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2010-05-18 12:10:42     What is an UUID / GUID

http://www.famkruithof.net/guid-uuid-info.html

An answer to "What is an UUID?" would be "A GUID" this a... most of us any further though.
UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier, GUID for ...

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2007-05-13 19:51:59     The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging

http://chronicle.com/...thropologist-explores-video-blogging

An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural ant ...
Within just a few weeks, the video had been viewed more ...
This semester Mr. Wesch is leading a class of nine under ...

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/Channels/techie/Web2.0

2017-04-15 07:24:44     AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...t-biases-research-reveals?...

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised ... computers to interpret everyday language has been shown ... gender and racial biases.
The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequa ...

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/Channels/AI

2008-01-13 15:41:12     Church–Turing thesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-Turing_thesis

An attempt to understand the notion better led Robin Gan... student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computati... human-computation acted out by a Turing machine). Gandy'... and analysis of, "cellular automata", "Conway's game of ... "parallelis

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/Channels/physicality

2013-12-23 10:41:37     Real World Examples of Quadratic Equations

http://www.mathsisfun.com/...dratic-equation-real-world.html

An example of a Quadratic Equation:
Quadratic Equation
Quadratic equations pop up in many real world situations!

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/Channels/education/maths education
/Channels/math

2010-08-02 23:56:03     Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: Adding Temperature to Human-Computer Interaction

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?...

An experimental new game controller adds the sensation o...
Touch interfaces and haptic feedback are already a part ...
Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices a ...
In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRA ...
... list t

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2012-04-23 18:41:36     HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/...-from-inception-to-final-product/

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

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2015-03-23 10:29:55     Why I Am Not a Maker — The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../384767/

An identity built around making things—of being “a m... technology culture. There’s a widespread idea that “... things are simply different [read: better] than those wh...

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/Channels/DIY technology

2011-06-14 16:06:46       Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium

http://personaldataecosystem.org/

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
Industr

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/Channels/cognition and art/memories-for-life
/Channels/HCI stuff/PIM

2006-10-29 11:40:14     palojono: Appropriation, innovation, users, designers

http://palojono.blogspot.com/...ion-innovation-users_11.html

An interesting follow on discussion with Divya Ramachand...
A nice distinction comes from the late Professor Rolf Fa ...
INVENTION: is the creation of new ideas
INNOVATION: is the acceptance of new ideas
... ing in someone's head, or as a pretty

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2024-03-12 07:12:56     Shells from Captain Cook’s final voyage saved from skip | Archaeology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-final-voyage-saved-from-skip

An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip.
More than 200 shells have been returned to Engli...

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2013-03-24 07:26:41     Priivacy Problems Over An Online Eye | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/...rivacy-problems-over-an-online-eye

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

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/Channels/HCI stuff/internet of things

2013-01-21 09:35:19     What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be | Charlie Brooker

http://m.guardian.co.uk/c.../difference-hobbit-news-not-much

And oddly, this coincides with reports that an audience ... reacted badly to test footage from Peter Jackson's forth... movie. The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second – tw... as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an un... fluidity. T

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2011-09-01 14:30:43     “Respect Explorer’s Heritage” | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/...we-need-an-invert-selection-button/

And that’s OS X, Apple’s minority operating system n... is no file explorer — let alone one with 19 toolbar bu... Because in Apple’s view, the concept of a “file” i... saving of them and the transferring of them is something... should neve

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/Channels/techie/MacOSX

2005-05-22 09:16:26     The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft learns to crawl

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/...2002259705_search02.html

And, in many ways, the search battle is bigger than beat... Microsoft is carving its path in the next generation of ... one in which search becomes a platform, not a feature.

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/Channels/search

2006-07-24 22:04:01     ANN - Approximate Nearest Neighbor Library

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/

ANN is a library written in C++, which supports data str...
In the nearest neighbor problem a set of data points in ...
Based on our own experience, ANN performs quite efficien ...
The library implements a number of different data struct ...
The library

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/Channels/algorithms

2014-01-02 14:46:24     Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body

http://io9.com/...-you-feel-emotions-in-your-body-1491911738


Annalee Newitz on io9
neuroscience
Monday 4:00pm
... lush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love.

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/Channels/HCI stuff/emotion and fun

2009-03-28 09:11:16     A Space for Place in Sociology - Annual Review of Sociology, 26(1):463 - Abstract

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/...Fannurev.soc.26.1.463

Annual Review of Sociology
Vol. 26: 463-496 (Volume publication date August 2000)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463)
A Space for Place in Sociology
... laces matter for social practices and historical change?

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2011-11-02 11:54:29     Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists | TPM Idea Lab

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/...operation-cartel.php

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Ha...
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Carl Franzen November 1, 2011, 6:00 PM 24755 95
Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who threa ...
... ves would almost certainly be targeted by rival cartels.

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/Channels/digital economy

2012-10-02 09:24:56     Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=relmfu

Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.

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/Channels/education/maths education
/Channels/education/open learning

2017-06-15 21:17:17     Did Media Literacy Backfire? – Data & Society: Points

https://points.datasociety.net/...racy-backfire-7418c084d88d

Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro

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/Channels/digial media
/Channels/education

2008-09-03 19:31:06     Versionate Blog » Getting range objects from DOM selection

http://blog.versionate.com/...ge-objects-from-dom-selection/

Anyone who’s dealt with browsers’ implementations of...
Background for anyone who’s not familiar with it. Ther ...
Now, from JavaScript, let’s look at how to get those t ...
var selection = window.getSelection();
... implementation of selection

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/Channels/techie/browser
/Channels/techie/web development

2010-08-08 19:13:20     Shindig - Overview Of Apache Shindig

http://shindig.apache.org/overview.html

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

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/Channels/techie/open data
/Channels/techie/social networking

2011-06-05 07:24:51     Mashape, the Marketplace for APIs, Moves to Beta

http://www.readwriteweb.com/...pe-the-marketplace-for-ap.php

API providers can list their JSON APIs, which using Mash... in turn auto-generate five client libraries - PHP, Ruby,... Objective-C, and Java. The new billing tool lets develop... monthly price, API call limits, and the price per additi...
Consumers c

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2010-06-12 09:42:50     Apple Developer Connection: Monitoring File Changes with the File System Events API

http://developer.apple.com/mac/arti.../filesystemevents.html

Apple’s File System Events API gives applications the ... changes to paths containing relevant files recursively w... directory tree, both during execution and between launch... System Events API tackles the problem of detecting chang... chunk of th

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2015-02-13 08:34:11     Watch The New Phorm iPad Mini Case Generate Physical Keys Out Of Thin Air | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/20.../tactus-phorm-ipad-mini-case/?...

Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we in... computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from... thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards r... Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup‮..
Tactus co-f

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2006-07-24 22:08:33     Approximate box decomposition trees

http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/~surmann/papers/.../node17.html

Approximate box decomposition trees
Arya et al. [4] have presented an optimal algorithm for ...

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2009-03-28 09:13:45     Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning

http://www.routledgearchitecture.com/...ve-isbn9780415343763

Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind... organises and establishes relationships between the part... It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we... through movement and use. Conceptual ordering, spatial a... narrative a

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2009-07-13 18:53:10     phanfare - All your photos and videos. For life.

http://www.phanfare.com/corp/overview.aspx

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

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2011-10-18 09:04:52     Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics | News | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...ata-visualisation-visualization

Are most online data visualisations, well, just not very...
It's an issue we grapple with a lot - and some of you ma ...
Poor Wordle - it gets the brunt of it. It was designed a ...
In the last week alone, New York Times senior software a ...
... one qu

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