Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

A “standard-free” definition for the meter was actually proposed back in the 17th century. The Dutch mechanic, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor Christiaan Huygens suggested using a simple pendulum for this purpose. You...

A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you... use it.

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ...
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ...
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ...
1936 - Alon

A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues a... doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says th... want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on... But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not te...
A 16-year-o

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil

a client side JSON document store. Perfect for webkit mo...
Fork me on GitHub
Features
micro tiny storage without the nasty SQL: pure and d ...
... se syntax for searching and therefore finding of objects

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
... loads where applicable, are a

A command line and web app to find the papers you need t... paper published. Ever tried to get a paper published onl... reference papers you know were written by the programme ... suck up to get a paper accepted in your field?
Now with Cite The PC, it'

A company that controls thousands of New York City’s p... advertising displays has planted tiny radio transmitters... “beacons” — devices that can be used to track peop... — in hundreds of pay phone booths in Manhattan, BuzzFe...
And it’s

A comparison of some of the most common proportions show... differ. Of the proportions that are shown here, the lett... widest, and the golden section is the longest. 3 x 4 is ... of the common TV, 5 x 7 is a popular photo print format,... format (24

A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any do... to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a des... algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScrip... either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source.

A conservative estimate by the World Blind Union indicat... million people world-wide are blind or severely visually...

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a ... effect has received a boost, following experiments with ...
It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends ...
Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are ...

A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (that’s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ...
“At Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ...
As the Do N

A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail,... frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her... notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst.
Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say ha ...

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

A developer has created an application that allows the i... touch to sync wirelessly with iTunes over Wi-Fi, and pla... software to the App Store later this week.

A few things to try:
* Right-click -> copy on the orange icon next to one ...
* Single left-click one of the orange icons so that ...
* Load the page in IE and Firefox side-by-side. Copy ...
If you are interested in how this works or if you w

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon ... extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly –... developmental biology that we – and most other Drosoph... biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in... print. But

A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s...
In any case

A few years ago I went to Spain for the first time, and ... surprised by how late is dinner. The first night I dined...
Solar time vs. standard time
Solar time vs. standard time
At the time I’m writing, near the winter solstice, Mad ...

A few years back I wrote a Javascript library for editin...
Fast forward a few years and the momentum in the Javascr ...
Downloads
Current Version: 0.1.2 (Change Log)
... t is used to replace the contents of the edited element.

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

A future filled with smarter devices and robots means a ... programming. As people's devices get more complex, they'... things that are now mostly the domain of professional co... They might need to program in behaviors for personal rob...
Now, severa

A global community of friends and strangers answering on... What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right h...

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new ... openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the ... data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest result... unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publ... researchers

A group of Chinese scientists published their research i... peer-reviewed, open-source journal on January 5. The stu... paper that looked at the biomechanics of the human hand....
One of the sentences read: “Hand coordination should i ...
The word’

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e