“IT professionals largely rejected genuine internet email, going with Microsoft instead. They would have you believe that the problems with Outlook/Exchange are inherent, that Exchange is a necessity, that companies could not do without it, that plain old POP/SMTP/IMAP could not suffice.”

“The largest guide to posthumous biography sites on the Web. All listings in Individual Lives link to biographies of people who have died. Lives does not include biographies of people who are still living.”

“People are paying for songs on the iTunes Music Store because they think it’s a good way to support musicians. But by giving musicians just a few cents from each sale, iTunes destroys a huge opportunity. Instead of creating a system that gets virtually all of fans’ money directly to artists — finally possible with the internet — iTunes takes a big step backwards. Apple calls iTunes ‘revolutionary’ but really they’re just letting record companies force the same exploitive and unfair business model onto a new medium.”

“Twexus uses a database of images that I took with small digital cameras since Summer 2001. Currently there are 20385 pictures accessible. Image selection is completely random… Images: Single image display with voting; Pairs: Two images displayed alongside each other. Selection is random as are the resulting combinations. This mode can reload automatically at the desired pace; Symmetry: Randomly selected areas of images mirrored around both axis. Your feedback is used to sort good from bad. Symmetric images that have negative feedback will be deleted and replaced with new variations. Search: Search produces images based on the words that you enter.”

“Welcome to Identifont, the unique font identifier that enables you to identify a font from a sample by answering a series of simple questions. It is ideal if you want to match an existing typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a publication. Identifont includes information about fonts from most of the major type libraries, including Adobe, Agfa-Monotype, Berthold, Bitstream, Elsner+Flake, Font Bureau, FontFont, ITC, Letraset, Linotype, P22, and URW++.”

“We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the left and right eye views. Our technique takes advantage of two facts; the first is that the light from the liquid crystal display of a laptop computer is polarized light and therefore we can easily manipulate its transmission with a polarizer sheet. The second fact is that a cellophane half-waveplate can change the direction of polarization of light.”

“Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world’s largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.”

“Why do we care about other people’s books? What’s it to us what somebody else is reading? It’s a matter of taste, one that doesn’t impact or infringe on us in any way — not like the tinny beats escaping nearby headphones, for example, or a neighbor’s appalling choice of window trim color. Still, we strain our eyes to make out the title of a stranger’s paperback, staring and not-staring as if it were a pretty girl or a one-armed man.”

“Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world’s largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.”

“Photocopy Transfers, also commonly called ‘Xerox’ Transfers is a process where the ink of a freshly made photocopy is transferred, toner side down to another piece of paper using any of three methods: by soaking the copy with a Chartpak P-O Blender marker, a chemical solvent such as acetone, or using heat and water… Although this process crosses the line between high art and craft, it is still used by a wide variety of artistic fields.”

“Photocopy Transfers, also commonly called ‘Xerox’ Transfers is a process where the ink of a freshly made photocopy is transferred, toner side down to another piece of paper using any of three methods: by soaking the copy with a Chartpak P-O Blender marker, a chemical solvent such as acetone, or using heat and water… Although this process crosses the line between high art and craft, it is still used by a wide variety of artistic fields.”

“It makes me feel good when people read my blog. Problem is, I never know when people visit. As a result, I’m always running my page counters up checking to see if anyone’s visited. To solve this problem, I’ve put together a service to send out alerts via AIM whenever someone reads a blog entry.”

“PowerPoint, the ubiquitous Microsoft business application, is not meant to be looked at too closely. People aren’t supposed to notice its simplified graphics, ready-made templates, pie charts, arrows and icons; they’re only supposed to notice the ideas that these features help organize… With his newest project, David Byrne has tried not only to see it anew, but also to use it in the least likely of all applications: a medium for creative expression.”

“Information Architecture For Designers is low on theory, high on practice. It contains practical examples, how-to’s, do’s and don’ts and ready-to-use templates, illustrating concepts, tools and deliverables that can be used immediately in real-life by anyone responsible for designing web sites. Practical explanations and tips are illustrated with case studies from industry leaders like IBM and Microsoft, and clear explanations of the latest cutting-edge research from the academic world.”

“As Warhol predicted with ‘15 minutes of fame,’ hundreds of millions of individuals are craving immortality, or at least some public attention. Whether it’s blogging, participating in Big Brother, having a character in a novel named after you, or adorning your car with personalized license plates, the masses want their names out there. This is where graffiti meets vanity to form GRAVANITY: an entire industry catering to the obsession of ordinary citizens wanting to leave ’something’ behind in print, audio or imagery, preferably in the public domain.”