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2010-08-03 22:56:14     MaPit

http://mapit.mysociety.org/

MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcode... current or past administrative area information and poly... United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up... PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements... a lovely ad

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2015-07-24 09:44:45     ‘Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets': 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments | Novara Wire

http://wire.novaramedia.com/...e-lefts-best-mapping-moments/

Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final d... Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether

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2011-03-10 21:19:19     Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, Akerman, Karrow, McCarter

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.../bo5486535.html

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di

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2012-04-20 11:55:29     A Texas University's Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens' Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/...ges-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

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2013-02-19 07:46:54     Designer turns negative client comments into funny posters : theCHIVE

http://thechive.com/...omments-into-funny-posters-41-photos/

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

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2006-03-05 17:54:37     The Art of Building a Robot to Love - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/weeki.../05robots.html?...

MARVIN THE ROBOT, a supporting player in "The Hitchhiker... Galaxy," speaks in the dull monotone of the chronically ... "Star Wars" films, C-3PO is a bundle of anxiety and neur... "2001: A Space Odyssey," the HAL 9000 is creepily homicidal.

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2011-10-30 08:30:52     BBC News - The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15470903

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ...
The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ...
Or, more ac

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2012-07-12 12:49:23     MIT Researchers Produce Micro-Light that Outputs More Energy Than It Takes In - Core77

http://www.core77.com/...e_energy_than_it_takes_in_22644.asp

Materials scientists know that things behave differently...
The MIT team, comprised of Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Jos ...
How the heck is that possible? The long answer looks lik ...
The researchers chose a light-emitting diode with a ...
The gist of

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2011-10-23 10:06:19    

http://www.mathjax.org/

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for ...
No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No m ...
LaTeX:
Jα(x)=∑m=0∞(−1)mm!Γ(m+α+1)(x2)2m+α
... (Math rendered by MathJax)

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2010-07-18 22:43:38     Novelties - Bye-Bye, Batteries - Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/business/18novel.html?...

MATT REYNOLDS, an assistant professor in the electrical ...
Enlarge This Image
Jochen Teizer
Using only radio waves for its electrical power, the Sma ...
... uipment to determine if the hat’s wearer is too close.

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2012-03-13 23:47:09     Mayhem: Microsoft’s open-source app for controlling just about anything - GeekWire

http://www.geekwire.com/...osofts-opensource-app-controlling

Mayhem is a Windows-based application lets people set a ...
Receive an email reminder to winterize your house wh ...
Add an auto-save feature to a program that doesn’t ...
Pause a video automatically when you leave the room.
Automatical

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2009-08-18 17:39:02     fhios insights | The McDonalds equation: Workforce over 60 = Increased profits

http://www.fhiosinsights.com/?p=490

McDonald’s restaurants with staff predominantly aged o... profitable

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2005-11-17 18:14:29     Stach & Liu

http://www.stachliu.com.nyud.net:8090/collisions.html

MD5 Collision Generation
http://www.stachliu.com/md5coll.c - Faster implementat ...
http://pub1.positivenetworks.net/~dispensa/md5coll.zip ...
Old (Wang, et al.) average run time on IBM P690 superc ...
New average run time on P4 1.6ghz PC - 45

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2010-11-17 19:07:59     Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html?...

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

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2009-07-04 17:45:27     Mendeley academic software and research network information

http://www.mendeley.com/blog/about/

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharin... It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trend... to like-minded academics. To achieve our long-term visio... for research“, we’re working with the former foundin... Skype and L

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2013-03-06 14:36:45     kamens/jQuery-menu-aim · GitHub

https://github.com/kamens/jQuery-menu-aim

menu-aim is a jQuery plugin for dropdown menus that can ... between a user trying hover over a dropdown item vs tryi... a submenu's contents.
menu-aim assumes that you are using a menu with submenus ...

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2013-01-21 09:31:15     Metamaterial camera needs no lens, could herald cheaper imaging tech

http://www.engadget.com/2013.../metamaterial-imaging-sensor/

Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying ... electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previou... the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world a... Engineers at Duke University have come up something that... the latter

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2011-06-03 16:50:37     PHP Microdata Parser - Library to parse microdata from HTML

http://soyrex.com/php-microdata/

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa...
Why PHP Microdata?
One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ...
The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

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2008-11-12 10:33:12     microformatique - a blog about microformats and “data at the edges” : About Microformatique

http://microformatique.com/?page_id=2

Microformatique is an unofficial blog covering all thing... “data at the edges”. Latest specifications, presenta... publications and more. It’s put togther by John Allsopp

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2008-11-12 11:41:20     Using microformats - MDC

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_microformats

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

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2011-04-23 08:41:45     XL: The 1900 Date System vs. the 1904 Date System

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180162

Microsoft Excel supports two different date systems: the... and the 1904 date system. This article describes the two... the problems that you may encounter when you use workboo... different date systems.

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2011-07-25 21:34:28     Microsoft Says It Will Give Your Data to the U.S. Government, Even If It's Not in the U.S. - ReadWriteCloud

http://www.readwriteweb.com/...soft-says-it-will-give-yo.php

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

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2012-02-08 09:32:23     Microsoft's App Was Made For Walking — But Is It Racist? : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...-made-for-walking-but-is-it-racist?...

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

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2011-11-16 08:51:16     Microsoft’s Code Space project combines Kinect, touchscreens for awesome meetings | VentureBeat

http://venturebeat.com/2011/.../microsoft-code-space-kinect/

Microsoft Research is at it again: The wily folks who cr...
Dubbed Code Space, the project allows groups to collabor ...
While still a very early concept, Code Space shows the p ...
Why the need for so many input devices, when a simple wh ...
The project

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2014-06-28 17:02:41     BBC News - Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25197917

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can...
The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

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2010-11-27 14:55:13     Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen - tech - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...hapeshifting-touchscreen.html

Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering ... construct a "tactile" touchscreen – a display that use... to convince users they are actually touching the ridges,... of a displayed image.
Whereas previous screens produced only an illusion

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2011-12-22 23:54:27     Personal data | Policies | BIS

http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/consumer-issues/personal-data

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

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2010-10-14 21:04:30     Italy's crackdown on Gypsies reflects rising anti-immigrant tide in Europe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn.../AR2010101105815.html

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.

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2007-06-17 17:29:53     wheeler-page

http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/staff/m.../wheeler-pubs.php

Minds, Things, and Materiality.
To appear in Renfrew C. and Malafouris L. (eds.), The Co ...

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2010-04-09 11:54:55     Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an "Intellectual Property address" - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2.../minister-for-digital.html?...

Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an ...
Cory Doctorow at 10:06 PM April 8, 2010
From the you'd-have-to-laugh-or-you'd-have-to-shoot-your ...
The Right Honourable Stephen Timms is the UK's "Minister ...
... imms MP doesn't know what an

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