Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The microODRL specification descrbes a profile of the co... language for use as microformats in marking up standard ...

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an... effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standar... expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and in... mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of ... publishing,

Making browsers faster: Resource Packages
A proposal to make downloading web page resources faster ...

Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking ab...
example sprites
As game complexity increased, techniques developed to ma ...
And what does this have to do with the web?
... the associated “before” and “after” link states.

BlinkM by ThingM £8.00
BlinkMs are “smart LEDs”, a type of smart interface ...
You talk to it over I2C, a serial protocol spoken by man ...
Design by ThingM.
... Taking pre-orders, shipping on July 3rd 2009.

Siri Technology
A New Interaction Paradigm
Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ...
Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ...
... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

If you had just survived a plane crash, it is not inconc... first thoughts would be a long line of expletives, as we... when the Continental Airlines 737 in which he was travel... runway in Denver.

This is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos an...
Introduction
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to define, though ...
The fields of Chaos and Complexity theories have opened ...
I will attempt in this essay to present how certain appr ..

Early research on online self-presentation mostly focuse... constructions in anonymous online environments. Such stu... individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anti... behaviors in the online world. More recent studies have ... performance

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharin... It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trend... to like-minded academics. To achieve our long-term visio... for research“, we’re working with the former foundin... Skype and L

Consciousness and Biology
* Patricia A. Carpenter, Professor of Pyschology, CMU
carpenter+@cmu.edu
* Christopher J. Davia, Visiting scholar, CMU, Cogni ...
... science, is available from Davia (davia@andrew.cmu.edu).

I hope my video offers just a feel of what you can find ... Factbook eXplorer website. Just as exciting is the OECD'... Statistics site.
Readers might also like to explore the inspiration for t ...

In 2005, the artificial intelligence researcher at the M... Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab set out to under...
"We wanted to understand how minds work and how they dev ...
It was a big task and one that years of research by scie ...
But now, Pr

If you see a particularly colourful newspaper lying on t... 'great' and the 'good' over the next few months it could... AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme's new publication,...
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8 is a way of sharing all the lessons learned from our

Habitat is a trendy furniture store, set up by Terence C... for those who’ve never been to the UK its like a sligh... version of Ikea. @HabitatUK turned up on Twitter a coupl... decided to use trending topic #hashtags at the start of ... noticed. Th

It's easy to imagine an application that takes advantage... extracting just what it needs and dumping it into a loca... database. But that's clearly cheating. It's equally easy... completely generic low-level Linked Data browser, but th... less than c

“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 7... icons in strokably-soft PNG format. Containing a large v... you're sure to find something that tickles your fancy. A... low price of $0.00. You can't say fairer than that.
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What's in a face?
Do facial expressions reflect inner feelings? Or are the ...
BY BETH AZAR
Monitor staff
After 30 years of renewed interest in facial expression ...

The Atom API assumes only that the end user knows her ho...
Here is an example of a home page with Atom API auto-dis ...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
... </html>

Free Our Data: the blog
A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to ...

Opera 'is music for the heart'
Pavarotti
Listening to Pavarotti sing the Nessun Dorma could help ...
Listening to the right kind of music can slow the heart ...
... lood pressure, while slower-pace music does the reverse.

What is overLIB
overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websi ...

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

Real snail email
By Regine
on October 11, 2006 6:14 PM
Categories:
... e artists will give a talk tonight 7PM at [ s p a c e ].

Talking about slowing the web:
Louise Klinker's SLOWEB project that responds to peoples ...
What does it mean when you have to queue to enter a webs ...
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... t develop gradually to represent pending correspondence.

Tele-gardening
By Regine
on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM
Categories:
... ill wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her.

Web developer Aza Raskin knows we visit Digg, Del.icio.u... Facebook without even having to ask.
No, he isn't employing privacy violating hackery, but he ...
Raskin has wrapped this functionality in a script called ...