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2009-06-29 19:08:27     FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan00/sc1.html

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 ...

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/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun

2007-08-04 09:28:27     Gimme Your Stuff

http://gimmeyourstuff.blogspot.com/

What's it all about?
Welcome to Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange ...

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/Channels/techie/Web2.0

2006-06-17 14:11:17     Capturing Experiences Anytime, Anywhere

http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/ds.../index.jsp?...

What’s the future of mobile experience-capture technol... if a company were to make a small, white, beautifully de... device with an “i” in front of its name, what would ... explore this question by examining three technologies: o... currently a

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2012-02-13 09:53:59     The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific | Environment | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...at-escape-bath-toys-pacific?...

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

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2015-03-23 11:11:04     'Overnight, everything I loved was gone': the internet shaming of Lindsey Stone | Technology | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...aming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson

When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back?

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2007-11-24 09:19:02     Google reveals its social side - ZDNet UK

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/inte.../0,1000000097,39290496,00.htm

When Google announced that its new social-networking ini... extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land ... social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.
In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unv ...
The initiative,

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2017-04-03 21:05:14     The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura

http://www.atlasobscura.com/...o-changed-how-we-see-data?...

When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

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2006-02-04 19:57:59     Lachy’s Log » Blog Archive » Content-Type

http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/01/content-type

When it comes to the web, one of the most important yet ... concepts
is the media type of a file and, for text files, the ch ...
your hands now if you’ve ever been guilty of includin ...
(or equivalent) in an HTML or XHTML document:

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/Channels/techie/browser

2015-03-23 10:26:49     The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ment-ministers-cost-cutting-pr

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

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2015-10-20 15:46:12     Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34572482

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America

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2010-09-17 15:02:37     Inside IPhone 4.0's Multitasking - PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/...e_iphone_40s_multitasking.html?...

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
So when App

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2009-08-11 12:24:52     Charlie's Angles: Why can't local government and open source be friends? | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...source-birmingham-website-costs

When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'?

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2010-07-02 17:52:15     The open spending data that isn’t… this is not good « countculture

http://countculture.wordpress.com/...spending-data-that-isn/

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

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2012-12-01 17:44:30     English words of Celtic origin - Everything2.com

http://everything2.com/title/English+words+of+Celtic+origin

When the Germanic tribes known as the Anglo-Saxons and t...
From Irish (Gaelic):
banshee - bean síth, "woman of the fairy mound"
bard - bard, a high rank of poet
... gull - gullan, "bird"

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2014-01-09 23:06:03     A 7 Year Old And His Mom Try A Wild Experiment In The Freezing Cold. They Never Expected This… | Distractify

http://distractify.com/cult.../frozen-bubbles-in-wintertime/

When the temperature dropped to 16 degrees in Washington... a strange idea.
bubble1
She and her seven-year-old son mixed up some homemade so ...

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/Channels/just lovely

2014-11-05 10:56:05     100 African Cities Destroyed By Europeans: WHY there are seldom historical buildings and monuments in sub-Saharian Africa! | SiliconAfrica.com

http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/?...

When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?”
The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ...

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/Channels/heritage and museums
/Channels/maps and geography

2016-07-21 15:12:56    

https://medium.com/...gle-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#...

When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

I learned to think this way when I was a ...

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/Channels/digial media

2012-05-30 08:44:26     Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com

http://engineering.twitter.com/...ormance-on-twittercom.html

When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
To improve

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2012-01-10 21:12:00     Backbone.js

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Introduction

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
With Backbo

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/Channels/techie/JavaScript
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2015-05-05 12:24:13     Keep it long: Most science writing advice flops, analysis finds -- ScienceDaily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases.../150430191026.htm#...

When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most sc... similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a ne... 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfi... abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargo...

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2011-06-01 08:21:12     Hidden - The most advanced theft tracking software for your Mac.

http://hiddenapp.com/

When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stol... anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and ... the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy netw... but we won’t bore you with the details!)

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2013-01-30 08:09:08     Share a secret - One Time

https://onetimesecret.com/

When you send people passwords and private links via ema... are copies of that information stored in many places. If... link instead, the information persists for a single view... can't be read by someone else later. This allows you to ... information

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/Channels/digital economy

2010-07-12 17:42:52     Dry Erase White Board Paint for Offices | IdeaPaint

http://www.ideapaint.com/work/ideapaint/

When you’re confined to the space of a typical whitebo... destined to be small. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything... a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving you the spa... collaborate, interact and fully explore your creativity.... you use it,

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/Channels/cognition and art/creativity
/Channels/just fun

2012-03-17 10:37:57     Blacksmith Fundamentals

http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/blacksmith/farmshop.html

Whether a farmer can afford a forge and anvil will depen... to a blacksmith shop, the amount of machinery repair wor... have done, and his ability as a mechanic. Although not e... profitably own blacksmithing equipment, many farmers can...
Although bl

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2014-09-08 09:04:16     Deluxe Kit

http://littlebits.cc/kits/deluxe-kit

Whether you're a professional designer or just getting s...
Over 1 million circuit combinations possible
Includes booklet of 15 projects and with hundreds more p ...
Kit features popular modules like DC motor, servo, sound ...
... Endless hours of fun an

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/Channels/DIY technology

2016-10-17 12:22:21     Brexit — a story in maps – Medium

https://medium.com/@jakeybob/brexit-maps-d70caab7315e#.h0...

Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The...
I wondered,
Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ...
How much information can we include on one map?
Can we see how separated the Home Nations are on Brexit?

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/Channels/economy and politics
/Channels/maps and geography

2011-05-19 12:04:33     Tim Harford's Adapt: How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, not pretty good ones. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2293699/pagenum/all/#p2

Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Z... that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding... important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI resea... no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were fa...
The HHMI re

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2009-12-28 08:18:03     On Contributions, Open Source vs. Open Standards « hueniverse

http://hueniverse.com/...-open-source-vs-open-standards/?...

While many people can write functional code (pretty, ugl... wasteful), very few can write quality prose – prose th... understood the same way by different people, while at th... possess the typical properties desired in prose (eleganc... cultural se

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/Channels/techie/open data
/Channels/writing

2012-12-10 20:08:27     Official Google Africa Blog: Understanding barriers to mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana

http://google-africa.blogspot.co.uk/...rriers-to-mobile.html

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

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/Channels/HCI stuff/mobiles
/Channels/sustainability

2008-11-22 17:31:28     jMar's Blog: Building Your First jQuery Plugin

http://blog.jeremymartin.name/...rst-jquery-plugin-that.html

While some are intimidated by the thought of creating th... truth is that jQuery is built with an infinitely friendl... architecture. If you've gotten comfortable with the basi... coding, then you're certainly ready to develop your own ... tutorial wi

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/Channels/techie/JavaScript

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