17th
January
2000
“Illegal traffic in works of art is threatening many countries’ cultural wealth. Along with other organisations, Interpol is fighting against this peculiar type of crime by spreading information regarding stolen works of art. Interpol had made its priority to make a wider public aware of the problem. With the Interpol ‘Stolen Works of Art,’ you will be able to check an object being sold before acquiring it. It actually contains information regarding more than 14,000 artworks gathered by the 177 Interpol state members. The CD-ROM ‘Stolen Works of Art’ contains a wide range of art categories, from embroidery to painting, and from carafes to manuscripts.”
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17th
January
2000
“BookWire is the book industry’s most comprehensive and thorough online information source. BookWire’s content includes timely book industry news, features, reviews, guides to literary events, author interviews, thousands of annotated links to book-related sites and more.”
posted in Books | Permalink |
17th
January
2000
“Beware the plague of chain letters, e-mails which pass from person to person, growing in size and spreading misinformation along the way. This site explains the dangers of e-mail forwards and offers frightening examples of them. You will read about how people are deceived, bandwidth is clogged and your friends are terrorized — that is, if you dare.”
posted in Email/Spam | Permalink |
17th
January
2000
“The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic. Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of ‘life in the Jurassic…’”
posted in Et cetera | Permalink |
17th
January
2000
“Geek-free, commonsense advice on building a low-cost web site. Learn how to build low-cost websites; save time, money, trouble. Forget JavaScript, HTML, Java, ActiveX, learn how to create a Web site without spending $1000s or learning complex technology.” Um, their words, not mine.
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