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14th September 2000

The Banner Ad Museum

“Never before have the concerted efforts of more talent and energy been devoted to the design and implementation of a single advertising vehicle as with the Banner Ad. The hands-down winner in the most scrutinized advertising vehicle contest. Just 468 by 60 pixels, this small rectangle must carry a corporate identity, deliver a message and first and foremost get the viewer to click through. The Banner Ad Museum is a repository for the professional, student and casual visitor alike to see the art, science and engineering of the Banner Ad as it is today — in the beginning — and hopefully, to track its evolution in the years to come.”

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14th September 2000

s o u l t o o l s icons

“soultools is a set of icons for your MacOS or Windows computer. What perhaps makes this set a little bit different from the others is that they are only in black and white. Oldschool flavour, a bit sentimental but hopefully still with a fresh look.”

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14th September 2000

Flaming Lips Have Landed

O yeah. A Flaming Lips documentary by filmmaker Brad Beesley (scroll down). Here’s a link straight to the .ram file. The Lips are ruling. Learn this now.

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14th September 2000

Flaming Lips smack of success

“The Flaming Lips, the punkers who slipped on the scene in 1993 with ‘She Don’t Use Jelly,’ may be losing its status as a one-hit wonder. The group’s 1999 release, ‘The Soft Bulletin,’ has landed on many of last year’s top album lists, primarily on the strength of ‘Waiting for a Superman’ and ‘Race for the Prize.’”

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14th September 2000

Inside the Flaming Lips’ Wild World

“ATN recently caught up with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne to chat about ‘The Soft Bulletin,’ an album many critics are calling the best of the year.”

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14th September 2000

Coyning a New Sound

“With NME’s Best Artists of the Year award under their belt, the critically acclaimed new release The Soft Bulletin, and their seminal 4-CD Zaireeka still in recent memory, The Flaming Lips are well on their way to becoming one of rock’s most notable acts in the past twenty years. Frontman Wayne Coyne discusses the band’s soaring success in an exclusive telephone conversation with Patrick Midtlyng ‘03.”

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14th September 2000

Flaming Lips Have Landed

O yeah. A Flaming Lips documentary by filmmaker Brad Beesley (scroll down). Here’s a link straight to the .ram file. The Lips are ruling. Learn this now.

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14th September 2000

Google falls for Yahoo!

“…I’ve found solid evidence that Google’s new alliances, especially the pact with Yahoo! that was announced in June, seem to have compromised its ability to find directories.”

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14th September 2000

UIML

User Interface Markup Language “UIML is an XML language for defining user interfaces. Most XML languages are used for defining documents. In other words, they allow programs to break up alot of words, pictures and other data into useful chunks that can be processed by a program. UIML,

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14th September 2000

UIML User Interface Markup Language

“UIML is an XML language for defining user interfaces. Most XML languages are used for defining documents. In other words, they allow programs to break up alot of words, pictures and other data into useful chunks that can be processed by a program. UIML, on the other hand is used for defining the actual interface elements.”

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