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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Blackadder – Wikiquote
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blackadder
From the page: “
“I’m as happy as a Frenchman who’s invented a pair of self-removing trousers.”
…and
Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.
Blackadder: Really, Baldrick, a cunning and subtle one?
Baldrick: Yes, sir.
Blackadder: As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed
Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?”
The one they missed…
“Baldrick, you wouldn’t know a cunning plan if it stripped naked, painted itself purple and danced on top of a harpsichord singing ‘Cunning plans are here again’…”
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Hellenistic World
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook08.html
Initially I thought this site was a good find, but five ‘404 / page not found’ errors later I was disapointed.
Then I looked at when it was last updated, October 2000.
So while there’s some good content here you have to be patient.
Shame
Jimi Hendrix (27 November 1942 – 18 September , 1970)
I remember exactly what I was doing the moment I heard Hendrix had died 35 years ago.
Sixteen years later I was looking at this:
Annapurna (fishtail) Mountain, Nepal.
Which I believe inspired him to write:
“Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
Chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand
‘Cause I’m a voodoo child
Lord knows, I’m a voodoo child.”
BBC – Gallery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bagpuss/gallery/images/640/02yaffle.html
Bagpuss character:
Professor Yaffle, full name “Augustus Barclay Yaffle”, the carved wooden book-end, is the brains of the outfit, or so he’d like to think.
He is very knowledgeable, but a bit proud, and the mice love to play tricks on him to bring him down a peg or two.
nutmegs reviews – StumbleUpon
http://nutmeg.stumbleupon.com/
“Emily’s cat Bagpuss
The most Important
The most Beautiful
The most Magical
Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world”
…and now posting excellent science and nature stumbles.
yack0s favorite websites – StumbleUpon
Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
http://www.archiecomics.com/24.html?24
Special collector’s edition.
Farewell Summer
Farewell Summer, you brought the Ashes home to dear ole Blighty, a shed load of holiday fun and weeks of R’n’R.
From Watford Gap to Camelot
http://www.strum.co.uk/watcam.htm
From the site: “This is a mythical journey along a real but relatively ordinary road. Or maybe it is a real journey along a mythical road – I’m never quite sure.
It is a quest of sorts, ranging across history, mystery, the bizarre and the banal, starting in the middle of nowhere, and ending somewhere that probably doesn’t exist. In between – the ordinary and the extraordinary, which often turn out to be the same thing.”
Yin Yu Tang, A Chinese Home
Yin Yu Tang, a 200-year-old Chinese house, was brought to America and reassembled at the Peabody Essex Museum.
A very well designed and informative site.
Leeds guide
Update 2022: the site does look a little bit dated now but there are some nice panoramic views
No hotlinking
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/549/hotlink1ls.jpg
Don’t you just hate it when this happens….
Update 2022: Back in 2005 I didn’t realise that hot linking is bad, probably because I didn’t host a website myself. My web hosting company blocks hot linking to image files as standard.
Hotlinking: What Is It and Why Is It Bad?
Master-Li – StumbleUpon
http://master-li.stumbleupon.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070627191746/http://master-li.stumbleupon.com/archive/10/
I like Master-Li because he is local and he knows what happened to all those missing neutrinos.
Update2022: I really liked Master-Li and his sense of humour. I think he transferred to tumblr but I lost track of hime a long time ago. Here’s an archived screen grab of his stumble site:
ROOTKUSH SYNDICATE
http://www.rootkush.com/
Another flashtastic site
Update 2022: The original link was to a flash game where you could make music but I can’t track down a copy on the web, which is a shame as it was fun.
So the nearest I can do is provide a link to the rootkush syndicate’s site on soundcloud.
StumbleUpon user Kligenthal
http://kligenthal.stumbleupon.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20041128180720/http://kligenthal.stumbleupon.com/
Savour the moment
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/image/219000.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Ashes_series
Victory!
Go England! Spectators grab any vantage point possible, England v Australia, The Oval, September 12, 2005
Savour the moment. This has been the best test match series that I have ever seen. The tension, the anxiety have been intense, but to have beaten the best makes it all worthwhile.
The Australians have been magnificent adversaries, tenacious and determined they fought well and were magnanimous in defeat. I watched the third test in Amsterdam with a group of Aussies and there was no animosity just a shared passion for the game of cricket and what it stands for.
September 11th
http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/9674/wtc6ap.jpg
They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember
Freddie Flintoff fan site
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvaus/content/gallery/218803.html
I love you Freddie Flintoff, and I want to have your babies.
MtG or Magic: the Gathering
http://mtglair.de/mp.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050722010554/http://mtglair.de/mp.html
MtG or Magic: the Gathering, is a card based game and it’s inspired variations or mods just like other games. Never seen a Python mod before though
Update 2022: the official MtG site:
Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy Lyrics
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001F9E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy Lyrics
Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
See me and the boys we don’t like it
So were getting up and going down
Hiding low looking right to left
If you see us coming I think it’s best
To move away do you hear what I say
From under my breath
Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town
Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak
So don’t you be around
Don’t you be around
Tonight there’s gonna be trouble
Some of us won’t survive
See the boys and me mean business
Bustin’ out dead or alive
I can hear the hound dogs on my trail
All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail
Like the game if you lose
Go to jail
Tonight there’s gonna trouble
I’m gonna find myself in
Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak
So woman stay with a friend
You know it’s safer
Breakout!
Tonight there’s gonna be a breakout
Into the city zones
Don’t you dare to try and stop us
No one could for long
Searchlight on my trail
Tonight’s the night all systems fail
Hey you good lookin’ female
Come here!
The Ashes – a long hot summer
The Ashes – a long hot summer
Michael Vaughan, the whole of England is with you.
CGProShop – dartiste: Matte Painting
http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000130/
https://web.archive.org/web/20051124092445/http://store.cgsociety.org/product/000130/
A quote frequently misattributed to Mark Twain.
The Computer Graphics Society
Gears Of War Concept Images
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259096
https://web.archive.org/web/20051123074215/http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259096
Title: Gears Of War Concept Images
Name: John Wallin Liberto
Country: Sweden
Software: Photoshop
Stunning digital artwork, this game is going to be very impressive. Let’s hope it has good gameplay too.
Update 2022: Gears has spawned a whole sub-culture and is very influential, glad I spotted it early.
China wants democracy | The Sun |News
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005410270,00.html
From the page:
“TONY Blair’s mission to Asia was boosted last night when China’s premier Wen Jiabao vowed his country WILL become a democracy.
Mr Blair was visibly shocked when Wen publicly promised the world’s largest country is heading for a peaceful revolution.
The Chinese PM said free votes for all in the communist superpower are on their way.
British diplomats believe his comments are a ‘significant’ step forward.”
I traced the article back to Reuters.
We live in interesting times.
“whether soar-away Sun or BBC1, disinformation is a weapon of mass destruction”
Anti-China ranting site (is no more)
http://www.boycott-china.com/
Appealing to to the lowest common denominator. What about Russian and French nuclear weapons? Are you going to stop buying their goods too?
– Luckily this “hate site” is no longer working (Oct 2006)
Update 2022: Interesting to note how perceptions of China have changed since 2005. Back then China was very much in its ‘bide your time, hide your strength’ phase. Nowadays however, with the c current core-leadership this is no longer true and the wolf warriors are more to the fore.
To be honest it is very difficult to find information that is balanced on this matter. Rana Mitter writes some good stuff that makes sense though. I’d recommend you start with him.
For nice pics of China and other stuff check out the China category.
Pandorabots – chat bots
“Pandorabots is an experimental software robot hosting service based… “
I love the concept and admire the hard work, but these bots have a long way to go before they can pass the Turing test.
The news section is regularly updated (monthly), with news about commercial chatbots for major players such as AOL as well as providing tools for the open source community
Update 2022: well the chatbots have evolved and nice to see that the company is still operational. They have added voice recognition which is a nice touch but I’m still waiting for one to pass that elusive Turing Test. Perhaps if they name one Wintermute?
Check out their latest offering here:
Identity Theft May Increase With New Technology
Identity cards may actually increase identity theft despite ‘new technology’
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=business&id=2536
From the page:
“In a damning blow to the UK government’s love affair with identity cards, a British criminologist has warned that the new technology could actually increase, rather than solve, the problem of identity theft and fraud.”
Update 2022: Unlike ID cards Identity theft didn’t disappear but got worse
Link broken beyond repair
It happens sometimes I just can’t track down the original material no matter how hard I try
DirectX Hidden Settings
http://www.tburke.net/fun_stuff/pictures/computers/directx.htm
…and people ask me why I use a Mac…
MTV
http://mtvshop.mtv.com/largeimage.aspx?sku=63979796
Update 2022: No idea what the original picture here was, probably amusing, but the trouble with hot-linking is that these links die.
So instead I’ll link to a song that mentions MTV: Money for Nothing , enjoy
Since MTV is (used to be) a music channel you may like to view the classic-rock category
Madeye.s5.com
From the site: “Madeye.s5.com – Where sanity ends and the fun begins!”
http://madeye.s5.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20050322195809/http://madeye.s5.com/
From the page:
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
A Collection of Flash Animations by Anthony Scodary.
Update 2022 : dropped off the web in 2005,Anthony Scodary made the ‘How to kill a mockingbird’ animation too
How to Kill a Mockingbird
http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/TKAM.swf
Update 2022: couldn’t track this one down which was a shame. The page has been moved and imageshack being a bunch of ****s didn’t help. However,
I searched https://www.stanford.edu/
and Youtube to see if it had been saved there – but no joy
But I did find it
https://archive.org/details/how-to-kill-a-mockingbird
Where you CAN watch the animation
This is one you just HAVE to see, I laughed until I stopped and then some more.
“Be patient: you’ll be proud of yourself.”
Control Our Junk
http://www.controlourjunk.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20060215231251/http://www.controlourjunk.com/
From the site:
“Can’t afford really cool toys and gadgets?
We strive to create unique and new things that the user can control at home from a standard desktop PC… control trains, drive RC cars, fire off fireworks, turn on and off lights, and control many more toys right from your computer!
We are 3 brothers who live in Michigan, USA. We build these wonderful things in our basement, which is a giant place that nothing is occupying currently.”
Great idea, but the web site has a few errors.
Update 2022: the site seems to have died sometime in 2008, it was part of a wider network web truck.org which in turn died in September 2013 it also points to a Twitter Page where there is some activity.
Mr. PoBoys Jambalaya Jam
http://www.pocreations.com/zydeco
Unfortunately, Mr. PoBoys New Orleans Radio Station – Jambalaya Jam is no longer active at that URL,
BUT
Point your browser here ->
You just can’t stop the music.
Little Britain Quiz
Take this Little Britain quiz to see which character you are
Which “Little Britain“ character are you??
Kenny Craig
Look into my eyes, my eyes, my eyes, look into my eyes NOT AROUND THE EYES
Click Here to Take This Quiz
Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.
Update 2022: always nice when the links still work after 16+ years
Update 2024: it stopped working