“The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment ‘Library 2000′ Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.”

This has to be the simplest webcam image uploader I’ve seen. I finally put my B&W QuickCam from 1995 to use… “StripCam lives in the control strip of a MacOS computer. Since it’s not an application, you cannot accidentally quit it. It automatically timestamps and labels each snapshot, and FTPs it to your specified FTP server.”

“Since 1995, Art in Context Center for Communications, a publicly supported nonprofit organization, has maintained this site as an online reference library for the publication and dissemination of information about artists and where to find their work.”

A large variety of resources for cartoonists.

Cool web camera thingy. Gimme! XMAS!

Maps and images of historical cultural significance from North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

“How fitting that the U.S. economy is ending the twentieth century on the highest of notes. The nation’s population is fully employed, poverty and illiteracy are low and falling, and living standards are rising quickly and have never been higher. U.S. households, businesses, investors and policymakers have never been more confident in their own well being and in the ability of the economy to succeed. The nation’s current economic success is more than simply the result of a few recent events or policy decisions. It is the product of events and achievements that arguably span at least the past century.”

“The Web reinvents many of the basics of business life: where you get your news, how you search for information, what it takes to communicate. Here’s our crash course in how to Web-ify yourself.”

Maps and images of historical cultural significance from North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

This has to be the simplest webcam image uploader I’ve seen. I finally put my B&W QuickCam from 1995 to use again… “StripCam lives in the control strip of a MacOS computer. Since it’s not an application, you cannot accidentally quit it. It automatically timestamps and labels each snapshot, and FTPs it to your specified FTP server.”

Cool web camera thingy. Gimme! XMAS!

“Shouldn’t the future be a place where our graphical interfaces disencumber computer use? We should be developing a library of graphical presentation and interface techniques relative to where they are useful. We should work to make things respect the ergonomic and psychophysical realities of people. We should work to make things that look like what they do or represent.” The actual paper is a PDF from GI’99.