Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Lifehacker readers already know about EverNote, great no... that now offers a beta that includes a web-based side, t... a cool hack that you can use to get your ideas into Ever... service on your cell phone. What this means is that you ... cell phone

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ...
This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ...
The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ...
Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ...
... g of ho

I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
Christopher Wolfram on stage at Maker Faire

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
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STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how peo... implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how... individuals, organizations, and society. HCI is a resear...
At the same time that a human-centered approach to syste ...
This report

The growth of both the types and the amount of data gene... users, and applications have resulted in a number of rec... innovations: NoSQL, rise of popularity of Hadoop, and do... higher-level map-reduce frameworks. However, the batch-p...
What if we

A prototype bra from Microsoft researchers uses sensors ... wearer's mood with a goal of helping prevent stress-rela...

In universities around the world, semesters end with stu... similar surveys about their experience in the class and ... teacher.
Student ratings are high-stakes. They come up when facul ...
Recently, a number of faculty members have been publishi ...

Wendell’s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription...
Tommy says

Her findings:
Men and women who are solo authors of most of their pape ...
When men co-author papers, each such paper is associated ...

More than half of the findings from 100 different studie... leading, peer-reviewed psychology journals cannot be rep... researchers who followed the same methodological protocol.
A study by more than 270 researchers from around the wor ...

We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

Why SubEthaEdit?Looking for a text editor that is design... actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice... HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or ... check out SubEthaEdit. While originally designed for cod... collaborati

Hand-colored image of Mars from Mariner 4.
Encoding quantitative data with color is (sometimes lite ...

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD... (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Resear... internal documents, historical reports, and statements r... debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled fi... chronologic

Summly's user interface is state-of-the-art with no butt... minimalist approach.. Press anywhere on a summary to rev... 'Summflower' which allows for sharing of summaries as su... saving of favourite summaries for offline viewing. Swipe... full articl

Crisis? What crisis? The 1,000 wealthiest people in the ... £547bn, not counting what’s in their bank accounts, a... latest Sunday Times Rich List

Alan Dix, professor of computing at Lancaster University... rough calculations, Roadrunner was possibly only five to... powerful than the human brain. "Wait another three to fi... will be there," he said

suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permi... owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and ... binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to ch... the process executing the PHP interpreter.

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Is Tech Bad for Teenagers?
... Online Marketing in 2012

The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends togeth... clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must brin...
(Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ...
"Save money, save the planet, have a party: swishing eff ...
Lucy Shea,

The Symposium on Computational Fabrication is an interdi... that brings together leading experts from academia and i... of computer graphics, geometry processing, mechanical en... materials science, architecture, human-computer interact... applied mat

SyntaxHighlighter is a fully functional self-contained c... highlighter developed in JavaScript. To get an idea of what SyntaxHighlighter is capable of, have a look at the demo...

System Requirements for
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
To run Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac, your computer mu ...
• Processor: A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, ...
... ertain features require Internet access (fees may apply)

Tagged datasets for named entity recognition tasks

The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati