Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of syndic... chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interestin... has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services,... usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corpo... SOAP stack,

I watched in horror a promotional video for these glasses that showed how your whole field of vision of the real world could become a screen on which reminder messages spring up. The video portrayed the lifestyle of a hip female Brooklynite...

I wish I could end this with a heroic call-to-action. ‮.. Do YOU want to fix our broken government?? Click here to... But I can’t. My fellowship year clarified more problem... Instead, I’ll offer a question: How can we build empat...
Well, first

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

I'll bet you didn't know that aluminum (the same stuff t...
The alchemists at a company called Alchemy Research are ...
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To get this to work, you need water to be superheated in ...
... hout all the nasty side-effects that come

I'm doing up some slides on Mac OS/X, using Office 2004.... window grabs from Grab.app, and for many of the slides, ...
Nice. The 'Compatibility Report' for reading this file b ...
However, some of the images did work, and the ones that ...
So, if you'

I've been brainstorming about a way to make a distribute... using OpenID. The goals I have for such a network are:
1. Use OpenID for global identities.
2. If you have an account on service A, and I have an ...
3. Some sort of output format that

I've been investigating the rel-tag microformat - tags, ... realised there are two fairly obvious problems with the ... I'm not the first to pick up on these, of course).
My scenario: an existing application hosts articles whic ...
So, what are the limi

I've been semi-silently working on something new. A comb...
* semantic markup
* smart data
* an rdf clipboard
... e is up, and today I created a first teaser/intro video.

I've created a technique for converting digital audio fi... printable 33rpm records and printed some functional prot... weekend. These records play on regular turntables, with ... regular speeds, just like any vinyl record. The audio on...
instructabl

I've seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, ea... thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an iss... addressed

Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement

I’d like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around ... “massive” (nearly a half million members), it is ope... (anyone can join without cost), it is open–as in share... copyright: all content by all contributors is in the pub... online (www

I’m fascinated by consciousness, I’ve studied it for... and I have some things to say about it.
My name is Robin Faichney and I’m a philosopher. (I’ ...

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?

I’ve been thinking about individual features of variou...
To start with we’ll redirect all requests to a single ...
view source
print?
... _route_) that contains the directory portion of the URL.

I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop.
It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic) way.

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 (VR 2004) p. 43
Projection-Based Olfactory Display with Nose Tracking
Yasuyuki Yanagida, ATR Media Information Science Laborat ...
Shinjiro Kawato, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
... ji Tetsutani, ATR Med

If anyone has seen a teenager’s MySpace page, you may ... a particular “aesthetic” that comes partially as the... customizing pages by cutting and pasting HTML and CSS co... profile-editing forms. It’s not clear to me if this wa... the MySpace

If anything, the reference system provided by a good citation style has come to matter even more in the age of the internet, rather than being rendered obsolete by the seemingly infinite networking and searchability of texts and other cultu...

If perovskites mean nothing to you read on, as they may ... impact on your future fuel bill.
If we could capture approximately 1% of the sunlight fal ...

If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones... think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses thro... (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze ...
Continue reading the main story
If you are awake for 16 hours, turning o

If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector?

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

If we define
to be a new estimator of , then the bias of is
which is less than the bias of since it eliminates the ...
where i = 1, ... n. This is the first order jackknife e ...
.

If you assumed that hanging a toilet paper roll one way ... arbitrary decision, you'd be wrong. Your toilet paper pr... actually be correlated to your demographic and political... shows.