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9th October 2001

Research on Learning and Performance

“For me, Weblogs (or ‘blogs’) are a learning tool. On the one hand, they let me read content from a single individual, unadulerated with corporate claptrap. On the other, the blogs I maintain stick memories in my head — the teacher always learns more than the student.”

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9th October 2001

The Science Behind the Song Stuck in Your Head

“For years, humans have been tortured by Stuck Tune Syndrome, in which a seemingly innocuous piece of music lodges in the brain and won’t leave. So far, no reliable cure exists, but a University of Cincinnati professor hopes to change that. James Kellaris has embarked on a study to figure out why songs sometimes commandeer people’s thoughts.” Note: Former XPLANEr Will Horton suffers from STS so severely that he had to go and start a blog about it: Songs Stuck in Will’s Head [Currently offline].

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9th October 2001

Research on Learning and Performance

“For me, Weblogs (or ‘blogs’) are a learning tool. On the one hand, they let me read content from a single individual, unadulerated with corporate claptrap. On the other, the blogs I maintain stick memories in my head — the teacher always learns more than the student.”

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9th October 2001

Visual damage report from the city of New York

A clean CNN graphic showing destroyed buildings, buildings in danger of collapse, buildings with major structural damage, buildings that are damaged but stable, buildings that need cleaning and buildings that were unaffected by the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

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9th October 2001

A Review of Web Based Color Pickers

“This is not an article about the long and interesting history of color, nor the psychology of color… this article is simply a listing of web based color pickers with some core information about how they work and some notes about their strong and weak points. This article is intended for web designers and coders who know what they are looking for in a web based color picking utility, but have yet to find their perfect match.”

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9th October 2001

Web Redesign

Workflow That Works “Whether you are a designer, a site producer, an in-house webmaster, or a company owner trying to move your web presence to the next level, this book is for you. If you’ve ever lived through a redesign that was fraught with confusion, mixed messages, and

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