Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A...
The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ...
Second Sigh

Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations.
This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ...
Access to public sector and other open and free data is

Litmus lets you preview your campaigns across 34 email c...
Preview in real email clients
Litmus shows you screenshots of your email newsletter as ...
Check on mobile devices
See your email on the most popular mobile devices. Litmu ...

To summarize: For any and all PUT/POST/DELETE operations... In progress” and a new “Status” resource, which co... progress indicator, a target_uri for whatever’s being ... to identify the operation, and, when progress reaches 10...
We also tho

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with o... are git repositories, so they are automatically versione... usable as a git repository.

The intellectual inquiry occurring each day at Stanford ... question of how research can best be accessed and put to...
Enter the Public Knowledge Project.
The project works on how to make precious new informatio ...
It revolves around free, downloadabl

SIMILE Widgets
Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets, and More
This is an open-source “spin-off” from the Simile pr ...

Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwr... infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention ... common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you ... chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll ... disgust. Bu

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules
(AP) – 2 days ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ...
The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ...
But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ...

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ...
Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

Rural UK could get cheaper broadband under Ofcom plans
Fibre-optic cable, Eyewire The proposals could benefit a ...
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... and under plans set out by the communications regulator.

Jeff Randall: Here in Britain we’re very good at comin... but not very good at turning them into money-making busi... that?
Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ...

Papers · your personal library of research
Repository of knowledge
Search article repositories and download articles withou ...
All your papers at a glance
... Full screen reading, article notes

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship.

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
Principal f

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ...
This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ...
The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ...
Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ...
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Between 75% and 80% of television viewing will remain in... television viewing environment for the next 10 years in ... the US, and the 30 second spot will continue to dominate... advertising. That is the view of Simon Thomas, Strategic...
However, wh

In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ...
But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
... ive cos

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper onlin... downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer an... That's triggering an identity crisis for one of the olde... campus and leading some college officials to ask: If tex... does the ca