Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

HTML5 offers a lot of exciting new features in the realm... my favorite new additions to forms in HTML5 is the place... Placeholder text is the “hint” or “example” text...
<input type="text" placeholder="Start typing to begin s ...
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In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu

I’m now going to briefly explore ‘network whispers‮.. content are shared easily through open platforms, and ye... be masked in the flow of dissemination: does credit alwa... due?

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language...
1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question o ...
2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t co ...
3. Everyone experiences time differently. This is true a ...
... #9 and

EXPLORING THE FOUNDATIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF PHYSICS AND ...
FQXi catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on q ...

And that’s OS X, Apple’s minority operating system n... is no file explorer — let alone one with 19 toolbar bu... Because in Apple’s view, the concept of a “file” i... saving of them and the transferring of them is something... should neve

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabl...
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Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
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The CEO of Apple — the tech visionary who revolutioniz... computers, the way we listen to music and the way we thi... devices — was worried about the yellow in the second "... Needless to say the problem was fixed, and Gundotra says...
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The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

This website provides an overview of our attempts to a m... Web.
The term Data Web refers to the evolution of a mainly do ...
The term Visual Data Web reflects our goal of making the ...

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... ced the HCI Community. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 7 - 12.

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... http://billbuxton.com/LincolnLab.pdf

Storytelling is a buzzword with lots of different interp... the internet is killing stories, or it’s the best thin... them since the printing press.


Stories have been around as long as we have, helping us ...

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

Many web screen scraping tools exist. They are hard to l... fully satisfy your specific requirements and changing de... need custom Web scraping services rather than ready-made... nor any Web scraping software. In a custom scraping proj... you scrape

There is an ever-increasing amount of data available on ... waiting to be integrated by product developers. But actu... more than just one API into a product poses a problem to...
A location based product, for example, would aim to pull ...
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I have a theory about why writing the dissertation is su...
The dissertation is a reflective document. It requires i ...
And what self-critical researcher (which of course is wh ...
This is not the writer’s fault. This is the fault of r ...
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A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

Lifer Ben Gunn’s Prison Blog … the only blog by a se... prisoner which ‘looks stupidity and ignorance in the e... attempting to inject some neurons into the criminologica...

Welcome to TheTVDB.com. This site is an open database th... by anybody. Please click on login in the navigation to g... content and images on the site have been contributed by ... database schema and website are open source under the GP...
This site a

GOOGLE'S $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility ...
How might Google, a company famously fond of numbers and ...
"Motorola has a portfolio of 24,500 patents and pate ...
Using one of the industries recent patent auctions a ...
... lio and

Tim Godwin, the Scotland Yard acting commissioner, said ... management team at Scotland Yard discussed shutting down... networking site "a few times" as rumours about further r...

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its mos... retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter... It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day a...

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count
What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ...

MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

The Doppelganger service translates between IDs of entit... APIs. When you query Doppelganger with an entity ID, you... of that same entity in other APIs. In addition, a persis... serves as an anchor for your application that you can us... queries.

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.