Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)
Local authorities are using NaPTAN to code information f ...

Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, bored... makes people more generous to strangers and more toleran... Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re shar... memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nos... feel warmer

And oddly, this coincides with reports that an audience ... reacted badly to test footage from Peter Jackson's forth... movie. The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second – tw... as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an un... fluidity. T

The HAT is the first-ever personal data platform (HATPDP... individuals’ own data for their personal use. Individu... their own data from internet-connected objects or servic... acquired data is then transformed by the HATPDP to enabl...
The HAT is

Friday Poll Results Three weeks ago we asked you - what ... mean? What is it, really? No one who promotes the buzzwo... able to explain it. Even after a few mystical incantatio... intelligence" - we were none the wiser.

But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up.

Groups of elements with a common parent that move forwar...
Every stacking context has a single HTML element as its ...
New stacking contexts can be formed on an element in one ...
When an element is the root element of a document (the < ...
... never

The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larg... United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?

The aim of this research project is to build technology ... remember. The problem of forgetting should be familiar t... it is likely that the reader will not remember much abou... week. Memory aids have existed for as long as one can re...
Computers h

1000Memories is the passion of three friends who have lo... believe that the Internet offers a better way to bring p... build something special in their memory. We aspire to cr... visitors can gather and remember the lives of the people... place where

Twenty-five years after the creation of the cell phone, ... Motorola imagined what cell phones might look like in an... years. The Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) team created ... sketches that look beyond what is possible today and ima... possibiliti

kids computer
Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro (Creative Commons)
The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this ...

If you assumed that hanging a toilet paper roll one way ... arbitrary decision, you'd be wrong. Your toilet paper pr... actually be correlated to your demographic and political... shows.

At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of £2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly £5 per head.

Minds, Things, and Materiality.
To appear in Renfrew C. and Malafouris L. (eds.), The Co ...

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oli... UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘n... hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradfor... clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue a... least 39.5%

Sorry, you can't have my magical idea chair, but if you ... let you use it for a few minutes

Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitl... Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googl...
In Bret's story, he mentioned some of the common data so ...
In addition, as CNet and Ryan Stewart's blog spread the ...
So what did

The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

@guitarzan wants us to see this chart from north of the ... the comments. Please hold your nose first.
Cbc-drinking-graph
Here's one insightful comment: "I think it's insane to d ...
Reminds me of signs that say this elevator holds 13 peop ...

zSpace is a remarkable new 3D visualization tool that en... engineers, and film makers to build, manipulate, and vie... Unlike 3d TV, zSpace objects are created and displayed i... real time high definition. Your creations float magicall... as you imag

Occupy Wall Street’s slogan “We are the 99%” had b... the United States and the world for just over a month wh... Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study “The... Corporate Control” in October 2011. The study was a sc... our global

From a duck to a skeleton to a robot dinosaur: scientist... fabulous kinetic sculpture, called On the Move, to demon... the concept of energy transfer. The Launchpad team at Lo... Museum and Engineered Arts Ltd created this cause-and-ef... events in a

A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no ... open-access journals.
On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo C ...
In fact, it should have been promptly rejected. Any revi ...

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its mos... retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter... It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day a...