Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim

Sharp today announced its upcoming "Free-Form Display" t... allow the company to nearly eliminate the traditional be... LCD displays. As a result, Sharp will be able to build L... any shape to conform to the display area of the intended...
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She said that consultants coming in were more useful as ... delivering work themselves, so that skills could be pass... advocated deconstructing designs, by working out which p... had created the outcome. 'How do I need to think to do t... teach peopl

Shelter :: The Hobbit House
This is a house I built for our family in Wales. It was ...
The house was built with maximum regard for the environm ...

Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co... Submitted by Jonathan Levitt. More of his excellent phot...
Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co ...

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in Eng...

Significant

Signs and notices
Created by on-the-run.
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... rance Toc6 half-sign protest1 site London Road Eid cards

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

Silo free living.
Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnec ...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the cr ...
Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing ...
... * …and others

Similarly a page break can be encoded as below:
<pb ed="first" n="159">
* "ed" - Allows the encoder to point to a particular ...
* "n" - Holds the page number.

SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital ... schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services... is that the collections which must inter-operate are oft... across individual, community, and institutional stores. ... to provide

SIMILE Widgets
Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets, and More
This is an open-source “spin-off” from the Simile pr ...

Single-loop and double-loop learning
For Argyris and Schön (1978: 2) learning involves the d ...

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b

Siri Technology
A New Interaction Paradigm
Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ...
Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ...
... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.

Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
Josephine Ross with some fascinating anecdotal accounts ...

Slide to Unlock: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere
Slide to Unlock.
Chris Harrison completed this mesemerizing work while he ...

Sliders are useful controls for choosing a value in a ra... Common uses are volume controls, seekers for movie and s... as color pickers. A few people have asked for an update ... component to make it work in Mozilla and work better in ... original co

Slow Dance makes things move in ways you never thought possible. For all those who love mystery, beauty, and wonder.

Small, standards compliant, Javascript WYSIWYG HTML control
The name says it all. This Javascript file can be added ...
Key features
Small
... a class name to turn a textarea into a WYSIWYG control.

SmartMarkUP is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript lib... you to turn any textarea into a fancy markup editor. HTM... syntax, BBCode or any other desired markup language can ... and/or adjusted to your preferences and business needs. ... doesn't dep

smiley slider
11/7/11 RSS
John Horton commissioned this thing on oDesk.. I need to ...

Smoke Signals is based on one of the oldest forms of com... recorded history dating back over 5,000 years. The proje... hybrid system that explores the dynamic and spatial capa... and light in relation to contemporary mobile SMS technol...
Participant

SnapTell Visual Search
Snap. Send. Get.
Visual Search is transforming the way customers search, ...
With our visual product matching service that powers bot ...
... pp from the App Store™, or find out more from SnapTell

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

So far we have been thinking of the probability for gett... know that the mean value should be . Now suppose we make... get counts, but we don't know anything about , except t... nonnegative, of course. We may turn the question around ... the most li

So Gagne studied for a PhD, and became a therapist. She thinks her detachment was helpful. “If you are constantly projecting your own emotions into the session, they’re not going to be able to process what they’re feeling.”