• Cassette Cover Design was very groovy.

• Some lovely scribbles from a fellow in Germany. His site is here.

• Nigeria Scammers are busted, and appear to be... Nigerian. Fancy that.

• Beautiful Lamps in geometric forms. I like the Prometheus.

• Package Design for The Pill, disk model and calendar model.

• Google's much rumored Social Networking Software is now out, called Orkut. Could we be more underwhelmed?

• Dos Pesos is now on Dogster, social networking software for dogs. It had to happen.

• A Hole in the Sky It's magical.

• Shuffle and deal. Unelected oil spiv, hmph!

• Graphic comparing the credits of Casablanca vs. The Return of the King. Via Signal vs. Noise.

• Chart of Ecstasy. Via the U.S. Government.

• Compostmodern, a conference on sustainability and design, looks great. And Shana's speaking there too.

• It's certainly not light reading for a crowded train carriage: this is a blasting display of wilful complexity, a strong-armed grapple from a heavy-hitter.

• Treat yourself well. Everyday. I missed this, somehow, last year. Proper use of Every Day. Via Invisible city.

• Shit and Civilization. Six weeks of scatalogical humor no doubt. And there is something so wrong about that toilet too. From Matt.

• And also from Matt, Frizzy Logic, my new favorite blog.

• Arlene Shechet at Dieu-Donne, a papermaking centre. Also Mary Judge

• Papier Mache Anatomical Models I especially like the embryos and the ovary.

• Jumping Sharks All kinds of animals here today.

• Oh life is wonderful. This link made me laugh/cry with happiness. From Peter.

• Bathtime.

• David Sheen's Mybrary, not unlike Mark Anderson's Booklend. They've put their personal libraries on loan.

• Put a heavenly being into a game to make a word for eternal.

• Strindberg and Helium. I was just reading a recipe of how to make absinthe yesterday. Via Estee.

• Graffiti Archaeology in San Francisco which tracks the evolution of different graffiti at certain spots over time, by Eric and Cassidy.

• BaaBaaTwinkleEFG and a bunch of other means to have Pointless Fun. There's a whole list of pointlessly fun games here from Bernie DeKoven.

• Tacca Chantrieri (Bat Plant, Devil Flower) a photo by Tomas.

• Mo Kin hasn't been linked to from here yet and, well, she's the 3-year-old Korean Xylophone Girl.

• Dreems on dirtdirt is one of the best Exquisite Corpses I've seen in a long time.

• Design Observer is a new weblog about design from the all-star line-up of Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand and Rick Poynor.

• Ban trans fats. Sadly, Oreo cookies are a major trans fat medium. As are most processed foods.

• Cipango a picture blog.

• Masonic Lodge Art (via Incoming Signals)

• The Toronto Skyline in a lovely time-lapse movie. I love it when the lights come on and then the sun sparks against the mirrored building.

• What are the odds of dying? At the moment, I'd say 100%. Good statistics.
• Was Hemingway known for being a really good dad or something? Why does everyone keep calling him Papa?
• Aldi sells art Art now available in German supermarkets. For cheap too!
• Stonehenge, 360 degree view. Is that grass enhanced? Or is it really that green?
• Ghost Study gallery. Some of these are obvious fakes, or of questionable interest but some are pretty credible.
• Gorilla Babysitter. Rich people leave children in gorilla cage when they go out, with a video of gorilla holding a child after he fell. I found this oddly charming.
• Digital Sundial I want one. Oo! Chrismas is coming! HINT. (Enough sunny days in Vancouver? Hmn.)
• Design Festa has some great stuff, which is pictured on greggman.com. Coolest are the pregnant torsos with the real rat embryo in it. Here's more by the same guy.
• Hourglass Nebula a beautifully shaped nebula with a very creepy eye in the middle. It looks like the eye of Sauron, really.
• Deseret, a Mormon alphabet, on Omniglot. All strange alphabets are beautiful.
• Dos Pesos by the fire. He loved Matt and Kay by the time they left. He's getting less and less territorial.
• No There Anywhere. A Canadian reporter wanders around in the American suburbs looking for something. Anything.
• Give me a world with more Rob Drimmies and fewer fuckwits.
• Modernism Timeline, concentrating on the work of architecture, designers and artisans. And Another one.
• The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters, from Russia, where drinking season is in full swing. This one's a nice one.
• Don't meet your heroes, Part VI. Pushkin sounds like a real pig, but Eugene Onegin is, IMHO, absolutely sublime.
• Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band. Why not listen to a really dreadful midi file today?
• Charle Bukowski, marked for death. Oops. He's already dead. If you're over 22 years of age, you really shouldn't like the work of Charles Bukowski anymore. I don't mean you should stop telling people you like his work, I mean, literally, you shouldn't like it anymore. (via Xvarenah)
• Dos Pesos spends most of his time lying poolside and going to nightclubs with his sunglasses on, now that he's a famous magazine model.
• Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, is the subject of a new biography, though Joyce's grandson has demanded many omissions and occlusions.
• The Meatrix is a good reminder to eat more vegetables and avoid Tyson food products.
• New Langton Arts and SF Camerawork are both having auctions in San Francisco.
• A Remedios Varo painting for is sale at auction, a lovely one. These don't come up very often.
• The Scribbler just ate an hour. This one is from Nick.
• Judith Scott, a fiber artist with Down's Syndrome make some gorgeous work. "As well as being mentally handicapped, Judith cannot hear or speak, and she has little concept of language...."
• Superstudio Exhibit at Pratt in Manhattan. It annoys me that I'm leaving 2 days before.
• Farnsworth House by Mies Van der Rohe, an architectural icon, is up for sale.
• The Galton Collection is full of cool stuff. Look at the Registrator, the box of eyes, the "Quincunx", the Family Composite Photgraph and so on. (Annoyingly, you can't link to the internal frame pages). (via Alamut).

October Sidelinks
• Dictionary of Units of Measure, which I found looking for the largest size bottle of wine: a Nebuchadnezzar.
• Lowbrow of Yesteryear. Some really great, really awful, and really neat pulp novel covers and movie posters.
• Circus Trees, living trees sculpted into bizarre forms starting in the 20s by a farmer named Axel Erlandson. They're now living at Bonfante Gardens. (this, and below, via Beverley Tang)
• Aerogel is a brand-new supersubstance, which I'd love to mess with. Pricy, I bet.
• Kunsthaus Graz looks lovely-weird. How long has this thing been open? (via archinect)
• Grass Church Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey are filling a deconsecrated church with grass, grown from seed.
• The Shovel Chair is very elegant, and has a nice bum cradling protrusion.
• The Scariest Moments in Film History. Bravo for including Don't Look Now, that was great. The scariest non-scene was getting a glimpse of the gynecological tools in Dead Ringers.
• Don't tell Dos Pesos, but I'm thinking of trading him in for this baby hedgehog. Kyoot!!! (via lia)
• Human Sized Chess performance in Vancouver, near Western Front. When a player makes a move in the master game, the information will be transmitted to the appropriate piece via cellphone. The piece will then walk, bike, or skate the appropriate number of blocks.
• Sidereality has Nick Piombino as the featured poet this month. "Sidereality" is a great name too. Nick's personal blog is fait accompli.
• Most Important Artist of the early 21st Century? Stewart has posted some clips of his work. He works in the medium of Voice Mail. You also get to hear me eating an oreo cookie, amplified.
• The Cyborger tells me that "C.A.T.E.R.I.N.A.: Cybernetic Artificial Technician Engineered for Rational Infiltration and Nocturnal Assassination" is my Cyborg name. (via Langmaker)
• Meish.org's album cover challenge I failed miserably. And I like music! But then again, there was a Janet Jackson album in there, so who knows what that other stuff was.
• Three Simple Grooming Tips for the Average Guy. I'm totally behind Lane on this. Yes! And I'd add: buy clothes more than once every five years!
• Qwert schmarble. Some amusing Amazon garbage. Look quick, they'll take it down as soon as Stewart and Anil's reviews are submitted. Heh.
• Cabinets of Curiosities, representations of the actual rooms. My great grandfather collected the shells of Hawaiian trees snails, among other intriguing bits.
• Environmental Art Installation. This is just grand. It is for sale through Neiman Marcus! In their Christmas Catalog! Priceless.
• Have you seen Jeff Mangum?. The founder of Neutral Milk Hotel drops off the map and disappears. And why NOT be like Robert Wyatt?
• Dada & Avant-Garde Auction of the Hans Richter and Cimena Standish Lawder Collection. Also check out the Hollywood Memoribilia including Alfred Hitchcock's cigar box.
• The Swearsaurus enables you to swear in 123 languages, rendering the phrase "Excuse my French" all but obsolete.
• Sylvia Plath was a Cubist working in bright, happy colors. Hm. (this and many others via Greywyvern)
• Pinhole.nl, which are little worlds created by Bethany de Forest, about the size of a shoebox, and photographed with a pinhole camera.
• Acme Traditionals. Where you can shop for things that are not necessarily available and be amused.
• Chihuahua Calendar. Apparently the Japanese craze for chihuahuas is due to a commercial in which a man bought a tux for his chihuahua so he could attend his daughter's wedding.
• Eyeballs. 50 of them in their original sample box. If I had more money than sense, I'd buy it.
• Goth Interior Design. I just wish the pictures were bigger. (Login:caterinanet/caterinanet)
• Beyond Belief. I swallowed a nail. I ate rat. I drank human blood. I had the same dream as my sister once, detail for detail. I bought weed from my high school English teacher.

September Sidelinks
• Magic Shadow. More silly and fun Japanese inventiveness. (via email from Peter.)
• Talk like a pirate day is in full swing. Yarr!
• Lustre Online has some lovely accessories by Lisa Prentice, a local Vancouver designer. There are some beautiful necklaces there; I especially like the cinnabar temple necklace.
• Cost of the War in Iraq. At this moment, 73 billion dollars. You can also put a nifty counter on your weblog.
• Facetime pays off. A study confirms what I had suspected.
• Bush's behavior analyzed by Oliver James. "...staring at his vomit-spattered face in the mirror this dangerously self-destructive man fell to his knees and implored God to help him and became a teetotalling, fundamentalist Christian..."
• Prepare to smile on September 12. And commit to making 10 other people smile too, OK?
• Ferrofluid for sale, $21.95 for 70 mL. I know you, like me, have always wanted some.
• Interview with Douglas Coupland. "We went from being boring little Canada to a sexy country of sin overnight."
• Well, duh. Of course living in suburbia contributes to obesity. As well as hypertension, coronary disease, diabetes, asthma, anxiety and depression. Boy did I hate growing up in suburbia. (caterinanet/caterinanet)
• The ATypI Conference is coming to Vancouver Sept 25-28, at Emily Carr. Too expensive, damn.
• Typofonderie has a good typography weblog on their front page.
• A fireproof fabric from Belorussia and the gambler who got his hands on it.
• Catgee provide the worlds first personal DNA storage & profile request kits. "For the first time you can crack the genetic code and discover the secrets of your DNA."
• Schwarzenegger talks about orgies he attended in a 1977 interview with Oui magazine. Also about what drugs he uses and not being a "fag". What a reptile.
• Average age of women giving birth in BC is 29.6. Average age of women getting married in BC is 32.4. For grooms, 35.1.
• Look at this cool video by my friend Tomas. I love the way it spins around and then finds him again.

• Orange Cone, a new weblog by my friend Mike K, has been launched. Mike K wore an orange shirt and a brown tux to our wedding. Orange is king.
• Laura Miller reviews Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. Wow, she really hates it. I've always thought of Palahniuk as a sort of Elmore Leonard, inexplicably packaged in a "literary fiction" format.
• Gorgeous Pod is now open, according to Tony, wearables and covetables which are the work of Adrian Van Allen, creatrix extraordinaire.
• XIIIN Not sure exactly what this is, as it's all in Korean, but it's too cool for school. The message boards are animated too! (via Corey Senderov Jackson.)
• Google is nifty. Link from the equally nifty Stewart.
• The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander, anticipated for what? 10 years or something? is now out !!! It is the first of four volumes, and he has been working on it for 20 years.
• In-Take. Rena tells me that the print version of this zine is really nice.
• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence. (Interconnected supplied this one.)
• Images from the History of Medicine from Art-Bin which has many other interesting articles
• A great collection of photos of cubists. Not what you're thinking. There's something delightful about these pictures of puzzle-solvers.
• Pinhole camera photography in Porto Alegre in Brasil. I'm inspired to make a pinhole camera.
• Power from human blood could lead to "human batteries". The most interesting science fiction use of this idea is in Dan Simmon's Hyperion.
• Dear Japanese people: Please stop exploring your sexuality. It really freaks us out. Love, American People.
• Odd Nerdrum show is currently up at the Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco, for those of you interested in contemporary figurative painting, he's one of the best.
• TypePad Posts their Features and Prices and the features are great and the prices are fair. What I can't believe is that Ben Trott. He writes the code of ten men. I have no idea how he does it.
• Codex Seraphinianus is now available at Powell's for $550. Hell, I paid $200 for my copy in 1994 (at the Libreria Pegaso in Mexico City) and it's the silk-covered and fancily boxed Franco Maria Ricci version . So art-book fiends, I don't know. $550 is a lot.
• Have I moved to Hippie Nation?. Let's hope not. I'm allergic to tie-dye.
• I have a question.. If 43% of New Yorker readers are Women, and 44% are men, what are the other 13%?
• Is America Becoming Fascist? On Adbusters. Bookmarked to read later.
• A review of the drawing show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, in the Glove & Mail.
• The Konundrum Engine Literary Review launches, with a piece by Stephen Dixon and an interview with T.C. Boyle.
• Roxy Music sort of on tour. I got all excited when I heard this, but 5 dates does not a "tour" make. And no Northwest dates either. Harrumph.
• The Gutenberg Bible. Impressive. From Andrew, via email.
• The pitiful status of women in Japanese business. "...it often seems that the Japanese would rather let their economy stagnate than send their women up the corporate ladder." (caterinanet/caterinanet)
• Wow, and there I am in NY in the rain. My great grandfather designed the mosaics in the New York City subways. Go Great-Grandpa!
• Boy am I glad I bailed on grad school. Academic poverty is an all-too-familiar lament, alas. Let's give it up for autodidacticism!
• Stewart is quoted in a NY Times article on IMs in lecture halls, which references a game Ludicorp is creating called "Neverending". Heh. (caterinanet/caterinanet)
• An interview with Esther Freud. I quite enjoyed the film made of her first novel, Hideous Kinky about two children whose hippie mother toted them around Morocco in the 60s.
• Wow, there I am in Evan's silhouette photo archive. That must be Greg and Anju's house, circa 2000.
• Queers at the Dance, a book and web site about being gay at your high school prom, with a place to add your own story.
• 174 Feral Chihuahuas whose fate is on the line. Several of the dominant dogs have already attacked and killed their kennelmates. (via Lia).
• Woz's Tracking Device sounds wonderful/scary. No more lost pets! Total 24-hour surveillance! (NYTimes: caterinanet/caterinanet)
• Inuktitut Cloud Names, Back River Dialect. (via Eleanor Rigby). And also How Many Ways Can You Spell Snow?. It is very hot today. Hot hot hot.
• Essential News Story The kind of news that makes me happy. Nine! Ranjit was the one who showed this to me. His friend said he wasn't very impressed with their color changing ability...
• Congratulations Jen for getting your bike back! Un vero milagro!
• Robert Smithson has a web site. Emily and I agree that the word "Jetty" is lovely.
• Celibate Matchmaking Service Many are religious, or waiting for marriage, but many "enjoy celibacy". I'm researching celibacy for a short story I'm writing.
• Looking for the Soul of Soho. As long as I've been alive Soho has been "over" so I never experienced it as an artist's paradise.
• The Leap into Language (NYTimes: caterinanet/ caterinanet) On the origins of language. Bookmarked to read later.
• The Three-Day Novel Writing Contest is approaching, and it's time to register. Looks like Blue Lake Books is involved this year.
• Victims of the War on Drugs Harvard PhD Candidate/Cop Peter Moskos has found his medium in the Op-Ed pages of major newspapers.
• A delightful list of the favorite etymologies of the chief editor of the OED: "curfew" meant "to cover the fire"
• Doctors can distribute marijuana in Canada, continuing the Netherland- ization trend of recent months.
• iChat AV is twice as fun as regular old chat. If you have a Mac, you must download the beta immediately.
• Remote Home a new home for the mobile society, existing simultaneously in London and Berlin.
• The Padawan's Guide to Padme Amidala Costumes. I'm not a Star Wars geek, but I sure loved the costumes worn by the completely forgettable Natalie Portman.
• The Philippines, a photographic trip by ronv.
• These earphones are definitely not for those squeamish wimpfolk who freak out when I actually use Q-tips to clean the inside of my ears.
• The End of Christiania? The free state in Copenhagen under threat of dissolution. (caterinanet/caterinanet)
• Return of the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, the new icon of business success. Slow and steady is back in fashion. (NYTimes Login: caterinanet/caterinanet)
• The Whole Earth Catalog needs your help. They've put a bunch of the content online, but haven't been able print a copy.
• Illuminated Flemish Manuscripts with a lot of fancy zooming in and out technology (I'd rather they had one huge jpg). Gorgeous stuff though.

July Sidelinks

• Cunt, the history. An exhaustive account of the etymological and cultural history of the word "cunt". (Though I always understood it to just be the regular name of the vagina in Middle English which was then turned into a vulgar term by the church, which imposed the latinate "vagina", "sexual intercourse", "penis" and "defecate" for cunt, fuck, prick and shit.)
• Five-Oh, on foot an op-ed piece by travel buddy, cop and Harvard PhD candidate Peter Moskos, on how cops on the street, rather than cops in cars, prevent crime.
• William Gibson on Steely Dan Do the people who program these supermarket background tapes have any idea what this song is actually about? And do they know where the name "Steely Dan" came from?
• Art created while the doors of perception were opened under the influence of psilosybin mushrooms. "The worlds inside the mind are just as read as the world outside".
• Victorian Visions of the FutureWalking on Water, Weather Control Machinery, Personal Flying Apparatuses, Summer Holidays at the North Pole.
• The Barbies that never were Hellraiser Barbie, Marge Simpson Barbie, Tattoo Artist Barbie, Catwoman Barbie.
• How to do marketing without appearing as if you're doing marketing. A revealing article about the bubble-up marketing for Pabst Blue Ribbon.
• Stinky vices for which I will gladly break the law. It's pathetic what passes for cheese in the U.S. - unpasteurized cheese is mostly legal in Canada!
• Les Amis Du Fromage is our favorite local cheese shop, full of delicious redolent mostly European cheese.
• Most Expensive Cities Not surprisingly, Tokyo is #1, but I had no idea Moscow was so expensive. New York is down at #10.
• When Men Clean House, It Pays off Big Time Not only do they end up with smarter, better adjusted children, their wives have sex with them more often.
• Lance Arthur at lancearthur.com. Ever funny, ever moving, lanceward ho!
• The Mystery of the Green Man, he's all over the greeny earth, peeking out at you from behind the foliage.

June Sidelinks

• Blog of the week by Joshua Norton, Strip Mining for Whimsy
• Ontario court rules in favor of same sex marriage. Canada catching up with the Netherlands in its politics.
• Tiny Books on the New York Times. Use this newly created caterinanet login: caterinanet/caterinanet
• Photographer's Rights. A handy, downloadable guide that you can carry with you, should anyone challenge your right to take photographs. (Harrumph)
• Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques, as practiced by your local preacher, military organization or meditation class. How to win converts and influence people.
• Erik Davis on The Matrix Reloaded. Behind one of those Salon superads unfortunately.
• Most Iraqi Treasures recovered after the wartime looting. Only 47 of the 8,000 items are still missing.
• Wow, there is a lot of room in here. Yeah.
• Mario Giacomelli, Italian. Photographs of surpassing beauty, and subtle humor.
• Well this just about sums it up. Gnashing my teeth over here. (link pilfered from sylloge)
• Death, philistinism, and the American Way. More proof of our national cowardice with respect to representation.
• James Tiptree, Jr., aka Alice Sheldon, and "The Women Men Don't See" by way of Language Hat.
• Self-referential Aptitude Test Take the test after you're finished reading this sentence.
• 80s Tarot Deck. Ferris Bueller as the Fool. Thomas Dolby as The Magician. Annie Lennox as the High Priestess.
• Games Qualify as Free Speech Appeals court overturns controversial district court ruling, and protects games under the First Amendment, which will help games to be seen as a mode of creative expression.
• Hiro Yamagata at the Wexner Center for the arts. Lasers, lights and mirrors.
• Grand Street, a magazine full of top-notch work by international artists and writers, is back, after a two-year hiatus.
• Medusa. There is an article by Mark Dery in the latest issue of Cabinet in the subject of severed heads, which refers to Medusa.
• Jan Svankmajer. How is it that after all these years of being on the internet, I've never done a search for "Jan Svankmajer"? Great site!
• Identity Project for the Principality of Sealand. Their official site.
• Man emerges from 20 years in hiding after the fall of Saddam Hussein, which he spent living between the walls of his parents' house.
• Oblique Strategies, those genius-triggering cards from Brian Eno, are available once again.
• A View from the Bridge, a profile of Don Delillo on The Guardian.

May Sidelinks

• 163 Chihuahua Pix and dozens of them are chihuahua puppies. Told you this sidebar was going to have lots of chihuahua links.
• Writers' block, an installation by Sheryl Oring.
• Exo-electric armor which delivers a hair-raising 80,000-volt electric shock is now ready for consumer use. How sci-fi!
• BC Facts, a web site about the BC government's decisions and how they affect health, the environment, and wildlife.
• His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz...
• Obligatory Occasional Chihuahua Link Yes, even more small dogs in outfits.
• Dinner Beast photographed and reluctantly consumed by Old Tasty.
• Beauty Check No surprises here. Beautiful people are thought to be better people.
• Kana, japanese G & L cutie, the official site.
• Fuck the bullshit it's time to throw down. "A page a day. Anything less is unacceptable you punk-ass bitch- motherfucker. Anything less is unacceptable."
• Dodge 2. Pixelation continues to fascinate, though its moment has surely passed.
• Amorphoscapes So does grimy-looking digital residue, whose moment passed in 1997.
• Handy 14-step Reference on How to Identify Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

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