Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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 ...

Value Sensitive Design refers to an approach to the desi... that accounts for human values in a principled and syste... throughout the design process.
Value-Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with value ...

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 mission of the Emotion Incubator Group, part of the ... is to investigate the prospects of defining a general-pu... annotation and representation language, which should be ... variety of technological contexts where emotions need to...

W3C has launched a new HTML validation site, the Nu Mark... Service. From a Semantic Web point of view it is importa... default setting of the validator validates HTML5 with RD... with microdata, the two simpler syntaxes to add structur... Furthermore

Reification in this context means the expression of some... using the language, so that it becomes treatable by the ... graphs consist of RDF statements. If one wants to look o... RDF graph and reason about it is using RDF tools, then i... least in th

Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) are a new ... complement to URIs [RFC2396]. An IRI is a sequence of ch... Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO10646). There is a m... to URIs, which means that IRIs can be used instead of UR... appropriate

This section defines the syntax and semantics of all sta...
HTTP/1.1 header fields. For entity-header fields, bot ...
recipient refer to either the client or the server, d ...
sends and who receives the entit

Cool URIs don't change
What makes a cool URI?
A cool URI is one which does not change.
What sorts of URI change?
... f forethought. Here are some reasons you hear out there:

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ...
The deliver

The Resource Description Framework RDF allows users to d... documents and concepts from the real world—people, org... topics, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishi... descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (... Identifiers

The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ...
As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ...
Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ...
It is likel

5.1.5 rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty
The rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty class has as instan ...
Given a container C, a triple of the form:
C rdf:_nnn O
... rties may be applied to resources other than containers.

Due to the size and rate of change on the Web, the close... (which states that anything that cannot be inferred is a... false) is inappropriate. However, there are many situati... closed-world information would be useful. Therefore, the... able to sta

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategi... resources to help make the Web accessible to people with... following WAI resources are intended to provide basic in... people who are new to Web accessibility.

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

To ensure a proper fit: Measure your hand with a tape me...
* Measure your hand with a tape measure around the k ...
* Measure your dominant hand - the right if you are ...
Note: some manufacturers indicate glove sizes by inches ...
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Electricity consumption - Todd Moss
Todd Moss, vice president and senior fellow at the Cente ...
"I know I live an energy-intensive lifestyle," he writes ...

At least 86 people have been shot and killed by police a... States within the past 30 days, according to Washington ... database is based on news reports, public records, Inter... original reporting.

Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal.
Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.

We will widen the ownership of homes

MILAN - This venerable city, long known for savory saffr... leggy models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish its... else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies.

This menu system is a combination of two older DHTML men... developed:
* The MouseMenu, which was based upon Microsoft's me ...
* The XWebMenu (old version), a traditional menu system.
Along with combining functionalities, new features have ...

Tele-gardening
By Regine
on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM
Categories:
... ill wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her.

Talking about slowing the web:
Louise Klinker's SLOWEB project that responds to peoples ...
What does it mean when you have to queue to enter a webs ...
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... t develop gradually to represent pending correspondence.

Real snail email
By Regine
on October 11, 2006 6:14 PM
Categories:
... e artists will give a talk tonight 7PM at [ s p a c e ].

Welcome on Webcron, the automated task service at set ho... Unix or Linux you already heard about the Crontab. Webcr... adaptation of this well known Crontab. But nothing compl...
What is the use of Webcron ?
Webcron allows you to do tasks at set hours

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
* $file – (string) absolute path to the Excel data ...
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If you site needs pop-ups to work properly, this little ...
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