Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings
Liane Gabora,
... what sort of a system could spawn the initial seed of creativity from which an idea grows?

Commencing February 2009, this study is exploring what a...
* Explore the past — examine prior studies and ana ...
* Define possible future scenarios and assess their ...
* Produce preferred visions for Europe of a Future I ...
The project

This event focuses on some significant developments in I... that have emerged in the last few years. Although these ... received widespread media coverage they have so far rece... way of sustained investigation by the social sciences. T... intended to

A town council in Germany has decided the best way of im...
From September 12, all traffic controls will disappear f ...
In an area used by 13,500 cars every day, drivers and pe ...
"Traffic will no longer be dominant," he said.
The idea of removing sign

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

I have been enjoying Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars... Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which covers the Briti... War I. My favorite section details how the British resp... turned out they had a drastic shortage of binoculars, wh...
The Germans

Transana is a computer program that allows researchers t...
* Identify and easily access the analytically signif ...
* Manage large video collections containing hundreds ...
* Organize video clips (from the same or from differ ...
... distant

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The following is a list of commonly used SMS, text, chat ...

Changing the Appearance of Physical Interfaces Through C...
David Lindlbauer1, Jörg Müller2, Marc Alexa1
1 TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2 Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aar ...
... examples

The vision of the Semantic Web still has not become real... significant research and development efforts were undert... of semantic representations is probably still outpaced b... traditional Web pages and one might be skeptic about the...
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Despite significant research and development efforts the... Semantic Web has not yet become reality. The growth of s... representations is probably still outpaced by the growth... Web pages and one might remain skeptical about the poten...
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Let me set the scene for this post by sharing a simple t... night:
Twitter: @troyhunt Passwords are stored in a secure way. ...
Ok then, that’s about as many security misdemeanours a ...

A programme that convinced humans that it was a 13-year-... the first computer ever to pass the Turing Test. The tes... requires that computers are indistinguishable from human... a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence... have warned

A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you... use it.

Osama Raid Live Tweets
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Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare e ...
... May 02, 2011, 4:42 AM

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

The twelve days of Christmas,1 as a festival, have a lon... According to one source, it was first mentioned as a fes... eastern Father, Ephraem Syrus, at the end of the fourth ... declared to be such by the western Council of Tours in 5...
As a song,

twhirl Documentation
Introduction
twhirl is a desktop client for the popular microblogging ...
There were different reasons for me to start developing ...
The decision to go the Flex way was easily made. I do XH ...

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 ... isn't enough.
With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link ...

Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner

Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

Add awesome looking embedded HTML representations of act... blog posts just by adding simple shortcodes. Please read... http://themergency.com/twitter-blackbrid-pie-wordpress-p... info and see a demo of the plugin in action at http://themergency.com/tw

When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
To improve

Before we delve into the details, here's an overview of ...
First, we monitor for which search queries are curre ...
Behind the scenes: we run a Storm topology that trac ...
For example, the query [Big Bird] may suddenly see a ...
... ckobama

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as I’d se