Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

I am interested in the role that elementary learning pro... behavior. It turns out that many such learning processes... that is, they occur without intention and without result... verbalizable knowledge. Thus it appears that many things...
To get an o

I believe it’s possible to construct a simple mental f... be used with any language or library and which will lead... code by default.

I call these boundary objects, and they are a major met...
heterogeneous problems. Boundary objects are objects ...
enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the ...
employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a commo ...
... 46-4

I do not wish to deal with all the domains in which the ... if it were referring to an obvious aspect of the world o... human live. Indeed, the very fact that time can be made ... reflection shows us that what the word time connotes cha... circumstanc

I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire

I felt like Will Smith in "Enemy of the State." I was be... harassed and stalked by criminals with technological exp... thrust into an unexpected war. I felt exposed, vulnerabl... front line. I had awoken a hideous network of villains a... were in pur

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?

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in ...
The idea of representing relationships between people as ...
At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make ...
Fitzpatrick subsequently went to work for Google, and hi ...
... ith the

I first encountered the term boundary object when reading %u201CDistributing intelligence, organizing diversity,%u... of a silicon alley new media firm. In it David Stark, re...
What Star teaches us is that the fact that we all un ...
Star, S. L. an

I fixed my problem by deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist, SafariConduit.bundle, SAFARI.ELM, and SAFARI.INF files, ... Library folder (after backing up my Bookmarks). Now Safa... hangs! Yay!

I had lunch at Illusions Fayrouz Dining and Entertainmen... and when I used the men's room after the meal, I discove...
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The web site listed on the display unit, www.eyespyadver ...

I had to laugh this morning while reading the Ottawa Cit... crafty yet bafflingly incompetent vandal described as "H... pack, but the plastic thingy that holds them together is... spin-off of the saying "He's one can short of a full six...
This chapte

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 ...
... I’d l

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.

I have been enjoying Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars... Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which covers the Briti... War I. My favorite section details how the British resp... turned out they had a drastic shortage of binoculars, wh...
The Germans

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

I have remained fairly silent over the last year, ever s... letter from the British Chiropractic Association threate... This essay is an attempt to explain what has been happen... twelve months, why I have decided to apply to the Court ... might happe

I have set this blog up as part of the DEPtH (Design for... project. Over the next few weeks I will be designing a s... both traditonal and ‘new’ design tools. The traditio... that of skteching, CAD, simple blue foam prototyping etc...
I intend to

I have written a wrapper to expose openlibrary.org api d... written in Python and deployed on Google App Engine. It ... illustration of Linked Data publication, and in order to... feedback, so do not rely on it in your application since... content wil

I hope my video offers just a feel of what you can find ... Factbook eXplorer website. Just as exciting is the OECD'... Statistics site.
Readers might also like to explore the inspiration for t ...

I interviewed a lot of people recently, and ...
This was a "proper" programming job with a back-end data ...
We asked some *basic* questions about databases (stuff l ...
Most of the graduates didn't have a clue - this is basic ...
... By fjfish on 3 Jul 2

I looked down at Jane, aka the voice of my TomTom XL1 na...
Completely empty.
We are nowhere.
Disturbingly precise, our nowhere was notated.
... 0mph 1:22pm 206 SW

I love to discover tips which make housework easier! Fro... tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things,... provides a wealth of information and advice.
In this post I've collected 101 visual tips from all ove ...

I remember, as a kid, enjoying "Smarties" candies, which... hard pill-like tablets of pure sugar that were sold in r... that in the rest of the world, there's a totally differe... Smarties, made by Nestlé, which appear to be something ...
But, yes, i

I think it is worthwhile calling attention on one of the... not be seen as a “core” SPARQL query language docume... Graph Store HTTP Protocol.
Indeed, this document stands a little bit apart. Instead ...

I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha...
* I take reassurance knowing that others clearly can’t ...
* When I think its going to distract me, I quit my mail ...
* When reading email I try to decide whether a task can ...
... What do

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... question. Here’s what I do in no particular order, wha...

I was on the subway and a man sat down beside me. He ope... took out something shocking. It was this:
…a cardboard spine.
Lately at Otherlab, we have been thinking a lot about ca ...

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been