Archive Of Strange Deaths (castle-brass.co.uk)

Member Name: sharktrager

Product:	castle-brass.co.uk
Date:	15/04/02 (296 review reads)
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Advantages: There aren't any pictures (thankfully)

Disadvantages: It's in bad taste

I have often read of movie producers and song writers perusing newspapers to find ideas for their latest work. Indeed, I believe that David Bowie used to have a habit of cutting up sentences from newspapers and putting them in different orders to provide him with lyrics for songs. I've read that he now uses a computer to do this task for him.

The reason why I mention that here is that I was reminded of this tactic for coming up with ideas when looking at this website - the Archive Of Strange Deaths. This is exactly what it is - an archive. Of strange deaths. It is a collection of information from various news sources about people who have died. Strangely.

The website is divided into years (beginning in 1990 and coming right up to 2002. You can peruse the site year-by-year or do a search. For example, if you are looking for a strange death involving a television, simply type in 'television'. What is slightly disappointing is that the result of your search only takes you to the page on which that word can be found - you have to then search the page using the built-in search facility in your browser to then find the word on the page. However, when you do you can find such titbits as the man who killed his wife with an iron because she had the TV on too loud. He didn't know what to do then, so he sat down and watching TV. He said "But I lowered the volume" do that's OK then.

The website is not in particularly good taste (thankfully there are no pictures), but as I mentioned at the beginning of my opinion, it is a good resource for writers of any sort. It can be found at http://www.castle-brass.co.uk/

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