Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

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ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ...
Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
I think tha

While we’re used to seeing and hearing content on the ... it has never really had much of a look in. That changes ... a cool new product from London’s Mint Digital Foundry.
Olly is a USB-powered device which takes events on the I ...

As pointed out by TechDirt’s Mike Masnick, last week N... two-part blog post on its recommendations system, one of...
Whilst they acknowledge that the work that went into the ...
“This is a truly impressive compilation and culminatio ...
Basically,

printer
While 3D printing might be all the tech geek rage right ...
Imagine 3D printing on such a large scale, using a concr ...

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A few weeks ago I discontinued (temporarily, I hope) my ... consultations, particularly those related to the fraught... whether or not to leave academia. I discontinued these ... dealing with a health issue that, while thankfully not s...
In any case

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Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

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The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil...
Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ...
Update: (Ma

Thunderbird Extensions: How to Get the Body of A Message
The XPCOM component nsIMsgHdr is, as you would expect, t ...

Xul: Creating toolbar buttons
Mozillazine has a great article on creating toolbar butt ...
MailToolbarPalette: the toolbar in Thunderbird's main window
MsgComposeToolbarPalette: the toolbar for a Thunderbird ...
AddressBookToolbarPalette: the toolbar for

Last spring, a young biologist tried to buy a copy of a ... out-of-print reference work, Peter Lawrence’s The Maki... offered 15 used copies at reasonable prices – and two ... cheapest of which was $1,730,045.91, plus $3.99 shipping.
Michael Eisen,

BlinkM by ThingM £8.00
BlinkMs are “smart LEDs”, a type of smart interface ...
You talk to it over I2C, a serial protocol spoken by man ...
Design by ThingM.
... Taking pre-orders, shipping on July 3rd 2009.

Java applications, in particular those written with the ...
have a reputation for feeling clunky and out of place, a ...
belong on your computer. Often your users can't put thei ...
what it is that doesn't feel quite right. It is often th ...
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Java Sketchbook: Getting Started with Java Web Start Jav... Getting Started with Java Web Start
by Joshua Marinacci
08/11/2005

Internet technical specifications often need to define a... are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem ... years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), cal... (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specificati... compactness