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2007-05-26 10:32:58     Home | OpenNet Initiative

http://opennet.net/

Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global
phenomena. ONI’s mission is to identify and document
Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and
inform wider public dialogue about such practices.

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/Channels/cognition and art/political

2009-04-22 07:19:14     RFC 2234 - Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2234

Internet technical specifications often need to define a... are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem ... years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), cal... (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specificati... compactness

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2013-12-17 15:16:17     The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/...o-decentralize-the-internet.html

internet-290.jpg
In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, dec ...
This is not the Internet we know today. Nearly two decad ...

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2009-01-08 10:52:18     JennyLC:: Intimate Controllers

http://www.jennylc.com/intimate_controllers/

Intimate Controllers
A platform where video games are played by couples touch ...
Project by JennyLC Chowdhury
With flash development by Sinan Ascioglu
... traditional notions and orientation of video game play.

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2005-11-13 17:33:42     Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and Windows Forms - The Code Project - C# Programming

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp

Introduction
A lot has been already said about extending Windows and ...

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2007-05-19 17:33:34     Open Archives Data Service Prototype and Automated Subject Indexing Using D-Lib(R) Archive Content As a Testbed

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december03/mongin/12mongin.html


Introduction
The Indiana University School of Library and Information ...
D-Lib Magazine Archive Structure
... is also probably not that useful [Salton, McGill: 1983].

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2013-10-22 15:22:46     The Nobel Prize in Economics 2013: of the madness and the wisdom of crowds | OECD Insights Blog

http://oecdinsights.org/...madness-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/

Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo...
Fama’s wo

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/Channels/economy and politics

2009-02-04 10:33:15     iPhorest - Plant your tree.

http://www.iphorest.com/

iPhactory is pleased to launch the iPhorest, the app tha... plant trees from their phone. By downloading the app, th... seedling both virtually and physically. As the seedling ... grows, users can also send seeds to other phones, starti...
For each vi

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2007-12-08 15:26:51     BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7069943.stm

Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad
Not many of the people who were blogging in English from ...

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2013-04-10 08:26:39     RTÉ to employ semantic web and big data to preserve Ireland’s memories - Ireland's cloud news service - Siliconrepublic.com

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/...rt-to-employ-semantic-web/

Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava

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/Channels/techie/open data

2007-11-25 12:38:18     iRobot Corporation: About ConnectR

http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=338

iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot
Stay close to those you love – no matter where you are!
Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ...
* Participate in family moments even though you're w ...
... ted to your family and frie

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2006-12-22 09:18:59     The iRows Blog

http://irows.blogspot.com/

iRows Founders Join Google
As the title says, we have decided to join Google.
We are really excited about this transition. When we sta ...
We launched iRows in January, and will shut it down on 3 ...
Being at Google will allow us to continue doing what we

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2012-01-29 19:05:31     SelfControl | Steve Lambert

http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the

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2024-12-29 08:21:41     Are young people’s attention spans really shrinking? It’s more complex than you might think | Marion Thain | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-attention-spans-online-world

Is it possible there are modes of attention that a younger generation is developing that might be difficult for those of us who are older to value, but which bring new types of benefit? What of the rapid, quick-fire, written exchanges of in...

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2016-12-09 18:00:51     The Challenge of Consciousness | by Riccardo Manzotti | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/...allenge-of-defining-consciousness/

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

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2012-05-03 16:38:04     Is Too Much Tech Bad for the Modern Teenager? [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://mashable.com/2012/05/03/teenager-infographi/?...

Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

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2005-12-18 13:54:06     Free Statistical Tools on the WEB

http://isi.cbs.nl/FreeTools.htm

ISI - International Statistical Institute
Free Statistical Tools on
the WEB

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2025-03-08 10:54:30     When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’ | Rowan Williams | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...c-good-society-rowan-williams

Isolate growth from public good and you are simply planning for breakdown. My research shows that a resilient society should be rooted in wellbeing, not wealth

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2009-04-09 07:13:29     Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer | Maximum PC

http://www.maximumpc.com/...ds_a_multitouch_surface_computer

It all started while we were researching an article on f... interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at th... multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the i...
There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart ...
And so we d

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2010-12-11 00:39:49     Open source teaching materials -time for a mandate « Thoughts on software and systems engineering

http://se9book.wordpress.com/...aterials-time-for-a-mandate/

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

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2024-01-18 08:24:37    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67993056

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

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2024-11-03 14:42:22     Runes prove Elfdalian is distinct ancient Nordic language, say researchers | Sweden | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...rdic-language-say-researchers

It is a distinct language that has survived against the odds for centuries in a tiny pocket of central Sweden, where just 2,500 people speak it today. And yet, despite bearing little resemblance to Swedish, Elfdalian is considered to be onl...

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2025-12-08 08:33:30     Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic | Language | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic

It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being b...

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/Channels/Welsh

2022-01-09 14:05:05     GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/...ing-code-without-permission/

it is possible to prompt CoPilot to suggest copyrighted ... computer game Quake III Arena, complete with comments fr... programmer. This code cannot be reused without permission.

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2012-03-13 19:50:57     OCaml for the Masses - ACM Queue

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036

It is tempting to conclude from this record that functio... have what it takes. They may make sense for certain limi... and contain useful concepts to be imported into other la... imperative and object-oriented languages are simply bett...
Tempting as

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2016-12-06 14:28:55     Impact of Social Sciences – Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? Reviewing the literature on academic citations.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/...emic-papers-citation-rates-remler/

It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and

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2012-07-22 21:27:23     Interactive Multimedia Technology: Musings about NUI, Perceptive Pixel and Microsoft, Rapid Creative Prototyping (Lots of video and links) Revised

http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.co.uk/...tml

It just might be the right time for everyone to brush up... tech skills. iPads and touch-phones are ubiquitous. Touc... interactive whiteboards and displays are in schools and ... Microsoft's Windows 8 and the news that the company rece... Han's compa

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2014-07-12 07:04:12     A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/...t-can-heal-your-bones-40-80-faster/

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ...
Take a look at the pic below and you’ll see the Osteoi ...
... won’

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/Channels/DIY technology
/Channels/physicality

2014-05-18 08:27:50     Why Teens Are Innovators Of A New Public Form Of Privacy | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

http://www.fastcoexist.com/...f-a-new-public-form-of-privacy

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

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2012-04-28 15:40:58     iPavement embeds WiFi hotspots in the street

http://www.gizmag.com/ipavement-wifi-paving-stones/22325/

It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu...
Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ...
iPavement being installed in Spain
Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ...
The apps are available in a number of

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