Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

In the future, I wonder if it'll be common for people in... that to stop trying to scrub information from the Web, p... strategically add more content to the cloud as an elabor...

In this example the physicist David Deutsch (1999) demon... explanations and predictions are entirely different thin... provide us with the linguistic tools from the English ve... calculus that enable us predict outcomes in our physical... and where w

In unix, most scripting languages accept line-initial # ...
However, there is a convention in unix that executable f ...
exec osascript <<\EOF
and then follow it with an arbitrary AppleScript. Voila, ...
... Well, that's the idea. I hope someone finds

In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
Think of George Orwell and W H Auden, of Laurence Olivie ...
But the BBC can't make them available to us, as it would ...
All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
... ive cos

Annual Review of Sociology
Vol. 26: 463-496 (Volume publication date August 2000)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463)
A Space for Place in Sociology
... laces matter for social practices and historical change?

The CEO of Apple — the tech visionary who revolutioniz... computers, the way we listen to music and the way we thi... devices — was worried about the yellow in the second "... Needless to say the problem was fixed, and Gundotra says...
"It was a l

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

In her book, Burrington, a writer and artist, has sketch... the internet that are visible on and above the streets o... explained the business interests and politicking behind ... Her book is designed to make the internet tangible, and ... Burrington

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...

The Stitchfest hackathon at UPenn didn’t know what was... Quitmeyer and Firaz Peer built an Arduino-powered genita... DIY hacking contest. This was no stunt: Quitmeyer intend... toy to be one of an open source suite when he opens Comi... August--wha

The following is an alphabetical listing of bots you can...

SnapTell Visual Search
Snap. Send. Get.
Visual Search is transforming the way customers search, ...
With our visual product matching service that powers bot ...
... pp from the App Store™, or find out more from SnapTell

LucidChart is the missing link in online office producti...
LucidChart was designed to fit comfortably into the work ...
1. The interface must be clean and intuitive. No loya ...
2. Collaboration must be easy to set up and easy to u ...
... g to PD

2collab is a new type of research tool launched in 2007-...
Intended for use by professional researchers in academic ...
1.Online bookmarking and reference management
2.Groups - for sharing with existing networks, or buildi ...
3.Networking - find, evalu

What is Cluztr?
Cluztr is a FREE add-on for your web browser that lets y ...
Explore
* Find out where your friends are online.
... * Enjoy the social hum of the web.

codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a sim... tool. It's a pastebin that executes code for you. You pa... codepad runs it and gives you a short URL you can use to... the URL into chat or email to get help or to show someon... something.

Doarama™
is a 3D visualization engine for geolocated activities. ...

The Gough Map test is internationally-renowned as one of... to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form. Y... questions remain of how the map was made, who made it, w...
This website presents an interactive, searchable editio ...

The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research ... interested in the made world: from makers of molecules t... buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to diamond... Annual membership of the institute is available to all U... students.

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online... audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse... audiovisual collections can be downloaded and remixed in... Users of Open Images also have the opportunity to add th...
Access to t

Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication that s... conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global ove...
Our World in Data communicates this empirical knowledge ...
through data visualizations – charts and maps.
by presenting the acade

This is a free, community driven Q&A for statisticians, ... miners and data visualization experts.

Swivel's mission is to make data useful so people share ... great decisions and improve lives.
In an era of spin, opinion, and apathy about statistics, ...
We believe data is most valuable when it's out in the op ...

CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections o... by national and local governments, research institutions... organisations which collect a lot of data. With its powe... faceting, users can browse and find the data they need, ... using maps,

Ripple is a dedicated scripting language for the Semanti... programs not only query the Semantic Web, but also resid... data structures, forming a global network of interlinked... is best classified as a relational stack language, close... functional

Mobile development is a mess. Building applications for each device--iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and more--requir... frameworks and languages. One day, the big players in mo... work together and unify third-party app development proc...
PhoneGap is

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills.
Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

Perspicaciously, Bitbeam is just holes in poles.
The marketing tagline would be something like this: "Bit ...