23 April 2000
[tech] Microsoft makes another attempt to hide support for DOS in the lastest version of Windows.
[comics] What is Hypertime?
22 April 2000
[comics] Tom gets an email from Grant Morrison! [why don’t I get emails from Grant? WHY?? WHY?? I’ve been a good soldier… I read Zoids for fucks sake, Grant! :) ]
[movies] Here’s the trailer for Kevin and Perry Go Large.
[Mp3] More shit flies over MP3 / Napster — various links: You can PayLars if you feel guilty about downloading bootleg Metallica MP3’s of the net. Dr Dre warns Napster [interesting thread about this on Metafilter: Napster is nothing more than the new mix tape].
[uk] British banks are useless, money-grabbing bastards. [Text Only].
21 April 2000
[comics] Pretty unbelievable rumour: Michael Jackson and Stan Lee to buy Marvel comics? [check out the “Who’s bad” Section]
20 April 2000
[comics] Box Office Poison is one of my favorite comics at the moment.
[politics] Tory MP admits to surfing for porn: New Forest West’s Desmond Swayne told MPs it was only the Commons division bell that stopped him from lingering with a sense of “fascination” over a porn site.
[news] Ricky leaves Eastenders… newsUnlimited has the story [Text Only]and so does BBC News [low graphics]. From newsUnlimited: “Ricky stumbled onto our screens in 1988, and fate has pissed mercilessly into his eyes ever since. It’s been nothing but disappointment, heartbreak, humiliation and plodding, battleship-grey drudgery. And while he may not have suffered with dignity – there’s nothing dignified about him – he has at least avoided pulling an “Arthur Fowler” and plunging into full-blown mental unhingery. Until now.”
19 April 2000
[weblogs] Well it had to happen: newsUnlimited has a weblog.
[mayor for london] Another webapp to help you choose your mayor: VoteMonkey [requires Java]
[news] newsUnlimited meets the oldest women and man in the world. [Text Only] “Draining the last from another bottle of beer he stands up, clutching his documents. ‘Right, I’ve had enough. I want everyone to fuck off because I’m tired.’ He walked off, leaving a little pile of empty beer bottles and two cigarette ends, marking his place in time”
[web] DigiGuide is a great web application which allows you to download TV schedules for UK TV programmes and view them off-line.
[film] filmUnlimited interviews Harry Enfield about Kevin & Perry Go Large.
[comics] Steve Bell’s favourite comics.
18 April 2000
[tech/mp3] I’ve finally got Audiograbber to rip from CD’s on NT. I’ve also started using Lame to encode the MP3’s. Both come highly recommended…
[comics] Whatever happened to Joe Matt?
[comics] Alan’s Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes can still be found on the web — if you know where to look. . ‘We have a powerful and intense sequence where Superman manages to smash his way through a lot of the alien forces single-handed while being ring-whipped by the Lanterns, only to finally be beaten to death in single combat by the massive and frighteningly powerful Sodal Yat.’
17 April 2000
[south park] nme interviews South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
[comics] The 2000AD Links Project is full of interesting web sites about the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
16 April 2000
[MP3] New versions of Winamp and Audiograbber have been released. Download here: Winamp 2.62 and Audiograbber 1.62.
It’s been a “Whassup?” kind of weekend: Star Wars Wassup [via Camworld]
[tech] Computer’s rot childrens brains reports newsUnlimited.
15 April 2000
[film] Time Code 2000 looks like a very interesting film. BBC News has a report.
[funny] South Park Wassup? [Via Ghost in the Machine]
[funny] Someone’s released the source for Windows 2000! [via random($foo)]
[funny] Superfriends Whassup?
14 April 2000
[news] Shergar is still missing in action.
13 April 2000
[Comics] Frank Miller to do a sequel to Batman: Dark Knight Returns?
[onion] David Irving would probably agree with the Onion on this: Did Six Million Really Visit The Holocaust Museum?
[tech] Wap phones are like ZX Spectrums [Text Only]. Hmmm… nice idea…
[mayor for london] newsUnlimited reports on: The collected controversies of Ken Livingstone According to reports Ken’s lead had dropped by 12 points.
[mayor for london] Let’s play Fantasy Mayor … enter your preferences on 15 key issues and fantasy mayor will tell you which candidate to vote for. [via ChrisH]
Two murders that won’t go away : Sam Sheppard is still a fugitive. Jeffrey MacDonald still protests his innocence… MacDonald’s pregnant wife and two children were murdered in Feb 1970 a month before I was born… over thirty years ago. Murders cast long shadows, I guess.
12 April 2000
[personal shite] Just thought of a title for a great war comic: VICAR WITH A GUN (IN MONTE CASSINO). [It saddens me to admit that I am thirty years old and still think of stuff like that… What is wrong with me?]
[uk news] newsUnlimited covers anti-vivisectionists protesting outside the houses of investors in Huntingdon Life Sciences.
[nazi] Steve Bell’s brilliant cartoon on Irving.
[nazi] David Irving loses his libel case. The Guardian headlines with — Irving: consigned to history as a racist liar — which sums up my feelings. Here is newsUnlimited’s special report.
11 April 2000
[mayor for london] Livinstone suggests that the international financial system kills more people than Hitler did in WWII every year.
[mp3] Yahoo News reports on Napster’s defense [via slashdot thread]
[comics] BBC News reports that Dan Dare is fifty.
[tech] Suck on skins: We have seen the future, and it is damned hard to use.
[the horror! the horror!] newsUnlimited interviews Jimmy Saville. [Text Only]
10 April 2000
[tech] Zdnet provides an interesting history of MP3. You can’t stop the music…
[weblogs] Jim Roepcke has come up with a really cool interface to the favourites facility of weblogs.com. For example here is: linkmachinego.com’s, Daily Doozer’s and Barbelith’s.
[WE] New column from Warren Ellis. He recommends you go read Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I agree… one of the best comics ever…