from setting up blacklists that are faulty anyway? Oh, and bots look here please. 5:09:28 PM     |

Bizarre. The photography of Laurent Askienazy. Thanks, Reimund! 7:47:31 AM     |

Monday, April 26, 2004

Berlin, 1936. Huge photo galleries. Via Koewi. 4:20:55 PM     |

Air Guitar. The Theremin. Besides looking like no other instrument, the theremin is unique in that it is played without being touched. Two antennas protrude from the theremin - one controlling pitch, and the other controlling volume. As a hand approaches the vertical antenna, the pitch gets higher. Approaching the horizontal antenna makes the volume softer. Because there is no physical contact with the instrument, playing the theremin requires precise skill and perfect pitch. 4:00:43 PM     |

A Body like an Industrial Landscape. American Music by Annie Leibowitz. (Also mentioned at things, as I just noticed) 3:54:58 PM     |

Fast Cars. The Citroën Comic Archives. Thanks, Majo! 3:45:14 PM     |