Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

University of Nottingham

Gibraltar Health Authority launches electronic prescript...
28 April 2008
The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has introduced a ne ...
Using a combination of unique prescription IDs and uniqu ...
... his type of information can be critical to patient car

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

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

Carbon concentration up counter

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an ...
Cory Doctorow at 10:06 PM April 8, 2010
From the you'd-have-to-laugh-or-you'd-have-to-shoot-your ...
The Right Honourable Stephen Timms is the UK's "Minister ...
... imms MP doesn't know what an

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

What is overLIB
overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websi ...

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

NAME
webthumb -- web page snapshot-taker for Linux
SYNOPSIS
webthumb URL
... .com/ | pnmscale -xysize 100 100 | pnmtojpeg > thumb.jpg

Web users are already being exposed to emerging rudiment... of ambient signifiers. For example, if you visit a secur... Firefox, you will see the location field in the navigati... yellow. In another case, the BBC’s 2002 redesign of it... website int

Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
Josephine Ross with some fascinating anecdotal accounts ...

Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely... activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flie... movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previo... playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're u... to the utmo

Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We...
by Maria Popova
“Time perception matters because it is the experience ...
Given my soft spot for famous diaries, it should come as ...
That’s precisely what acclaimed BBC broadcaster and ps

What you hear is NOT what you receive.

See
how your eyes are unreliable.

Bubble Ball Text - Unicode Character Map
This table shows the conversions (mapping) used to gener ...

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University ...
The latest chart, published several years ago, includes ...
Check it out:
Inglehart World Values Map
... ow much things like language and religion shape culture.

The iPhone that was introduced in 2007 looked nothing li... prototypes designed behind the scenes at Apple HQ.
In fact, we were straight-up shocked by some of the desi ...
All these designs have entered the public domain because ...

For the last couple of years, sales of Android-based sma...
Android phones now account for nearly 75% of the global ...
In the U.S., Android is clubbing iPhone 53% to 34%.
Given such a disparity in phone sales and usage, you wou ...
... Android devices,

As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very s... come to mind when they think of coders and software entr... unshaven, twenty-something males.
Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate ...
Despite her success on the runway, Lyn

Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial... building screens into contact lenses.
Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent Univers ...
To do it, they had to come up with new kinds of "conduct ...

Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about h... kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply were... Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, ... creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
This excellen

Bad Moves
Bad Moves is a series by philosopher Julian Baggini deta ...
* The innocent have nothing to fear
* Motivation speculation
... * Genetic fallacies

The anatomy of the twitter-storm that cost media PR pro ... job.

A company that controls thousands of New York City’s p... advertising displays has planted tiny radio transmitters... “beacons” — devices that can be used to track peop... — in hundreds of pay phone booths in Manhattan, BuzzFe...
And it’s

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