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86th Birthday Rage

Here, we'll look at additional datasources and how to us... files as datasources.
Other Mozilla Datasources
Mozilla provides a number of other built-in datasources. ...

# Staff can assess their own readiness for promotion
# Clear, explicit criteria for assessing readiness for p ...
# Staff can obtain feedback about why their application ...
# Control over unplanned grade drift and role growth

There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful...
Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ...
Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ...
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The South Korean government has granted approval to begi... what will be the world's first "invisible" tower. Called... Tower, it will be equipped with an LED facade system and... give it a reflective skin — and a striking translucent...

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ...
Take a look at the pic below and you’ll see the Osteoi ...
... won’

printer
While 3D printing might be all the tech geek rage right ...
Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr ...

Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr... that could “print” a house in as little as 20 hours.... material can withstand over three times the PSI force of... walls. There can even be larger versions, with multiple ... for use in

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

Some abstract succeed in telling a good story by distort... details of what was done and what was found . Some manus... way into prestigious journals because the editor and rev... by what they read in the abstract and don’t notice tha... with what i

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty...
Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved — some ...
To mark this anniversary, we’ve taken an abridged look ...
1. The Olden Days
... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing.
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ...
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from ...
... or anything. I just hope to suggest

Computation is central to the foundations of modern cogn... its role is controversial. Questions about computation a... for a physical system to implement a computation? Is com... sufficient for thought? What is the role of computation ... cognition?

DERA GHAZI KHAN: At a worl(place dealing with Arabic and... Saudi Arabia, one day Akbar Makhmoor started with the Se... and its definition in Urdu and Seraiki. Now, after almos...
He has never been to a college or a university. A tyre r ...
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Last week TechCrunch reported that Channel Intelligence ... based in Florida, had filed a lawsuit for patent infring... against a long list of startups which - get this - offer... products people may want others to buy for them. However... companies d

Do you believe that:
In the (near) future, students will access their dig ...
That mobile apps should not try to duplicate the bro ...
So far, the mobilization of learning has been more h ...
It is with these questions in mind that I've been p

Global variables are evil. Within YUI, we use only two g... YAHOO_config. Everthing in YUI makes use of members with... object hierarchy or variables that are scoped to such a ... that you exercise similar discipline in your own applica...
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In the past few years, performance research has become m... thanks to research by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance... Google’s Steve Souders. Most of that research studies ... HTML page, but the resources the page requires to displa...
Although bo

Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking ab...
example sprites
As game complexity increased, techniques developed to ma ...
And what does this have to do with the web?
... the associated “before” and “after” link states.

We might not like to admit it but deception is deeply en...
To fill the gap, darkpatterns.org was created in August ...
If we put aside our moral quibbles let’s put ourselves ...
Let’s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ...
... ominent

You probably already know how to use media-specific CSS ... suitable layout for the printed page.
But how great would it be to be able to go further and p ...

Storytelling is a buzzword with lots of different interp... the internet is killing stories, or it’s the best thin... them since the printing press.


Stories have been around as long as we have, helping us ...

What does a user want? Designing for needs. Putting the ... web content accessible to more people and more kinds of ... Designing and testing usable interfaces. Use-case models... Scenario development, wireframes. Usability testing on t... the not so

You are looking at pictures of a house I built for our f... was built by myself and my father in law with help from ... visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved ... estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this p...
The house w

Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land...
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... e is, in short, trying to rethink how data is presented.

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

Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein...
Dancy consi

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s