Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Can an algorithm be racist? It’s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

Can you think of an open data curation project where the...
In the mid 1990s, as open source code began to boom, the ...
For years I’ve asked, where are the equivalent project ...
Nada.
... and how it was finally opened up in an incomplete form.

Canvas Visualizations of Sorting Algorithms canvas, java... Willison, I was made aware of an old but interesting pos... visualizing of sorting algorithms. Aldo Cortesi explains...
He decided to make something better and ended up with so ...
Anyway, I t

Captain Cyborg, aka Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading U... generally a harmless if somewhat tedious self-publicist ... 'experiments' pay his rent and provide the less critical...
Following the recent abduction of ten year olds Holly We ...
And guess w

Carbon concentration up counter

Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function — so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. They⮮. be fake thi

Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker's slowMail is an ema... deliberately slows down the pace of electronic correspon... experiences of reflection and mindful interaction that a...
Contrary to traditional email, which is expected to be d ...
slowMail wa

Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engi... automatically organize small collections of documents, e... results, into thematic categories.

Carrying a posy of bright flowers, Dorthe Frydenlund str...
Mrs Frydenlund is among those pioneering a novel way to ...
Nestling amongst the colourful plants and vases is a sto ...
Mrs Frydenlund's 14-year-old son Nikolai has a smartphon ...
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Catalog your physical CDs and use the Virtual CD feature... what CDs you own and at the same time see which subset o... CDs are copied to your hard drive. Instead of tracking y... separately, the virtual CD function gives you an integra...

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ToolbarStudio custom toolbar software 1.5
Developer: BestToolbars.net
... File size: 6368K

Cats have nine lives and 72-hour days
So says this infographic (link). Reader John G. sent in ...
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Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook Mess... to agree to terms of service that allow the social netwo... the microphone on their device to record audio at any ti... permission.

Chad Washington
Chad Washington with total artificial heart and pump device
Imagine living without a heart. It is possible — if yo ...
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has performed its firs ...
... advanced technology small enough to fit in a backpac

Chainki is the world's biggest collection of links that ...
Key features of Chainki:
* non-profit website
* open to all editors - anyone can edit the links - ...
... collection of website links, but which anybody can edit.

Changing the Appearance of Physical Interfaces Through C...
David Lindlbauer1, Jörg Müller2, Marc Alexa1
1 TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2 Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aar ...
... examples

Chapter 34. HTTP authentication with PHP
The HTTP Authentication hooks in PHP are only availab ...
running as an Apache module and is hence not availabl ...
In an Apache module PHP script, it is possible to use the
... header() function fo

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Charissa Borroff
Born 1st May, 1977, Nottinghamshire, UK
"I draw landscapes in Charcoal, paint abstracts, and I'v ...
I grew up in Sherwood Forest. My family moved into Sherw ...
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Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

Check cache manifest files for web application offline s...
The most complete method is to upload the manifest file ...

Check which famous writer you write like with this stati... tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style ... with those of the famous writers.
Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, jour ...

Child by mail
This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photog ...
By Jason Kottke

Child psychology studies have identified a natural human bias toward the theory of intelligent design, and pose a solution: teach evolution earlier

Chinese New Year (Traditional Chinese: 春節 or 農曆殮. Chinese: 春节 or 农历新年; Pinyin: Chūnjíe or Nî.. also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival ... important of the traditional Chinese holidays.

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars... grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce ... are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.

Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein...
Dancy consi

CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections o... by national and local governments, research institutions... organisations which collect a lot of data. With its powe... faceting, users can browse and find the data they need, ... using maps,

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...