The royal mail issues six stamps to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Bond's creator Ian Flemming. The stamps all features four James Bond book covers of the same novel and can all be seen at the web site of the stamp designer A2/SW/HK (scroll down).
I thought Bond never got licked...
Via El Burlador
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As I understand it there are quite a lot of Weblog Awards held and probably The Bloggies are one of the biggest. I'm not sure. Anyway, it is time for The 8th Annual Weblog Awards - the 2008 Bloggies. I don't really read a lot of blogs so I don't really care. However, I just had to vote for my favorite Bibi's Box which is nominated in the Best Latin American Weblog section. If I didn't vote Bibi would hate me and stick needles in her voodoo doll. Maybe you had better vote too?!
Michael Sporn Animation Splog gives us frame grabs for Friz Freleng's and David DePatie's title sequence for A Shot In The Dark - the second "Pink Panther movie". And here's their first and Oscar awarded short with the Pink Panther.
Another clay animation video...
Music: Frank Zappa - Dupree´s Paradise
Animation: Bruce Bickford
"On January 10 and January 11, 1984, Pierre Boulez conducted his Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris, to record three classical compositions of Frank Zappa's record "Perfect Stranger"
The Animations are made by Bruce Bickford in 1976. Some material is used in the Frank Zappa films "Baby Snakes" and "Dub Room Special" - Quote from YouTube uploader Mekaniktom
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Clay animation video by Bruce Bickford:
Critters buggin - Brozo the clone.
Via Canta Piriquito Canta
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10 Creepiest old ads
Via Look At This!
Lots of other creepy old ads and some just old... - LiveJournal - Vintage Ads
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Travel and marketing posters from the 1950's and 1960's. Made available on Flickr by bigdaddyhame.
Via Drawn!
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Popcard.fr
- kitschy postcards from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
via PhantomOfTheRadio
We put our top man on it.
I seldom look at the visitor statistics but once in a while I come to think of it. This once in a while came today and I thought why not sharing the stats for 2007 with you. Because you are VERY interested aren't ya? Anyhow, these are the most important and interesting facts:
Unique Visitors*) **)***)
Total:...............103,804
Daily average:........284
Top day:..............2,087 (February, 2)
Low day:..................92 (July, 21)
*) "Maximum Visit Length Used to calculate your unique and returning visitors from a cookie. If this amount of time or more has elapsed since a visitor last visited a page on your website, then that visitor is considered unique. We recommend setting it between 1 and 6 hours."
- StatCounter
**) Our setting is 6 hrs
***) You are all unique to me ;)
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Have a look at some nice brochures mainly for Citroën 2cv - from the 50s,
the 60s, the 70s and the 80s.
Via El Burlador
I'm writing this post on my old computer which was delivered to me five years ago(!). This might be a laughable fact to you but this ol' machine has served me well up to this point. I have been able to do all that I wanted to do with it - surfing the net, blogging, being my jukebox (with tons of music in it), showing me movies, e-mailing, being my typewriter, storing my images, working PhotoShop etc - but now it's full and slow and just plain old. I'm beginning to fear that it'll collapse one day, very soon, with a great amount of stuff in it that I haven't backed up. Sure I have an external memory of 250 GB but it contains mostly my movies that has pretty much filled that memory bank up....
...so it's finally time to invest in a new computer.
Being a very "non-tech" guy this is not a totally positive situation to be in. A number of questions arises as well as apprehensions. What is there to think about and what pits are there to fall into. I mean, maybe I won't keep this one for as long as the other but I would hate to make a stupid buy. So basically I have two questions that I'd like some help with:
1. What should I get? What numbers should i look for in the descriptions?
- I want to get as much as possible for the least amount of money possible. Strange isn't it? Seriously. I do. However, having made it this far with a five year old machine it's pretty clear I don't need a super-duper top-of-the-line computer. But it has to be much faster to work with and it has to have a much bigger memory. As far as I understand it there are three major things to watch for 1. The processor 2. The hard disc memory capacity 3. The internal memory. Am I right or are there, in your mind, much more to watch for in the ordinary computer? Are there any common traps to watch out for.
2. What should I think about when it comes to switching from the old to the new? Any tips?
- Should I move free programs like for instance FireFox from one computer to the other or should I download anew? Pros and cons?
If you have any good advice for me and some spare time I'd love to hear from you. Cheers!
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UPDATE:
Feng (promising blog by the way!) recommends me to go here for guidance and that I download all programs anew ;) to the new computer. Feng also point out that Vista is crap so I should stay with XP. Your pieces of advice are appreciated, Feng.
Mod*Mom loves the Hewlett Packard Touchsmart PC - hmm, looks great of course and it's probably worth every penny but I wasn't planning on paying 1.600 USD. I think, without having checked too much, that I can get a pretty good computer (excluding screen etc) for less than 1.000 USD and that's more like what I'm planning. So, Mod*Mom, thank you very much for the tip but I think I'll wait until next time.
mc fox said: "I think you better shave! That will solve at least some of your pc-problems. Mine slowed up alot while being badly shaved." I guess mc fox means I should get rid of useless rubbish in the computer releasing some power that way. It would probably work, as it is completely stuffed, but it is time to get a new one anyway - but thanks mc fox!
Anonymous thinks I should get "an OLPC for 100 bucks and sell your old PC on eBay (for more)." A creative suggestion! However, would I get more?! I'm not sure. ;D
Signature CDM says: "There are always discounts on Mac minis, such as these: http://lowendmac.com/deals
Thanks for letting me know, CDM. I should of course have said that this time it'll be a PC - once more... Maybe next time ;)
Roar of Norway says his philosophy when it comes to buying computers is to spend as little money as possible on a machine that meets your current requirements - this enables you to save money for repairs or replacement if you're unlucky and have an accident. This sounds very sound, doesn't it? He also says that to reformat is very important. I guess he's right - I've heard it before but I never have done it ;) For him something like a laptop with 15 inch screen and 160 GB hard drive and extra external memory would do it. I have also thought about getting a laptop but I don't really have the use for the portability right now. However I would probably bring it with me on occasion and it would crave much less space - so I haven't written a laptop off completely... Thanks for your insight Roar!
To be continued with your advice!
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Without further ado let me present to you this year's production - Santaphonic! I hope you'll like it.
Merry Christmas and God Jul from Martin Klasch.
Sorry. No longer available.
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Last year I had to ask myself how to follow such a well put-together and well received Christmas music mix as Santalicious was. Of course I didn't have the recipe for that but I still wanted to make one and I think it turned out fine.
The review in A Christmas Yuleblog said: "They are mixing it up nicely, balancing the old and the new, the instrumentals and the vocals."
Santology (96,2 MB)
Alternative download link (zSHARE).
Sorry. No longer available.
Password: martinklasch
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A year passes so quickly. Have you noticed? Well, in 2005, as soon as I was able to pick up the first sounds of jingling bells, I knew I had to get started with the Christmas mix if there were to be any. Another thing was clear to me - I wanted that year's mix to be more personal than the year before. So I dove (dived) deeper into the sea which they call Christmas music. The result I came up with was simply Santalicious (72,8 MB).
Sorry. No longer available.
In its review A Christmas Yule Blog calls it "an awsome Christmas CD". Hm, maybe it is. I hope you will enjoy it.
Password: martinklasch
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Have you had enough of Christmas already? No? Can I interest you in some more Christmas music? Yes?
Martin Klasch's Christmas mix CD Santafobic from 2004 is once again available (69,8 MB). The password is none other than martinklasch.
Alternative download link (EasyShare).
This was my first attempt on a Christmas music mix and personally I think it's a very nice one. However...no I won't say any more. Try it or if you want you can read a review of it in the Christmas music expert blog A Christmas Yuleblog.
I will of course quickly follow up this repost with Santalicious '05, Santology '06 and Xxxxxxxxxxx '07.
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