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2012-07-30 10:44:50     Piano Staircase | The Fun Theory

http://www.thefuntheory.com/piano-staircase

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

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/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun
/Channels/just fun

2009-07-08 11:53:03     A List Apart: Articles: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites

Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking ab...
example sprites
As game complexity increased, techniques developed to ma ...
And what does this have to do with the web?
... the associated “before” and “after” link states.

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2010-12-27 10:36:09     Blackawton bees — Biology Letters

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/...sbl.2010.1056.full

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
Principal f

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2009-01-16 17:38:45     Remove fragment in URL with JavaScript w/out causing page reload - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/...script-w-out-causing-page-reload

Background: I have an HTML page which lets you expand ce... only small portions of the page need to be loaded for su... it's done via JavaScript, and not by directing to a new ...
http://example.com/#foobar
and have the "foobar" category be opened imme

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2011-12-11 18:10:30     Bacteria, Not Electricity, Powers This Light Bulb - Earth911.com

http://earth911.com/...io-light-lighting-made-from-bacteria/

Bacteria, Not Electricity, Powers This Light Bulb
by Mary Mazzoni
Published on December 5th, 2011
4 Comments
... More articles by Mary

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/Channels/cognition and art/digital light
/Channels/fairylights

2007-05-19 12:40:17     Bad Moves

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/badmoves.php

Bad Moves
Bad Moves is a series by philosopher Julian Baggini deta ...
* The innocent have nothing to fear
* Motivation speculation
... * Genetic fallacies

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2009-02-04 10:14:46     Balsa Wood Mock-Up Modeling Tutorial

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/design/proc.../index.html

Balsa Wood Mock-Up Modeling Tutorial
ENTER

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2017-01-26 08:31:13     Based on a *True* True Story? — Information is Beautiful

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/...-a-true-true-story/

Based on a True True Story?
Scene-by-scene breakdown of Hollywood films

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2014-05-03 19:02:40     Analysis of the CHI research community’s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

http://comag.oulu.fi/...i-research-communitys-knowledge-map/

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

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2014-02-19 07:51:20     Analysis of the CHI research community’s knowledge map - Community Imaging Group

http://comag.oulu.fi/...i-research-communitys-knowledge-map/

Based on the results, we argued that:
As it stands, the only tradition in HCI is that of h ...
The accumulated knowledge in HCI is almost exclusive ...
By nature, HCI research is like nomads chasing water ...
Therefore, current HCI researc

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/Channels/research methods

2008-09-28 11:17:05     Comparison of user interface markup languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/...f_user_interface_markup_languages

Basic general information about the markup languages: cr...
↓ Creator ↓ License ↓ First public release ...
avg Ulrich von Zadow LGPL 2003 0.7.0 text editor or ...
GladeXML GNOME LGPL April 1998 2.10.0 Glade GTK+
... 3. ^ XForm

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2007-07-23 20:59:49     BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | BBC finds missing Dalek episode

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_a.../3400429.stm

BBC finds missing Dalek episode
A scene from The Day of Armageddon
A scene from The Day of Armageddon
A long-lost Dalek episode of Doctor Who has been returne ...
The episode of The Daleks' Master Plan, from 1965, was r ...

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2011-03-08 11:52:04     BBC GEL Social Media Icons – the set | nicepaul.com

http://nicepaul.com/2010/07/19/icons/

BBC GEL Social Media Icons v1.0
Back in April, before I left Clearleft, I started creati ...
The BBC’s icons were lovely, single-colour icons, and ...
When BBC News (my news source of choice) launched a beau ...
... d I claim no ownership of the logos

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2010-02-01 11:37:13     Main Page - Beagle

http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal info... find whatever you're looking for.

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2014-07-07 14:30:35     Bret Victor, beast of burden

http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

[ From frame: http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ ]

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan...
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ...
People understand what they can see. If a programmer ...
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
... turn it into som

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2013-03-31 14:02:58     Laura Ingalls Wilder: Husband claimed homestead in 1884

http://www.slate.com/...d_claimed_homestead_in_1884.html?...

Before Almanzo Wilder married Laura Ingalls, the author ...
In this “Homestead Proof,” one A.J. Sheldon, a fello ...
The clerk of the Homestead office certified that Sheldon ...
Having claimed his land, Wilder married Laura in 1885. L ...
Almanzo Wil

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/Channels/just lovely

2013-01-09 06:10:52     Twitter Engineering: Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation

http://engineering.twitter.com/...search-with-real-time.html

Before we delve into the details, here's an overview of ...
First, we monitor for which search queries are curre ...
Behind the scenes: we run a Storm topology that trac ...
For example, the query [Big Bird] may suddenly see a ...
... ckobama

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2009-12-20 09:57:23     Safari Dev Center: Safari Client-Side Storage and Offline Applications Programming Guide: Using the JavaScript Database

http://developer.apple.com/...theJavascriptDatabase.html#...

Beginning in Safari 3.1 and iPhone OS 2.0, Safari suppor... JavaScript database class. The JavaScript database class... provides a very basic relational database intended for l... content that is too large to conveniently store in cooki...
Because it

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2013-12-03 17:18:50     BBC News - 'Memories' pass between generations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510

Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generati...
Experiments showed that a traumatic event could affect t ...
A Nature Neuroscience study shows mice trained to avoid ...
Experts said the results were important for phobia and a ...
... system

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2006-03-20 17:35:16     O'Reilly Radar > The Secret Sauce of Writely

http://radar.oreilly.com/...the_secret_sauce_of_writely.html

behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be some... the user.

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2006-08-17 12:37:02     Right and Left Half Brain Thinking, Imagination and Creativity

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/RL-modes.shtml

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

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2009-03-22 19:35:22     Intelligence in Wikipedia Project

http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/iwp/index.html

Berners-Lee's compelling vision of a Semantic Web is hin... chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a b... method, creating enough structured data to motivate the ... applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying...
The Intelli

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2023-09-17 13:45:35     ‘I couldn’t believe the data’: how thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making | Language | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...uage-improves-decision-making

Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w...

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2015-05-05 12:51:38     Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...f-cartography-amazing-maps?...

Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps
David Shariatmadari
David Shariatmadari
Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, ...

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2014-12-31 10:54:14     This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-mincome_n_6392126.html?...

Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba cit... be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incom...
And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated.
The program was dubbed “Mincome” -- a neologism of ⠮..
The project’s o

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2010-12-11 00:41:27     Videonet - News and Analysis - Linear advertising will continue to dominate

http://www.v-net.tv/newsdisplay.aspx?...

Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic...
However, wh

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2009-04-10 22:08:53     BibSonomy :: home

http://www.bibsonomy.org/

BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of... discovering a bookmark or a publication on the web, you ... our server. You can add tags to your post to retrieve it... is very similar to the bookmarks/favorites that you stor... browser. Th

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2015-04-30 07:55:09     How the language you speak changes your view of the world

http://theconversation.com/...s-your-view-of-the-world-40721

Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a co... even protection against dementia. Now new research shows... view the world in different ways depending on the specif... are operating in.

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2017-04-11 08:59:53     Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/a.../us-usa-banks-cobol-idUSKBN17C0D8

Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides hi... family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildr... U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns.
Hinshaw, who got into programming in the 1960s when comp ...

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2014-06-10 11:45:34     The coming digital anarchy - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...he-coming-digital-anarchy.html

Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the s... threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, e... governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future w... power of any kind will dissolve?

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