Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd
ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ...

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

JXTA Search is a distributed search system, designed for... networks
and web sites.

How does StumbleUpon figure out what topic a website is ... automatically categorizes pages into over 500 different ... the words present on the pages. This system is approxima... effective, when it is not we rely on stumblers to correc... made by the

Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, “Institutional E... ‘Translations,’ and Boundary Objects:Amateurs and Pr... Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,”... Science, 19: 387-420

Project pepper

Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Federated Search of Compl ...

... mber of other projects in the DL and peer-to-peer areas.

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...

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Character Sets
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Some Basic Ones
charset=big5
... Baltic Alphabet (ISO)

Thu 3 May 2007
What can we do with this story?
Posted by Dan under journalism , politics , participator ...
I have been (barely) using this blog to talk about thing ...
This movie shows some footage of the LAPD breaking up wh ...

The Scientific Method
Reading Assignment:
1. Bernard, Chapters 1 & 2.
2. Kuznar, Chapters 1-3.
... --Lawrence Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

STRATEGIES FOR WINNING ACCEPTANCE OF SECOND ORDER CYBERN... Umpleby Department of Management Science George Washingt... Washington, DC 20052 USA Guest Scholar, Summer 1991 Inst... Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence University of Vi... A-1010 Vien

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and So... flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem con... for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in ... about this study (which has been doing the rounds online... I'm not that interested in being a science journalist. B...

This tutorial gives a broad view of modern approaches fo... machine learning and data mining methods on parallel/dis... platforms. Demand for scaling up machine learning is tas... some tasks it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, f...
The tutoria

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for ...
No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No m ...
LaTeX:
Jα(x)=∑m=0∞(−1)mm!Γ(m+α+1)(x2)2m+α
... (Math rendered by MathJax)

I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I...
Lecturing
Blackboard Technique
Publish the same results several times.
... Be prepared for old age.

Tommy Dewar projected film (advert!) onto NY skyscraper ... Iain Banks, Raw Spirit, p.318)

The OpenURL Framework Standard defines an architecture f... Framework Applications. An OpenURL Framework Application... service environment, in which packages of information ar... a network. These packages have a description of a refere... their core, and they are transported with the intent of ...

adding images into QR Codes

The illusions selected for this collection generally sha...
properties. First, they illustrate phenomena that h ...
implications for the study and practice of Computer ...
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Second, they have ...
...

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo...
The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ...
So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ...
Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ...
So lower in

Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to ex... moment when you know the decision you have made was the ... with the realisation that I was being paid, not very muc... nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, thin...
My future c

Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one g... Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have d... an interface that lets you connect multiple devices toge... giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind... remains a m

So they’re not exactly cute, but if you came of age du... chances are you have at least regrettable tattoo anyway.... if that same tattoo is in the shape of a butterfly!) B... temporary tattoos do much more than serve as a symbol of... they can re

We will widen the ownership of homes

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Bluetooth Gloves
Talk to the Hand

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