Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve

Fossils found in some of London's most famous landmarks ... to life with the help of a north Wales technology company.
Llandudno-based Livetech are behind a website detailing ...

LMNL, pronounced “liminal”, is an experimental appro... encoding that supports, in SGML/XML terms, overlapping e... LMNL) and structured attributes (annotations in LMNL).

Loader generator

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

For me such localism is the cornerstone of what environm... about in the 21st century. Not the top-down imposition o... agenda, but the nurturing of people working as a communi... concerned by local environmental impoverishment come tog... and enhance

Logitech has unveiled a new mouse which operates on the ...
"People are growing accustomed to using fingertip gestur ...
Logitch Touch Mouse M600 has no buttons"In fact, for man ...
Indeed, the mouse is controlled using gestures that can ...
Meaning, yo

do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm

Related search engines are identified for
a set of search resu ...
searched. This lets ...
is often unreachable ...

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus...
The conversation usually starts with the following state ...
And when co

I wrote a Thunderbird add-on to make the email interface... wanted — one that helps me remember to stay in touch w... care about, instead of always distracting me with the ne... trivia.

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Lovely Charts is easy...
With Lovely Charts's extremely simple and intuitiv ...
Check out our screencast to discover how it works, ...
... hink, we draw", just try it and you'll see what we mean.

For the last couple of years, sales of Android-based sma...
Android phones now account for nearly 75% of the global ...
In the U.S., Android is clubbing iPhone 53% to 34%.
Given such a disparity in phone sales and usage, you wou ...
... Android devices,

Social Lending is where people lend and borrow money wit... sidestepping the banks. And the more you think about it,... sense.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A diet high in fat and ... carbohydrates, known as the "ketogenic" diet, quickens r... paralyzed rats after spinal cord injury, according to ne...

Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
Terry Eagleton
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins · Bantam, 406 pp,  ...
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only know ...
Dawkins on God is rather like those right-wing Cambridge ...

Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in...

Human Computation
Most of my time is spent inventing novel techniques for ...
One family of techniques is CAPTCHA, automated tests tha ...
Another family is exemplified by my work on The ESP Game ...

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal...
Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very s... come to mind when they think of coders and software entr... unshaven, twenty-something males.
Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate ...
Despite her success on the runway, Lyn

Lytro lets you take pictures like never before. Unlike a... camera that captures a single plane of light, the Lytro ... entire light field, which is all the light traveling in ... every point in space.

M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mo... money transfer service for Safaricom, Kenya's largest mo... operator.[1] Currently the most developed mobile payment... developing world, M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdr... money easil

Remember M3-neony and M3-synchy, two humanoid robots fro...
Similar to neony and synchy, the purpose of the new robo ...
Weighing 27kg, M3-Kindy (“Kind” as in “Kindergarte ...
Noby (“Noby” as in “New-born Baby), on the other h ...
Noby is sup

This list of special key combinations has been compiled ...
Apple Boot Key Combos:
Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... ...
Boot from CD (Most late model Apples) ................. C
... l PowerBooks & Desktops to sleep.......... CMD-O