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  • The Eagle Transporter

    The transporter Eagle spacecraft pages: a masterpiece of Roberto Baldassarri.

    The Eagle was used in the TV series Space 1999 (1975-1978).

    The biggest reference guide for Space 1999 is the catacombs.

    		 eagle blueprint

  • Killmotor Hill

    “In 1902 Scrooge McDuck tried to drive his car to the top of the hill, but that effort was too much for the car”s motor and it stopped.
    Immediately after that incident Humperdink Duck renamed the hill and gave it its present name.
    During a period of six months the same year Scrooge raised his Money Bin on the hill.”

    “The most recent informations provided from Don Rosa… is that Scrooge McDuck died in 1967 100 years old.

    How are Huey, Dewey, and Louie related to Donald?
    An answer from the Disney Comics Characters pages:
    “One day Donald gets a letter with the following text:

    “Dear Donald, I am sending your angel nephews Louie, Huey and Dewey, to stay with you while their father is in the hospital.
    A giant firecracker exploded under his chair.”

    These and more (surprising) informations in Who’s who in Duckburg, a guide to the most frequently used characters in Barks’ and Rosa’s works.
    See also: The lives and times in Duckburg.

  • Free Daily Newspapers

    “The reinvention of the newspaper“:
    in 2005, european free tabloids have a circulation of 13.8 million.

    My favourite is Metro: 32 pages, full color, news, sport, tv, wheater and more, free; also available on the web, Metro newspapers are fully downloadable in PDF from Readmetro.com.

  • 43 Things

    “What do you want to do with your life?”
    Write down your goals:
    make myself happy, simplify my life, become a Jedi, get a real job, make a difference in someone’s life, stop procrastinating, and, and, and…43 Things.

  • Frisoni’s painting

    Davide Frisoni “I have been on the Fiat Panda with Frisoni and many times on my Fiat Panda: i have seen the traffic jam, cars braking in front of you, the town’s avenues, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly.
    I have never seen them as paintings.
    Frisoni’s paintings gave something to my life, to my traffic jam, to my reality; he changed my eyes, he converted them somehow: now, after I saw his paintings, I will not drive my Panda in the same way, nor in Rimini nor everywhere else.”.
    (Gianfranco Lauretano)

    Davide Frisoni: the online gallery of his works.

    Above: Dentro la luce (Into the light), oil on canvas.

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  • Strong Bad

    “The internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.
    You need to take advantage of that.”.
    (Strong Bad)*
    One of the ten worst website mistakes?
    “Not using the word FREE.”.
    (Gerry Robert)

    *Requires Flash Player

  • Dark Water: not the remake

    Dark Water (2002), directed by Hideo Nakata.
    Original title: “Honogurai mizu no soko kara”.

  • Ielanguages

    From Jennifer Wagner, a beautiful site dedicated to the learning of the Indo-European Languages.

    There are tutorials for twelve languages.
    A lean, tidy, concise and rigorous work. Respect.

  • Random name generators

    Welcome to the world of the fake names.

    These are some of the best random name generators:

    Noemata random name generator
    Names for everything: bands, internet domains, pets. It has also a name generator for abstract art.

    Kleimo random name generator
    The claim: “Give a random name to that special someone you meet at the bar.”

    Random Catname Generator
    generate a cat name every 3 seconds.

    Bandnamemaker
    Creative. It has suggested for me “Psycho Outsider”.

  • Best buy?

    This is URL, a toy robot I’ve found at Neatstuff.net.
    From dealer’s description:
    “The world’s finest tin robot action crime fighter.
    …Give it a couple of turns and watch him trample all over you and your civil rights! $29.00 each.”.
    Cute…    		 Futurama