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2008
Improving Drupal's Performance with the Boost Module for the UN's Millennium Campaign | Development Seed
by holyver
Improving Drupal's Performance with the Boost Module for the UN's Millennium Campaign. How the Boost Module Helped a Very High Traffic Drupal Site Stay Online
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2007
MDG MONITOR :: Tracking the Millennium Development Goals
by wrijneveld
& 1 other
good maps + links for Google Earth
The Original 1939 Futurama
by rike_
In the pilot of the animated comedy Futurama, the protagonist awakens from a millennium of cryogenic slumber to find himself in the year 3000. The first thing he hears is a portentous, booming voice: "Welcome...to the world of tomorrow!" The speaker is soon revealed to be a lab technician with a flair for the melodramatic. The scene riffs on a 70-year-old fair ride, a vision of the future that's been so influential it'll probably seem familiar even if you've never heard of it.
The direct reference is to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, whose tagline was a promise to show visitors "the world of tomorrow." The most memorable exhibit at the fair was the General Motors Pavilion, and the most memorable feature in the General Motors Pavilion was a ride called the Futurama. People stood in line for hours to ride it and experience the exciting possibilities of life in the distant future —the year 1960.
New elements in HTML 5
by marco
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium.
Around the World in 80 Days: A Travel Blog by Conde Nast Traveler at Concierge.com
by wiredsetman
Things started going wrong for Florence about a thousand years ago, when a very important man named Hugo--a margrave, no less--decided he wanted to live in Florence instead of the then capital, Lucca, a decision which brought on a period known as The Golden Age of Florentine Art. Half a millennium later, A guy named Lorenzo di Medici started running the show and throwing serious money at local artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci (best known for his thrilling novel, "The Da Vinci Code") and Botticelli. Pretty soon, all the talk was about Florence: The architecture! The paintings! The sculptures! The ravioli!
Family Business - The World's Oldest Family Companies
by pmdm
All of the listed companies are at least 225 years old; four have lasted in the same family for more than a millennium. The very oldest remains Japanese temple-builder Kongo Gumi, founded in 578.
RIP Twitter (2007-2007) « web1979
by springnet
Twitter will flame-out before the end of 2007, in one of the most awe-inspiring lessons in irrational exuberance we’ve seen since the turn of the millennium.
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
by solveig_vidal
(via)
Based in San Francisco, Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was spun out of Applied Minds, Inc. in July, 2005 to build a better infrastructure for the Web. Metaweb was founded by Danny Hillis and funded by Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, Omidyar Network and other prominent investors. It is led by battle-hardened alumni of Netscape, The Internet Archive, Alexa, Tellme, Intel and Broderbund.
2006
Ramdane Touhami in the house
by vodkacoca
Ramdane Touhami - personal website - Dive into a world of madness - Find out more about what I'm doing, where to catch me, and what's cooking for the next millennium... Check out some of my friends, projects, adventures, and lots of random stuff...
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
by jlesage
important journal covering independent and avant-garde films; complete index; online essays begin with issue no. 26, fall 1992
Wired News: LED Architecture
by Neewok
(via)
The Crown Fountains at Chicago's Millennium Park convert video signals (live or recorded) and stream them to an LED lighting system that projects the pixels of the images through thousands of individually controlled LED nodes. It features two 50-foot glass block towers that gradually change color and feature LED display screens that project photographs of faces of Chicago residents and video nature scenes.
International Scholarships: Gates Millennium Scholarship Program
by infokerja
& 1 other
International Scholarships: Gates Millennium Scholarship Program
