Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

What really matters is:–
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite cl ...
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vagu ...
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. ...
... t when you want to talk about something r

The Sword in the Stone, sometimes a sword in an anvil, i... as proof of his birthright and of his nobility. It is b... miraculous sign of his royalty. The sword drawn from th... different from the one given to Arthur by the Lady of th... latter is a

What is LibraryThing?
Go ahead and take the tour.
Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's a ...
What's good?
... doesn't convince you, you cannot be convinced. Go away.

LibraryThing APIs
thingISBN takes an ISBN and returns a list of ISBNs fro ...
thingTitle takes a title and returns a list ISBNs from ...
thingLang takes an ISBN and returns the language of the ...

CyberPsychology & Behavior
ISSN 1094-9313 - Published Bimonthly
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This bimonthly peer-reviewed journal explores the impact ...

Programmers are well aware that many of the software pat... laughably obvious ideas. Yet the patent system's defende... that these ideas are nontrivial, obvious only by hindsig... surprisingly difficult to defeat them in debate. Why is ...
One reason

Kissenger Devices
These devices, known as "Kissengers," allow long-distanc ...
Credit: Hooman Samani
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... of the Kissenger device. [5 Ways Love Affects the Brain]

Creole (Composable Regular Expressions for Overlapping L... schema language that Jeni is developing for LMNL and oth... markup languages. It's based heavily on RELAX NG, with a... that make it suitable for overlapping structures.

do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm

Related search engines are identified for
a set of search resu ...
searched. This lets ...
is often unreachable ...

Two months ago, Baja announced it would be the first nig... to offer their VIPs something more than a gold-plated en... wanted it could have a microchip implanted under their s... only guarantees entry but provides access to a debit acc... they can pa

As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus...
The conversation usually starts with the following state ...
And when co

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files...

Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
Terry Eagleton
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins · Bantam, 406 pp,  ...
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only know ...
Dawkins on God is rather like those right-wing Cambridge ...

Modeling Interaction Techniques
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and W. Mackay. (200 ...
* C. Appert, M. Beaudouin-Lafon and W. Mackay. (2003 ...
* C. Appert. (2003). CIS : Evaluer les Techniques d' ...

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

LucidChart is the missing link in online office producti...
LucidChart was designed to fit comfortably into the work ...
1. The interface must be clean and intuitive. No loya ...
2. Collaboration must be easy to set up and easy to u ...
... g to PD

In his opening keynote at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA ... Zeldman talked about the need to keep content front and ... and the Web design process. Here's my notes from his tal...
Content is really a design problem. Yet the sites we ...

Over a four-year period, Boaler followed the progress of... students through their high school careers at three high... the three was "Railside High". Not its real name, this s... urban setting, close by a railway line. She first visite...
A number of

I fixed my problem by deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist, SafariConduit.bundle, SAFARI.ELM, and SAFARI.INF files, ... Library folder (after backing up my Bookmarks). Now Safa... hangs! Yay!

You can use AppleScript to create drag and drop icons fo...
1. Launch Script Editor (Applications -> AppleScript ...
2. Copy and paste this text into a new Script Editor ...
set filecount to 0
... ~/.profile to include the directory which

In unix, most scripting languages accept line-initial # ...
However, there is a convention in unix that executable f ...
exec osascript <<\EOF
and then follow it with an arbitrary AppleScript. Voila, ...
... Well, that's the idea. I hope someone finds

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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User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

Established in 1984 as a maker co-operative, the Makers ... formed to bring together and promote the best of Welsh c... grown and developed into a strong and vigorous organisat... international reputation for craft and applied art. The ... committed t

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written
entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises ...
tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-manage ...
and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-ma ...