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March 31, 2000 [telly] Remember Monkey? It's being rereleased on video.... The Guardian does a profile of this weird TV Programme from the 80's. 'The Nature of Monkey was Irrepressible!' [Comics] Lots of comics links today... but this link was to good to pass up.... a column about... erm.... Bizarre Breasts in comic books [via gliff.org] [Comics] I've been buying the Stormwatch TPB's that cover most of Warren Ellis' run on the book. It's good stuff -- but I was totally confused about which order to read them in. There are four books... anyway I found this posting and all is suddenly clear... Oh yeah, Warren's just posted a new Come In Alone column as well... [politics] New Labour is experiencing some mid-term jitters according to various press reports. Local elections plus the London Mayor's race are fast approaching Two reports -- from Newsunlimited and BBC News [Low Graphics]. [GM] Excellent! You can now browse the OneList archives of The Invisibles and TemporaryNexus mailing lists by each individual post rather than by daily digest versions. March 30, 2000 [quote] "What'll it be next? Choice extracts from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations? Trotting out the Nietzsche and the Shelley to dignify some old costumed claptrap? Probably. Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?" -- Grant Morrison (1989) [tech] Fuck Outlook Express! I hate it... I'm going back to my roots and downloading Peagsus Mail for Windows! [tech] BT and Amstrad release e-m@iler -- a telephone that allows pay-as-you-go access to email without a computer. Here's a BBC News report. March 29, 2000 [music] Mick Jagger's schooldays sound just as pointlessly violent and stupid as mine. "The most damaging revelation comes from friend and classmate Dick Taylor who dents his later hellraising image. "He wasn't a rebel in any way, shape or form. He was one of the best-spoken people there, " he said." [movies] Interview in the Guardian with Oliver Stone."There's a few things I've been. Hedonist. Moralist. Conspiracist. Misogynist - which I hate because, God, I love women." Here's a list of Mr Stone's Films. Great stuff -- my personal favourite is JFK, by the way. However, I don't believe in any of the conspiracy theories! Okay? [Mac] Microsoft releases IE 5 for Macintosh. There also a beta version of Media Player available. Here's a review of IE5. March 28, 2000 [Mayor for London] Norris proposes 24hr Tube on Friday and Saturday. I'm surprised nobody else thought of this -- but I'd always assumed it was not possible to run a 24hr tube in London due to technical reasons? More reports of fresh allegations against Livingstone regarding his financial affairs. [just plain weird] The story of Sealand as reported by the Guardian. Basic ingredients: two websites [#1] [#2], an offshore gun-tower seven miles of the Suffolk coast, an eccentric English couple and an international smuggling ring! [Comics] Interview with Grant Morrison in ifuse. Nice review of Morrison's Kissing Mr Quimper in The Independent. [via The Invisibles Mailing List] March 27, 2000 March 25, 2000 I am off to King's Lynn in Norfolk for the weekend. There are no pay-as-you-surf internet shops in Lynn so the chances of updates this weekend are about the same as something interesting happening at the King's Literary Festival [Text-only Link]. March 24, 2000 [Movies] I enjoyed A Clockwork Orange but was amazed by the entrance, I said, the entrance of Weatherfields favorite butcher Fred Elliot halfway through the film! Great day for Cartoons in the Guardian -- Steve Bell does a stormer on the Blair Baby/paternity leave story. Doonesbury has Uncle Duke doing a campaign ad for the iMac... March 23, 2000 [Movies] I'm off to see Clockwork Orange.... [MP3] "Napster? Never heard of it mate" -- UK reaction to Napster/MP3. It's not an issue in the UK because nobody can afford to download MP3's anyway. I reckon students are probably starting to get interested in it but you need free networking to make it fly like it is in the States -- especially at American universities. [Link for a Friend!] The Official Dirty Dancing Web Site. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." [tech] Nice overview of why text created on Windows PC's looks tiny on Macintoshes.... [Personal Shite] Busy, Busy, Busy.... March 22, 2000 [tech] Useful article on which MP3 encoder is the best. [random] I would have thought that the phrase "The revolution will be netcast!" would be on a lot more sites than it actually is. Interesting... "How Madonna became one of us" [NewsUnlimited] March 21, 2000 [Mayor for London] Beardy does not like redheads! [I seem to be doing a lot of links about hair -- Beckham, Dobson and Evans... I wish I could explain why but as always my motivations remain hidden from me. What the hell was I thinking of when I linked to a Ralph Wiggum quote straight after an interesting article about the media during Kosovo?] March 20, 2000 Frightening article about war correspondents during the Kosovo conflict. "One difficulty is that the media have little or no memory. War correspondents have short working lives and there is no tradition or means for passing on their knowledge and experience. The military, on the other hand, is an institution and goes on forever. The military learned a lot from Vietnam and these days plans its media strategy with as much attention as its military strategy." Can men read? Apparently men don't like reading books with "love" in the title. [Mayor for London] NewsUnlimited reports that Chris Evans is giving £100,000 to Ken's campaign. March 19, 2000 [lastminute] Some fallout from lastminute.com's recent ipo: BBC News report on delivery times for a bottle of Champagne from Lastminute and here's a copy of the lastminute FAQ from Motley Fool's chat forum. [Comics] I am a reformed X-Men fan. I have not picked up a copy of this comic since the early '90's and my peak X-Men reading year was probably 1988-89. That was until last week... when I picked up an issue of Generation-X scripted by Warren Ellis. Here's a trailer for the X-Men film which comes out this summer. I don't want to be a born again X-Fan. I'm nearly thirty.... I'm too old for this shit.... [my-head-hurts] Interview in The Observer with David Irving. It's too early in the morning to be reading the views of people like this. March 18, 2000 [Comics] New "Come In Alone" column by Warren Ellis in CBR. "Comics are plain, conservative, old-looking objects. And this sacred bloody ugliness bores into the brains of people immersed in the culture too long, until they see nothing wrong with it." [my-head-hurts] God help us... todays big news is that David Beckham has had a haircut. [Telly] Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) retuns on BBC1 tonight. I've been looking forward to this for a while.... You can find Trailers here. March 17, 2000 [lists] The Death List -- Top 28 Celebrity Deaths and Suicides! [via clip2.com] My Dead Pool? The Queen Mum and Barbara Cartland... [internet] icontown [via The Face magazine -- does The Face have a web site?] [movies] I've just found the trailer for the movie High Fidelity which is based on Nick Hornby's book. Don't think I'll be watching that one.... [london] I booked tickets for the London Eye today. According to the Guardian the London Eye is the place to be seen.... [Mayor for London] The gloves start to come off in the race to become London's mayor as the first signs of dirty tricks appear... March 16, 2000 My hour is up. More later... [mp3] Wired News reports that AOL has shutdown an open-source Napster clone written by Nullsoft creators of Winamp. Slashdot has a discussion thread on this. The Guardian on easyEverything -- this article captures the atmosphere pretty well. I've been visiting a lot recently -- trying to cut those peak-rate phone bills -- and it reminds me of the university computer rooms I used to work and study in. [personal shite] It's another one hour powerblog from easyEverything. Tom from Barbelith links to me! Yes I sometimes do this in the easyEverything from TCR... it's close to GOSH!, Forbidden Planet and it's on my way home from work... Thanks for the Link, Tom. March 15, 2000 The Guardian shines a spotlight on Alastair Campbell -- Tony Blair's press secretary. He does not seem to know very much about the Human Genome Project. I am not impressed. My hour at easyEverything is up. I'm outta here... [Mayor for London] Ken Livingstone broke Common's rules on registered interests -- apparently about 150, 000 squids worth of outside interests. What next? Stories on Ken's flirtations with underage girls, drugs and sweets? Dobbo and the Rent Boys on Hampstead Heath? [movies] BBC News confirms that Speilberg's next project will be AI -- Stanley Kubrick's unfinished (unstarted?) film about artificial intelligence. I love Kubrick films but Eyes Wide Shut was just awful.... sorry Stanley!! AI has been 30 years in the making... hopefully Speilberg can do justice to Kubrick's vision -- whatever that was. [personal shite] Okay.... I'm sitting in the easyEverything in Tottenham Court Road. My legs hurt... I'm thirsty... Let's Blog! March 14, 2000 Hey! Barbelith is being updated again... Probably the best UK blog around.... Check out The Bomb while you're there.... Books Unlimited lists Mohamed al Fayed's favourite books. Here's a link to the BBC News profile of al Fayed from late last year. The OED goes online. The Oxford English Dictionary took seventy years to complete. The fascinating story behind it's creation can be found in the book The Professor and the Madman. Here's a link to the OED's page on it's history. [lastminute] Various Links on Lastminute: Comment from NewsUnlimited. The current share price from UKinvest and finally the site in question: lastminute.com [lastminute ipo] BBC News reports that lastminute floats at 3.80 a share. March 13, 2000 [Movies] Here's a link to The Insider website. I found a link to the original source material for The Insider -- an article in Vanity Fair -- "The Man Who Knew To Much" [Mayor for London] BBC News supplies a fascinating political analysis on beards in the British Government. Why no picture of Dobson without the beard? I've not seen one on the web anywhere... weird. Yet another "is the Internet bubble going to burst" article. The lastminute.com IPO seems to be generating a bunch of them in the UK press. [lastminute ipo] According to News Unlimited -- lastminute is likely to be heavily over subscribed. March 12, 2000 Great two-part article/interview with John Romero on his upcoming game Daikatana [Part One] [Part Two] Interview with Jeffery Wigand. This is the man who blew the whistle on Big Tobbacco and who's story recently formed the inspiration for Michael Mann's film The Insider. Yet another "is the Technology bubble going to burst?" article. The Sunday Times has a profile of Ian Brady. Why bother? "Whatever happened to Quentin Tarantino?" Is Tarantino the bizzaro Y2K Howard Hughes? [Mayor for London] "Hoi! Lose the hair Beardy!" The Observer reports that the aides have told Frank Dobson to lose the beard or lose the election. Someone should report that bullshitting mirthmakers are running the Dobson campaign! March 11, 2000 [quote] "I really do think that the battlelines have been drawn. I want to see comics as a pop medium, I want to see the Forbidden Planet empire reaching out to every city in the world like McDonald's. I want to see comic creators and retailers in Vogue and on telly, but ranged against that brilliant global vision are the cornershop bankers who just want to sneak home with their brown paper bags and their Betty Page video's and who're just desperate to keep comics at the level of stamp collecting and train-spotting because they can't face up to the glare of the real world. Which side will you be on? -- its as simple as that." -- Grant Morrison (1992) [MP3] A new version of Winamp is available. Download from here. Winamp is a free MP3 player for Windows. Check out Blogger. It's the website I use to update linkmachinego.com -- the Blogger website just got a redesign. March 10, 2000 New book from O'Reilly: Tactical Systems Administration March 09, 2000 A life in Crime -- Ian Rankin on crime novels. "Here's the scoop: crime writing is sexy." lastminute.com up's it's share price. Be Afraid. MI5 is watching your email according to the BBC -- especially if you get emails from David Shayler... According to the Guardian Labour MPs love Harry Potter books. March 08, 2000 The Internet has been in the news alot today in the UK. Various Links: Nine high flying tech stocks join the FTSE-100 according to BBC News. BT to offer free net access -- rather expensive unmetered access! This is London reports on the lastminute.com ipo. According to The Economist the Internet is running out of names! Watching the Detective - interview with the detective leading the murder hunt for Jill Dando. March 07, 2000 Websites for the major candidates for London major: Steve Norris, Frank Dobson, Ken Livingstone, Susan Kramer. The Official Major for London website. Pictures from the race for London Mayor. BBC News reports that the Internet price war is starting to hot up in the UK. I've recently moved over to btinternet.com -- £9.99 a month for unlimited access at weekends and week-day nights. From the Guardian: Ken Livingstone tears up the rule book. Simon Hoggart on the "Stuff Blair Campaign". March 06, 2000 Find interestings posts from interesting people on slashdot.org: John Carmack, Jamie Zawinski and Tom Christiansen BBC News reports that the Antichrist is a vegetarian. Guh?! In my real job I am a so-called "IT Support Analyst" but if this World Weekly News is right -- I want to change my Job Title to Witchfinder General! March 05, 2000 I also watched Bullitt and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Last Night. Movie trivia: Robert Duvall has a role as a very grumpy looking Taxi Driver in Bullit. It was weird seeing him look so young... March 04, 2000 'I've done questionable things.' -- Roy Batty. I'm sitting watching Blade Runner. I suppose this is as good a way as any to start a weblog...
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