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From Brian McLaren (the WWW bites!)

🔗Paul Hahn <Paul-Hahn@...>

11/12/1996 10:47:38 AM
I know I'm going to regret this, but here are a few points about
Brian's 500-line rant on the WWW.

* Everything Brian said about webpage design is perfectly well
known and available in any number of books, tutorials, websites,
and classes offered by numerous institutions. Unfortunately
good design principles do not carry the force of law, so don't
expect a reduction in the percentage of crappily-made pages
anytime soon.

* Wendy Carlos _does_ check her email; she just doesn't answer it
individually. Instead she adds responses to questions of
general interest to her Open Letters. (I know; she answered one
of mine.) And, BTW, her background, while it does affect
legibility a bit, is a very clever Inversion (a la Scott Kim)
which turns her first name into a plane-filling tessellation. I
like it.

* Why harp on bad search engines? Ignore them and use the better
ones; evolution in action. Plus, once you find _one_ good site
on a subject, they usually have pointers to other good ones.
There's a bunch of great stuff you can get to from the Just
Intonation Network's site, for example. (Including a chapter
from their JI primer.)

* Usually the person who cares most about something getting done
is the logical person to do it. If Brian, as seems to be the
case, cares so much more than the rest of us about building the
Ultimate Tuning Site On The Web, then I say sincerely what he
said sarcastically: maybe it's up to him.

* The rest of us, though (since we're not _totally_ apathetic),
would probably be more willing to give him our support,
assistance, and cooperation if he weren't so obnoxious about it.
But we've beaten that horse before.

--pH (manynote@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote)
O
/\ "Well, so far, every time I break he runs out.
-\-\-- o But he's gotta slip up sometime . . . "

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🔗Gary Morrison <71670.2576@...>

11/14/1996 7:14:52 AM
> Where/from whom can I get more information about Justonic, Inc.? Their
> product sounds very similar to the dynamic just intonation project I am
> planning to embark upon.

Probably the best place to start is Rex Weyler: rexw@justonic.com

While you're chatting with him, see if you can get him to join the tuning
list.


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