Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Web search engines have become indispensable tools for f... online effectively. As the range of information, context... Internet searches has grown, the relationship between th... search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not al... seeking the

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

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

But after writing about p-values again and again, and recently issuing a correction on a nearly year-old story over some erroneous information regarding a study’s p-value (which I’d taken from the scientists themselves and their report)...

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

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

The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here.
Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ...
Other projects visualize Real

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

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

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

False judgements and assumptions
Another reason to move beyond 'face value' is that our u ...
Recently, I decided to check a number of such assumption ...

You guys took so long I fixed it myself.
10.4.4 does indeed break things.
/etc/php.ini(.default) looks for mysql.sock in the wrong ...
Code:
... l.sock and then restart apache with "apachectl graceful"

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

Zend_OpenId is a Zend Framework component that provides ...
What is OpenID?
OpenID is a set of protocols for user-centric digital id ...
For more information about OpenID visit the » OpenID of ...
... ing an additional direct request to the OpenID provi

Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co... Submitted by Jonathan Levitt. More of his excellent phot...
Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co ...

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pag... and music that your friends and family are sharing. It o... to discover and discuss information among friends.
Sign up for FriendFeed, invite some friends, and get a c ...

Frost Ajax Library Logo The Frost Ajax library is a tool... development on constrained browsers, such as micro brows... phones or gaming consoles. It is intended to abstract th... the XMLHttpRequest object (XHR) or an equivalent ActiveX... therefore m

Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is... thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which prac... seems to know about. :-)

New Forms of Reasoning for the Semantic Web: Scalable, T...
Proceedings of the First International Workshop Workshop ...
Busan, Korea, November 11th, 2007.
Edited by
... Raphael Volz

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

The Funf Open Sensing Framework is an extensible sensing... processing framework for mobile devices, developed at th... The core concept is to provide an open source, reusable ... functionalities, enabling the collection, uploading, and... wide range

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database h... about the location of an IP address in the United States... identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot... from the geographic center of the country. This happens ...
Which happe

old escape(): encode in page's charset, then %hh
new escape(): %hh, %uhhhh for everything over unicode 256.
encodeURIComponent(): encode in UTF-8, then %hh

Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us descr... computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male. We... largely noctural creature, passing sleepless nights writ... According to workplace researchers, this stereotype of t...
It may be s

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic... GeoJSON object may represent a geometry, a feature, or a... features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types:... Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and ... Features in

Gephi is an open-source software for graph and network a...
* explore
* analyze
* spatialize
... of a case study, from data file to nice printable maps.