“Shop for furniture, lighting and accessories by classic and new designers. Chairs, sofas, tables and lighting by Aalto, Bellini, Breuer, Castiglioni, Citterio, Le Corbusier, Eames, Mies, Nelson, Starck and more. Most items are in stock and can be shipped quickly.”

Nice, nice. “A biweekly webzine about balancing work and life.” Unfortunately, the frames prevent linking to individual articles. Brought to you by Herman Miller.

“Shop for furniture, lighting and accessories by classic and new designers. Chairs, sofas, tables and lighting by Aalto, Bellini, Breuer, Castiglioni, Citterio, Le Corbusier, Eames, Mies, Nelson, Starck and more. Most items are in stock and can be shipped quickly.”

“I want a program that will map the web in a way that lets you fly around, getting an understanding of the relationships between sites. I drew some clickable 2D maps by hand with pencil, scanned them in and added hyperlinks. They give some feeling for what the more linked sites are surrounding my site. With a map like this, a websurfer could jump ahead by several links in any direction without waiting for the intermediate pages to load.”

By JonKatz. “Papers seem almost stupefyingly oblivious to the fact that they aren’t in the breaking news business anymore. Fifteen to 24 hours after CNN and innumerable websites reported that George W. Bush would soundly thump John McCain in South Carolina, most newspapers reported the news on page one the next morning as if none of their readers had heard it before, despite the fact that almost all of them had.” Note: This is an extremely large /. page.

“…a new, San Francisco-based media company from the Fortune Group at Time Inc., a Time-Warner Company. eCompany Now’s aim is to become the straight-talking, sophisticated companion to business people who face the risks and opportunities the Web brings to the business world. The goal of the eCompany Now magazine is to deliver great journalism that explains the successes (and failures) of companies great and small as they come to terms with the Web. We will look at the technology trends and discern what’s real and long-lasting, and what’s not. Watch for it in early May.”

“In the multi-thousand years of Oriental rug history, cultural and religious beliefs influenced the artistic motifs used in rug design. Rugs and weaving played an important roll in the life of nomadic and herding peoples. Particular patterns, symbols and colors were chosen for their belief oriented life-protecting and life-enhancing attributes. In the ancient Orient, for example, specific colors were chosen to activate a particular spiritual sensation in one’s life, or to alleviate symptoms of disease, or to assist in one’s living in harmony with nature. Here is our directory of what the symbols have meant through history.”

“Usability tests have shown that users often get lost very easily on the Internet when looking for information. However, we still know very little about why this is so and how it can be avoided. The goal of our research is to develop an empirically-based model of web searching, to help explain how people search for information on the Web and to develop guidelines for supporting Web searching. Towards this goal we have developed a framework which characterises the users’ characteristics, the task and the information presented, and the interaction between them.”

“This document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various deployed and recommended methods of specifying font sizes in Web documents and application interfaces, and proposes a harmonization. This scheme will enhance the legibility, clarity, and aesthetics of documents presented on screen, and help retire less elegant alternatives that are hurtful to the Web as a dynamic information resource — one that is accessible to users with widely varying needs and purposes. It is intended for Web browser and stylesheet implementors of all religions, but may be of interest to Web authors and digital typography and/or CSS enthusiasts at large.”

“With more than 27 years experience as a magazine and newspaper design consultant, Roger Black has helped change the face of such publications as Rolling Stone and Time. Now Black is guiding the way in making websites more user-friendly. Black says he tries to convince publications that they need to redesign their websites to complement their print versions. Black now has 10 times more Internet business than print busines. He commands $250,000 to $500,000 to do a redesign project from scratch.”