| My gratitude to my Hampshire College buddy David Taffet for shooting the red Calvin Klein bra on the interface design page. | Aug 01 |
| Hot dang, Jacob Nielsen's book Designing Web Usability finally showed up at the local bookstore and a page from my old web site appears (as a good example, whew!) on page 193. | May 01 |
| A wink and a grin to Glen Gaslin of Entertainment Weekly's Cyber Digest column, who featured my HAL 9000 Simulator in issue #578. I was quoted as saying: "We got shortchanged [on AI]. Instead, we got infrared beams that flush toilets in the airport." | Jan 01 |
| Thanks to Stephen Cass of IEEE Spectrum Online for making my HAL 9000 Simulators a weekly websight for the week. | Dec 00 |
| Hats off to Information Week for its generous review of onproject.com's "high-quality interface and easy navigation." | May 00 |
| Kudos to The Face magazine's April 2000 issue which features Icontown. I've had two plots on the map since 1997; one honors the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the other is a variation on my cube icon. | April 00 |
| Thanks to Paul Marcano of www.isleofwebs.com for ranking the HAL 9000 Simulator as one of the best Technology and Machines sites on the web. | Apr 00 |
| My sincere thanks to the guru of user-centric interface design Don Norman of Hewlet Packard for his kind comments encouraging my lexiaProject research. | May 98 |
| Stanton McCandlish of the Electronic Frontier Foundation made me blush by listing me as an "interesting avatar" (or cool people doing neat things on the net). | Apr 98 |
| Thanks to Darien Kruss of Internet Presence Consulting for providing server space and technical consultations for this site. | Apr 98 |
| A nod, grin and wink to Melanie at souldanse for listing me amongst her favorite digital artists. | Mar 98 |
| Phil Gyford maintains the Haddock Directory and said about this site, "it's actually rather nice," which made me giggle and blush at the same time. | Mar 98 |
| My gratitude to the Chicago Art Dealers Association for inviting me to speak to their members on using the WWW as a marketing tool. | Feb 98 |
| Thanks to Andrew Stone of Stone Design for his continued encouragement of my lexiaProject, a new user interface for on-screen reading. Also for inviting me to represent the "rest of us" by sitting in on a panel discussion, "Migrating to Rhapsody" during the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. | Jan 98 |
| Cheers to Project Cool for choosing my HAL 9000 Simulator as a Project Cool Sighting of the day. | Dec 97 |
| Yahoo! Internet Life magazine featured an article on SciFi fan sites and remarked: "Thanks to its thirtieth anniversary, 2001 has been resuscitated from its long sleep. The HAL 9000 Simulator is a nice Net touch, but most online fan activity involves exclusive, boring academic prattle." | Dec 97 |
| A tip of the hat to Jakob Nielsen, a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer, for using a screen shot of this site's navigational widget in an article on the redesign of Sun's website and in his book: "Designing Excellent Websites: Secrets of an Information Architect" (see: www.excellentsites.com). | Dec 97 |
| A grinning gee-wiz to Suck for highlighting my HAL 9000 Simulator in an article on emotional computers called "Straight, Gay, or Binary?" | May 97 |
| Thanks to the Astrobiology Web for designating the HAL 9000 Simulator a "Stellar Website." | Jan 97 |
| Sincere gratitude to the NBNSOFT Content Awards Page for recognizing the merits of my HAL 9000 Simulator. | Jan 97 |
| Thanks to Alice Hargrave's Digital Imaging class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for inviting me to visit and discuss goals and techniques of both disk- and web-based digital portfolios. | May 96 |
| A wry smile to www.looksmart.com for including the HAL 9000 Simulator in their highly prestigious World Wide Weird - Weirdest of the Web category. | Mar 97 |
| Thanks to Dominic Tassone's Digital Marketing class at Columbia College for inviting me to speak about my essay called "Better Advertising through Bartered Sponsorship." | Jan 96 |
| An extra-wide smile to Whitman Richards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab for hosting a lecture entitled "Spacetime Text" as part of my application for a faculty position in the Visual Language Workshop. | Aug 95 |
| Thanks to the International Telecommunications Union for including a mention of my "Better Advertising through Bartered Sponsorship." essay in their World Telecommunication Development Report 1995 | Aug 95 |
| Kudos to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for including a copy of my essay, "High Technology and Humanism," in their Net_Culture online archive. | Jul 95 |
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