robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus) (10/30/87)
The latest issue of MacWorld (Nov. '87) has an editorial by David Bunnell about HyperCard and Hypermedia in general. Some of the points he raises affect all of us who are interested in hypermedia, and especially those of us trying to produce useful stackware. In the article, David Bunnell gives an example of a possible difficulty in attempting to design useful, general-purpose reference stacks. The example concerns a research project in which a friend of Bunnell's was involved. The friend needed to research the characteristics of a particular island off the coast of Peru (i.e. what was the island's color, how did its size change with the tides, what was the weather like, etc.). None of the reference works at their disposal could help; not even the Peruvian consulate had the infor- mation. At long last, a librarian suggested a book called _Birds of the Americas_, on the off-chance there might be some useful information in