“Metababy is an experiment in collaboration, a Web site created by its visitors. You’re welcome to post anything you want on Metababy, and anybody else is free to change it. To participate, just navigate to a URL on the site and click the ‘Edit’ button in the lower, right-hand corner. If the page already exists, you can change it. If the page doesn’t exist — if you get a 404 — you can create it.”

“Metababy is an experiment in collaboration, a Web site created by its visitors. You’re welcome to post anything you want on Metababy, and anybody else is free to change it. To participate, just navigate to a URL on the site and click the ‘Edit’ button in the lower, right-hand corner. If the page already exists, you can change it. If the page doesn’t exist — if you get a 404 — you can create it.”

“From 1994 to 1996 I presented a series of essays on the critical state of the Internet, its construction and probable prospects for the future. Topics covered include the history of the pre-Web matrix and the likely regulatory environment future tech might face.”

“It has been a long-held notion that the use of open space or ‘whitespace’ adds not only to the attractiveness of the design of a written publication, but adds to the functionality as well. For example, it has been stated that whitespace plays the crucial role of ‘directing the viewer’s attention to the regions where important information is provided and allowing the global structure of the composition to assume a meaningful configuration’ …However, it has been asserted by Web usability researcher Jared Spool that these assumptions should not apply to Web design.”

“Today’s web site is a combination of a publication, a software application, and navigation system. Building such a complex product requires both verbal and visual analysis. Planning diagrams are an essential tool in the analysis process, helping a team understand the content and relationships that the design of a web site must represent. Even with the best design, a web site is largely invisible and often difficult to grasp. As the web has grown as a publishing media, designers have struggled to find the equivalent of an index or table of contents for a web site. A web site is not a book, a magazine, a virtual city or a file system. We will explore the kinds of diagrams that can visually represent a web site.”

“JavaScript OSA is a port of the Mozilla JavaScript 1.4.2 scripting system to the Macintosh in the form of a OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) component. Why Do I Need JavaScript? Why Indeed. If you find AppleScript difficult to learn or you already know JavaScript from programming the Web, JavaScript OSA provides an alternative to AppleScript for controlling your Macintosh. JavaScript OSA provides full support for sending and receiving AppleEvents that leverages the AppleScript support found in the MacOS and the ever growing range of scriptable applications.”

“Check your mailbox from any Internet-connected computer in the world, using any browser. Feel free to use this service as much as you wish. There is no charge.”

“Traditional HTML — the computer language commonly referred to as the lingua franca of the Web — was officially put out to pasture [recently] with the introduction of its successor: XHTML. XML, also a W3C recommendation, lets anyone define new Web languages and tag digital documents to make it easier for computers to read and manipulate them. Fortunately for Web markup pioneer HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), XHTML is ‘backwards-compatible’ — meaning that Web developers will not have to rewrite their pages in the new markup language. In addition, most browsers currently in use will be able to read XHTML documents — such as the W3C’s home page — without an upgrade.”

“JavaScript OSA is a port of the Mozilla JavaScript 1.4.2 scripting system to the Macintosh in the form of a OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) component. Why Do I Need JavaScript? Why Indeed. If you find AppleScript difficult to learn or you already know JavaScript from programming the Web, JavaScript OSA provides an alternative to AppleScript for controlling your Macintosh. JavaScript OSA provides full support for sending and receiving AppleEvents that leverages the AppleScript support found in the MacOS and the ever growing range of scriptable applications.”

“Before I bring you some more hard drive reviews I have lined up, I thought it would be nice to cover some issues pertaining to hard drives; more specifically, issues pertaining to hard drive performance. There are three main features which determine hard drive performance, seek time, interface, and transfer rate. Notice RPM is not listed here because RPM, combined with other drive features determines transfer rate.”

“In the beginning there was the left hand nav bar. It was yellow, preferably, though several other bright primary colors also showed up. Jakob called it the ‘yellow fever.’ In the web shops, we called it the ‘left hand nav,’ but Jakob called it the ‘Left-Justified Navigation Rail.’ Surfing for 30 minutes, you would see at least one. By the end of 96, the Web was completely filled with them.”

“The central goal of this book is to teach the reader how to design user interfaces that will enable people to learn computer systems quickly and use them effectively, efficiently, and comfortably. The interface issues addressed are primarily cognitive, that is, having to do with mental activities such as perception, memory, learning, and problem solving. Physical ergonomic issues such as keyboard height or display contrast are covered only briefly.”

A dang good reading and reference list for any visual communicator. “This bibliography contains a list of sources of additional information on the topics discussed in [the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines] book. The bibliography lists books and journal articles in sections organized by topic.” Scroll down.

Well, I’ve only skimmed over a couple of these so I don’t really know if this is a worthwhile link … but I figure you can decide for yourselves. I ended up here after his ‘The Bauhaus isn’t our house‘ appeared in my search results for ‘International Style.’ “David Lance Goines has written a large number of articles on varying subjects through the years and many of these personal writings are gathered here. Currently they are organized by title but, due to the large number, they will be organized by date and subject in the future.”

A dang good reading and reference list for any visual communicator. “This bibliography contains a list of sources of additional information on the topics discussed in [the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines] book. The bibliography lists books and journal articles in sections organized by topic.” Scroll down.