Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The Public Domain Review aspires to become a bounteous g... whopping plenitude that is the public domain. We aim to ... explore this rich terrain by surfacing unusual and obscu...
As well as providing a home for a diverse range of inter ...
We also hop

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

The Public Suffix List is a cross-vendor initiative to p...
The usefulness of this can be seen if we take the exampl ...
Since there was and remains no algorithmic method of fin ...
Software using the Public Suffix List will be able to de ...
As well as

The public web is made up of linked pages that represent... people. Google Search helps make this information more a... useful. If you take away the documents, you're left with... between people. Information about the public connections... really usef

The quality of the data residing in information reposito... gets degraded due to a multitude of reasons. Such reason... mistakes during insertion (e.g., character transposition... standards for recording database fields (e.g., addresses... errors intr

The question of what happens to the surplus is really ir... is one specific project. The idea is interesting. If thi... different software projects, I think we might find more ... the part of developers to implement certain large pieces...
Alternative

The question of when and how language first emerged is t... tremendous controversy – it has even been called ‘th... in science’. My work is on what information can be ext... vocalisations. It is a first step in understanding where... dictates th

The question that has long raged among archaeologists is... first began using ochre as a tool for engineering or as ... making art. In other words, does symbolism start with sc... aesthetics? By examining 23 ochre-processing tools from ... researchers

The Radius 320™ takes widescreen computing to a new le ...
Advances in display technology have allowed 20-inch, 24- ...

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead – while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi...
A diagram o

the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1]

The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ...
As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ...
Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ...
It is likel

The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time.

The Resource Description Framework RDF allows users to d... documents and concepts from the real world—people, org... topics, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishi... descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (... Identifiers

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills.
Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ...
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ...
This articl

The Scientific Method
Reading Assignment:
1. Bernard, Chapters 1 & 2.
2. Kuznar, Chapters 1-3.
... --Lawrence Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

The Scottish Society for Northern Studies explores the i... between the Scandinavian, Celtic and Scottish cultures t... historical media and scholarly research.
The Society was founded in 1968 and has since provided b ...

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

The Semantic Web
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computer ...
By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila

The sensitive PC is a research project intended to impro... between man and machine, and to see if computers can be ...
Dr Jörg Voskamp, from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, w ...
"We thought that it might be a good idea to bring the co ...
The system

The service is focused on the idea of “You over Time,⮮.
Imagine Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook ...
Read on: the first 20 SitePoint readers to follow the li ...
My Life, The Digital Version
... nts of your own, family members, friend

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective too...
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The St Kilda that Maclean describes is a tiny world, whi... much above 200 inhabitants. They spoke their own dialect... littered with Norse archaisms. They lived off the fruits... most notably the teeming seabirds - puffins, fulmars and...
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The St Kildans climbed barefoot up the sheer cliffs, kil... gathering their eggs to survive. Over hundreds of years,... the job. There is a species of St Kilda wren, a St Kilda... is, it’s said, a St Kilda toe, an elongated big toe th... cling more

The Stitchfest hackathon at UPenn didn’t know what was... Quitmeyer and Firaz Peer built an Arduino-powered genita... DIY hacking contest. This was no stunt: Quitmeyer intend... toy to be one of an open source suite when he opens Comi... August--wha