Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

An attempt to understand the notion better led Robin Gan... student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computati... human-computation acted out by a Turing machine). Gandy'... and analysis of, "cellular automata", "Conway's game of ... "parallelis

Ericsson, K. A., & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long-term working... Psychological Review, 102, 211-245.
Author of the summary: David Zach Hambrick, 1998, gt8781 ...
The sine qua non of skilled cognitive performance is the ...
Working memory (WM) refers to the si

Trying to migrate my old messages from Eudora to Apple M... most of the information got lost or mangled in the proce... show up as unread, attachments get lost, non-ASCII chara... incorrect, HTML messages display as code instead of form... Since I was

This list of special key combinations has been compiled ...
Apple Boot Key Combos:
Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... ...
Boot from CD (Most late model Apples) ................. C
... l PowerBooks & Desktops to sleep.......... CMD-O

ust a little less than a year ago I launched Better-Than... WordPress Search. I felt it was time to get back in the ... so I’m now releasing version 2 of the script.

Flickrvision
Picked this web app from a friend's facebook page and I ...
Just a fleeting glimpse of strangers' lives and interest ...
Perhaps we could learn something from this for Emerge... ...

Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly... loading the page or in run-time. This means that HTTP re... without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes. This post ... of my experiments with the inclusion of external javascr...

Fire-Fly: “The inspiration for Fire-Fly came about fro... the first time one early summer’s evening in New Jerse... points of luminous, glowing, green light, ‘dancing’ ... air”
Fire-Fly…..this installation occured in almost total d ...

The twelve days of Christmas,1 as a festival, have a lon... According to one source, it was first mentioned as a fes... eastern Father, Ephraem Syrus, at the end of the fourth ... declared to be such by the western Council of Tours in 5...
As a song,

AjaxPatterns.org began as a collection of design pattern... basis of the book, Ajax Design Patterns, and grew into a... wiki on anything and everything Ajax.

The quality of the data residing in information reposito... gets degraded due to a multitude of reasons. Such reason... mistakes during insertion (e.g., character transposition... standards for recording database fields (e.g., addresses... errors intr

We extend the OLAP data model to represent data ambiguit... imprecision and uncertainty, and introduce an allocation... the semantics of aggregation queries over such data. We ... natural query properties and use them to shed light on a... semantics.

In earlier work, we defined "multi-structural databases,... support efficient analysis of large, complex data sets o... numerical and hierarchical dimensions. We defined three ... over this data model, each of which required solving an ... problem. An

Systems integrating dozens of databases, in the scientif... large corporation, need to cope with a wide variety of i... as: different representations of the same object in diff... imperfect and noisy schema alignments; contradictory inf... sources; co

If you’ve used the internet, you’ve probably had the... unwanted emails or intrusive popup adverts. You might ha... virus attack or been the victim of online fraud.
Increasingly the internet is being targeted by criminals ...
This is why the governm

Electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT)
Network Rail is pleased to publish the December 2007 to ...
Britain’s national railway network and stations are ow ...

JsMath is a collection of JavaScript programs that make ... display mathematics within web pages. It works across mu... and hardware platforms, without the need for additional ... plugins on the part of the user. (It helps, however, if ... a set of ma

World’s largest 3D-display
May 12th, 2006
Electrical engineering students at the Delft University ...

Iraqi bloggers at home and abroad
Not many of the people who were blogging in English from ...

Throughout the course of the past two months, our projec... lot of changes. Originally, we thought our project could... addiction, the consequences of misinformation online and... interventions, or relationships and social networks. The... relationshi

In their book, Idealized Design: How to Solve Tomorrow's... (Wharton School Publishing), authors Russell L. Ackoff, ... Herbert J. Addison build upon a simple notion. They argu... get to the best outcome is to imagine what the ideal sol...
Idealized d

How balanced is the UK grid at the moment?
This meter is monitoring the power balance of the UK ele ...
The meter actually shows the grid's "frequency", which i ...

LibraryThing APIs
thingISBN takes an ISBN and returns a list of ISBNs fro ...
thingTitle takes a title and returns a list ISBNs from ...
thingLang takes an ISBN and returns the language of the ...

iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot
Stay close to those you love – no matter where you are!
Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ...
* Participate in family moments even though you're w ...
... ted to your family and frie

Young people are risking their privacy and leaving poten... information on social-networking sites, says the Information Commissioner's Office.
Millions of young people in Britain would not want a col ...

When Google announced that its new social-networking ini... extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land ... social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.
In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unv ...
The initiative,

Nvu is an open source project and we encourage all who w... involved.
Nvu is in the early stages of development and we are get ...
Nvu's development site (http://www.nvudev.org) will also ...

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