Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Special Issue #4: Urban Screens: Discovering the potenti... screens for urban society

Special Issue #5: Virtual Architecture at State of Play ... 2005

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During the first NASA missions the astronauts used penci...
During this time period, Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pe ...
Fisher developed his space pen with no NASA funding. The ...
Fisher offered the pens to NASA in 1965, but, because of ...
... rt into

At a urology conference in Las Vegas in 1983, Dr. Giles ... very memorable lecture.

Flattr was founded to help people share money, not just ... Flattr, the only reasonable way to donate has been to us...
The team that makes it happen »
donations if it wasn't for a really important cause. Sen ...
Flattr solves this issue. When you're r

# What are machine tags?
Machine tags are tags that use a special syntax to defin ...
about a tag.
Machine tags have a namespace, a predicate and a value. ...
... * geo:neighbourhood=geo:quartier

About One Letter
One Letter. Get yours at bighugelabs.com/flickr
Shots of single letters of the alphabetical variety. Rom ...
This is a companion site to One Digit and Punctuation, w ...
... | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing S...
The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathe ...
The other day, I noticed that my friend’s Dell laptop ...
It’s interesting how a lot of companies try to copy Ap ...
Now if you

We don't need a complicated HTML structure. We are only ... simple div, with a couple of class names, and we're goin... for each of the following positions: top, right, left, b...

# Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable).
# Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ...
# A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ...
# Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ...
... ally rewardi

Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pand... more and more like desktop applications every day. Runni... web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a r...
Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out ...
Using Fluid

Flyfire, a project initiated by the SENSEable City Labor...
In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets ou ...
With the self-stabilizing and precise controlling techno ...
Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine ...
... lop new

Most of the people I know, friends or students, are too ... they prefer to not even try. They spend their lives tryi... and thinking that this is “success”. They can go on ... know what they are capable of or how unique they are jus... unfriendly

Research Reviews
Making connections
Life scientists and physical scientists face many of the ...
This was an important clue in deciding the shape of the ...
The project commissioned a series of Research Reviews so ...

Cognitive Systems: Information Processing Meets Brain Sc...
Authors: Richard G M Morris, Lionel Tarassenko and Micha ...
Publisher: Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd
ISBN: 0120885662

The Precision of Stereolithography.
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The Form 1 marries high-end stereolithography (SL) techn ...

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050

EXPLORING THE FOUNDATIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF PHYSICS AND ...
FQXi catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on q ...

Free Our Data: the blog
A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to ...

Natural building construction
Pattern observation and site analysis
Renewable energy and appropriate technology
Reading the land and natural cycles
... ...and much, much more!

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ISI - International Statistical Institute
Free Statistical Tools on
the WEB

Freedom is an application that disables networking on an... up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from ... the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or creat... your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your ne...
Freedom enf

The intellectual inquiry occurring each day at Stanford ... question of how research can best be accessed and put to...
Enter the Public Knowledge Project.
The project works on how to make precious new informatio ...
It revolves around free, downloadabl

Presenting Semantic Web content in a human-readable way ... addressing two issues: specifying what information conta... graph should be presented and how this information shoul... Each RDF browser or visualization tool currently relies ... mechanisms

The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful

In the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet... used as part of an attack that sent out over 750,000 spa...