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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.
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.
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!
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”
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
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.
Webcam in UNITED STATES
http://www.opentopia.com/showcam.php?id=1016
http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php?country=United%20States
Webcams in the UNITED STATES Update 2022: Be careful some NSFW links at the bottom of the page. The site still works though and does have a good list of webcams that are SFW.
The original posting had a webcam showing chickens but I couldn’t find one on the site so,…
http://flyingskunk.com/live.php
In Memoriam Dave Marsden
http://argoslabs.com/~malefico/gallery/imagenes/pirineos-original-magritte.jpg
In memoriam Dave Marsden, poet, philosopher, magickian and friend.
You said “there’s a lot of love in Geburah.’
Just for you here’s ‘The Temple of the Gnosis’
and ‘The City of Bridges’
The veil has been lifted.
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
The Archies, sugar sugar
Update 2022: added the youtube video. I blogged this as I remember it being on Top of The Pops on BBCTV in the Autumn of 1969.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
Old Bailey Online – The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – Central Criminal Court
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of ordinary people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court from 1674 to 183
Searchable by: Keyword
Sample:
William Hale. Theft: shoplifting.
8th July 1719
William Hale of St. Clements Danes was indicted for feloniously stealing 15 pair of Worsted Hose, value 40 s. out of the Shop of Thomas Rock the 23d of May last.
The Prosecutor deposed he lost a Board of Hose out of his Shop Window; and his Neighbour who lives right against him deposed, that he saw the Prisoner get up and look three times through the Grate, and when he saw the Shop clear, he reach’d over the Grate and took the Goods, whereupon he secur’d him. The Prisoner pleaded that he was Drunk, and lay down there; that he did not take the Goods; but that the Evidence took him and carry’d him into the Shop with the Goods. But that poor Defence did not avail him the Evidence being positive, the Jury found him Guilty .
Sentence: Death .
Death sentence for shoplifting… a tad harsh methinks.
This week I is mostly listening to….
http://www.robbiewilliams.pl/wallpapers/wallpaper7big.jpg
This week I is mostly listening to…. Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams
Strong
My breath smells of a thousand fags
And when I’m drunk I dance like me dad
I’ve started to dress a bit like him
Early morning when I wake up
I look like Kiss but without the make up
And thats a good line to take it to The bridge
And you know and you know
‘Cos my life’s a mess
And I’m trying to grow so before
I’m old I’ll confess
You think that I’m strong you’re wrong
You’re wrong
I’ll sing my song, my song, my song
My bed’s full of takeaways and fantasies of easy lays
The pause button’s broke on my video
And is this real ‘cos I feel fake, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Lake
Teach me things I don’t need to know
And you know and you know
‘Cos my life’s a mess
And it starting to show so before
I’m old I’ll confess
You think that I’m strong you’re wrong
You’re wrong
I’ll sing my song my song my song
If I did it all again I’d be a nun
The rain was never cold when I was young
I’m still young we’re still young (step inside the sun)
Life’s too short to be afraid
Step inside the sun
And you know and you know
‘Cos my life’s a mess
And I’m trying to grow
hey hey !
You think that I’m strong you’re wrong
You’re wrong
I’ll sing my song my song my song
Life’s too short to be afraid
So take a pill to numb the pain
You don’t have to take the blame
Don’t wanna go down in the tube station…
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kimage/Koroleva.jpg
(Don’t wanna go) down in the tube station (at midnight)
The distant echo –
Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
To take them home to
The ones that they love and who love them forever
The glazed, dirty steps – repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
Cold and uninviting, partially naked
Except for toffee wrapers and this morning’s papers
Mr. Jones got run down
Headlines of death and sorrow – they tell of tomorrow
Madmen on the rampage
And I’m down in the tube station at midnight
I fumble for change – and pull out the Queen
Smiling, beguiling
Orgone Accumulator – by Robert Calvert / Hawkwind
http://aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/calvart/orgoneaccumulator.htm
http://aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/
Crazy site about a crazy guy!
Since I got some positive feedback about Hawkwind’s Silver Machine here’s the site of Robert Calvert the driving force behind mutch of Hawkwind’s finest music.
Orgone Accumulators are, in my opinion pure ‘snake oil’ but makes for great doggerel. This site also goes really OTT on the flash mouse-overs.
Orgone accumulator by Hawkwind / Robert Calvert
I’ve got an orgone accumulator
It makes me feel greater
I’ll see you sometime later
When I’m through with my accumulator
It’s no social integrator
It’s a one man isolator
It’s a back brain stimulator
It’s a cerebral vibrator
Those energy stimulators
Just turn your eyeballs into craters
But an orgone accumulator
Is a superman creator
LIVE 8
http://www.live8live.com/
Live 8, 2 July 2005
When I saw the Boomtown Rats playing at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford back in 1979 I never in my wildest dreams thought Bob Geldorf would end up being knighted and using music as a force for good.
It’s very easy to knock ‘worthy causes’ but if millions (billions?) of people can make enough noise to send a message that extreme poverty can be iradicated and should be iradicated. Then I for one am all for it.
As ‘Sir’ Bob said “It’s not about politics it’s about morality.”
Update 2022:
Good intentions – didn’t make any real difference though – but the music was great.
Silver Machine Sheet Music
http://www.starfarer.net/smsheet.html
Silver Machine by Hawkwind, probably the only song of theirs available with sheet music?
The whole song can be downloaded here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060502234544/http://www.starfarer.net/smsheet.html
This week I is mostly listening to…
Hawkwind
I
I just took a ride
in a silver machine
And I’m still feeling mean.
Do you wanna ride see yourself going by.
The other side of the sky
I got a silver machine.
It flies side ways thru’ time
It’s an electricline
It’s your Zodiac sign.
I’ve got a silver machine
I’ve got a silver machine.
I said
I just took a ride in a silver machine
And I’m still feeling mean.
It flies
out of a dream
It’s antisceptically clean
It turns everything green.
Do you wanna ride see yourself going by.
The other side of the sky
I mean a silver machine.
I’ve got a silver machine
Nobody writes better doggerel than Hawkwind!
Official hawkwind site: here
Mass Destruction – Faithless
http://faithless.jopinion.nl/images/OOR/002a.jpg
This week I is mostly listening to…
Mass Destruction – Faithless
Whether long range weapon or suicide bomber
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether you’re soar away sun or BBC 1
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
You could a Caucasian or a poor Asian
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether inflation or globalisation
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Olivers Army by Elvis Costello
http://www.phantomfm.com/phanzine/images/armed%20forces.gif
Oliver’s Army by Elvis Costello
Don’t start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I’m putting the world to right
Called careers information
Have you got yourself an occupation?
Oliver’s army is here to stay
Oliver’s army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today
There was a checkpoint Charlie
He didn’t crack a smile
But it’s no laughing party
When you’ve been on the murder mile
Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white nigger
(Chorus)
Hong Kong is up for grabs
London is full of Arabs
We could be in Palestine
Overrun by a Chinese line
With the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne
But there’s no danger
It’s a professional career
Though it could be arranged
With just a word in Mr. Churchill’s ear
If you’re out of luck or out of work
We could send you to Johannesburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%27s_Army
First Of The Gang To Die
http://www.bigyawn.net/cdreview.php?id=97
Update: an alternative review of the album:
https://drownedinsound.com/releases/6257/reviews/9931-
First Of The Gang To Die
You have never been in love, Until you have seen the stars, reflect in the reservoirs
And you have never been in love, Until you have seen the dawn rise, behind the home for the blind
We are the pretty, petty thieves, And you’re standing on our streets
Where Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand
And the first to do time, the first of the gang to die, Oh my
Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand
And the first to do time, the first of the gang to die, Oh my
You have never been in love, Until you’ve seen the sunlight thrown, Over smashed human bone
We are the pretty, petty thieves, And you’re standing on our streets
Where Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand
And the first to do time, the first of the gang to die, Such a silly boy
Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand
And the bullet in his gullet and the first lost lad to go under the sod
And he stole from the rich and the poor and not very rich and the very poor
And he stole our hearts away
Morrissey’s lyrics are a cross between the inane and the sublime.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Obituary: John Peel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/music/3955369.stm
John Peel was responsible for bringing the best in music to generations of listeners. He will be greatly missed.
YouGov – What the World Thinks
YouGov is an Internet polling site and I like it as I get ‘paid’ for filing in their surveys, but there is a catch, they only pay you once you have a large enough credit.
BBC/OU Open2.net – Home
The Open University is a great British instituition. Created to enable mature students to study part time but it’s not just for Brits. This site has some interactive features like the Virtual Planisphere and the online Digital Microscope that are quite cool. Well worth a look.