Are you a bright man?

via "Breaking copy: a better blog about copywriting"


Apparently some people still visit here sometimes. As you may have noticed, I rarely post here nowadays. Generally if I have anything to post I do that at Dead Horse.

The Golden age of ballooning

Because "when you're king of France you have better things to do than go around remembering your bloody number."

from slate V

Porn for the blind

Added On April 15, 2010
Never before has Braille felt like this. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

Parker Lewis können nicht verlieren

claymation resnais, sort of

happy new year- more fun

Surfing terms, from 'notebookbabies'

James Hunt retrospective part 1 of 3

and part 2 and part 3. What, no part 3? Sorry, I can't seem to find it.

Well, here's this interview with Hunt from back in the day(from 1973, while still a comparative f1 neophyte. He won the World Championship in '76, and retired in '79.)

ice fishing, etc

minilogue

via kristoferstrom.

"The Office of Letters and Light"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaNoWriMo

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

the Ventures, live in Japan

I'm at a loss what to do with HZ. My impression is that over 90 percent of the people who find and visit this site do so inadvertently, generally via a Google search for a couple or more keywords that just happen to also appear in a post of mine, as opposed to any intrinsic interest in anything I might have to say, or even occasional idle curiosity about what that Hugo Zoom guy has to say. Undoubtedly that's a useful bridle for my ego, given the common assumption that the unbridled variety are bad, etc. C'est la vie.

Anyway, enjoy the Ventures.

Saturday 29 Aug 09

Some funneee cartoons(I especially like the one of Death watching what appears to be an infomercial, but they're all good.)

by Bob Eckstein

Bob Eckstein also refers to this fascinating post, which is timely and ironic from my perspective. --

"One cartoonist was recently threatened with a lawsuit for not posting any more images for others to steal."

from today's Wikipedia 'did you know?' page:

...that Gray's Inn only began employing a librarian after barristers began stealing the books?

bicycling fun

via salon.com

the ides of August, 1958

Newsday

"Нехороший мальчик" Олег Ужинов

"Нехороший мальчик" Олег Ужинов

via "Pavlovich 74"

GWB n' BHO

Sunday 31 May

the Vasantotsav festival

from their website:Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande Pratisthan organizes a three day festival every year titled – VASANTOTSAV, in Pune, in the memory of Late Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande by inviting respected artists to perform at this event.

And don't they look like they're having fun? The foto above is from the AFP from March of 2008. So, yes, it looks like you missed VASANTOTSAV 09. Well, there's next year.

notebook babies?

more blogging laziness. in fact I've decided that I will use less capitalization here at HZ er, hz, no HZ from now on, only capitalizing proper nouns and the word "I", which seems appropriate insofar as blogs are creations of a busy yet indolent society with an excessively inward gaze. also it's a labor savings thing.

Anthony, the guy who did the short animation above says:

Notebook Babies are short animated films I create as a teacher to help motivate my fifth graders to learn. Check out the official website at www.notebookbabies.com for more info.