“In 1966 the British artist Tom Phillips purchased an obscure Victorian novel called ‘A Human Document’ from a secondhand bookshop. He then proceeded to subject the book to ‘treatment,’ coloring in or blacking out passages in order to form striking designs and new narratives and images. The treated novel was first published as a book in 1983, but Phillips has continued to work on it, so that this third edition includes 100 new treatments.” — Reader’s Catalog. Buy it.

ASIS Summit 2000. The American Society for Information Science presents its spring conference: Defining Information Architecture. April 7-9, 2000, Hilton Hotel at Logan International Airport, Boston, MA. “While every information system has an architecture by default, planned information architectures are more effective at enabling users to find the information they need by supporting quality searching and browsing. Planned information architectures, when combined with supporting policies and procedures, also serve as structures that help organizations manage their content more effectively.”

“Instant English … is designed for students who may not know how to read or write in any language. Unlike other Language tutorials that assume the ability to read and write English and that use extensive eXPLANATiONs and translations, this program does not explain. It shows.”

“CODE RUSH, airing on PBS Thursday, March 30, 2000, 10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings), takes a dramatic, inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley. The one-hour documentary follows bright and quirky Netscape Communications engineers as they pursue a revolutionary venture to save their company. Through the program’s verite style, viewers see human and technological dramas unfold in the collision between science, engineering, code and commerce. Capturing Netscape’s most anguished year, CODE RUSH reveals the intensity and volatility of life on technology’s edge. The program presents Netscape’s radical effort to rewrite the rules of software development by giving away the recipe for its browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside unpaid software developers.”

“TTR is a font site for everyone. There are downloads, links, interviews, profiles, reviews and more.”

“Instant English … is designed for students who may not know how to read or write in any language. Unlike other Language tutorials that assume the ability to read and write English and that use extensive eXPLANATiONs and translations, this program does not explain. It shows.”

“CODE RUSH, airing on PBS Thursday, March 30, 2000, 10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings), takes a dramatic, inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley. The one-hour documentary follows bright and quirky Netscape Communications engineers as they pursue a revolutionary venture to save their company. Through the program’s verite style, viewers see human and technological dramas unfold in the collision between science, engineering, code and commerce. Capturing Netscape’s most anguished year, CODE RUSH reveals the intensity and volatility of life on technology’s edge. The program presents Netscape’s radical effort to rewrite the rules of software development by giving away the recipe for its browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside unpaid software developers.”