Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

This page lists some research work in the development of... for visualizing ancilliary uncertainty information toget...

Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repositor... sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-ba... AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the... like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute an... for their o

Want to find the latitude/longitude of any UK postcode? ... Wales, and Northern Ireland? Read these first:
The problem with code point open from ordnance survey
Code point open northern ireland addendum
Then follow these instructions:

La Bastille is a very-large-scale integrated art install...
When it was running, it was also the world's largest ful ...
Containing eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve- ...
La Bastille opened at 8 pm on Friday, April 14, 2000 and ...
... Sketch

Mozilla Firefox based Spiders
Author Bob Clary
Web Spider applications have a multitude of possible ...

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal info... find whatever you're looking for.

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha... question. Here’s what I do in no particular order, wha...

I was just recently asked how I dealt with my email. Tha...
* I take reassurance knowing that others clearly can’t ...
* When I think its going to distract me, I quit my mail ...
* When reading email I try to decide whether a task can ...
... What do

I have a theory about why writing the dissertation is su...
The dissertation is a reflective document. It requires i ...
And what self-critical researcher (which of course is wh ...
This is not the writer’s fault. This is the fault of r ...
... I’d l

In this article I describe Animator, a class for creatin... à la moofx or scriptaculous

Art Mapping Event
A two-day workshop for those with an interest in mobile ...

Perspicaciously, Bitbeam is just holes in poles.
The marketing tagline would be something like this: "Bit ...

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on hi... twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by k... outside the file, as he did.

Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land...
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
... e is, in short, trying to rethink how data is presented.

How did Amazon get away without using a delay?
It’s easy to move the cursor from Amazon’s main drop ...
image
If the cursor moves into the blue triangle the currently ...
... switch the submenu, giving it a really responsive feel.

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our custom... month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of ... customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our... looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we d... our own cus

I have been playing with GData since I was on the Google... in 2005/2006. My experiences with GData can be summarize... graph:

Here’s a nice example. On one morning, I was walking t... via the underground pass, and I noticed a new Disney pos...
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Stitch. Notice the eyes a ...

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

Code Drop: VisualSearch.js
Posted
Jun 23rd, 2011
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... t, so you don’t have to manually re-parse it yourself.

While some are intimidated by the thought of creating th... truth is that jQuery is built with an infinitely friendl... architecture. If you've gotten comfortable with the basi... coding, then you're certainly ready to develop your own ... tutorial wi

Paul Vermeesch’s Star Wars Relativity model is a 1-foo... scenes from classic Star Wars settings.
Six months in the making, I present my largest creat ...

Passive amplifiers have been doing their acoustic trick ... Victrola was cutting edge. It’s pretty simple, really⮮. noise on the working end of a horn and you’re likely t... bit easier in the direction it’s pointed in. The conce...
This eco-am

Relief: 3D interactive maps
relief.jpg
Called a "scalable actuated shape display", this project ...
Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is abl ...
[via the Eyebeam ReBlog]

I was on the subway and a man sat down beside me. He ope... took out something shocking. It was this:
…a cardboard spine.
Lately at Otherlab, we have been thinking a lot about ca ...

Today the Twitter team moved into their new office which... by the super talented Sara Morishige Williams (@sara). ... existing shell of a building in downtown San Francisco. ... sneak peek last week while she was working on it, and wa... the photos

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...