9 May 2000

13:45:39
The Vaults of Erowid "Documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives"

13:44:46
Big list of links - lots of alternative stuff and politics. Some good stuff in here.

13:30:14
History of the Bottle Hill Boys, who made two excellent bluegrass albums.

12:22:54
Punctuation miscellany.

12:17:07
English is tough stuff.

10:13:03
I cant work out what this is about.

10:12:21
The Monumenta Nipponica Index.

10:09:40
Outdoors World Championship Turkey Calling. I am not even sure how to parse that!

10:07:50
The Classic Plastick Toy company. Slightly odd for some reason.

10:04:28
Triumphal Chariot of Basil Valentine

10:02:50
Cow becomes Dissatisfied.

09:58:38
638 Primary Personality Traits, well 292 of them on this page at least.

09:56:54
Queen of the nile collar. Note that "The workmanship is impeccible; with full, maticulous soddering on the entire piece" (sic) (I've always wanted to say that)

09:46:41
The Half Asleep Town. And not to mention Urrrghhh! an ode to the Concept II Rowing Ergonometer.

09:40:20
I'm half asleep this morning.

8 May 2000

15:43:09
Qcad is a neat piece of software.

13:22:55
Anyone know if San gennaro's "blood" liquified this weekend? (Here's a nice paper on how to do it non-miraculously...)

11:43:22
I think that I may want a C.Pen. I wonder if they are any good?

11:27:46
Building a "Thunderchild" Class Observatory. An observatory would be nice, but there is too much light pollution where I live.

11:26:44
The magna trust. "Magna is designed to be a discovery centre for industry and creativity."

10:29:28
And here's a book on building sheds that sounds good too. I want to build a shed of some kind in my garden. What I want is what I describe as a "winter house": In the winter we don't go into the garden much as it is cold and wet. A winter house would be a place you could go and sit in the garden and be warm and work or just sit quietly. Of course it could double as a summer house if you wanted, but the winter house function would be it's most important use.

10:24:07
This book about garden tools sounds as though it might be rather good - I love tools and books about them.

10:00:32
George in Idaho points me to this nice Crosley radio site. It's not a brand that I know as they presumably never made it to the UK in any kind of quantites. He also points me to this Crosley car site. Is it the same company? Amazing looking cars - absolutely basic and functional, again not something you would have seen in the UK though.

09:50:16
The cherry blossom has been fantastic this year. And there haven't been big winds or rains to wreck it. Nearly over now though - the white is all but finished and the pink is starting to fade.

09:48:30
Everyone is redesigning again I notice. (How weird is the sequence of letters "igning"?)

5 May 2000

13:09:13
Rare Record Covers - mind your eyes with the background.....

13:05:12
The Tapestry of Delights : a guide to UK psych, beat and progressive music between 1963 and 1976.

12:59:43
Hurricane lamps anyone?

12:56:42
The Electrified Library. (Guess what word i had in my search....)

12:55:04
The electrified conch newsletter. The person who designed this page should be made to hold it and the switch thrown.

12:54:29
But there again you might want some electrified sheep netting. Assuming you have some electrified sheep.

12:52:53
Electrified Wax tart Warmers? I've never met a tart who would want one.

12:46:20
Meet the cutie named Kevin. With a gingham background too.

12:41:56
That's what I was looking for: the chart for Autumn leaves.

12:36:05
How about the Coven of the Autumn Leaves, then?

12:34:55
Autumn Leaves : "The Pioneers of Danish Death Metal" A death metal band called Autumn Leaves? How ridiculous.

12:32:02
Guitar Pins.

12:26:40
Sweetbreads.com - what else is there to say?

12:23:45
Strange recordings.

12:22:58
Hmm, strange writings.

12:17:53
I'm listening to Errol Garner at the moment.

11:45:19
The Journal of Polymorphous Perversity.

09:36:29
Went to see Galaxy Quest last night. What a good movie. My kids didn't get most of the jokes though.

09:35:45
Another gem from GMTPlus9 : vintage tobacco ads.

09:25:49
I wish all these news reports about ILOVEYOU would point out that there are some computers not affected by it at all....

4 May 2000

16:24:47
I've been listening to Skip, Hop & Wobble by Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg and Edgar Meyer. Fantastic stuff.

16:21:35
Sushi fortune telling.

16:16:19
Excellent piece about the Kent State shootings. Eye-witness history.

12:03:10
What a truely vile system JavaScript is.

09:49:39
A guide to US Diners. Nicely done. (via gmtPlus9)

3 May 2000

13:52:06
On a general topic that is floating in some weblogs I read: Marshmallow is vile in any form.

12:28:49
Good salon article on the joys of UNIX.

11:45:41
The museum of garden history.

11:41:28
Some pictures of bollards in the Birmingham area. Some nice ones. Bollards that is.

10:53:43
A list of insane inventions. Even though they are meant as funny, some of them actually exist.

10:52:35
My elbow is sore. I don't know what I have done to it. Can't be typing as I haven't done much of that over the last few weeks. Probably barrowing rubble. The best barrows are made by Chillington, who have a web page with some nice label images on it, however I can't find their barrows on it anywhere, just there rather superb range of hoes, though they don't seem to have a small onion hoe in their range which is a tool I am rather fond of using. I wonder if the barrows are made by a different Chillington. Here's a page of machetes made by their parent company.

10:10:30
The world never ceases to astound and depress me. Front page of the Guardian today is a story about an asthma inoculation for babies. Now, I am not against curative measures that will help people, but why are these injections needed? Because asthma is increasing because the developed world is too clean and the babies don't get exposed to enough bacteria. So rather than suggest that we might just be a little dirtier (which the multi-national household product conglomerates wouldn't like), they suggest inoculations! There is a whole trend at the moment in advertising "anti-bacterial" versions of products which is just so stupid as it feeds the pointless cleanliness obsession. I just finished reading Biting the Dust , a history of housework which I can recommend highly. It demonstrates clearly how ignorant most people are about germs and bacteria and how manufacturers stir up panics about them.

2 May 2000

15:58:09
Richard Zacks' website. He wrote "An Underground Education"

15:54:30
Quirky booklist with some interesting looking stuff on it. *sigh*

14:13:13
It is simply impossible to catch up on 3 weeks of stuff. The world is way too complicated. I shall become an ornamental hermit or something.

13:37:09
Cosmic Internet Academy - live on air. (That's live as in house, not as in The WHo Live in Leeds (though for all I know they might have))

12:40:58
Curse Free TV : "The money you save will pay for your Curse Free TV unit many times over and also protect the values and Godly principles you've worked hard to instill in your family." If you've worked that hard why are they still watching TV at all?

09:48:53
'Twas extremely wet in the Lakes last week. Our backyard is all dug up (I spent Sunday barrowing the concrete into a skip). We are going to put down a Bradstone paving that is very similar (at least in layout) to what would have been originally in the yard when the house was built. The original finish was salt glazed tile, but that is impossible (or impossibly expensive) to get.

09:43:10
The Ominous Valve. 'nuff said.