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Saturday, May 8, 2004

Amazing. Found at the fabulous Gravity Lens Weblog (Mark - this is brilliant!): the Aliens versus Predator Chess Set. Fab. 12:47:05 PM     |

Good Books. Violet Books. The galleries of dust covers are amazing. Via linkfilter. Violet Books specializes in Antiquarian Supernatural Literature, including literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction, Yellow Nineties Decadence, H. Rider Haggard & haggardesque "Lost Race" novels, Marie Corelli & other occult romancers, Rafael Sabatini & Jeffery Farnol & all vintage swashbuckling historical romances, westerns, Yukon adventures, jungle tales, Sax Rohmer & all weird thrillers, classic detectives, vintage children's & young adult fantasies & series books, & all things old, fictional, adventurous, & weird. 10:44:36 AM     |

Tsk. My aunt, 'Tante Grete', used to live there. Nice lttle town actually. Sasser worm suspect held. An 18-year-old has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of creating the Sasser worm, police say. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] But although the worst of the outbreak is over, it is thought the worm will never entirely disappear, and that future versions may be far more damaging. 10:29:59 AM     |

Sick. This is so sick. Für Dumme und Soldaten: 'I was beaten for three days by British soldiers' [Independent: World News] In a witness statement obtained by The Independent, Kifah Talah, 44, an engineer, claims he was hooded and beaten about the neck, chest and genitals by soldiers during three days before being made to dance in front of his tormentors. 10:21:28 AM     |

Friday, May 7, 2004

This is your Cartoonist Speaking. Yeah that's me. So what? I'm busy working on advertising stuff. The whole weekend. As a matter of fact. See you back Monday morning. Here's Dry Bones. Oh bugger this; this one's the proper version, the one from The Prisoner, perfomed by The Four Lads. And I'll delete it from the server on Sunday. Majo, be quick. 11:01:41 PM     |

Searching. This is actually not a part of the Grand Great Old Fart MP3 Competition, but it could be. Anyway: I'm desperately searching for Artery: Mother Moon as an MP3. I've got the 45 vinyl, but really, really wish to have it as an MP3, because I'm too stupid to get the analog 45 single into my computer. And I don't have a record player anyway. So it's useless. Anyone? Steve, perhaps? C'mon, they're from Sheffield! And I'm your mate! Desperate, The Cartoonist. 6:23:19 PM     |

More RetroFuturePast. Mark found an even better Retrofuture website: Tales of Future Past. Fab, absolutely fab. Lots of images. Which is the main thing. Who reads copy these days? 1:46:20 PM     |

The Old Fart MP3 Competition [Part 236]. I've always loved Dr Who and his adventures in time and space, flying about in his Tardis (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Reason enough to link to The Timelords (aka KLF) and their hit, Doctorin' the Tardis [MP3, 3.3MB]. 1:05:52 PM     |

The good Painter. Philip Guston at The Royal Academy of Arts. 12:22:19 PM     |

'My mother learned me to say...' Beat from Germany with The Lords at IT&W. Fantastic, with lyrics in perfekt Englisch. 7:28:33 AM     |

A Vacation on the Moon. Fab website: Retrofuture. Via Eye of the Goof. The Retrofuture is a concept based on a simple question: what happened to all that futuristic stuff which was supposed to change our lives by the year 2000? Stuff like rocket belts, flying cars, food pills and inflatable homes. 7:08:13 AM     |

Thursday, May 6, 2004

Bratwurst with Dave Winer. This is the modern World; I love it. When I arrived in Zurich on April 28 I had to hunt around for an Internet cafe. Found one, got a Coke Lite and a land-line, and started writing. After one of my revisions I noticed there's a comment. "That's fast," I said to myself. It's from Gregor Rothfuss. "Wanna have a beer? I live 10min away." Five minutes later Benjamin Vogt, an evangelist at Microsoft, posted "5min away, let me know if you are hooking up." A few minutes later they were both at the cafe, and we went to the old town in Zurich and had a bratwurst dinner and beer, and talked about all kinds of stuff including how amazing it was that we got together this way. Another killer app for weblogs. [Scripting News] 10:50:41 PM     |

In Between. Interesting discussions going on about weblogs & copyright/write and XML/RSS feeds in particular, over at Zoe and Horst. And another one about security in OS X and Windows at Universal Rule. Apart from that, I'm knackered. More tomorrow. 10:37:22 PM     |

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

This is Glam. And yet another entry for the Great MP3 competition. The Sweet. And Blockbuster [MP3, 1.3MB]. Oh yeah. Groovy. Probably no updates tomorrow, I'm busy in the big town. 8:36:56 PM     |

Proper Architecture. Expo-Park. Architecture of USSR exhibition pavilions. Great. 8:26:37 PM     |

Strange Englishman. One for Majo - Malcom McLaren with The Ghosts of Oxford Street. 7:55:03 AM     |

Strange Places. Galleries of American Diners. 7:47:28 AM     |

Strange Music. DooWopDream - your interactive radio. 7:40:06 AM     |

Strange Toys. An H.R. Giger sculpture, available in October 2004. 7:34:35 AM     |

Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Battleships. A nicely done Flash Game. 7:13:53 AM     |

Munsters. Everything about the Munster Koach and Grandpa's Drag-u-la. 6:55:39 AM     |

The Great Old Fart MP3 Competition (9). A little snippet of dialogue [MP3, German language] lifted straight from Der Kommissar. And that dialogue makes absolutely no sense at all. More sounds here. And don't forget to listen to The Lumberjack Song in German... 6:48:09 AM     |

Monday, May 3, 2004

Linguistics. Hergé's Syldavian: a grammar. The adventures of Tintin, by the great Belgian artist Hergé, are enjoyed the world over; for the linguist, they offer the added attraction of providing tantalizing glimpses of a previously undocumented language, Syldavian. 1:40:52 PM     |

300 Images from 1800 Sites. Fantastic. I started gathering little, iconesque web images for myself so that I could compare, contrast, and study the techniques used by other graphic artists on the web. My initial pool of images looked so interesting that I decided to continue methodically hunting and capturing the icons for a public display piece. The purpose of this document is not to copy the intellectual property of others, but rather as a jumping-off point for your own unique web graphic projects. It's for Brainstorming, if you will. 8:48:31 AM     |

Looking Good. Alien vs Predator - trailers, photos etc. 8:40:37 AM     |

And there he is. Alan Stein found out everything about the person responsible for the Ukulele version of Anarchy in the Uk. And guess what - he calls himself The Duke of Uke. Fabulous. I want his CD now. Listen to Search and Destroy [2.7MB, MP3]. Armed with a uke autographed by the Tiny Tim, my special mission is to unleash the healing power of the ukulele for a world in need... 8:31:39 AM     |

Sunday, May 2, 2004

Old Fart MP3 Competition (6). I'm sorry. I got talked into this by Majo. Here's John Cale live with Fucking your Neighbour's Wife [4.5MB, MP3]. Cale cartoon by Chris Spedding. Enjoy. And it's all Majo's fault anyway. More on Spedding and Cale here [RealPlayer]. 4:53:16 PM     |

Kossack Patrol. Well, the MP3 competition with IT&W and Schockwellenreiter continues. Here's Ivan Rebroff with Poljuschko Polje [2.5MB, MP3]. Via No Frontin'. More tomorrow. 1:45:19 PM     |

One for Sunday. Learning languages can be difficult. Thank God there are phrasebooks. One of those is even online: The Zompist Phrasebook, teaching the most essential phrases in 8 different languages. Under 'At the Hotel': The bellboy won't score me any coke. Le groom refuse de me procurer un petit peu de came. El mozo se niega a venderme cocaína. Der Page will mir kein Koks bringen. Under 'Sightseeing': Where can I find the dissidents? Où se trouvent les dissidents ? ¿Dónde puedo encontrar a los disidentes? Wo sind hier die Dissidenten? 'At the Restaurant': One order of fermé le mercredi, please. Donnez-moi du fermé le mercredi, s'il vous plaît. Sírvame cerrado los miércoles, por favor. Einmal Mittwochs geschlossen, bitte. Of course, there's more. Many thanks to Zoe in Brussels. 8:17:08 AM     |