Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished... first-time, small African farmers have been properly con... solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their a... directly repudiate a massive international effort to lau...
Instead of

MILAN - This venerable city, long known for savory saffr... leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish its... else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies.

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

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The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
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Over the past few years, one of the most important shift... world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semicl... that use the Internet for transport but not the browser ... It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model ... computing,

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
So when App

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

Last week I realised the internet wants to kill me. I wa... script in a small room with nothing but a laptop for com... conditions for quiet contemplation – but thanks to the... connection, I may as well have been sharing the space wi... marching ba

Broadband is the most modern of communication means, whi... date back to Roman times.
But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the ...

Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de

This all happened a couple of years ago – just before ... search entirely and handed that part of its business ove... Also around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the sma... has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But ...
To me, the

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Intel testing context-aware API for smartphones and tabl ...
By Sean Hollister posted Sep 15th 2010 1:47PM
... e heavy lifting for a new generation of apps. How sweet.

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1000Memories is the passion of three friends who have lo... believe that the Internet offers a better way to bring p... build something special in their memory. We aspire to cr... visitors can gather and remember the lives of the people... place where

The deep union of ourselves with our inventions is not n... means a being that is part biological and part technolog... humans began as cyborgs, and still are. Our ancestors fi...
We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our ...
Clearly, we

Tax Facts provides tax information for citizens, policy ... legislators, and the press. Data are compiled from a var... including the Urban Institute, Brookings Institution, In... Service, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Congressio... the Departm

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online... audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse... audiovisual collections can be downloaded and remixed in... Users of Open Images also have the opportunity to add th...
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Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Re... cause your iPhone app to be rejected.

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing S...
The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathe ...
The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop ...
It’s interesting how a lot of companies try to copy Ap ...
Now if you

LucidChart is the missing link in online office producti...
LucidChart was designed to fit comfortably into the work ...
1. The interface must be clean and intuitive. No loya ...
2. Collaboration must be easy to set up and easy to u ...
... g to PD

Kno.e.sis is a Center in the College of Engineering and ... Wright State University, founded as part of Ohio's Third...
Our cutting-edge research in the use of semantic and ser ...
Kno.e.sis research focuses on realizing a knowledge soci ...

Sorting algorithms: quite boring until you add sound effects
Aug. 19, 2010 (5:55 pm) By: Matthew Humphries
Anyone who has ever done a programming course or tried t ...
The subject matter is fairly dry. Thankfully someone has ...
... via Hacker News

The YQL execute section actually dispatches the request ... return data.
var results = y.query("select * from csv where url=@url ...
This runs another YQL select statement when the table ge ...