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17/3/02 - Follow the intrepid adventures of the Travel Pigs:

"We recently travelled from Britain to Australia with 3 stuffed toy pigs. As we travelled from place to place with our fluffy friends, we recorded our journey here, describing where we'd been and what we'd seen.

At various stages of our travels, we said a heart-wrenching goodbye to each one of our porcine friends and handed the burden of responsibility to another intrepid traveller, who promised to care for the TravelPig and record their onward travels on this site."

17/3/02 - Where does beef come from? The correct answer.

Where does pork come from?  The funny answer.

Where does lamb come from?  The religious answer.

16/3/02 - Top stuff from Paul's new weblog anglepoised.com, especially the Powerpuff Girls movie, the new Portishead DVD, and:

"Celebrity Chef antics: Anthony Bourdain eats the beating heart of a freshly killed cobra (MPEG, 1472k)"

"Somewhere around 11:30pm, I hear a commotion at the back of the auditorium. I see people start to scatter. The San Diego police are coming down the aisle, their large flashlights out (the auditorium lights are still on, so we all understand the implied "other" use of these instruments). The police are telling everyone to "VACATE THESE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY OR YOU WILL ALL BE ARRESTED!" I cannot believe what I am hearing. "YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE ANOTHER WARNING. LEAVE NOW -- OR FACE ARREST!""

10/3/02 - When you go the railway station in Sheffield you'll see the Park Hill estate.  It may surprise you to learn it's a Grade II* listed building:

"In the history of the British Modern Movement, a handful of buildings are so widely regarded as beautiful that they have become architectural icons: the De La Warr Pavilion and Highpoint One are good examples.

Conversely, there is more than a handful of buildings that have achieved iconic status for all the wrong reasons: buildings which are so widely loathed that they have come to symbolise what the public at large dislike about Modernist architecture: for years, Trellick Tower held this dubious honour.  Not far behind was the Park Hill estate in Sheffield."

10/3/02 - Posters from the WPA. Over 900 posters browsable by subject.

More art from the New Deal.

10/3/02 - It is in a gallery of bad tattoos but I think this Simpsons tattoo is great:

10/3/02 - David Beckham's weblog:

"Brooklyn and I knew we were in trouble as soon as one of Victoria's ladies-in-waiting told us there was to be a 'family strategy meeting' at 5.30 last night. I was a bit upset because 5.30 is 'Dexter' time on the Cartoon Network..."

"FATMOUSE CAN MAKE YOU A WINNER. FATMOUSE CAN MAKE YOU A LOSER. FATMOUSE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT EITHER. IT IS FOR YOU TO CARE ABOUT FATMOUSE."

10/3/02 - Some of Spike Milligan's contributions to Private Eye:

10/3/02 - Huge database of record covers drawn by comic artists,

10/3/02 - Enjoyable article on blogging-as-empowerment.

"By going to a football match and a nightclub, I was told, I'd participated in two subversive, nay revolutionary acts, roughly on a par with Lenin's purge of the Mensheviks.

Crumbs, I thought. All this time the Trots had been telling us that to overthrow the capitalist hegemony we needed to organize and educate, but all along, all we really needed to do was keep drinking! R-right on!

The blog-as-empowerment meme is very similar. Only this time, Big Media will crumble if we can just blog that little bit harder."

"As I watch the people in the queue in front of me bring out their items, I am astonished by what humanity will hold hopes of being valuable. Two teenage boys have brought a toy bear with neither arms nor legs and one of its eyes pulled off. The toy bear expert is as kind to them as, later, Knowles will be to a woman who brings in a plastic, pine effect Argos clock. And paintings expert Rupert Maas takes fully 20 minutes — all unfilmed — to comfort a couple who have just discovered that the paintings for which they paid thousands are fakes."

The photo is of Anna Wilson in The Donkey Show.

10/3/02 - The Ultimate Gay and Lesbian cars, as recommended on Car Talk.