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2016-10-20 10:41:18     Opinion: Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/...ig-data-algorithms-manipulating-us/

In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, we’ve come... 1954, but i

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2013-12-13 18:54:16     Optical illusion: Shades of gray.

http://www.slate.com/...optical_illusion_shades_of_grey.html

optical illusion Which lozenge is darker: The one on top... bottom?
Illustration by Dale Purves, used by permission
What’s the illusion, you ask? Those two vertical lozen ...

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2013-12-13 18:54:01     Optical illusion: The blue and the green.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/ba.../the_blue_and_the_green.html

Blue green spiral illusion
You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orang ...

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2007-03-22 14:48:51     Optimal disk I/O with parallel block transfer

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=100216.100234

Optimal disk I/O with parallel block transfer
Full text pdf formatPdf (1.04 MB)
Source Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing archive
Proceedings of the twenty-second annual ACM symposium on ...
... ACM Press New York, NY, USA

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2011-06-27 18:08:17     Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users - The Optimizely Blog

http://blog.optimizely.com/...dersjs-an-open-source-guider-e

Today we’re open-sourcing a JavaScript library for vis...
A guider is a dialog box that guides a user through your ...
This example guider is not attached to any element and h ...
Screen_shot_2011-06-22_at_6
An example guider attached to the "Add Varia

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2010-06-10 21:31:29     Orange's Prototype Power-Welly Boots Are Made For Charging | Popular Science

http://www.popsci.com/gadg.../these-boots-are-made-charging

Party Power The Power Wellies use the heat of your feet ... cellphone charged. Gotwind.org
First the British invented waterproof Wellington boots; ...
The European telecom firm Orange, which sponsors the hug ...

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2011-09-29 14:05:53     Origo a 3D printer for everyone | What is Origo?

http://www.origo3dprinting.com/what-is-origo/

What is Origo?
Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten year olds.
You can draw your very own things in 3Dtin and I’ll bu ...
Right now, I am just an idea. I will be as easy to use a ...
... want it to be. Most of all though, I’m a tool for you.

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2010-04-02 19:01:34     OS OpenSpace, the quality mapping API from Ordnance Survey

http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/index.html

The OS OpenSpace API is free to access and lets develope... web applications and online projects with Ordnance Surve...
But OS OpenSpace API is not just for developers.
Although the API uses JavaScript to make web pages more ...
Get Ordnance Survey map

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2006-03-22 08:55:01     OSCAR protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol

SCAR is AOL's instant messaging and presence information... for Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime. Currently... for AOL's two main instant messenging systems: ICQ and AIM.

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2012-07-19 14:53:10     Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s Innovation system - Nesta

http://www.nesta.org.uk/...ons_from_indias_innovation_system

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a...
Innovation

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2013-02-22 08:32:33     Out Of Eden Walk - Dispatches from the Field from Paul Salopek

http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/

Map of Salopek's route
About 60,000 years ago, our ancestors took the first ste ...

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2010-11-08 23:36:15     Out of Print on Cool Hunting

http://www.coolhunting.com/style/out-of-print.php

Turning classic book covers into inspirational t-shirts,... recently added a kids line to its collection of "intelli... fashions. Tykes can don soon-to-be-favorite reads like "... Rye," "Moby Dick," "Pride and Prejudice" or "Brave New W... distressed,

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2012-02-07 17:32:19     Out of the box on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/26489936

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2016-01-02 12:02:28     Out of the box | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/...-up-expectations-it-only-getting

Perhaps four-fifths of the data that have been released ... particularly useful, reckons Joel Gurin of the Centre fo... Enterprise, a think-tank in Washington. America’s cach...
Searching open-data portals is often an arduous task. Wo ...
Gavin Stark

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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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2011-11-22 13:05:28     Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship

http://arstechnica.com/...show-predatorprey-relationship.ars

Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey...
By John Timmer | Published about 17 hours ago
You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosyst ...
The team went back to 1993 and compiled statistics on ev ...
... PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.10

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2012-08-06 11:51:46     Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online Courses - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../260159/

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing.

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2009-06-23 08:29:27     overLIB - Homepage

http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/

What is overLIB
overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websi ...

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2006-03-05 16:54:58     Overview - - Mobile phone - Sony Ericsson P990i - 

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...

[ From frame: http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?... ]

M600i
Coming soon
M600i has all you need to keep in touch with friends and ...
Touchscreen navigation is intuitive. Tap any function ic ...
M600i is a Symbian OS device. This makes it possible to ...

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2009-07-13 18:54:10     OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements

http://www.w3.org/TR/webont-req/

Due to the size and rate of change on the Web, the close... (which states that anything that cannot be inferred is a... false) is inappropriate. However, there are many situati... closed-world information would be useful. Therefore, the... able to sta

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2014-01-20 10:39:52     Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population | Business | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...chest-people-half-of-the-world

The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ...
Working for the Few - Oxfam report Source: F. Alvaredo, ...
The wealth

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2009-07-11 13:58:58     Oxford Journals | Humanities | Mind

http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/

Read This Journal
The Current Issue View Current Issue (Volume 118 Issue 4 ...
View Special Issue: 100 Years of 'On Denoting' (Vol 114 ...
Mind has long been a leading journal in philosophy. For ...
Mind continues its tradition of excellence today. Mind

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2009-04-28 11:33:42     Oxford University reveals it is losing £8,000 per student as tuition fees debate begins | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../tuition-fees-oxford-university

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

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2012-12-17 11:43:58     Oxygen Icons » About

http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2#goals

Goals
“Make a break with the past and go in a new direct ...
A well designed concept supports usability and acces ...
Think! Being innovative and creative ensures our sta ...
... Really nice art, acceptance through beauty (sexy!) :-)

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2012-12-17 11:42:17     p.yusukekamiyamane - Free stock icons + pixel fonts

http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

Fugue Icons 3.5.1 (November 27, 2012)
3,522 icons are included in PNG format (16x16 pixels) + ...

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2010-09-17 14:48:30     P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The insuffiency of the open data approach

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-insuffiency-of-the.../1412

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

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2006-03-05 16:50:22     P990i - Specifications - - Mobile phone - Sony Ericsson

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...

Coming soon
P990i takes effective communications to new heights. You ...
Symbian OS 9.1, the latest version of the most-used open ...

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2011-05-07 12:07:44     Pachube - data infrastructure for the Internet of Things

http://www.pachube.com/

Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and envi... objects, devices & buildings around the world.
Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that ...

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2011-11-02 09:57:46     Pachube :: blog: Bringing down the barriers: Pachube service goes free!

http://blog.pachube.com/...barriers-pachube-service.html?...

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

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2011-08-23 10:58:32     Page 1 The programming secrets today's coders have forgotten - ComputerworldUK.com

http://www.computerworlduk.com/...coders-have-forgotten/?...

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

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