Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Selecting k smallest or largest elements
Another fundamental selection problem is that of selecti ...

Represents the active selection, which is a highlighted ... and/or other elements in the document on which a user or... carry out some action.

EnOcean's self-powering sensors -- found inside these sw...
Humans are inherently inefficient creatures. We leave li ...
And despite the advances in computing power over the pas ...
“Most buildings today are dumb,” says EnOcean Chairm ...
... through

Self-Referential Aptitude Test
by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ...
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ...
... all of the above

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X applicati... access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and webs... predetermined period of time. For example, you could blo... email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still h... rest of the

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWik... wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search,... browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While tr... contain only texts which computers can neither understan... SMW adds se

This page contains the information on RDF and OWL tools ... listed on the home pages of the RDF and OWL Working Grou...

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory:
Basic Assumptions

e1071. Sending a POST Request Using a Socket
See also e135 Sending a POST Request Using a URL.
try {
// Construct data
... }

Child by mail
This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photog ...
By Jason Kottke

Lord Blunkett, education secretary from 1997 to 2001, added: “Sure Start was always one of those programmes that the public yearned for, but politicians rarely deliver. Namely, a long-term policy without short-term electoral gain, but tra...

I have remained fairly silent over the last year, ever s... letter from the British Chiropractic Association threate... This essay is an attempt to explain what has been happen... twelve months, why I have decided to apply to the Court ... might happe

A new rock with “topographic compositions”discovered... Valcamonica, Italy
by Alberto Marretta
The Bedolina area is today known mostly for one unique r ...
In general the imagery found in Bedolina links both with ...

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
In this blo

Welcome
... Serendip is
a gathering place for people w ...
instructions are always ambigu ...
... and in how one makes sense of life.

If you need to maintain a bibliography in bibtex format ... Web page to publish this list of publications, then bib2... solution for you.
bib2html enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML ...

Adding OAuth authentication to your server is very easy....
You will need a couple of controllers:
1. oauth_register.php to let an user obtain a consume ...
2. request_token.php to return a request token.
... xchange an authorized request token for

Seshat: Global History Databank
✓ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history
✓ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time
✓ offers the means ...

Using interactive 3D technologies with Kinect Fusion to incorporate the physical world into the digital.

The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a merit... self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and... anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly dispro... opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that ... opposite of

Personalized products FOR you and BY you

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

Sharp today announced its upcoming "Free-Form Display" t... allow the company to nearly eliminate the traditional be... LCD displays. As a result, Sharp will be able to build L... any shape to conform to the display area of the intended...
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An internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip.
More than 200 shells have been returned to Engli...

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

Unlike Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which crawls the Web ... websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels....
Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information on about 500 m ...
It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on ...
Shodan sear

New in WordPress 2.5 is the Shortcode API, a simple set ... creating macro codes for use in post content. A trivial ...
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The Shortcode API makes it easy to create shortcodes tha ...
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One of the most popular panels at the 2012 edition of Sn... "Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change N... for a Change?" A lively audience of more than 100 comput... occupied the medium-size ballroom in which the four-pers... and the aud