Winners at the 14th Artfilm International Film Festival 2006 and winners at the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006.

Syd Barrett died, aged 60, from complications relating to diabetes. Crazy diamond will never shine again.

Collection of websites devoted to Syd Barrett.

Only last month I realized that Australian Project Gutenberg has a collection of Orwell books and essays (including “Politics and the English Language”, which definitely applies not only to English language). However, here is even more extensive collection. There’s also Orwell’s preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm – factual, a bit personal and worth reading.