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14th January 2000

Bud Plant Illustrated Books

“Focusing on illustrative, cartooning, comic, reference and how-to art books from the 1880s to the 1990s. Books about illustrators are a specialty. This site has over 205 pages, including biographies of 71 artists, over 1650 images, and over 26 Mbytes of very graphic data.”

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14th January 2000

phreakco.com

Just a cool portal/link page featuring design, programming, news, weblogs, etc… Found in the referrers.

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14th January 2000

Bud Plant Illustrated Books

“Focusing on illustrative, cartooning, comic, reference and how-to art books from the 1880s to the 1990s. Books about illustrators are a specialty. This site has over 205 pages, including biographies of 71 artists, over 1650 images, and over 26 Mbytes of very graphic data.”

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14th January 2000

spyonit.com

Cool. Cool. Cool. “Spyonit.com ’spies’ save you the trouble of remembering to check the web. You make a Spy. You tell it what to look for. It checks every so often, and reports back to you when it finds something new. We hope Spies make your day-to-day web usage faster, easier, and more fun.”

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14th January 2000

A Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web

“Humans map all sorts of things; not just geography. In many ways, humans express themselves in the most interesting ways through the cartographic metaphor, and this was the subject of my GEO World GIS Online column for August 1999.”

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14th January 2000

Gates closes an era

“Bill Gates is handing Microsoft’s CEO title to Steve Ballmer so Gates can be chairman and chief software architect. In one sense, that’s momentous. Gates has been the only CEO in mighty Microsoft’s 25 years. An era is slipping past.”

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14th January 2000

Mir may become space hotel

Walt Anderson, 46, a US-based venture capitalist who has made a fortune through telecommunications companies told the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday, “Mir, which was about to be thrown away, was a huge opportunity. Yes, it’s old and yes, it has a few problems. Yet any old building has that. You don’t tear down an old building because it has a few heating and air-conditioning problems. You renovate it.” Launch: 11 Feb 2000, 11:30 a.m., CST.

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14th January 2000

The end of the Milky Way

“Stop worrying about the end of the world — the end of the whole galaxy is the real problem. Astronomers have calculated that the Milky Way will be destroyed in a headlong, 300,000mph collision with the giant Andromeda galaxy.”

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