Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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11/7/11 RSS
John Horton commissioned this thing on oDesk.. I need to ...

Smoke Signals is based on one of the oldest forms of com... recorded history dating back over 5,000 years. The proje... hybrid system that explores the dynamic and spatial capa... and light in relation to contemporary mobile SMS technol...
Participant

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any we... visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clic... traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Social Performance
* Description
* Table of contents
* Excerpt
... DOI: 10.2277/052167462X

This website is for people involved in applied social re...
Some highlights of what is available:
Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base
An online hypertext textbook on applied social research ...
... g the use of the method, and information about software.

SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... The latest evolution in virtual learning, SocialLearn co... networking, Open University and wider web resources and ...
Developed in response to feedback about the need for inf ...
The platfor

Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berner... the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Co... Institute. The project aims to radically change the way ... work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as ...

For about a year, former aerospace engineer Sam Cervante...
An object created using the Solidoodle 2
An object created using the Solidoodle 2
Objects created using the Solidoodle 2
... onally features an outer cover and a front acrylic door.

Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished... first-time, small African farmers have been properly con... solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their a... directly repudiate a massive international effort to lau...
Instead of

Over the past year, I've been tagging interesting data I... del.icio.us. I wrote a quick python script to pull the r... my del.icio.us export and list them at the bottom of thi... these datasets are related to machine learning, but ther...
This list i

The UK is full of rude place names. The North-West has a... a Pincock, while Yorkshire is arguably worse, boasting a...

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

Last summer, I deleted my Dropbox account after the comp... horrifying security breach. This week, I reluctantly ope... account. Within minutes, I received a message from Dropb... their back-end processes are still problematic. Here’s... concerned.

Ramon Eijkemans pointed me to a script written by Stuart... unobtrusive table sorting script was awesome, offering s... text, numbers, dates and currencies, by simply adding an... a page and a class to a table!
However, it lacked a few things, most imp

You may well have seen many simulations of sorting algor... show in novel ways how the algorithm works or perhaps do... as well as it should. However I guarantee that you have ...
Take one Central European folk dancing team, a small fol ...
sortdance

Sorting algorithms: quite boring until you add sound effects
Aug. 19, 2010 (5:55 pm) By: Matthew Humphries
Anyone who has ever done a programming course or tried t ...
The subject matter is fairly dry. Thankfully someone has ...
... via Hacker News

This is not a new trick, sorting a table using the DOM. ...
Now, how to use it. To make a table of your choice sorta ...
Download the Javascript library
Include the Javascript library, by putting a link to ...
... w have column sorting available

Fire-Fly: “The inspiration for Fire-Fly came about fro... the first time one early summer’s evening in New Jerse... points of luminous, glowing, green light, ‘dancing’ ... air”
Fire-Fly…..this installation occured in almost total d ...

“There are two theories about the kind of Christmas pr... expect in 2003, and no one can say exactly which of them...
“Because of the incredible advances in automation, mac ...
“So, if that theory is correct, Christmas presents in ...
“The oppo

INGREDIENTS:
* 1 lb. spaghetti pasta
* 4 slices bacon
* 2 egg yolks
... and garlic in a medium bowl and beat until well blended.

SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference
* SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference V1.8 (A4, PDF) ...
Changes: Updates for SPARQL Query Language 23 Nove ...
Use the term IRIs in preference to URIs.

SPARQL/Update is a language to express updates to an RDF...
SPARQL/Update provides the following facilities:
* Insert new triples to an RDF graph.
* Delete triples from an RDF graph.
... y for the distribution of differences between RDF graphs

Speaking two languages literally changes the way we see ... bilingual speakers think differently to those who only u... tongue.
The new research by Panos Athanasopoulos, Professor of L ...
Bilingual speakers can also switch flexibly between the ...

Monday 22 March 2010
Speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future
A transcript of a speech given by the Prime Minister on ...

External mergesort is normally implemented so that each ... contiguously on disk and blocks of data are read exactly... are needed during merging. We investigate two ideas for ... performance of external mergesort: interleaved layout an... strategy. I

Information uncertainty which is inherent in many real w... brings more complexity to the visualisation problem. Des... increasing number of research papers found in the litera... work is needed. The aims of this chapter are threefold: ... comprehensi

We are investigating how people move from individual to ... the use of both personal digital assistants (PDAs) and a... display. Our scenario of this work covers the following ... mobile individuals can create ldquopersonalrdquo notes o... Second, whe

Searle's abstract argument against strong AI
Journal Synthese
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0039-7857 (Print) 1573-0964 (Online)
... to defend itself against objections Searle makes to it.