Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-... applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
From the Ajax in the view, to the request and resp ...
To go live, all you need to add is a database and ...

Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 20... to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of r... the seventeenth century to the present day. The exhibiti... widest-ranging on the subject to date and includes over ... artists suc

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of... on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).
q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports ...

Update: New blog entry: Introducing S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partiall ...

SabreDAV allows you to easily add WebDAV support to a PH...
Feature list:
Fully WebDAV compliant
Supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS/X, DavFSv ...
... CalDAV ctag, CalDAV-proxy.

Beginning in Safari 3.1 and iPhone OS 2.0, Safari suppor... JavaScript database class. The JavaScript database class... provides a very basic relational database intended for l... content that is too large to conveniently store in cooki...
Because it

Getting Geographic Locations
iPhone OS Note: Geographic location classes are availabl ...
Use the JavaScript classes described in this chapter to ...

I fixed my problem by deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist, SafariConduit.bundle, SAFARI.ELM, and SAFARI.INF files, ... Library folder (after backing up my Bookmarks). Now Safa... hangs! Yay!

Traditions - the third CD in The Welsh Gold Collection.
01/04/2009
Traditions brings together some of Wales’ leading expo ...
“World music” is now the term used for what we used ...
This selection is the third compilation in The Welsh Gol ...

SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journ... Control after an investigation revealed a “peer review... ring” involving a professor in Taiwan.

Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society.

Visual Prozac: The Unexpected Beauty of Abandoned Psychi...
Sometimes the most beautiful things come from unexpected ...

In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w

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

To verify cluster separation in high-dimensional data, a...
technique, and then visualize it with 2D Scatterplots, i ...
of providing guidance between these visual encoding choi ...
manually inspected a broad set of 816 scatterplots deriv ...
... guidanc

Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal.
Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.

14 August 2015
From the section Glasgow & West Scotland
The MV Loch Shira set idea needs 10,000 supporters befor ...
The mystery designer of a Lego replica of a CalMac ferry ...
Luke Ball, who now lives in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, des ...

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Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story... significantly worse at remembering the order of events t... the same story in paperback. Lead researcher Anne Mangen... Stavanger University concluded that "the haptic and tact... Kindle does

Science Toys
Make toys at home with common household materials, often ...

This paper explores principles governing the rational ba... agent's beliefs, goals, actions, and intentions. Such pr... specifications for artificial agents, and approximate a ... action (as philosophers use the term). By making explici... under which

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.

On distinguishing epistemic from pragmatic action
This article is not included in your organization's subs ...
David KirshCorresponding Author Contact Information, * a ...
University of California, San Diego, USA
... be incorporated into theories of acti