Month: February 2003
My brother’s animations are now online at The Guyster Show. Requires Quicktime, speakers, a fast connection or patience. R-rated.
Sir William Crookes
Sir William Crookes, a Victorian “man of science”, or a champion of spiritualism?
Hellfire Club
Here’s an article that paints Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), founder of the infamous Hellfire Club as a proto-pagan.
Disinformation has a short summary and a good list of links on the subject. It also mentions the Irish hellfire club, which predates Dashwood’s society.
One point made is that “hell-fire club” is not what Dashwood and co. called themselves; it was probably a general term for social clubs for rowdy and hedonistic young aristocrats (“rakes”).
Feed Me
Small fix to my little feed script, the RSS loading and formatting thingie. Because PHP version 4.2 defaults its register_globals configuration parameter to “off”, I need to actually get the script’s parameters from the HTTP_GET_VARS array.
Well, thanks to this bug and lousy documentation, I know now I’ve had at least 2 users….