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Architecture Ring.


http://archring.hypermart.net/

The Ring should be a most exciting project: it is intended to be 'The Professional's Choice' and to 'unite Architects, Builders, Clients, and Students together for the benefit of the Architectural Community'. But, like many sites in which links offered are self-selected by visitors, the result is a dull minestrone of flabby flab·by  
adj. flab·bi·er, flab·bi·est
1. Lacking firmness; flaccid: getting flabby around the waist. See Synonyms at limp.

2.
 ingredients with no clear flavour (jargon) flavour - (US: flavor) 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones." See vanilla.

2. The attribute that causes something to be flavourful.
. Sites are printed in no obvious order, so searches are difficult. I found that the 'artists' section of the search engine could not produce Aalto, and Michelangelo emerged mixed up with Mutant (programming) mutant - Microsoft's term for a mutex which is generally used in user mode but can also be used in kernel mode. According to this terminology a mutex is only used in kernel mode.

["Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit"].
 Ninja Turtles. For use only in extremis [Latin, In extremity.] A term used in reference to the last illness prior to death.

A causa mortis gift is made by an individual who is in extremis.


in extremis (in ex-tree-miss) adj. facing imminent death.


IN EXTREMIS.
, if all else fails.
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Publication:The Architectural Review
Date:Oct 1, 1999
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