“At M/C, we aim to offer our own condiments to this global stew. M/C is a journal of media and culture, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, and published electronically on the Web, but like the Net it is neither fully academic writing nor entirely popular culture; similarly, we are neither exclusively covering Internet-related topics nor ignoring them altogether. Put positively, we are concerned with the goings-on in today’s media and culture environments, whatever form they take, and add our own observations to the cauldron of opinions that is the Net.”

These “comprise the largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. Contained in the over five thousand collections, are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents, totaling roughly thirteen million items.”

“There was a failure of imagination five years ago, when Inter@ctive Week was launched. Failure to think big enough. A directory service, Yahoo!, hardly in gestation back then, is worth nearly $50 billion now. Amazon.com, which is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars, nevertheless is worth $30 billion. The Department of Justice, meanwhile, is suing the world’s most valuable technology company, Microsoft. Web wunderkind Netscape Communications created a mass market for browsers, yet it lost the war and was bought by America Online. For 17 million consumers, AOL — which had barely crossed 1 million subscribers five years ago — became the Internet.”

“There was a failure of imagination five years ago, when Inter@ctive Week was launched. Failure to think big enough. A directory service, Yahoo!, hardly in gestation back then, is worth nearly $50 billion now. Amazon.com, which is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars, nevertheless is worth $30 billion. The Department of Justice, meanwhile, is suing the world’s most valuable technology company, Microsoft. Web wunderkind Netscape Communications created a mass market for browsers, yet it lost the war and was bought by America Online. For 17 million consumers, AOL — which had barely crossed 1 million subscribers five years ago — became the Internet.”

“At M/C, we aim to offer our own condiments to this global stew. M/C is a journal of media and culture, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, and published electronically on the Web, but like the Net it is neither fully academic writing nor entirely popular culture; similarly, we are neither exclusively covering Internet-related topics nor ignoring them altogether. Put positively, we are concerned with the goings-on in today’s media and culture environments, whatever form they take, and add our own observations to the cauldron of opinions that is the Net.”

This area of the Dolby site covers home theater speakers, surround-sound speaker placement and installation and operation tips.

This area of the Dolby site covers home theater speakers, surround-sound speaker placement and installation and operation tips.

A remedy for the sticky cursor syndrome.

This guy’s entire home is wired. The fridge, trash, toilet, doorbell… even the cat.

An interactive textbook for classes at Cornell.