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Delicious bookmarks for June 5th through July 1st:

• thehumanprinter - cmyk dot printing by hand
• io9 - Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - "Transformers: ROTF is so long, you'll need to wear adult diapers to it. But the movie's pure celebration of the primal urge, and unfiltered living, will make you rejoice in your adult diapers. You'll relieve yourself in your seat with a savage joy, your barbaric yawp blending in with the crowd's screams of excitement."
• FT.com / Reportage - A library of the world’s most unusual compounds - "Nearby are panes of glass that clean themselves, metal that remembers the last shape it was twisted into, and a thin tube of Tin Stick which, when bent, emits a sound like a human cry."
• ComingAnarchy.com » Early 1980s Nuclear Armageddon Films -
• Amazon.com: Seamonster Book One: Nathan Castle: Books -

Delicious bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th:

• Simon Schubert - Illustration by scoring and folding.
• Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-368 Release -
• Astrometry Bags a ‘Cold Jupiter’ - “We found a Jupiter-like planet at around the same relative place as our Jupiter, only around a much smaller star. It’s possible this star also has inner rocky planets. And since more than seven out of 10 stars are small like this one, this could mean planets are more common than we thought.”
• Meteorites a Key to Habitability? - "the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) some four billion years ago wasn’t an average time. The research team used models of meteoritic impact rates during the bombardment to calculate that billions of tons of carbon dioxide and water vapor would have been delivered to Earth’s atmosphere each year over the entire twenty million years that spanned the LHB. "
• INTERVIEW PROJECT - NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS - David Lynch interviews people and posts a video every three days for a year.
• Weird Science - Boing Boing - "Our conscious minds display some of the same features as quantum mechanics. When we're not thinking about anything in particular, our thoughts evolve in a continuous, multi-universe kind of way—but when we focus on something, we carry out something like the quantum collapse that characterizes the process of measurement. "

“We’re deathly afraid of that stabbing word “pretentious,” the word that students use to curse each other’s ambition.  It’s a young person’s word, a shortcut-to-thinking word.

 

I’m a big fan of pretension.  It means “an aspiration or intention that may or may not reach fulfillment.”  It doesn’t mean failing upward.  It means trying to exceed your grasp.  Which is how things grow.”

Delicious bookmarks for May 21st through May 29th:

• MobileMe Gallery - Twin Peaks photos -
• Should you forward that email? - Flowchart.
• Amazon.com: Nathan Castle: Books -
• Missing Link in Pulsar Evolution Is a Cannibal | Wired Science | Wired.com - "A dying star has been caught in the act of resurrecting itself by eating its neighbor."
• The Hunt for Centauri Planets - "The discovery of habitable worlds around any star would be front-page news, but finding them around our next-door neighbors would catalyze a scientific and cultural revolution, an immense rising wave of effort to learn whether our sister stars’ habitable planets were in fact inhabited. The ripples would spread beyond science to touch and change our literature and art, our politics and religion, perhaps even aiding our struggles to unite, survive, and expand as a species. The chain of chance that brought us into existence would swing to point outward to the stars, strengthening our resolve to someday reach them."

Delicious bookmarks for May 10th through May 21st:

• ruckerkyotopaper_ver4.pdf (application/pdf Object) - "Everything is alive." - Rudy Rucker
• the story so far… - Tym Godek infinite canvas
• Harnessing science to create the ultimate warrior - science-in-society - 20 May 2009 - New Scientist - "BATALLIONS of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness."
• Gawker - Donald Rumsfeld's Judgment-Happy, Scary, Biblical Defense Briefing Art - Donald Rumsfeld -
• The Mighty Moore Marathon - part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore - "I’ve never allowed myself to fall into the golden rut, and I can’t write something unless it’s interesting to me, and because I’ve got such a very low boredom threshold, I find that everything I do I have to make it interesting and exciting to myself"
• Career Advice: Boring Within or Simply Boring? - Inside Higher Ed - "Step one to improving your lecture skills is to purge yourself of bad communication habits, but the rest of lecturing is a formula. Mix with enthusiasm and repeat the following:"

Delicious bookmarks for April 23rd through May 8th:

• Possible site of free will found in brain - life - 07 May 2009 - New Scientist - "When a neurosurgeon electrically jolted this region in patients undergoing surgery, they felt a desire to, say, wiggle their finger, roll their tongue or move a limb. Stronger electrical pulses convinced patients they had actually performed these movements, although their bodies remained motionless."
• NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ENIGMA - "Eduardo Kac, Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist's own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008."
• Lost in Space | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK - "What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space."
• POLAROID KIDD at NEEDLES+PENS - "Mike Brodie aka 'The Polaroid Kidd' is a somewhat accidental documentary photographer. By photographing his friends, their homes, and lifestyles, Brodie has captured a marginalized segment of the American population that's not so prevalent in main stream society. His haunting photos of hobos, punks, and squatters criss-crossing the country in boxcars are reminiscent of Horace Bristol's Grapes of Wrath era pics that captured migrant workers on their way to California ….except now with facial tattoos. "
• Gliese 581d - Waterworld - "The planet is likely to have a makeup similar to Neptune or Uranus, which are dominated by ices of water, ammonia and methane. In the warmth of the habitable zone, these substances should form a sea thousands of kilometres deep"