Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every ye... avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing mo... of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhe... What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard e... ‘objectsâ

People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London
One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ...
Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ...
Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ...
... identify how th

People who “get the web” will explain to you that th... web have everything to do with linking and getting linke... links one can get, the better off one is. Few disagree w...
So when the AP and the newspaper owners demanded that th ...
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People who go to aggregator sites don’t really click t... original story. But he misses the profound and game-chan... that fact: They don’t want to read the original story.... changed on the Internet, where information comes faster ...
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People’s nasty traits have a way of revealing themselv... networks: in writing. Or rather in how they write. That ... of how someone tweets could reveal whether he or she is ... Machiavellian, or psychopathic, according to researchers... present the

Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of informat...
Source MIS Quarterly archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (June 1992) table of contents
Pages: 227 - 247
... Peter A. Todd

Performance comparison of distributive and mergesort as ...
Source Journal of Systems and Software archive
Volume 10 , Issue 3 (October 1989) table of contents
Pages: 187 - 200
... Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY, USA

Perhaps four-fifths of the data that have been released ... particularly useful, reckons Joel Gurin of the Centre fo... Enterprise, a think-tank in Washington. America’s cach...
Searching open-data portals is often an arduous task. Wo ...
Gavin Stark

Peripheral vision is whacked.

Personalization is a multidimensional concept, and it is... unpack it. If we are really talking about personalizatio... simply co-opting a word to make the technically feasible... and socially sophisticated, we need to think more deeply.

Personalized products FOR you and BY you

Perspicaciously, Bitbeam is just holes in poles.
The marketing tagline would be something like this: "Bit ...

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A talk about the history of Vignelil’s subway map, app ...
In a panel led by the MTA’s Director of Marketing & Co ...

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Hexaflexagon poem: "No one names a black cat ginger"
David Varela has taken on a 100 hour writing challenge t ...
... ously wrote me a Hexaflexagon poem about Ginger the cat!

PHP SandBox
Run and Edit PHP/HTML/JS with this online interpreter

Pi Land
by Eve
Fun Activities:
... Source: xkcd

Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browse... platform, by allowing you to extract data from different... them together.
Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted infor ...

Piggy bank runs scrapers it grabs from arbitrary third p... formal technical, as well as social rituals and supporti... mechanisms for controlling the risk this creates.
Formal technical mechanisms certainly means finding a wa ...
Social mechinisms (and

Pileus
The Umbrella Photo Browser to Relay Experiences in Rainy Day
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Plan UK's interactive street advert sends different mess...
Published on 23 February 2012, by howardlake
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advertising
... www.choicesforgirls.org.uk

Plans are worthless, planning is invaluable. --Dwight
Eisenhower

playSMS is a flexible Web-based Mobile Portal System tha... fit to various services such as an SMS gateway, bulk SMS... messaging systems, corporate and group communication tools.

Police in north London have seized blankets, sleeping ba... donations from rough sleepers in a crackdown on homeless...

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University ...
The latest chart, published several years ago, includes ...
Check it out:
Inglehart World Values Map
... ow much things like language and religion shape culture.

Polyarchy visualization: visualizing multiple intersect...
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...  Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to...
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials su ...
We kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a ...
The core of this vision is the trade in product designs ...
... nstead

Popcorn Maker is a creative tool that makes authoring in... pages as easy as point and click.
Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plu ...

poshRDF is an approach (and, as a by-product, an RDF-in-... efficiently extract RDF from (many) microformats and sim...
It's also possible to use the POSH definitions and creat ...
RDF Schemas for common POSH formats
* microformats