Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The strange world of urban exploration
Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

The strength of practice-based design research, like RtD, lies in its suitability for addressing challenges that cannot be formulated as research hypotheses [Redström, 2020]. It helps designers to ask questions instead of solving problems ...

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

The success of mobile computing demands data synchroniza... handle many diverse data types and communication protoco... describes the requirements for an industry-wide data syn... protocol, and introduces the SyncML initiative to create...

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play ... between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fa... instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discover ...

The Sword in the Stone, sometimes a sword in an anvil, i... as proof of his birthright and of his nobility. It is b... miraculous sign of his royalty. The sword drawn from th... different from the one given to Arthur by the Lady of th... latter is a

The Symposium on Computational Fabrication is an interdi... that brings together leading experts from academia and i... of computer graphics, geometry processing, mechanical en... materials science, architecture, human-computer interact... applied mat

The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An i... Alternet's Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five m... 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods ... incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighb...
Not surpris

The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th...
They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
Surprisingl

The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be?

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

The total information processing activity of the brain i... because the current knowledge in this area is fragmentar... possible to get a general picture of the electronic puls... activity within a couple of orders of magnitude. The act... is equivale

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

The Turk, engraving from 1789
Continue reading the main story
Crowd-sourcing comets (LJ)
Mary queen of maths (Lisa Jardine)
... rate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.

The twelve days of Christmas,1 as a festival, have a lon... According to one source, it was first mentioned as a fes... eastern Father, Ephraem Syrus, at the end of the fourth ... declared to be such by the western Council of Tours in 5...
As a song,

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

The UK Government has decided that Open Document Format, the OpenOffice-derived file format, is the best choice for a... documents.
The Cabinet Office's Standards Hub explained its thinkin ...
“When dealing with citizens, information should be ...

The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue.
The Council of Europe ...

The UK is full of rude place names. The North-West has a... a Pincock, while Yorkshire is arguably worse, boasting a...

The Uncanny Valley
Why are monster-movie zombies so horrifying
and talking animals so fascinating?
Written and illustrated by Dave Bryant
... a second peak where resemblance to humanity is complete.

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
unicode.jpg

The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a merit... self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and... anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly dispro... opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that ... opposite of

The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) uses both infrared and ... generate an invisible field and project a full-size virt... keyboard on any surface.

The vision of the Semantic Web still has not become real... significant research and development efforts were undert... of semantic representations is probably still outpaced b... traditional Web pages and one might be skeptic about the...
Triplify ta

The Vital Jacket® is a wearable vital signs monitoring ... textiles with microelectronics. It was designed and deve... usable pragmatic approach for different clinical and nor...
The original pre-product version of the Vital Jacket® i ...
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The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategi... resources to help make the Web accessible to people with... following WAI resources are intended to provide basic in... people who are new to Web accessibility.

The Web Applications Working Group within the W3C has pr... Access Control for Cross-Site Requests recommendation, w...
This access control standard is supported by Firefox 3.5 ...
* Invocations of the XMLHttpRequest API in a cross-s ...
* Web F

The web community is eagerly seeking a light-weight, tem...
JavaServer Faces UIComponents are first class citizens w ...
Facelets includes many features such as:
* Works with JSF 1.1 and JSF 1.2, including Sun's RI ...
... ith JSF as a suitable platf