Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Comic Strip Artist’s Kit, Comic Strip

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Comic Strip Artist’s Kit - a set of guidelines and tips for drawing cartoons, written for Disney in 1975

By far and away, the funniest geeky/scientific/romantic cartoon ever: xkcd

Marble mazes, Fred Eerdekens, Early Quotes

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Cuboro - a neat marble-maze building block toy. I wants it…

Fred Eerdekens is an artist who specialises in messages spent out by shadows

Quotes made early after the Iraq war was ‘won’

Retouching, TV, alphabet, subsidies

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

See how a cover photo is retouched

I always thought I needed to sit closer to the TV

Animated evolution of the alphabet

Who gets what from the EU Common Agricultural Policy

Welcome to Jazz Club

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Mmmm, nice - a very effective visual interpretation of a performance by famous Jazz saxophone player John Coltrane.

Wordspy

Friday, January 7th, 2005

Wordspy is fun: a site devoted to “sleuthing of new words and phrases”. I like velocitize - an awful word but a useful concept.

Best complaint letter ever?

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

This is the proper way to complain, especially about TV licencing people who I’m sure we all hate.

[note: very offensive language, do not read if you are easily shocked or if you are my parents.]

Magical Spirits in the Garden

Thursday, September 11th, 2003

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Well, not really. It’s actually just a water sprinkler. Sorry to disappoint any believers in fairies or any other dryad-based beliefs :-)