18 April 2000
[comics] Alan’s Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes can still be found on the web — if you know where to look. . ‘We have a powerful and intense sequence where Superman manages to smash his way through a lot of the alien forces single-handed while being ring-whipped by the Lanterns, only to finally be beaten to death in single combat by the massive and frighteningly powerful Sodal Yat.’
17 April 2000
[south park] nme interviews South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
[comics] The 2000AD Links Project is full of interesting web sites about the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
16 April 2000
[MP3] New versions of Winamp and Audiograbber have been released. Download here: Winamp 2.62 and Audiograbber 1.62.
It’s been a “Whassup?” kind of weekend: Star Wars Wassup [via Camworld]
[tech] Computer’s rot childrens brains reports newsUnlimited.
15 April 2000
[film] Time Code 2000 looks like a very interesting film. BBC News has a report.
[funny] South Park Wassup? [Via Ghost in the Machine]
[funny] Someone’s released the source for Windows 2000! [via random($foo)]
[funny] Superfriends Whassup?
14 April 2000
[news] Shergar is still missing in action.
[Mp3] Metallica sues Napster: “it is sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is.” Guh?
13 April 2000
[Comics] Frank Miller to do a sequel to Batman: Dark Knight Returns?
[onion] David Irving would probably agree with the Onion on this: Did Six Million Really Visit The Holocaust Museum?
[tech] Wap phones are like ZX Spectrums [Text Only]. Hmmm… nice idea…
[mayor for london] newsUnlimited reports on: The collected controversies of Ken Livingstone According to reports Ken’s lead had dropped by 12 points.
[mayor for london] Let’s play Fantasy Mayor … enter your preferences on 15 key issues and fantasy mayor will tell you which candidate to vote for. [via ChrisH]
Two murders that won’t go away : Sam Sheppard is still a fugitive. Jeffrey MacDonald still protests his innocence… MacDonald’s pregnant wife and two children were murdered in Feb 1970 a month before I was born… over thirty years ago. Murders cast long shadows, I guess.
12 April 2000
[personal shite] Just thought of a title for a great war comic: VICAR WITH A GUN (IN MONTE CASSINO). [It saddens me to admit that I am thirty years old and still think of stuff like that… What is wrong with me?]
[uk news] newsUnlimited covers anti-vivisectionists protesting outside the houses of investors in Huntingdon Life Sciences.
[nazi] Steve Bell’s brilliant cartoon on Irving.
[nazi] David Irving loses his libel case. The Guardian headlines with — Irving: consigned to history as a racist liar — which sums up my feelings. Here is newsUnlimited’s special report.
11 April 2000
[mayor for london] Livinstone suggests that the international financial system kills more people than Hitler did in WWII every year.
[mp3] Yahoo News reports on Napster’s defense [via slashdot thread]
[comics] BBC News reports that Dan Dare is fifty.
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