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30th November 1999

The Broad Art Foundation

“The Eli Broad Family Fondation functions as an educational and lending resource center for contemporary art and is dedicated to building a collection that reflects the scope and diversity of the art of our time.”

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30th November 1999

yourname.tekky.com

Get your own subdomain address: ‘yourname.tekky.com.’ They say there are no pop-ups, banners, frames…

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30th November 1999

Art Crimes: Graffiti

“Art Crimes is a gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world. This project was started … in May 1994 and the site went public that September. As of April 1999 Art Crimes has more than 3000 images from 205 cities, 43 countries and 6 continents.”

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30th November 1999

Three Dimensional Information Visualisation

“This report describes a variety of 3D information visualisation techniques and research systems which have been developed to aid the human comprehension of large information systems.”

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30th November 1999

Metaphors and the Net

These folks “categorize Net life from seven different perspectives, with references to the top examples of each topic we touch (the top search engines, buddy lists, etc.). The beginning of each section describes the metaphor through examples; the end offers critiques and commentary.” The seven metaphors: Physical World, Conceptual Space, Social Life, Multi-Player Games, 3D, Traditional Media and Brands and Advertising.

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30th November 1999

Surf Maps: Visualising Web Browsing

“We present a range of Surf maps, dynamic tools for visualising Web browsing, visually graphing the structure of the Web as you go. The examples use both 2d graphs and more sophisticated three dimensional visualisation techniques.” This is some neat stuff. Make sure to look around the whole site. Kinda old, but, hey… could be interesting to follow your trails to see how webloggers all end up with the same links.

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30th November 1999

fanremixes.com

I wonder what this will become…?

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30th November 1999

Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis

“Type some text and hear a .aiff, .wav or .au speak it to you in a Man, Woman, Child, Gnat, Coffee Drinker, Big Man, Raspy or Ridiculous voice.”

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