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7th March 2003

Omnigraffle GUI Design Toolset

“This OmniGraffle palette can be used for general GUI design. I’ve tried to make it vanilla enough for platform independance although you can see some Mac OS X and Swing peeking out.”

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7th March 2003

Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

“The National Science Foundation and the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), invite you to participate in the first Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. This new international contest is designed to recognize outstanding achievements by scientists and engineers in the use of visual media to promote understanding of research results. Visualization, especially in science and technology, has a special power to complement and enhance the written word in depicting phenomena, elucidating concepts, revealing new insights, provoking thought and appealing to the imagination — for both technical audiences and the general public.”

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7th March 2003

World of Ends

“What the Internet is and how to stop mistaking it for something else… When it comes to the Net, a lot of us suffer from Repetitive Mistake Syndrome. This is especially true for magazine and newspaper publishing, broadcasting, cable television, the record industry, the movie industry, and the telephone industry, to name just six.”

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7th March 2003

Controlled Vocabulary.com

“A controlled vocabulary is often used to make a database easier to search. Most often it is a listing of words or terms which can be used as subject headings or descriptors in a particular database. Since we tend to have many different ways of describing the same concept, it can be valuable to be able to draw together under a single word or phrase, all the material that is available on a particular topic.”

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