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27th February 2001

The World’s Earliest Television Recordings — Restored!

“This is the primary research site on the earliest recordings of television. From the dawn of our television technology age comes the restored wonders of original recordings made in the era of mechanically-scanned television! Not until the computer era came on us could we study these images. Now they can be seen in as close to their original quality as the latest techniques can take us.”

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27th February 2001

Microsoft Visio

“Learn how you can use Visio 2000 drawing and diagramming software to bring the power of visual communication to your work.”

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25th February 2001

Age: 30

“A simple project: Take a photograph of myself every day of my 30th year. Digital, 35mm, 120, webcam, Polaroid, whatever — as long as I end up with 365 images documenting the year. No real reason, I don’t care that I’m 30, it just seemed like a good project.”

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25th February 2001

File not found!

Funny error page: “Man, I’m so depressed I could just cry.”

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23rd February 2001

Reinventing an art form online

“‘All in color for a dime.’ That was the phrase used to describe comic books during what is now seen as its Golden Age, the 1930s and 40s. If artist and writer Scott McCloud has his way, that phrase will be true again and comics will enter a new Golden Age, but this time it will happen online, not at a corner newsstand.”

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23rd February 2001

Animation Meat!

“Tired of animation sites with no real content? Want to really learn something about ANIMATION? Just browse our site for animation techniques, tips, and knowledge gathered from numerous sources over many years.”

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23rd February 2001

Information Design Journal

“IDJ is an international refereed journal which provides a forum for theoretical discussions, research findings, and practical applications of information design. Information design is the art and the science of presenting information so that it is understandable and easy to use: effective, efficient and attractive.”

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23rd February 2001

Charts and Tables

From the online The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition which contains “over 90,000 entries featuring 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.” Charts and tables represented are: Table of Alphabets; Development of the Alphabet; Books of the Bible; Three Principal Calendars; Color; Currency; Periodic Table of the Elements; Geologic Time Scale; Measurement Table; Planets of the Solar System; Proofreader’s Marks; Subatomic Particles; Symbols and Signs; Taxonomy of Life.

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23rd February 2001

Sources for study of Iconography

From the collection of the art library at Rutgers. Includes books on these topics: Introduction to Iconography; General Reference Sources; Religious Texts; Religious Themes in Art; Saints in Art; Myth, Legend, and Classical References; Emblems; Heraldry; Periods, Styles, and Regions and more.

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22nd February 2001

flashgap.com: The JGenerator

“The JGenerator is the web server production application that can dynamically combine text, graphics, and sound to build rich Flash content. The JGenerator is a free alternative to and analog of the Macromedia Generator. It supports most of the Macromedia Generator features, uses the same data format, the same set of commands and emulates its behavior.”

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22nd February 2001

Christina Wodtke interview

“‘Information architecture is nothing but an elegant hack.’ Christina Wodtke didn’t say that, but liked the quote enough to nab the name for her excellent IA blog (she’s still looking for the source; let her know if you’re the one). Many of you already know Christina from her participation in the SIGIA-L list, from the Bay Area IA group, her involvement at the last ASIS&T Summit… she seems to be just about anywhere IA is happening, except right here in the ACIA (that is, until now…).”

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22nd February 2001

World Wide Wunderkammer: A metaphor for mapping social spaces

“The wunderkammer is a cabinet of wonders. Walk into a well-heeled household in the middle of the 17th century, and you would see proudly displayed a glass cabinet filled with an odd assortment of devices, say a mammoth tooth, a hat from India, and perhaps a jar of exotic insects from China. The wunderkammer was a collection of objects, a trigger to the memory, a device that let the mind wander to faraway places.”

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22nd February 2001

Download Opera Technology Preview (TP)1 for Macintosh

“The Technology Preview version an initial partial work build. Features presented in the standard Opera version might be missing or only partially included. In connection with this we wish to advise you of the fact that it is not customary to supply a full set of help files with a Technical Preview release. These files will be partially supplied in the beta version, and will, of course, be fully available in the full release.”

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20th February 2001

A List Apart {Issue 99

Standards “In six months, a year, or two years at most, all websites will be designed with standards that separate style from content. (Or they will be built with Flash 7.) We can watch our skills grow obsolete, or start learning standards-based techniques now. In

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19th February 2001

Cartoonbank.com

“Cartoonbank.com is the online home of The Cartoon Bank, a New Yorker Magazine company. At its heart is the Internet’s leading searchable database of cartoon humor. The Cartoon Bank is the largest, most comprehensive stockhouse of quality single-panel cartoons in the world, with more than 85,000 records in our central archive-including all the cartoons ever published in The New Yorker. More than 20,000 of those images are available right here on our web site.”

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