Archive for the ‘Minnesota’ Category.

The Current State of Things

Art

The Katherine Nash Gallery at The University of Minnesota Art Department. Jean Dubuffet at the Fondation Dubuffet. PS1 and The Dia Center in New York. Insecula, l’encyclopédie des arts et de l’architecture. Mabuse. Niff Actuals.

Flora

Help on growing ornamentals that are native to your (US) region. A weblog that is occasionally about gardening in Minnesota. Digitized rare botanical books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanical illustrations from the University of Delaware Special Collections. Botanical illustrations by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women. The National Agricultural Library’s collection of images from The Botanical Magazine, 1801-1807. The beginnings of the Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations. Links and bibliography about botanical illustration at Western Washington University.

HTML

“The Semantic Web” — Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila in Scientific American, May 2001. Some cogent skepticism about semantic markup. “XHTML 2.0 Considered Harmful” thread at lists.w3c.org. HTML table art. HTML preprocessors: The Dolt and PPWizard. The University of Minnesota-Duluth’s web design reference page, including lots of PHP links.