Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Call me naive: I think you can make a lot of money, go p... monopolize a market, and still retain a moral compass th... direction of Google’s stated top priority—users.
But Google lost me today:
Google is now displaying “tips” that point searche

NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN
Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ...

Interest in MySpace.com increased following the murder o... Taylor Behl who had a MySpace.com account. The account i... goodbyes and well wishes.

luefish is a surveillance system which tracks the prese... devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, ...
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device ...

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
Researchers

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

BookLending.com is a website that matches lenders and bo... ebooks.

Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the w... layout.

<script type="text/javascript">
function bookmark_us(url, title){
if (window.sidebar) // firefox
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, "");
... </script>

Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog showcasing only the best p... bookshelves.

Quick and easy way to build your product tours with Twit... Popovers.

Doug Engelbart is best known for inventing the mouse and... however his greatest innovations have been in the vision... devised for bootstrapping the innovation, creating a ver... turbo charged learning curve in his lab out of which eme...
Thus emerge

Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Stra

one of the very earliest of spring flowers, its cheery, ... lighting up our hedges even before winter is quite spent

Bounded Rationality: A Response to Rational Analysis
Simon criticizes Anderson's proposed rational analysis a ...
Humans are not optimal and only in some cases locall ...
Assumptions made by cognitive modelers about how an ...
... theory based u

It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
... ritten

In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi...
Dendrites h

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis...
The researc

The microformats community has revisited it’s standard... “microformats version 2”. At first, I thought why! I...
The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ...
microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ...
Like mi

How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
image
If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan...
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ...
People understand what they can see. If a programmer ...
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
... turn it into som

Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The...
I wondered,
Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ...
How much information can we include on one map?
Can we see how separated the Home Nations are on Brexit?

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

Leading companies interviewed for a new Guardian series ... staff at a senior level to be computer literate, combini... with the ability to lead a team. But they face delays in... staff, or have to give new employees extensive training ...
Ian Wright,