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2008-11-22 17:30:25     Tutorials:How jQuery Works - jQuery JavaScript Library

http://docs.jquery.com/How_jQuery_Works

A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you... use it.

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2010-11-04 08:29:37     The Bionic Eye That Helps The Blind See Again | Gadgets And Gizmos

http://www.gadgetsandgizmos.org/...elps-the-blind-see-again/

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

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2012-01-27 09:17:52     One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/...plete-and-mostly-wrong.html

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ...
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ...
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ...
1936 - Alon

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2012-04-23 06:48:59     The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...-flight-from-conversation.html?...

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

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2009-11-14 17:12:10     Carbon Footprint - What Is A Carbon Footprint?

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil

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2011-05-04 11:33:27     Lawnchair

http://westcoastlogic.com/lawnchair/

a client side JSON document store. Perfect for webkit mo...
Fork me on GitHub
Features
micro tiny storage without the nasty SQL: pure and d ...
... se syntax for searching and therefore finding of objects

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2012-08-06 11:59:52     Com-Me – Community Media Toolkit

http://www.digitaleconomytoolkit.org/

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
... loads where applicable, are a

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2011-09-19 15:53:28     README.markdown at master from theshadowhost/Cite-the-PC - GitHub

https://github.com/theshadowhost/Cite-the.../README.markdown

A command line and web app to find the papers you need t... paper published. Ever tried to get a paper published onl... reference papers you know were written by the programme ... suck up to get a paper accepted in your field?
Now with Cite The PC, it'

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2014-10-07 09:47:09     Exclusive: Hundreds Of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths

http://www.buzzfeed.com/...idden-inside-new-york-city-ph#...

A company that controls thousands of New York City’s p... advertising displays has planted tiny radio transmitters... “beacons” — devices that can be used to track peop... — in hundreds of pay phone booths in Manhattan, BuzzFe...
And it’s

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2007-01-02 14:15:22     Proportions: Golden Section or Golden Mean, Modulor, Square Root of Two, Theorie and Construction

http://photoinf.com/..._of_Two,_Theorie_and_Construction.htm

A comparison of some of the most common proportions show... differ. Of the proportions that are shown here, the lett... widest, and the golden section is the longest. 3 x 4 is ... of the common TV, 5 x 7 is a popular photo print format,... format (24

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2011-10-22 16:08:31     List of Algorithms

http://www.scriptol.com/programming/list-algorithms.php#C...

A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any do... to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a des... algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScrip... either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source.

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2006-03-23 14:27:35     Designing Universal User Interfaces — The Application of Universal Design Rules to Eliminate Information Barriers for the Visually Impaired and the Elderly - For Design Professionals - Technology - VisionConnection

http://www.visionconnection.org/...salUserInterfaces.htm?...

A conservative estimate by the World Blind Union indicat... million people world-wide are blind or severely visually...

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2013-01-28 10:15:08     BBC News - 'Quantum smell' idea gains ground

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150046

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a ... effect has received a boost, following experiments with ...
It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends ...
Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are ...

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2011-05-11 13:04:28     In a World Without Tracking & Cookies, Can Online Commerce Succeed?

http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/buyosphere/

A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (that’s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ...
“At Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ...
As the Do N

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2013-02-09 09:23:16     Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund

http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/

A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail,... frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her... notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst.
Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say ha ...

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2013-12-03 08:12:13     End of Moore's Law: It's not just about physics | Business Tech - CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/...ores-law-its-not-just-about-physics/

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

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2010-04-27 08:29:04     AppleInsider | App Store submission offers wireless iTunes sync for iPhone

http://www.appleinsider.com/...s_itunes_sync_for_iphone.html

A developer has created an application that allows the i... touch to sync wirelessly with iTunes over Wi-Fi, and pla... software to the App Store later this week.

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2008-10-15 18:29:32     Live Clipboard Example

http://spaces.live.com/editorial/ra.../clipboardexample.html

A few things to try:
* Right-click -> copy on the orange icon next to one ...
* Single left-click one of the orange icons so that ...
* Load the page in IE and Firefox side-by-side. Copy ...
If you are interested in how this works or if you w

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2014-03-16 18:27:34     Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon ... extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly –... developmental biology that we – and most other Drosoph... biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in... print. But

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2013-02-09 13:56:19     The Decision to Leave Academia: A Dialogue with Chris Humphrey of Jobs on Toast | The Professor Is In

http://theprofessorisin.com/...s-humphreys-of-jobs-on-toast/

A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s...
In any case

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2014-02-22 07:53:00     How much is time wrong around the world? | The poor man's math blog

http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo.../comment-page-1/#...

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined...
Solar time vs. standard time
Solar time vs. standard time
At the time I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ...

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2009-07-13 11:17:22     jQuery Edit In Place (JEIP) || Joseph Scott

http://josephscott.org/code/javascript/jquery-edit-in-place/

A few years back I wrote a Javascript library for editin...
Fast forward a few years and the momentum in the Javascr ...
Downloads
Current Version: 0.1.2 (Change Log)
... t is used to replace the contents of the edited element.

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2011-10-30 08:31:06     BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15480741

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

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2011-08-23 11:00:36     Tweet-a-Prisoner: Social Media and Prisoners « Clare Hooper's Blog

http://clarehooper.wordpress.com/...ial-media-and-prisoners/

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

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2012-04-13 23:45:04     In the Future, We'll All Program Our Own Robots | Innovationnewsdaily.com

http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/...ll-program-robots.html

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

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2007-05-13 19:56:44     Twitter: What are you doing?

http://twitter.com/

A global community of friends and strangers answering on... What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right h...

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2015-05-05 12:38:02     New gold standard established for open and reproducible research | University of Cambridge

http://www.cam.ac.uk/...d-for-open-and-reproducible-research

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new ... openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the ... data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest result... unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publ... researchers

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2016-03-22 21:55:08     Why One Published Paper Is Causing The Scientific Community To Freak Out | IFLScience

http://www.iflscience.com/...designed-creator-causes-outrage

A group of Chinese scientists published their research i... peer-reviewed, open-source journal on January 5. The stu... paper that looked at the biomechanics of the human hand....
One of the sentences read: “Hand coordination should i ...
The word’

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2013-03-13 09:41:13     Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050? - NYTimes.com

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/...power-new-york-by-2050/

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

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2014-03-27 08:12:37     Extra Food Banks Aren't Needed Because Restaurants Are Busy, Says Tory Councillor

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...ll-ascough_n_5034541.html

A local Conservative councillor has said the fact he str... table in restaurants at the weekends proves there is no ...
Crawley councillor Liam Marshall-Ascough made the commen ...

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