links for 2007-01-20

• TATE ETC. issue 9 - The Real Comic Book Heroes
  Hogarth, Blake, Baudelaire and the pre-history of comics
  (tags: art comics history)
• Where London Stood: John Soane and Joseph Gandy
  (tags: london cities ruins catastrophe fall johnsoane josephgandy architecture)
• Esquire:Feature Story: What I've learned: Rick Rubin
  "I try to make criticisms in a very, very specific way. The more specific it is—if someone can really understand where you're coming from and what you're suggesting—the more it will actually help them."
  (tags: howwework rickrubin music interviews)
• HUMUMENT.COM: A Humument, p. 1-10
  (tags: art book tomphillips)
• Call Me Fishmeal.: Ad nauseam...
  On google ads: "Concentrate on the search ads, and don't bid high for any ads on the content network right now"
  (tags: advertising google search)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | When a killer cloud hit Britain
  1783 toxic cloud from Iceland volcano killed c 23,000 in Britain. Poorly documented strangely.
  (tags: volcano)
• Random Etc. : Blog Archive : Some Attempts at Twitter Visualisation
  (tags: twitter visualization)
• Mars probe may have spotted lost rover - space - 12 January 2007 - New Scientist Space
  Anthropomorphic and tragic story of a pining rover: "it would drive to the lander as best it could and keep trying to re-establish contact", circling it as it got close, he says.
  (tags: astronomy space landscape robots)
• Flickr: Photos tagged with waben
  Molly said that waben, or honeycombs, are commonly catalogues by ostalgie and east germany fans. Ostalgie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie
  (tags: berlin ostalgie)
• Ostalgie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: berlin ostalgie)
• The MacGuffin - (37signals)
  Various good links on the Hitchcockian MacGuffin
  (tags: film macguffin alfredhitchcock)