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ABOVE: An opening image in the www.do-not-zzz.com site. How long before you decide what to do? THE WORLD WIDE WEB has grown so massive and sprawling that it now resembles a thick, trackless Amazonian jungle. Except that instead of dense undergrowth and walls of trees for mile upon endless mile, we now have dense thickets of websites and endless walls of e-commerce sites, continent after continent, confronting us as we enter it. Easy to get lost in, isn't it? And it is easy to despair, as well, of the e-conomizing of the Web. In the future (which as techno-commentators are quick to point out, is now, or about five minutes from now), one half of the nation will be buying something off the Web, as the other half fulfills the order. Then, as the one half gets off work from fulfilling orders, they'll head to their computer to buy stuff of their own as the other half goes to work to fill the orders. And so on into ad (and advertisment) infinitum. Yet just as, now and then, explorers and wanderers stumble upon treasures deep in the jungle, the Web offers similar moments of revelation if you wander far and deep enough. Out of the blue, someone sent us the address for the website address below. It is a pure Zen gift, an example of grace in website design, and a felicitous use of cutting edge web technology (in this case, the animation program Shockwave) in the service of old-school lessons. Someone out there no doubt knows more about this site than we do. Perhaps it is a famous site and its designers have been lauded in some media outlet or magazine somewhere. If so, let Hundred Mountain know, and we will laud them, too. But for now, the self-effacing designers have stepped back and only signed the piece with this brief copyright credit on the opening page beneath a soothing graphic of two hands joined in namaste:
Enter the site and enjoy this generous, sweet, inspiring, funny---and fun---gift to the Internet community. Click this address to go there: http://www.do-not-zzz.com/
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