Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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...
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Whether you're a professional designer or just getting s...
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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

While the name of our process is %u201Cswitch sessions%u... the more general approach to creative collaboration idea... of starting from a blank slate and working together to c... final product, we document some idea seeds. These have n... advantages.

While this might be iPhone 101 to some, Apple pretty muc... feature into their 2.0 firmware, and while we’re now a... may yet know that they can capture their iPhone screen c...
To take a screenshot with your iPhone or iPod Touch, jus ...
To access y

While we’re used to seeing and hearing content on the ... it has never really had much of a look in. That changes ... a cool new product from London’s Mint Digital Foundry.
Olly is a USB-powered device which takes events on the I ...

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its mos... retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter... It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day a...

Why did we build Handy Elephant?
Individuals and businesses devote increasing amounts of ...
Yet, plenty of time is wasted, as they do not know which ...

Why do academics work so much?

Why does...
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Why Facebook's Open Graph idea must be taken seriously
F8 conference reveals plans that would allow users to re ...

Why is OpenFlow so advantageous to a company like Google... traditional model you can think of routers as akin to ta... passengers from one place to another. If a street is blo...
With the software-defined network Google has implemented ...
Therefore,

Why SubEthaEdit?Looking for a text editor that is design... actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice... HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or ... check out SubEthaEdit. While originally designed for cod... collaborati

Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We...
by Maria Popova
“Time perception matters because it is the experience ...
Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ...
That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps

Why use a task runner?
In one word: automation. The less work you have to do wh ...

WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month.

William Greider: Will It Matter That Janet Yelle...
Dave Zirin: Chris Kluwe, Aaron Rodgers and LGBT ...
John Nichols: Five Reforms to Make Democratic Po ...
A Look Back at the Year in Crazy, Part Two
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Wind power produces no harmful emissions of carbon dioxi... to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity ...

Windows Live Toolbar Custom Button SDK
The Windows Live Toolbar Custom Button Software Developm ...
In order to use or develop custom buttons, you must have ...

Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable o... applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operati... Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs ... without the performance or memory usage penalties of an ... similar loo

Wiredness Image Manipulation API Information - Version 1.2
The Wiredness system includes a simple API which allows ...