Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The St Kildans climbed barefoot up the sheer cliffs, kil... gathering their eggs to survive. Over hundreds of years,... the job. There is a species of St Kilda wren, a St Kilda... is, it’s said, a St Kilda toe, an elongated big toe th... cling more

November 25, 2009
International Robot Exhibition 2009
The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition is normally a s ...
Dai Kurokawa/EPA
An employee of UK robot maker Shadow Robot Company weari ...

Japan’s robot revolution moves from factory to the home
The world’s leader in robotic technology is creating m ...
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A Japanese robot demonstrates its ability to flip pancak ...
Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters

The success of mobile computing demands data synchroniza... handle many diverse data types and communication protoco... describes the requirements for an industry-wide data syn... protocol, and introduces the SyncML initiative to create...

Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pand... more and more like desktop applications every day. Runni... web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a r...
Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out ...
Using Fluid

Why does...
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...my slider, Google Map, sIFR etc. not work when placed ...
Any component that requires some dimensional computation ...
... }

Uses the new File API supported by Firefox 3.6. Enables ... html element and turn it into a hotspot for receiving fi... explorer!
Each file will be sent as a binary AJAX-request with cus ...

jsTree is a javascript based, cross browser tree compone... as a jQuery plugin.
jsTree is absolutely free (licensed same as jQuery – u ...
Still, if you would like to help this project - click th ...
Various screens of jsTree in use

In unix, most scripting languages accept line-initial # ...
However, there is a convention in unix that executable f ...
exec osascript <<\EOF
and then follow it with an arbitrary AppleScript. Voila, ...
... Well, that's the idea. I hope someone finds

You can use AppleScript to create drag and drop icons fo...
1. Launch Script Editor (Applications -> AppleScript ...
2. Copy and paste this text into a new Script Editor ...
set filecount to 0
... ~/.profile to include the directory which

What is V8?
V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the o ...
V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd e ...
V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ a ...

The Closure Compiler compiles JavaScript into compact, h... code. The compiler removes dead code and rewrites and mi... left so that it downloads and runs quickly. It also also... variable references, and types, and warns about common J... pitfalls. T

While many people can write functional code (pretty, ugl... wasteful), very few can write quality prose – prose th... understood the same way by different people, while at th... possess the typical properties desired in prose (eleganc... cultural se

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

Hills Criteria of Causation outlines the minimal conditi... establish a causal relationship between two items. Thes... originally presented by Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)... medical statistician as a way of determining the causal ... specific fa

Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on... uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers - Internet Explorer 5 ...

On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi...
Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ...
The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ...
The "Decade

take advantage of the pic2shop: custom URL scheme to lau... the barcode, and get the barcode digits back in your app...

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

Getting Geographic Locations
iPhone OS Note: Geographic location classes are availabl ...
Use the JavaScript classes described in this chapter to ...

The Web Applications Working Group within the W3C has pr... Access Control for Cross-Site Requests recommendation, w...
This access control standard is supported by Firefox 3.5 ...
* Invocations of the XMLHttpRequest API in a cross-s ...
* Web F

Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web... without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is ... called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed ... with a single web application. It doesn’t have the men... other accou

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

Today the Twitter team moved into their new office which... by the super talented Sara Morishige Williams (@sara). ... existing shell of a building in downtown San Francisco. ... sneak peek last week while she was working on it, and wa... the photos

Free2C 3D-Kiosk with virtual touchscreen
Kiosk systems must stand out by offering simple intuitiv ...
The Free2C Kiosk is perfectly suited for applications in ...
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The Radius 320™ takes widescreen computing to a new le ...
Advances in display technology have allowed 20-inch, 24- ...

Smoke Signals is based on one of the oldest forms of com... recorded history dating back over 5,000 years. The proje... hybrid system that explores the dynamic and spatial capa... and light in relation to contemporary mobile SMS technol...
Participant

Government is committed to making its public information... available as possible. The best way to make structured i... available online is to publish it as Linked Data. Linked... information easier to cut and combine in ways that are r... citizens. T

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil