Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
[ A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number ...
The story of Mel is a related article. ]
Back in the good old days-- the "Golden Era" of computer ...

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Browse all maps with options to filter by year, auth...
Listing of all current & past venues.
See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at ...
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cro ...

FIFTEEN years ago, the bid to create Australia's first b... university researchers pillaging old stereos for parts.
However today, 154 researchers led by biomedical enginee ...

The past several years have not been kind to the world's... working poor. The foundations on which we have built the... commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have...
Nevertheless, there is one institution that has continue ...
This is the

Sorry, you can't have my magical idea chair, but if you ... let you use it for a few minutes

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

adding images into QR Codes

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu...
Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ...
iPavement being installed in Spain
Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ...
The apps are available in a number of

For about a year, former aerospace engineer Sam Cervante...
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... onally features an outer cover and a front acrylic door.

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months an... reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time... out the next best way to put the phone together, as well... best weight and the best components for certain models, ... size of the

A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te...
A 16-year-o

A network of brain regions which is activated during int... experience overlaps with the brain network associated wi... contemplation and self-assessment, New York University r... found. Their study sheds new light on the nature of the ... experience,

Why is OpenFlow so advantageous to a company like Google... traditional model you can think of routers as akin to ta... passengers from one place to another. If a street is blo...
With the software-defined network Google has implemented ...
Therefore,

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK ha... to smartphones, with people confessing to using them eve... dining table to the bathroom and bedroom.
Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half o ...
Most (59 per cent) have acquir

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

Today’s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you don’t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... That’s no

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

Gustave Moreau

“There are two theories about the kind of Christmas pr... expect in 2003, and no one can say exactly which of them...
“Because of the incredible advances in automation, mac ...
“So, if that theory is correct, Christmas presents in ...
“The oppo

While this might be iPhone 101 to some, Apple pretty muc... feature into their 2.0 firmware, and while we’re now a... may yet know that they can capture their iPhone screen c...
To take a screenshot with your iPhone or iPod Touch, jus ...
To access y

Mobile development is a mess. Building applications for each device--iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and more--requir... frameworks and languages. One day, the big players in mo... work together and unify third-party app development proc...
PhoneGap is

The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact l... users a much wider field of vision.
The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads ...
Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by the US Army an ...

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan K... the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work wit... the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the ide... Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the...
The most in

A future filled with smarter devices and robots means a ... programming. As people's devices get more complex, they'... things that are now mostly the domain of professional co... They might need to program in behaviors for personal rob...
Now, severa

As pointed out by TechDirt’s Mike Masnick, last week N... two-part blog post on its recommendations system, one of...
Whilst they acknowledge that the work that went into the ...
“This is a truly impressive compilation and culminatio ...
Basically,

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place