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7th September 2000

National Signs of the Times Museum

“The National Signs of the Times Museum was founded to inform and educate the general public as well as business and special interest groups of the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape. The purpose of the National Signs of the Times Museum is to preserve, archive and display a historical collection of signs in their many types and forms.”

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7th September 2000

No Media Kings

Publish your own books. “We’re at an interesting juncture in publishing history. An individual can produce a book as polished as a corporate outlet can for about the same price. We’re at a point where we can reasonably look at what corporate media can offer us, and choose what best suits our needs as the cultural producers. This is quite new — since the supply of writers has always exceeded big publishing’s needs, the people that package and sell the writing have always had more power.”

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7th September 2000

National Signs of the Times Museum

“The National Signs of the Times Museum was founded to inform and educate the general public as well as business and special interest groups of the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape. The purpose of the National Signs of the Times Museum is to preserve, archive and display a historical collection of signs in their many types and forms.”

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7th September 2000

Conform Project

“Conform is an ongoing collaborative project brought to you by suffocate. The project involves passing an image around to various designers, with each one adding to and subtracting content from the original image. Other than having to keep the size the same and use some elements of the original, there are no guidelines.”

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7th September 2000

Scripter’s Pad

“Learn DHTML and JavaScript concepts quickly and create dynamic web pages the easiest way. Get free code with complete instructions on how to use them.”

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7th September 2000

No Media Kings

“We’re at an interesting juncture in publishing history. An individual can produce a book as polished as a corporate outlet can for about the same price. We’re at a point where we can reasonably look at what corporate media can offer us, and choose what best suits our needs as the cultural producers. This is quite new — since the supply of writers has always exceeded big publishing’s needs, the people that package and sell the writing have always had more power.”

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7th September 2000

Scripter’s Pad

“Learn DHTML and JavaScript concepts quickly and create dynamic web pages the easiest way. Get free code with complete instructions on how to use them.”

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7th September 2000

Auditory User Interfaces

“Auditory User Interfaces: Toward the Speaking Computer describes a speech-enabling approach that separates computation from the user interface and integrates speech into the human-computer interaction. The Auditory User Interface (AUI) works directly with the computational core of the application, the same as the Graphical User Interface.”

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7th September 2000

Auditory User Interfaces

“Auditory User Interfaces: Toward the Speaking Computer describes a speech-enabling approach that separates computation from the user interface and integrates speech into the human-computer interaction. The Auditory User Interface (AUI) works directly with the computational core of the application, the same as the Graphical User Interface.”

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