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10th January 2000

Art Masterpiece Collection

“At last count 4,539 works from 351 artists are in the collection. More than 3,500 remain to be added… Artists from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Australian and Asia. Ancient to contemporary, organized alphabetically by artist’s common name, and chronologically by artist’s country of birth.”

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10th January 2000

This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also…

“This is the first sentence of this story. This is the second sentence. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This sentence is questioning the intrinsic value of the first two sentences. This sentence is to inform you, in case you haven’t already realized it, that this is a self-referential story, that is, a story containing sentences that refer to their own structure and function. This is a sentence that provides an ending to the first paragraph.”

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10th January 2000

JavaScript FAQ Knowledge Base

Looks like there’s a lot of stuff here. A lot more than just JS: There’s a whole http://developer.irt.org/faq.htm Internet Related Technologies FAQ section.

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10th January 2000

deBarcode

deBarcode™ is an Internet directory service specializing in bar codes and universal resource identification. Given the bar code of a product, deBarcode will locate the maker’s web site(s).

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10th January 2000

Information, Architecture, and Usability

“What is the relationship between information architecture design and usability engineering? This is a loaded question, and I wade into dangerous waters by addressing it, but the answer has significant implications for a variety of audiences. Consider the following questions: *As a buyer of consulting services for your corporate Web site or intranet, should you retain an IA firm, a UE firm, or both? *As an employer of information architects, should you recruit people with an education in library and information science or human-computer interaction? I contend that the challenge involved in designing usable organization and navigation systems for large online information environments is so important and so complex, that it requires information architecture design specialists with backgrounds in both IA and UE.”

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