European George Hi All, In about two weeks I'm flying out to Ireland, where I'll be spending a month walking around the country. Then I'll be spending a month on the continent. I'd like to hear your advice! more inside

folksongs for the five points - a metaphor in sound in celebration of cultural diversity and change

British Prime Minister evicts/KILLS Sir Humphrey! more inside

Supernatural Crime: digital comics and pulp "Take a midnight stroll down the rain-slick streets of Port Nocturne, where the acrid scent of gunpowder hangs in the air like cheap perfume, where every dark alley comes to a dead end, and justice is... ...blonde." more inside

Fudge Factory Comics

Hitler's Home Movies (google video, best to mute the insipid soundtrack.)

Third Warniversary Summary: American Military Casualties: 2,317. American Wounded: 17,004. Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 37,795 (estimated). Total Cost of the War: $320 billion - NOT! Number of WMD Found: 0. Number of Administration Officials Held Accountable for Iraq Debacle: Zero. more inside

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?' converted to ActionScript 2.0 syntax.

Ragtime by Perfessor Bill Edwards. Midi can vary greatly, but most of these are superb, the best I've ever heard. Aside from Midi, The Perfessor's a pianist and composer of considerable attainments; his site also gives lyrics for many old songs, plus showing a number of original and early sheet music covers. more inside

Larry levels banana crop. Massive cyclone hits Australia's east coast. No levees breached but bananas toast. more inside

ASCII Art - 1948

In September 2005, Neil Gaiman discovered a demonic tomato in his garden. Sensibly enough he decided to make evil salsa out of it. Website Tomatoes Are Evil heard about Neil's evil fruit and linked to it as an example of a vicious killer tomato. Now Neil is being threatened with possible legal action by Branfman and Associates [warning: embedded music(!)] on behalf of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, who claim Neil has violated their trademark by linking to them from Tomatoes Are Evil. Except, uh, Neil doesn't run Tomatoes Are Evil, and has not linked to anything to do with AotKT. more inside

The Laurence Hutton Princeton University Collection of Death Masks And even more over here.

Johnny Lydon On Jimmy Kimmel The Rotten Man tells Kimmel why the Sex Pistols refused their induction to the Rock $ Roll Hall of Fame.

Elmyr de Hory: the greatest art forger of the 20th century. more inside

SUPER COLOSSAL .. Satriani - brilliant as ever! Listen here to entire CD.

Spielberg Inc. Gives Apache Girl $325,000 Haircut

Architecture against Death. Because "people, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline". more inside

Cuba and Japan will face each other in the inaugural World Baseball Classic final tomorrow. With Japan finally beating Korea in their third meeting, and Cuba beating the Dominican Republic, the World Baseball Classic is about to end.

The Lulu Blooker Prize : serious literary venture, or shameless attempt to draw more hapless victims into self-publishing their worthless maunderings?