Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

CoSign: Secure, Intra-Institutional Web Authentication
Open Source Web Single Sign-On
An open source project originally designed to provide th ...

In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t

So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.
dailymail.co.uk
This couple proves that bigger isn’t necessarily better.

Weird huh ?
This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

We're walking faster
ITV News - 'World is walking 10% faster'
The pace at which city dwellers walk has increased by 10 ...

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us...
The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ...
Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ...
Newmark say

CRAWDAD is the Community Resource for Archiving Wireless... a wireless network data resource for the research commun... has the capacity to store wireless trace data from many ... locations, and staff to develop better tools for collect... and analyzi

Heatmap View
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As of March 11th Facebook removed it’s Static FBML app... Facebook Fan Pages. Instead, they’re forcing everyone ... iFrame applications, making it a lot harder to create an... pages…
We figured there should be an easy way to create and mai ...

Creating Accessible Computer Applications

OpenSearch
Firefox 2 supports the OpenSearch description format for ...

Creole (Composable Regular Expressions for Overlapping L... schema language that Jeni is developing for LMNL and oth... markup languages. It's based heavily on RELAX NG, with a... that make it suitable for overlapping structures.

Critical Values for Significance Tests

HTML5 offers a lot of exciting new features in the realm... my favorite new additions to forms in HTML5 is the place... Placeholder text is the “hint” or “example” text...
<input type="text" placeholder="Start typing to begin s ...
The only ne

What will you find here? Thousands of lines of cross-bro... all distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL. I hope ... playing with my toys - I certainly had fun making them. ... listen to me talk a little bit - although I'm not usuall... talker. The

Cross-validation is the statistical practice of partitio... data into subsets such that the analysis is initially pe... single subset, while the other subset(s) are retained fo...
The initial subset of data is called the training set; t ...
The theory

Screenshot via The Maker Map
We’ve long been fascinated with makerspaces, the DIY e ...
San Francisco is one such locale, with such a robust com ...

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 ...