Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

What's it all about?
Welcome to Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange ...

What’s the future of mobile experience-capture technol... if a company were to make a small, white, beautifully de... device with an “i” in front of its name, what would ... explore this question by examining three technologies: o... currently a

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacif... they began an incredible journey. While some washed up i... and Hawaii, countless others circumnavigated the globe. ... from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back?

When Google announced it was integrating AI-generated summaries into its search engine earlier this year, it brandished a bold slogan: “Let Google do the searching for you.” It’s an appealing idea that plays on our fondness for conven...

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,

When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ...

When it comes to the web, one of the most important yet ... concepts
is the media type of a file and, for text files, the ch ...
your hands now if you’ve ever been guilty of includin ...
(or equivalent) in an HTML or XHTML document:

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
So when App

When the budget for rebuilding Birmingham City Council's... from £580,000 to £2.8m, did nobody say 'let's try free... instead'?

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

When the Germanic tribes known as the Anglo-Saxons and t...
From Irish (Gaelic):
banshee - bean síth, "woman of the fairy mound"
bard - bard, a high rank of poet
... gull - gullan, "bird"

When the temperature dropped to 16 degrees in Washington... a strange idea.
bubble1
She and her seven-year-old son mixed up some homemade so ...

When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?”
The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ...

When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.

Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?

I learned to think this way when I was a ...

When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built ... application architecture that pushed all of the UI rende... JavaScript running on our users’ browsers and consumed... API directly, in a similar way to our mobile clients. Th...
To improve

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
With Backbo

When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most sc... similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a ne... 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfi... abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargo...

When you activate tracking, Hidden will locate your stol... anywhere on the planet, collect photos of the thief and ... the computer in use. (We also collect lots of nerdy netw... but we won’t bore you with the details!)

When you send people passwords and private links via ema... are copies of that information stored in many places. If... link instead, the information persists for a single view... can't be read by someone else later. This allows you to ... information

When you’re confined to the space of a typical whitebo... destined to be small. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything... a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving you the spa... collaborate, interact and fully explore your creativity.... you use it,

Whether a farmer can afford a forge and anvil will depen... to a blacksmith shop, the amount of machinery repair wor... have done, and his ability as a mechanic. Although not e... profitably own blacksmithing equipment, many farmers can...
Although bl

Whether you're a professional designer or just getting s...
Over 1 million circuit combinations possible
Includes booklet of 15 projects and with hundreds more p ...
Kit features popular modules like DC motor, servo, sound ...
... Endless hours of fun an

Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The...
I wondered,
Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ...
How much information can we include on one map?
Can we see how separated the Home Nations are on Brexit?

Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Z... that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding... important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI resea... no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were fa...
The HHMI re

While many people can write functional code (pretty, ugl... wasteful), very few can write quality prose – prose th... understood the same way by different people, while at th... possess the typical properties desired in prose (eleganc... cultural se

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

While some are intimidated by the thought of creating th... truth is that jQuery is built with an infinitely friendl... architecture. If you've gotten comfortable with the basi... coding, then you're certainly ready to develop your own ... tutorial wi