Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOf... It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive co... documents.
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"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...
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This is just an example value--these are usually generat ...
Although the process for generating UUIDs is well-unders ...
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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

Like many media nerds, I love Chartbeat. It lets you kno...
The second I saw this measure, my heart actually leapt ( ...
On the first day I saw it, this is how big of an impact ...
darksocial_atlantic.jpg
Just look at that graph. On the one hand, you ha

But while anecdotal accounts multiply, mental health iss... little-researched and hard data is thin on the ground.
However, a study published in 2013 by the University and ...

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

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... nd data URIs have now been implemented in most browsers.

Are most online data visualisations, well, just not very...
It's an issue we grapple with a lot - and some of you ma ...
Poor Wordle - it gets the brunt of it. It was designed a ...
In the last week alone, New York Times senior software a ...
... one qu

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descript... variety of conventional ways to visualize data – table... charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every... every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to... effectively

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

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Imagining A “Post-PC” World

What with the web being all about links, you would think... know about the title attribute, but I rarely see it. For... know, all links can have a title, specified by the title... <a> tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you s...
Not all lin

M. L�ng, K. Sattler, K. Schmidt, E. Schallehn:
Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes
ICDE Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systerms (SMDB07 ...

From a user perspective, current file systems are based ...
* Information is partitioned into coherent and disju ...
* Information objects are classified according to a ...
* Each information object is given a single, semiuni ...
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Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ...
The murder of Kitty Genovese shifted from crime to legen ...
The Times piece was followed by a story in Life magazine ...
New York be

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

The deep web (or invisible web or hidden web) is the nam... the World Wide Web that are not part of the surface web ... common search engines. It consists of pages which are no...
Non-textual files such as multimedia (image) files, Usen ...
The deep

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent