Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

NAME
webthumb -- web page snapshot-taker for Linux
SYNOPSIS
webthumb URL
... .com/ | pnmscale -xysize 100 100 | pnmtojpeg > thumb.jpg

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

FLESH AND MACHINES
MIT robotic scientist Rodney Brooks foresees a future me ...

Kissenger Devices
These devices, known as "Kissengers," allow long-distanc ...
Credit: Hooman Samani
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... of the Kissenger device. [5 Ways Love Affects the Brain]

Welcome to the On_message@home project website. This pro... the  communication within the home , with the aim of sup... of a home-based messaging system. The key to this projec... examination of communication/messaging practices and inf... between the

All Makers Now? is a two-day conference exploring craft ... century production at Falmouth University’s Penryn Cam... 10-11th July 2014.
The digital crafters in the Autonomatic Research Group a ...

We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search so...
* Lucene Java, our flagship sub-project, provides Ja ...
* Droids is an intelligent robot crawling framework ...
* Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API- ...
... search,

The extremity in teenagers’ attitudes and actions coup...
But however meaningful the phone is in teenagers’ live ...
The BuddyBeads project suggests alternative ways for com ...
BuddyBeads are techno-jewelry items that facilitate non- ...
Each group

The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consist... meeting recordings. For a gentle introduction to the cor... corpus overview. To directly access the data, login or r... free and go to the Access AMI corpus section. Around two... data has be

OWL at Purdue Logo The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer over 200 free resour ...
* Writing and Teaching Writing
* Research
... * Job Search and Professional Writing

TrueSwitch makes changing your Internet Service Provider... your personal data to the new account, notify everyone w... address, forward emails sent to your old email address a... the old account

Usability News is a free web
newsletter that is produced by the
Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL).
The SURL team specializes in software/website us ...
... and research. 

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble...
The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ...
Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ...
In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow â ...
... people

Rendering Web Page To Images
For a long time now, people have been asking for ways to ...

You say… We say…
May 10th, 2007
Another visual experiment on tagging:
How do individuals use tags — compared to the communit ...
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The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

Welsh to English Lexicon
Contents:
A B C CH D DD E F FF G H I J L LL M N O P PH R RH ...

It's great. John Graham-Cumming is collecting screen sho... from movies and TV shows on the tumblr Movie Code and ex... actors are really looking at. Just because it's filled w...
Below is scenes from Terminator (he's looking at 6502 as ...
What all th

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
Two years a

What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code
BY Gina TrapaniTue Mar 16, 2010
QR code
Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference ...

What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition?
Michael Phelps, hailed as the greatest Olympian ever, ha ...
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The HAT is a private and secure cloud-based information ... and data processing abilities. It’s your own microserv... can access your data and manage it from an easy-to-use d... hyperdata browser we call Rumpel™. With Rumpel, you ca...
If you are

What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decisi...
Individuals with amygdala damage are more likely to lay ...
By Katie Moisse
DICEY RESEARCH: Damage to the amygdala encourages bad ga ...
... hen outcomes are potentially negative," De Martino s

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
This excellen

Intel’s just-announced Edison computer—the one the s... card—illustrates the corollary to Moore’s Law. If yo... more circuits on a piece of silicon, you can also make c... smaller and smaller. And this heralds a whole new way of... computing,

There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene