Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternat... environments and equip young people with 21st Century sk... skills for life, not for more school. Vision: Elastic Po... = alternative learning environments 21st century edutain... culture.

Popcorn Maker is a creative tool that makes authoring in... pages as easy as point and click.
Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plu ...

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
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This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ... Adelson of M.I.T. Click here for details on the Professo... also to Andy Grüneberg for bringing this to our attention.
This is simply the best optical illusion we've ever seen ...

poshRDF is an approach (and, as a by-product, an RDF-in-... efficiently extract RDF from (many) microformats and sim...
It's also possible to use the POSH definitions and creat ...
RDF Schemas for common POSH formats
* microformats

Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

Abstract: Two in-place variants of the classical mergeso... analysed in detail. The first, straightforward variant p... log 2 N + O(N ) comparisons and 3N log 2 N + O(N ) moves... elements. The second, more advanced variant requires at ... O(N ) compa

As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid...

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

Jeff Randall: Here in Britain we’re very good at comin... but not very good at turning them into money-making busi... that?
Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ...

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
unicode.jpg

oundary objects 'have different meanings in different so... their structure is common enough to more than one world ... recognizable, a means of translation' (Star and Grieseme...

Prescription for an electronic revolution?
14 December 2007
PA284/07
Patients could be saved millions of trips to their GP un ...
... h expertise in the field of prescribing in primary care.

Analysts ABI Research expect the wearable computer marke... exponentially, predicting there will be 485 million ship... 2018.
A Microsoft executive said recently he expected we would ...

Prince Ruperts Drop: The Curious Properties of a Molten ... in Cold Water science glass
So this is completely amazing. Destin from Smarter Every ...

In certain instances, not everyone views every portion o... online: eventually, someone is going to print parts of i... this is perfectly fine: if you have a print style sheet ...
It’s a simple problem of resolution. Images are always ...
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Prism is a simple XULRunner-based browser that hosts web... without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is ... called Site-Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is designed ... with a single web application. It doesn’t have the men... other accou

Young people are risking their privacy and leaving poten... information on social-networking sites, says the Information Commissioner's Office.
Millions of young people in Britain would not want a col ...

The atlas contains five maps which trace the territories...
The maps are:
– Public Authoring, Education & Learning
– Neighbourhoods & Communities
... – Robotic Feral Public Authoring

the pages below this one describe the two models for usa ...

* Griethe, H.; Fuchs, G.; Schumann, H.:
A Classification Scheme for Lens Techniques. Proceed ...
* Griethe, H.; Schumann, H.:
Visualizing Uncertainty for Improved Decision Making ...

Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS)
at the 7th international Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2 ...
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... y be text technology, semantic web, and ontology design.

Reading mail from Thunderbird
You'd think that reading mail in Thunderbird ought to be ...
First, there is no object which corresponds directly to ...

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
reddit this
John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

Contact Person
Wolfgang Aigner
Project
Information Visualization is mainly concerned with the r ...