Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Non-Places, Placelessness

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050

PARIS

People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London
One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ...
Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ...
Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ...
... identify how th

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

Signs and notices
Created by on-the-run.
View as slideshow
(New window open in a new window)
... rance Toc6 half-sign protest1 site London Road Eid cards

Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned?

Telstra hit over virtual Uluru
By Simon Canning
May 24, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Australian
... ts extensive investment in the online world Second Life.

The atlas contains five maps which trace the territories...
The maps are:
– Public Authoring, Education & Learning
– Neighbourhoods & Communities
... – Robotic Feral Public Authoring

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful

The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here.
Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ...
Other projects visualize Real

The intelligent use of space
David KirshE-mail The Corresponding Author
Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 9209 ...
Available online 6 April 2000.
... tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.

The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

The strange world of urban exploration
Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ...

There are two within subject variables to be investigate... angle and the other is pair type. A graph like the one b... convenient display of the effects of these variables, wh... analyzed for significance using a 2 X 6 repeated measure...
In additio

There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful...
Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ...
Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ...
My Wisconsi

They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet,...
In the spring of 1962, a fourth-year British architectur ...
In the course of his research, Frank Duffy stumbled acro ...
"The arrangement of the desks was somehow organic," Duff ...
... The pla

Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless ne... in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.

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