Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional

Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nig... to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated en... wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their s... only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit acc... they can pa

Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 studen... globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence... widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early... large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethink... instruction

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
Two years a

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d...
Vinay Venka

Types and Programming Languages (Hardcover)by
Benjamin C. Pierce

TYREE, island and parish in Argyleshire Hebrides. The is... south-west- ward on a line with Coll; lies, at its north... extremity, 2 miles south of Coll, and 13 west-by-south o... in Mull ; and measures 13 miles in length, and from 1^ m... breadth. It

UEfAP
Using English for Academic Purposes
A Guide for Students in Higher Education
Andy Gillett

Ultrawideband (UWB) technology offers great opportunitie... wireless multimedia networking. The WiMedia Alliance is ... open industry association that promotes and enables the ... regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperab... wideband (U

Under the leadership of Pacific Northwest National Labor...
The R&D Agenda presents recommendations to advance the s ...
* The science of analytical reasoning
* Visual representations and interaction techniques
... Additional Reading (84K PDF)

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that... the functional programming support that you would expect... (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in Jav... It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux.
Underscore provides 60-odd f

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve

Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th...
And analysis by England's higher education funding body ...
This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ...
The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ...
Analysis by

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

University of Nottingham

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels....
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ...
It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ...
Shodan sear

Unlike the Mercator projection, the 1569 mapping techniq... you'd probably recognize from the world maps you saw in... continents on the AuthaGraph aren’t lined up straight... angled in a way that provides a more accurate representa... distances b

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 ...

Unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple's App Re... cause your iPhone app to be rejected.

UPDATE: Musk said at his rally that one had to be a petition signer to be eligible for the $1 million prize. (“So– we really want to try to get as many people as possible to sign this petition. So. I have a surprise for you [crowd chee...

Update: New blog entry: Introducing S4
S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partiall ...

Upside Down Text - Unicode Character Map
This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References

Usability News is a free web
newsletter that is produced by the
Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL).
The SURL team specializes in software/website us ...
... and research. 

Usability with a twist (updated 20 Feb 2006)
10,854 articles about usability, accessibility, IA, ...

Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

Use checkboxes and radio buttons only to change settings... buttons that make something happen. Also, the changed se... take effect until the user clicks the command button (la...
* If the user clicks the Back button, any changes ma ...
* If th

Use our service to anonymously and securely store an onl... proof of existence for any document. Your documents are ... database or in the Bitcoin blockchain, so you don't have...
All we store is a cryptographic digest of the file, asso ...
The key adv

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.