21st
December
1999
3dup.com
A 3D search engine with 2D, multimedia, virtual reality and audio-visual industry info…
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A 3D search engine with 2D, multimedia, virtual reality and audio-visual industry info…
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“…because people are not frogs. If we had been frogs with eyes sitting on the side of the head, the story might have been different, but humans have their eyes smack in the front of their face, looking straight out. Evolution optimized homo sapiens for wandering the savannah — moving around a plane — and not swinging through the trees. Today this evolutionary bias shows in comparing the number of people who drive a car versus the number of helicopter pilots: 2D navigation (on the ground) vs. 3D navigation (in the air). Using 3D on a computer adds a range of difficulties…”
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“Icons with style! and other creations.” If you don’t have enough work to do you can always redesign your desktop.
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“Ever wonder how those color palettes get put together? Who’s responsible for choosing what colors are hot or cool? We did. So we called the Pantone Color Institute and talked to the chief, Leatrice Eiseman, about current and past color trends, international biases, and the influence of media and technology on ‘new’ color development.”
“Telephone numbers used to begin with two letters, which were an abbreviation for a word. For example, there was a Glenn Miller song called PEnnsylvania 6-5000, and Liz Taylor made a movie called BUtterfield-8. This project is an attempt to assemble information about exchange names from a lot of widely spread original sources.”
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“Catherine Neville and Allyson Mace created Sauce Cafe as a way to promote the restaurant scene in St. Louis. St. Louis has an amazingly diverse selection of places to dine and drink, mainly because of the multiethnic population of the city. If you have a craving, St. Louis has a place where you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for.”
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Yes. A “website that documents David Bowie’s 1972 rock masterpiece, ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,’ widely acclaimed as the definitive rock ‘n’ roll concept album and one of the most influential of the 1970s. This online guide provides detailed information about the album, the songs, the period and more.”
“Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. According to Graeme, PHP and MySQL are the world’s best combination for creating data-driven sites.”
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A 3D search engine with 2D, multimedia, virtual reality and audio-visual industry info…
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