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16th April 2003

CSS Support Charts

“These charts detail browser support for the CSS1 specification as well as portions of CSS2. The material focuses on browsers with versions released in 2000 and later, although there is an historical (pre-2000) CSS1 support chart also available. These references are intended to help you determine which properties and values are supported or not in each browser. They are not meant to the definitive references for the full behavior of these properties or values, nor can they capture all of the nuances of partial support (where it exists).”

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16th April 2003

Ethics and the New Media

“The growth of the online publishing industry has created a thicket of ethical and professional questions for journalists. Has the line between advertising and editorial content been blurred at some Web sites? Will partnerships and affiliations with non-media corporations influence coverage of the news? How should an online publication handle links to other sites on the Web?”

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16th April 2003

Baghdad City Size Comparison

“If you are like me, you’ve seen a map of Baghdad on television a lot in the last few days. The scale of the map may be hard to grasp, so I’ve created these city size comparison pages. Both maps below are 9 miles long and 9 miles across. If you are familiar with the size of this section of Los Angeles, this should help you visualize the size of Baghdad. This may be useful if you are trying to envision driving through, searching or invading Baghdad, but you’ve never actually been there.”

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16th April 2003

Left behind: Copier slips reveal us

“At his Marietta UPS Store (formerly Mail Boxes Etc.), owner John Kelly files away originals he finds on the glass: Land deeds, passports, contracts. One morning after opening, he found a risque photograph of a couple — not one for his archive. ‘I thought, ‘Omigosh,’ and shredded it,’ Kelly said.”

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16th April 2003

Baghdad City Size Comparison

“If you are like me, you’ve seen a map of Baghdad on television a lot in the last few days. The scale of the map may be hard to grasp, so I’ve created these city size comparison pages. Both maps below are 9 miles long and 9 miles across. If you are familiar with the size of this section of Los Angeles, this should help you visualize the size of Baghdad. This may be useful if you are trying to envision driving through, searching or invading Baghdad, but you’ve never actually been there.”

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16th April 2003

Yahoo! Learn the Shortcuts

“Need specific information fast? We’ve created a set of shortcut keywords that display what you want at the top of your search results page.”

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16th April 2003

Life vs. Art: The Interpretation of Visual Narratives

“In 1974 Sol Worth and I published a paper, ‘Symbolic Strategies,’ which presented the outline of a theory of interpretation — the assignment of meaning to objects and events. The questions we focused on in developing that theory centered on the peculiar properties of visual images. Although our paper addressed the general issue of how humans assign meaning, in retrospect it is clear that we were primarily concerned with visual images in general, and film or photographic images in particular. The basic question that we were asking might be put this way: What can we know from these images, and how can we know it?”

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