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15th June 2004

Demonstration For Cutaway Technical Illustrations: Cruise Ship Line Art

“This project presented many unique challenges. The actual ship was still in Germany being completed when I started the project. There was no photography or CAD reference to work from, only the paper blueprint you see below. In order to have the brochures completed by the time the ship went into service, the final illustration had to be finished in under two months.” (Thanks Mezzoblue)

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15th June 2004

What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication?

“The little orange buttons that are starting to litter the web have no doubt caused mass confusion. What are they good for? Why are they there? And why donít they work? While I and others are starting to look into suggestions for developers to alleviate this design flaw, I thought Iíd take a minute to talk about what this technology potentially means to you, the user. (If you already know what RSS stands for, this article wonít tell you anything new, but feel free to reference when you need to explain syndication.)”

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15th June 2004

OS X software inventory

“Itís been a few months since I began my Macintosh journey. Hereís a list of all the new files Iíve added to-date to my ‘Applications’ folder along the way.”

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15th June 2004

Cartographic Images

“See cartographic images… and associated descriptions of maps dating from 6,000 B.C.-400 A.D., 400-1300, 1300-1500, 1500-1880.”

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15th June 2004

Handbound

“My hope for this web log is to share information about how to create books from scratch, and to encourage people to design and make their own books.”

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15th June 2004

Web site usability quiz

“Test your knowledge of basic Web usability principles.”

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