Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", 2nd
ed., Princeton University Press, 1957, ISBN 0-69 ...

More than one in five British consumers (22 per cent) ha... software in response to spam email, a study by Forrester... The study - sponsored by the Business Software Alliance ... substantial minority of punters are quite happy to make ... purchases a

JXTA Search is a distributed search system, designed for... networks
and web sites.

How does StumbleUpon figure out what topic a website is ... automatically categorizes pages into over 500 different ... the words present on the pages. This system is approxima... effective, when it is not we rely on stumblers to correc... made by the

Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, “Institutional E... ‘Translations,’ and Boundary Objects:Amateurs and Pr... Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,”... Science, 19: 387-420

Project pepper

Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Federated Search of Complex Digital Libraries

The set of providers of Digital Libraries and services on the Web is growing both in absolute numbers and in terms of diversity. From a user poin...

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...

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Character Sets
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Some Basic Ones
charset=big5
... Baltic Alphabet (ISO)

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for ...
No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No m ...
LaTeX:
Jα(x)=∑m=0∞(−1)mm!Γ(m+α+1)(x2)2m+α
... (Math rendered by MathJax)

Tommy Dewar projected film (advert!) onto NY skyscraper in 1898! (seen in Iain Banks, Raw Spirit, p.318)

adding images into QR Codes

Thu 3 May 2007
What can we do with this story?
Posted by Dan under journalism , politics , participator ...
I have been (barely) using this blog to talk about thing ...
This movie shows some footage of the LAPD breaking up wh ...

mother knows everything

Sense Mother is at the head of a family of small connected sensors that blend into your daily life to make it serene, healthy and pleasurable.

John Elfreth Watkins, Jr What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years The Ladies' Home Journal, 1900 "Anyone unable to walk 10 miles in a stretch will be considered a weakling."

Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

emberlight: turn any light into a smart-light

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

Death to typewriters

... some of the technical (CSS, JavaScript, Closure) details in Medium’s typography and typesetting. Note: we use LESS, so you will see some light LESS features (mostly variables).

* Provides the ability to hook into any jQuery.fn[method]
* with onbeforeMETHOD, onMETHOD, and onafterMETHOD.

Carbon concentration up counter

The altered language significantly weakened the stance that browsers should bypass Content Security Policy for user-supplied add-ons, and suggests that providing the capability for users or add-ons to modify the Content Security Policy is o...

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/494559/The-Slow-Death-of-Bookmarklets

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145733.htm

You may think that the debate over pie charts was a new one, but it has raged on for at least 100 years. Brinton started it in 1914, and great drama unfolded in the pages of the Journal of the American Statistical Association in the 1920s.

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do