Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr...
Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ...
The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ...
“Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ...
... ings of

In the latest cautionary tale involving the so-called In... white-hat hackers have devised an attack against network... lightbulbs that exposes Wi-Fi passwords to anyone in pro... the LED devices.
The attack works against LIFX smart lightbulbs, which c

The foundations of spatial analysis span many discipline... generations of researchers and practitioners. CSISS Clas... summaries and illustrations of major contributions to sp... the social sciences. Primary emphasis is given to resear... with an att

One of Lynch's innovations was the concept of place legi... essentially the ease with which people understand the la... By introducing this idea, Lynch was able to isolate dist... city, and see what specifically is making it so vibrant,... people. To

Web developer Aza Raskin knows we visit Digg, Del.icio.u... Facebook without even having to ask.
No, he isn't employing privacy violating hackery, but he ...
Raskin has wrapped this functionality in a script called ...

Interactive Application Architecture Patterns
An Introduction to the Model-View-Controller, Model-View ...
This article presents an introduction, overview, and com ...

Do you REALLY need to spend hundreds of dollars on drawi...
Or do you just want to DRAW?
OK then, point your browser here, draw, and save Save yo ...
Samples of JPEGs created using Cumulate Draw:
sample - flowchart sample - UI design

These are an interesting collection of maps that may hav... our planet in a completely different way!

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources
Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
Currency Symbols
U+20A0 – U+20CF (8352–8399)

Many web screen scraping tools exist. They are hard to l... fully satisfy your specific requirements and changing de... need custom Web scraping services rather than ready-made... nor any Web scraping software. In a custom scraping proj... you scrape

Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results fr... journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to ... research

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Erro... most widespread and critical programming errors that can... software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, a... exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently...
The Top 25

CWTS Journal Indicators provides free access to bibliome... scientific journals. The indicators have been calculated... University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies... the Scopus bibliographic database produced by Elsevier. ... available f

CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere
Mark Poster
http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/writings/democ.html
University of California, Irvine

CyberPsychology & Behavior
ISSN 1094-9313 - Published Bimonthly
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This bimonthly peer-reviewed journal explores the impact ...

"Once you have a truly massive amount of
information integrated as knowledge, then
the human-software system will be superhuman,
in the same sense that mankind with writing
... before writing." ~ Doug Lenat, June 21, 2001

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Objec... then apply data-driven transformations to the document. ... example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table f... numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive ...
D3 is not a

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents... helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3... web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern ... tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining pow... components

DAB02: Anti Dogmatic Design
Instructors:
Prof. Dr. M. Rauterberg
Faculty Industrial Design, Technical University Eindhoven
... ediate to advanced level (depending on your commitment).

unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOf... It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive co... documents.
Supported document formats include Open Document Format ...

"An exhaustive - if bonkers - work of genius!" Mike Tucker
In the spring of 2002, before most of the world had hear ...

Damietta furniture exports hit $100 million
Egypt, Economics, 5/26/2005
"Damietta governorate's furniture exports have continuou ...
Speaking at a meeting with the board of directors of the ...
... order to learn more about modern manufacturing methods.

UUIDs (related to GUIDs) are used frequently in computin...
7673868d-231e-490d-9c4f-19288e7e668d
This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
... WSDAPI, please use the urn:

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their ... courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as... how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, pe... discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unpreced... on how know

MySQL was initially chosen as their database of choice b... simple, fast and reliable. All told, they have about 60... runtime experience without data loss or corruption due t... like most megascale services they often end up using MyS... key<->value