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Our giveaway of three dot grid books from Dotgrid.co has recently ended. We had over 170 Six Revisions readers participate in this giveaway! In this post, you’ll get a chance to see who the three lucky winners are.

The Winners

Below are the three winners of black A5 dot grid books from Dotgrid.co:

• Andrea
• Srecko
• Mayur

Congratulations to our winners! The winners should’ve already gotten an email from the founders of Dotgrid.co containing information about how to claim their prize.

About Dotgrid.co

Dotgrid.co creates dot grid books, which are wire-bound books with dot grids. The books are created using sustainable materials.

Currently, the dot grid books come in two sizes, A4 (which costs about $22.60) and A5 (costing about $16).

Special 10% Discount for Six Revisions Readers

Upon checkout, use the code below before December 31, 2012 to get a 10% discount on your orders (shipping cost excluded):

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About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

Just yesterday we released our latest project to the world: Code Cards! Now you can code your own holiday greeting with HTML, CSS, and just a touch of inspiration.

We wanted to showcase our five favorite cards, from a talking Spock to a bouncing Merry Christmas — check them out!

A moving CSS3mas!

A neon pink holiday

A bouncing Feliz Navidad

Happy minimalistic holidays!

Spock says "Logical Holiday" in Hungarian

Didn't make one? No worries, there's still time before New Year's. Enjoy!

Last Friday, an advocacy organization called Autism Speaks uploaded a video to YouTube that shares the story of 14-year-old David Shapiro Sharif. But in the face of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in which gunman Adam Lanza was said to have suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, some believe that the video misrepresents the disorder.

According to AgeOfAutism.com blogger Anne Dachel:

“David’s message is hardly a cause for alarm. He evokes images of Rain Man. He has excellent verbal skills and it’s easy to imagine that kids have always been like this. I wonder how this would go over if we were shown a boy flapping his hands, unable to speak, wearing a helmet.”

The Executive Director for Autism Speaks, Matthew Asner, has responded by saying that the video is meant to reflect one child’s experience with autism—not everyone’s:

“In the speech, David says himself that there are some of us who are more high functioning than others. I wanted to produce something that could aid me in teaching people what autism is, and by no means am I giving them a master’s degree course in autism.”

A quick scan of the video’s comments on YouTube shows an overwhelmingly positive reaction to “My Name is David,” but Dachel maintains that the video should have showed some of the darker sides to autism.

Educational? Misleading? Let us know in the comments below.

Library Journal has named Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond by Robert Provine, professor of psychology, as one of the best books of 2012.

In the publication’s original review of the book, the reviewer said that the book ” is a delectable presentation for all who love the territory between pop and hardcore science writing.”

Hillol Kargupta, professor of computer science, is the winner of the 2012 10-Year ICDM Highest-Impact Paper Award for the ICDM 2003 paper on “On the Privacy Preserving Properties of Random Data Perturbation Techniques.” Researchers, Souptik Datta (UMBC), Qi Wang (Washington State University), and Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar (Washington State University), were also authors on the paper.

ICDM is the premier international conference on data mining (with an acceptance ratio of approx. 8-12% in the last ten years). The 10-Year ICDM Highest-Impact Paper Award is awarded every year since 2010. The first ICDM was held in 2001.

Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, recently reviewed the art show The Event of a Thread by Ann Hamilton, which runs through January 6 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, for the online magazine Artcritical.

Spitz says that “The Gothic Revival Park Avenue Armory… provides a perfect venue for Hamilton’s swings, her 42 pigeons in miniature, stacked dovecotes, and the immense white silken fabric that billows from on high, responsively rising and falling according to the visitors’ velocities as they sway on their swings, pushed often by perfect strangers.”

Relating the exhibition to its title, Spitz says, “by the most gossamer of threads— of silk and of sound—connections proliferate.”

The review, “Gentling The Savage Enormity Of Gargantuan Space: Ann Hamilton at the Armory,” appeared online on December 20.

Josiah Dykstra, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, won the Outstanding Case Study Award for 2012 of the The American Academy of Forensic Sciences, based on his presentation of a paper by Dykstra and his advisor Alan Sherman,
published in the Journal of Network Forensics. Dykstra will accept the award in February at the Academy’s annual meeting.