Friday, June 30, 2000

Eye-Trek Product Overview Eye-Trek opens up a whole new world of entertainment to you. Although only the size of a pair of sunglasses, Eye-Trek presents video and TV-films impressively large, as if you were watching a 52" screen from 2m distance. Now you can see films, videos or concerts in cinema format. Accompanied by full-bodied stereo sound that you receive via the integrated headphones, you have the sensation of being part of the action. No matter where you may be at the time - lying on the sofa or sitting in the garden.
The History of the Web circa 1994. "The World-Wide Web (W3) is a way of viewing all the on-line information available on the Internet as a seamless, browsable continuum. Using hypertext jumps and searches, the user navigates through an information world partly hand-authored, partly computer-generated from existing databases and information systems. The Web today incorporates all information from information systems such as Gopher as WAIS, as well as sophisticated multimedia and hypertext information from many organizations.", Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Ari Luotonen, Henrik Nielsen, Arthur Secret, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.Here's a screenshot of TBL's browser editor.
XML for Beginners Have you wondered why everyone is talking about XML but been afraid to ask? Dick Baldwin provides a gentle introduction with his series of articles. First up, a discussion of structured documents, rendering, and why you should care about XML.

Thursday, June 29, 2000

Banned Books On-Line Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of the On-line Books Page. (See that page for over 10,000 more on-line books!)
Another day, another DoubleClick privacy PR disaster DoubleClick has been caught mucking around with personal privacy - again. The world's biggest online ad sales house has been caught gleaning email addresses and other personal information from Web site customers - without the knowledge of Web sites.
Fool.com: Planet Hollywood Will Change When Shaq Replaces Schwarzenegger (Top 5 List) June 29, 2000
Giving Amazon the Finger and othe technological tidbits from the New York PC Expo.

Wednesday, June 28, 2000

How does a yacht sail upwind? It's easy to understand how a yacht sails downwind, with the wind whistling from behind. The breeze pushes against the sails and the yacht surges ahead. But how is it that wind from abeam (the side), or off the bow, can propel a boat forward? You may never have seen it presented as simply as this.

Tuesday, June 27, 2000

Ananova - Da Vinci parachute design holds up in test A British daredevil has proved that a parachute designed by Leonardo da Vinci actually works by using it from a height of 10,000ft.
A List Apart: Rated XHTML Being a web developer is a tough job. Not only do you have to steer clear of the traps and pitfalls the popular browsers think up for you on a daily basis, you also have to keep at least half an eye on all kinds of developments that may (or may not) have an impact on your job. Having hardly mastered style sheets and DHTML, new techniques clamor for attention. Which ones are important right away? Which ones can you dismiss for now?