“Steve Fine is looking at two pictures every second. He’s been keeping up that pace, with frequent short interruptions, for over four hours, and he’ll keep it up for three more. Four-megapixel JPEGs of football players, coaches, fans, entertainers, and certain assets belonging to Miss Janet Jackson go flashing across his computer screen in a dizzying sequence.”
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“From ABE (Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Pennsylvania) to ZRH (Zurich, Switzerland), airports around the world are universally known by a unique three-letter code: the ‘Location Identifier’ in aviation-speak. It’s obviously much easier for pilots, controllers, travel agents, frequent flyers, computers and baggage handlers to say and write ORD than the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois ó but how did this practice start, and why are some airport codes easy to understand (ABE and ZRH) while others seem to make absolutely no sense (ORD)?”
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This is supposed to be an interesting show! Features work by Ted May, Andrew Robbins, Kevin Huizenga, Dan Zettwoch, Matt Kindt, Jeff Wilson and others. Artists’ reception: 6-8 p.m. March 19, 2004 at Forest Park Community College, 5600 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, Missouri. On display through March 26, 2004, at the Gallery of Art in the Library Building. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; noon-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Admission: Free. Information: 314/644-9350, 314/644-9231. Here’s a PDF map of the campus: fpmap.pdf.
“These are the speaking notes I used during the ‘Accessibility is for everyone!’ panel discussion at South by SouthWest earlier this week [March 2004]. I came here to be on this panel to tell y’all that I don’t care about accessibility. Don’t care. Not an issue. Hardly ever comes up. Here’s my big secret for you today. When you design for the Web ó that is, when you design exclusively and specifically for this medium ó when you do that natively, so many of the things we consider problems just start to fall away.”
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“Formerly viewed as a marginal activity restricted to the technically savvy, blogging is slowly becoming more of a mainstream phenomenon on the Internet. Thanks to much media hype and some high profile blog sites, these online journals have captured the publicís imagination. As novice authors plunge into the thrilling world of blog publishing, they soon realize that publicly writing about oneís life and interests is not as simple as it might seem at first. As they become prolific writers, more bloggers find themselves having to deal with issues of privacy and liability. Accounts of bloggers either hurting friendsí feelings or losing jobs because of materials published on their sites are becoming more frequent.”
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