On October 3, 2000, Mr. Lope penned a few breif lines that directly contradict the central thesis of Being John Malkovich.

Of course, he’s also 2903.

This has nothing to do with Mr. Lope or anything, but my favorite part of Lawrence of Arabia is after Lawrence and the surviving boy under his, um, care pass through a blasted, abandoned Army base at the side of the Suez Canal, and emerge on the banks of the waterway. A lone motorcyclist on the opposite bank appears, and stops when hailed.

Cupping his hands, the British biker shouts over the unbridged gap of water and sand.

“Who are you?”

After a pause, he repeats the question with greater urgency. Lean cuts to a reverse-angle closeup of Lawrence’s face.

The preceding post was also inspired by Mr. Lope’s generous entry commemmorating this year’s St. Patrick’s. I had no idea choral music was a favored listening habit.

Strangely, hoever, searching his site only yeilded fruitful results on the words sing and karaoke, a discipline for which Mr. Lope has previously expressed his fondness.

Thanks. This is hard.

Neighbor Search: interactive search interface with embedded links that allows you to search, by neighborhood, name, or proximity, to see the publicly-recorded presidential campaign donations in the area you’re looking at.

In the search results, clicking a name or a donor’s street address will result in a new set of results. Neat!

I doubt, however, that some of the donors would be happy to know that their primary residential address is available in this manner. I found, for example, the home addresses of some recognizable local business execs in my first set of search results.

The lesson? When you give money to a campaign, you should report a P. O. Box as your address.

[via Monkeyfilter]

On March 17, 2003, Mr. Lope informed us that he is of Polish extraction via a tasteful web banner, and thoughtfully provided a link to the Gaelic Insult Generator. Despite his proclamation of Polski pride, it does not appear that his ethnicity features prominently in his site conception.

Despite this, one hopes that Mr. Lope might find the illuminating thoughts of one Maciej Ceglowski on his ethnicity and native land of interest. Mr. Ceglowski, a native-born Pole largely reared in the United States, recently posted a long and affectionate essay about Warsaw.

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery [via MeFi, agin]. Neato. GUIs through the ages. The march to and fro along the road to usability in all its’ stark majesty and failure.

Actually I just made up that last bit cuz it sounded cool.

Mini 50 robot conversion project. [via MeFi] Amazing. Look closely, though, for not all is as it seems. Perusing the MeFi thread may illuminate.

On November 28, 2003, Mr. Lope featured some Nintendo card models.

This link was derived from a search for the word “model” conducted via Mr. Lope’s search facility. Not included in the search results was the April 29, 2002 link to the Paper Engineer’s Workshop, the online presence of Keisuke Saka, whose work highlights the sculptural qualities of automata.

UPDATE: D’oh! Mr. Lope beat me to the workshop link here. On his site he notes he likes the Dreaming Penguin – I’m partial to the Doomed Fish, but I like the chairs and also ‘the most famous quartet in the world,’ neither apparenty kitted, more’s the pity.

UPDATE II: And look! Dan’s got the Yamaha papercraft stashed down in there too!

I can’t stop!

Yamaha

Yamaha offers a range of models both predictable and not. A samurai helmet! Frogs! Snails!.

Also available are many models of animals, including a polar bear and a penguin. One assumes the bear might easily become a yeti. I did not notice the presence or absence of a club. Furthering the video-game wildlife concept is of course the
hedgehog. Alas, however, no badger nor snake.

Wizards of the Coast

Dungeons and Dragons village and keep construction kit, including gatehouse, houses, walls, and, of course, a mausoleum and graveyard. Alas, no cathedral.

3D Papercraft

Japanese (commercial?) site, framed. In the column to the left, click ‘new’ or other topic heading. ‘New’ will open an 86 page list of offsit elinks from which I pluck another obscure Trek model at Homespun Magixx, an utterly kawaii hamster, and a selection of guitars.

(This was originally an update but grew as I explored the Czech model site. Chezchloslovakia was a center of paper modeling back in the seventies and there are continual and lovely new kits coming from the Czech Republic today.)

Three more from BB. I’ve seen the NASA stuff, may have seen the Star Wars stuff, and the Aliens rifle is new to me. The Aliens site also has a wide range of other models available. Unfortunately it’s framed which makes it hard to link to properly. The modeler (a Czech) also includes a link labeled ‘My Building Process‘ which explains how he develops his models from extant 3D models. His English is not 100% but like his models he gets the important stuff correct.

Models available from him include the APC, the entire colony (understandably ‘under construction’), and projected models of more or less everything in the entire film. This guy is pretty ambitious. Finally, under his link marked bonus, he provides some intriguing models from a variety of sources including Star Trek movie-era Starbase and in some ways the most intriguing, a spacecraft model credited as being from the ‘great Czech comic Galaxia‘ but which is in fact unquestionably at least based on the original Battlestar Galactica.

Again I say, what, no Space 1999?

UPDATE: whoops, almost forgot. A Tron lightcycle.

Woah! Boing Boing runs not one but two cardmodeing links, to the intriguing and new-to-me work of John McEwan, highlighting a steampunk sub. Steampunk appears to be a theme in the man’s work.

I should write about card modeling as an art form sometime. Hm.

Link number two is to papertoys.com. I recall seeing this site from looking for steamboat links.