Christmas Card now on line

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This Christmas I've decided to go with a classic theme expressing the true sentiment of the season...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/xmas.htm

Those of you with long memories may recall me using an earlier version as a card many years ago - dot matrix printed...

Later: Internet Explorer turns out not to display that properly as originally designed, I've now changed the background to get rid of the annoying white line between the upper and lower images.

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I keep meaning to ask you -- have you ever heard of D'Ordel's Pantechnicon? It's a humor volume that came out around 1900 (I'm blanking on the year; it might be up to a decade later) explaining, in admirable deadpan snark, the manual art of compiling (their term) monthly magazines. It's structured so that the editors comment on every feature in an introduction, then the actual sample of the magazine follows, and after that, they comment on everything again, explaining how it is made.

For serial fiction, for instance, a sample is given of the "Serial Adventure Form," in which a handful of blanks are filled in with the main character's name, his affectation, his deformity, and a few other bits, and then the typesetter hangs the form up by his machine and sets the story in type. It contains one of my favorite lines, "Grypula switched off the light, and in the darkness I heard him moving noiselessly toward the back of the basement."

Rather than tell you all about it, though, I think I will use my flickr account and post the whole thing there. When I have it up, I'll post a link on my LJ.

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It sounds amazing - love to see it.