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2nd October 2000

The Suck School of Comic Art

“The Suck School of Comic Art is not a correspondence school. Please do not send sketches or drawings, no matter how funny, to Suck. We will not review them, grade them, or render advice of any kind. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Suck, and we reserve the right to steal any idea from them as we please.” Here’s the recently released Graduate Course.

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2nd October 2000

moock web lectures >> flash forward nyc

“Marketing types often think of Flash as being a suitable medium for publishing what they vaguely call ‘high-impact’ web sites. While that term may look good on a press release, it doesn’t really explain in any practical terms what Flash does well. In order to determine whether or not our content suits the Flash medium, we need to plainly list Flash’s communication assets.”

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2nd October 2000

Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See

“Edison’s astonishing invention of the phonograph in 1877, it was impossible to imagine that sound could be captured and played back later. In fact, sound was often given as the prime example of the impermanent: a rose that wilted and died as soon as it bloomed.”

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2nd October 2000

WhatTheFont

“Have you ever seen a font in a magazine and said, ‘Hey, that’s cool!’ But you didn’t know the name of that font? Let the Myfonts.com WhatTheFont Tool help you out. Upload a scanned image of the font and we’ll show you the closest matches in our database.”

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