“Art should be free. Artists should be paid. OpenCulture is a new way to make books and music freely available online, while making sure that artists get fairly compensated. Using the Internet to let sponsors pool their resources, we purchase the right to enjoy and redistribute works of art on behalf of the public.”

“Cartoonists are hot again, but not the guys who drew heroes like Dick Tracy and Superman. Instead, think Charles Schulz meets Samuel Beckett, in the world of Art Spiegelman and Robert Crumb. The protagonists in the new strips are paranoid, dysfunctional, isolated and angst-ridden. The new cartoonists don’t write for the teenage crowd, but for their own generation — the babyboomers and Generation Xer’s. Chris Ware, the creator of ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ is known as the Emily Dickinson of comics. Daniel Clowes’s ‘Ghost World’ reads more like ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ than ‘Conan the Barbarian.’ And Ben Katchor just won a MacArthur Genius Award for cartoons, which the MacArthur Foundation praised for its ‘ironic, compelling and bittersweet nostalgia.’ The new, new comics, this hour on the Connection.” Audio!

“An index of on-line papers and articles about meme theory” brought to you by Dave Gross.

“Art should be free. Artists should be paid. OpenCulture is a new way to make books and music freely available online, while making sure that artists get fairly compensated. Using the Internet to let sponsors pool their resources, we purchase the right to enjoy and redistribute works of art on behalf of the public.”

“web blazonry is a collection of scripts, examples, and resources to help web developer’s of all levels create web pages and sites. All scripts, programs, and code are here to be used. You are free to use them in pretty much any way you wish, except don’t take credit for writing them yourself if you didn’t. Specifically all scripts, code and programs written by me on this site are covered by … a BSD-style license.”

“Gedeon Maheux of Iconfactory and Rick Roe of The Omni Group have differing opinions about the merits of Apple’s new photorealistic icons, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they are using different tools to create the clickable images.” Also, read former XPLANEr John Marstall’s take on the new OS X (see the 9/22/00 entry).

“A collection of robots built out of packages.”

“‘Design addresses itself to the need.’ If there is a single verbal phrase from one of their films that encapsulates Charles and Ray’s specific feeling about design it is that one. Though straightforward, that approach does not make life easy: because you must next identify the need and then, of course, address that — the true need of the situation: the problems that need to be solved within the constraints that need to be considered.” Eames Office is streaming the film “Powers of Ten” online on October 10, 2000, International Powers of Ten day.

“CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — The aesthetic judgment of Paul Gaskill, a graphic designer working on a brochure for Valley View Apartments, was ’severely clouded’ by a desire to use a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, coworkers at Blue Moon Design said Monday.”

“Fluff continues to be a overly common problem in Web content, especially on corporate Web sites. Fluff is content that’s intended primarily to impress or persuade, rather than inform. It includes unsupported claims, hype and statements of blatantly obvious and generic goals.”

“‘Design addresses itself to the need.’ If there is a single verbal phrase from one of their films that encapsulates Charles and Ray’s specific feeling about design it is that one. Though straightforward, that approach does not make life easy: because you must next identify the need and then, of course, address that — the true need of the situation: the problems that need to be solved within the constraints that need to be considered.” Eames Office is streaming the film “Powers of Ten” online on October 10, 2000, International Powers of Ten day.

“Presenting information on a Web interface can pose a number of challenges. With all the aspects to consider-gathering the info, formatting it, structuring it across levels and hierarchies, and worrying about how it looks — it’s easy to understand how certain elements can be overlooked or neglected. To make your lives easier, and to showoff our extensive expertise in this area, we have compiled some quick answers and explanations to a few of the most common interface info planning dilemmas.”

“Thames & Hudson is the most eminent publisher of illustrated books in the world. We publish high-quality, beautifully printed books on art, architecture, design, photography, decorative arts, archaeology, history, religion, and spirituality, as well as a number of titles for children.”

Just what it says. Categories include Books, Conferences, Courses and Tutorials, Institutions and Companies, Journals and Publishers, Organisations, People, Projects and Products, Research Groups. There are currently alomost 400 links in the resource.

“To help improve searching on the Web based on a better understanding of user characteristics, we investigate what types of knowledge are relevant for Web-based information seeking, and which knowledge structures and strategies are involved. Two experimental studies are presented, which address these questions from different angles and with different methodologies.”