Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

We can’t pay $1 million for books anymore. Amazon coul... to lose $20 million/year in their publishing arm just to... publishers out of business. I think that’s what they‮.. do–throw money around in an industry that doesn’t ha... Amazon beco

W3C has launched a new HTML validation site, the Nu Mark... Service. From a Semantic Web point of view it is importa... default setting of the validator validates HTML5 with RD... with microdata, the two simpler syntaxes to add structur... Furthermore

Docracy is a social repository of legal documents. Our m... useful legal documents freely available to the public. W... them easier to find, customize and sign. No more crappy ... paywall that you download hoping everything will be alright.
Instead: re

I finally picked up a protective cover for my Kindle Tou... airport. Doing so revealed a hidden habit I was only fai... compulsively use boarding passes as bookmarks. What happ... to mark my place goes away?

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

Tremble, thing-makers, because The Pirate Bay has starte... source files for physical objects.
The controversial file-sharing site, known for aiding th ...
Only those with 3D printers will be able to make use of ...
Pirate Bay has started a new category

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
These early

Facebook is losing users in the U.S., Britain and Canada... investors, advertisers and media companies all scratchin...
A closer look at Facebook’s global usage shows that it ...
In Pictures: Keeping Kids Safe On Facebook
That said, there is one simpl

10 reasons Facebook’s future is uncertain
Its own users have very little trust in the company
The site’s ease-of-use is among the worst on the web
The user experience doesn’t translate well to smar ...
... atural cycle of social networks

Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog showcasing only the best p... bookshelves.

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms canvas, java... Willison, I was made aware of an old but interesting pos... visualizing of sorting algorithms. Aldo Cortesi explains...
He decided to make something better and ended up with so ...
Anyway, I t

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the

Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 k...
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ...
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ...
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ...
1936 - Alon

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

You are looking at pictures of a house I built for our f... was built by myself and my father in law with help from ... visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved ... estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this p...
The house w

Tommy Dewar projected film (advert!) onto NY skyscraper in 1898! (seen in Iain Banks, Raw Spirit, p.318)

The network takeover
Albert-László Barabási
Nature Physics
8,
... pidly developing into a new discipline: network science.

One of our clients is currently using Ext and Embedly to... Facebook-like link submission tool. While writing up som... overboard and ended up coding the whole thing. It’s wo... the community as a whole, because we have seen this ques... before. Thi

zeroclipboard
Provides "Copy to Clipboard" functionality for your web ...

The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the

Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your ...
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/produ ...
inside the <head> section of the duplicate content URLs:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&cat ...
... e PageRank

Over the past year, I've been tagging interesting data I... del.icio.us. I wrote a quick python script to pull the r... my del.icio.us export and list them at the bottom of thi... these datasets are related to machine learning, but ther...
This list i

Programming isn’t only for programmers. But as we move... where technology controls more and more of our lives, it... that’s virtually guaranteed to help you get a job. A g... Forbes a few weeks ago referred to the new world of Deve... world in wh

Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools'
A tiny computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is ...