31st December
Happy New Year, almost.
plep will be exactly three years old tomorrow; it was started on 1st January
2000. Bifurcated
Rivets, gmtPlus9, Honeyguide and
Lemonyellow (apparently gone but not forgotten - read an article
here) were among the first weblogs I followed before starting my own.
One link for every month :-
Japanese Oni
Masks -
Valentine's Day from Mars - Burning Man Opera - Glass Slipper Project
(new site) - Olive
and Eric - Highgate Cemetery
- Quirky Japan
- Bettie Page Revival -
The Vanished Gallery - Why a Duck? - The Bathroom Diaries - It Crawled
from the Bins
A Brief History of Banned Music in
the United States - Modern Humorist Presents
My First Presidentiary (and myfirstpresidentiary.com ) -
The Solresol
Page - Game of
Rebirth - FBI Files: Famous
Persons - Animal Mummies in the
Cairo Museum - Museum of Black
Superheroes -
Eternity in the Heart of Sydney - A Beekeeper's Diary - Lost Labours - American Slave
Narratives: An Online Anthology - The Ten
Oxherding Pictures
Human Clock - The
Ramayana - Hungry and
Homeless - A Century of
Screams: The History of the Roller Coaster - The Ashmolean - Rekishi Kaido - Diwurruwurru - Sin Central - The Project Apollo Archive -
The Thames in Prehistory - Van Gogh & Gauguin - Apartheid Museum
(I know that links are recycled from time to time - sometimes,
sites change and grow
and are worth revisiting; sometimes this is
simply accidental).
Fuddlefog. Fun things.
Paint by numbers.
The most annoying web page
ever.
Literary maps. 'A collection
of maps for places that only exist in books.' (Some broken links, but the
links which work are great).
'I spent a few weeks in Iran over the winter break. I took a lot of digital
pictures of people and places. These I
call "axis of people". '
Oh Lord...
Please save us from your followers. Via Iranian
cartoons.
Photo
essay: L.A. protests against detention of Iranians.
Tintin
in Tehran.
The
Corporations that Supplied Iraq's Weapons Programme.
The Memory Hole.
Rumsfeld
'offered help to Saddam'. 'Declassified papers leave the White House
hawk exposed over his role during the Iran-Iraq war.' (Guardian)
U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup. (Washington Post)
'While Rumsfeld was on the
board of directors of ABB, a Zurich-based global technology group, the
company sold North Korea 200 million dollars worth of equipment and services
for two nuclear power plants. ' (Links to online news stories
on the page).
Where is
Raed? Weblog from Iraq.
Middle
Eastern students jailed for cutting course hours. Via
Bifurcated
Rivets.
Sad news about the Argentina Diary.
Via Reflections in D Minor.
'Wildlife
campaigners are urging shoppers to buy New Year champagne bottled with a
real cork stopper, to help prevent the extinction of the Iberian lynx.' Via
Out of Lascaux.
SpiderBot.
'Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have
created a micro robot reminiscent of the childhood character Charlotte from
"Charlotte's Web." Dubbed "spider-bot" for its spider-like appearance, this
itsy-bitsy, high-tech critter may one day chart the terrain on other planets
and explore smaller bodies, such as comets, asteroids
or the Moon. '
Tattooing
robot.
'The software
giant Microsoft has agreed to translate their popular Office software
into a language very few people know exists. '
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