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Half-Life meets Matisse in a virtual reconstruction of the apartment of
Etta and Claribel Cone. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the sisters amassed one of America's foremost collections of modern art. Today, many of the pieces can be viewed in the
Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. As part of the 50
th anniversary celebration of the museum's acquisition of the collection, the
Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County designed a
digital walkthrough of their apartment so that visitors could see the art in its original context.
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at 8:43 PM on May 4, 2003
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Louis Sullivan had been one of the most successful architects of the late nineteenth century, working at the forefront of
early skyscraper design. But by the turn of the century, his distinctive style had fallen out of fashion, and his major commissions dried up. Sullivan took jobs where he could find them, and between 1908 and 1919 designed small banks in eight midwest towns. Tiny yet elegant, they are sometimes referred to as his "
jewel boxes." See examples in
Owatonna, Minnesota;
Grinnell, Iowa;
West Lafayette, Indiana;
Sidney, Ohio; and
Columbus, Wisconsin.
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at 10:59 PM on February 16, 2003
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WIG (Wing In Ground) boats are something like a cross between a hovercraft and an airplane. Taking advantage of a
phenomenon that creates a cushion of air between a wing and the ground, they fly a few feet above the surface of the water, able to reach higher speeds with greater efficiency than traditional boats. The best known WIG boats are the Russian
ekranoplans, and the largest and most famous of these was the KM, better known in the west as the
"Caspian Sea Monster".
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at 10:39 AM on July 24, 2002
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David Rumsey is putting his tremendous collection of historic maps online. Using technologies from
Luna Imaging and
LizardTech, he has so far made available high-resolution images of over 4000 of the 150,000 maps in his collection.
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at 11:29 AM on April 13, 2001
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It seems Metallica has some high class company.
The Cleveland Orchestra has halted distribution of their concerts to about 250 U.S. radio stations because of concerns about streaming audio.
The orchestra's contract with its musicians covers radio broadcasting rights of live performances, but not Internet streaming, said Gary Hanson, the orchestra's associate executive director. Does this strike anyone else as strange?
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at 8:47 AM on March 6, 2001
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It's become second nature for many of us to head straight to
Google when trying to find something, and more people seem to be discovering the site all the time. These days, savvy New Yorkers are
Googling for love.
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at 8:34 PM on February 9, 2001
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Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round... Are you one of those people in search of a new extreme sport? Have you considered
spacediving?
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at 2:13 PM on February 5, 2001
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Where are search engines headed? Paid inclusion seems to be an increasingly popular strategy among search engines and directories. In addition to Yahoo and the ones listed in the article,
Go.com and
NBCi have recently implemented paid inclusion systems. Should we expect even more search engines to head in this direction? Does this worry anyone?
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at 12:40 PM on January 5, 2001
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How's this for viral marketing?
In order to promote their weblog feature,
Xanga.com created a weblogger. Last week, many Geocities users received the same message (included inside) from
"Bianca Broussard", in which she says,
"I was noticing your writing style, and I think the weblog format might really work well for you." They actually created a fictional person and gave her a blog with over a month of entries. Pretty sneaky...
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at 10:28 PM on December 26, 2000
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AdCritic has finally posted my favorite commercials: a series of ads for the Fox Regional Sports Report. They present intriguing new sports from around the world. Areas covered include
China,
India,
Russia,
South Africa, and
Turkey.
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at 4:12 PM on December 25, 2000
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Samuel Mockbee
is my new hero. As the creator of Auburn University's
Rural Studio and winner of a
MacArthur Fellowship, he has his undergraduate students design and construct buildings. Not only are the structures they build attractive and functional, they are built in one of the poorest areas of the country, using discarded and recycled materials.
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at 12:11 AM on November 29, 2000
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New top level domains?
It looks like we're one step closer to the creation of some new domains.
ICANN has posted their staff recommendations. How did your favorite fare?
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at 5:37 AM on November 10, 2000
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No cookies for you!
Representative Gene Green has introduced
H.R.5430 (hopefully, they'll have the text up soon), which would control collection of personal data over the net. I guess this is a backlash from
some companies' policies, but does it go too far?
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at 1:54 PM on October 13, 2000
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I want one.
There's absolutely no reason I'd need anything like this, but I still want it. Maybe it's a good thing they won't be sold in this country...
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at 7:57 PM on August 27, 2000
Now I'm depressed. I'd seen
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit site before, but never really looked around. It was well worth the hour I spent there. Then I wandered over to
Modern Ruins. We're a destructive species, aren't we? We don't even value the things we create...
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at 10:18 AM on August 16, 2000
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