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Delicious bookmarks for June 20th through July 2nd:

• Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo - "14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands"
• Scientists: It Once Rained on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.com - "Drizzle once fell on Martian soil, according to a new geochemical analysis"
• keytarded - Norwich, UK - Electro / Showtunes / Bossa Nova - www.myspace.com/keytardedband -
• neurotic » home - "Each robot has the ability to pogo up to an imposing height of 2.3 metres. Controlling these robots is a Neural Network modeled on the neurology of the human brain and educated in punk music."
• Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice - Melons straight in!

Delicious bookmarks for June 5th through June 18th:

• Astronauts Float in Largest Space Jam Ever | Wired Science from Wired.com - "taking advantage of the fact that the Kibo module is the largest on the Space Station to stretch out and perform some aerobatics"
• MagCloud - magazine pod
• Warren Ellis » Every Single Day - "…in fact, our universe may well be nothing but one of a chain of entire serial realities."
• Warren Ellis » Everything Is Happening - "So today we no longer wait for the breakers to hit every 11 years (roughly: rock, 55. Psychedelia, 66. Punk, 77. Acid, 1988). Instead, micro-movements pop up every month. Some new eddy in the hardcore continuum"
• grinding.be » Blog Archive » RepRap - the DIY, Open-Source Fabricator achieves self-replication! - "RepRap achieved self-replication at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath University in the UK."

Delicious bookmarks for June 3rd through June 4th:

• HiBlog: HiRISE Team Blog » Blog Archive » Backdrop -
• Pharmaceutical Fountain of Youth Could Cost Pennies | Wired Science from Wired.com - "This is happening now. They're in clinical trials — and the general public has no idea what's coming,"
• Scientists Find Rare, Ultra-Magnetic Star | Wired Science from Wired.com - "[the stars] stretch the very fabric of matter, contorting atoms into thin cigar-shaped structures."
  Under that stress, the star's very crust can split open, temporarily releasing over a thousand times more energy than all of the stars in a galaxy."
• Warren Ellis » Bending Mars - "In forty years I want my grandkids to email me from a .mars address. It?s not like we have to hunt whales or give a Tasmanian Devil face cancer to do it. It?s just sitting there. Why not bend it?"
• COCO WANG: 5.12 EARTHQUAKE STRIPS - "I am going to send you comic strips almost everyday from now on, I hope you could know something about the earthquake in China, although you don't have to do anything, but I hope you could feel our love and hope."

Delicious bookmarks for May 19th through May 27th:

• Breathtaking Typographic Posters | Fonts, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine -
• Bad Astronomy Blog » Best. Image. Ever. - "Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world [...] hundreds of million of kilometers away.
  Never, ever forget: we did this. This is what we can do."
• NASA - Phoenix Makes a Grand Entrance -
• Study Says Carbon Nanotubes as Dangerous as Asbestos: Scientific American - "Inhaling carbon nanotubes could be as harmful as breathing in asbestos"
• Extinct Tiger Roars in a Mouse | Wired Science from Wired.com - "For the first time, DNA from an extinct animal has been resurrected inside a living creature."
• Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas - Times Online - "Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges ? all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled."

Delicious bookmarks for May 8th through May 15th:

• LHCountdown.com - “Welcome to LHCountdown.com, this site is primarily a countdown site to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider”
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars | The Clone Wars: Theatrical Trailer - “Debuting in theaters along with Speed Racer, here’s the trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Star Wars as you’ve never seen it before, coming to the big screen on August 15, 2008.”
• MoMA exhibit dies five weeks into show - The Art Newspaper - “One of the central works in the exhibition ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. “

Delicious bookmarks for May 1st through May 4th:

• Dorset Art Weeks - SouthWest ArtWork - "a group of young emerging artists who are keen to display their fresh vision in various mediums including graphic art and design, sound and video installations, textile art work, sculpture as well as site specific performance art."
• Platinum Studios Store - Drunk Duck Anthology - CONTRIBUTORS: Chuck and Steve Rowles, Dan McMahn, David Recine, Dawn M. Griffin, Gigi, Reed Hawker, David Davis, Jenny Lui, Rebecca Long, Neil Purcell, Nathan Castle, Greg Morris, Amanda Hardy, and Shane "inkmonkey" Woodis
• Carbon chauvinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "… applied to those who assume that the molecules responsible for the chemical processes of life must be constructed primarily from carbon."
• The New York Times — Hand Codes Website - "It?s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to ?hand code? everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results." - Correct!
• Ghost Bike - "A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver."

Delicious bookmarks for April 23rd through April 29th:

• Afghanistan Heroes Offer to Colonize Moon, Mars and Beyond - "Me and most of my men are on our 3rd or 4th deployment into a combat area. We are scouts, reconnaissance specialists. We go before everyone else and spend time living off the land. Sounds just like the type of men needed for a long colonization journey."
• The Methuselah Foundation-Welcome to The Methuselah Foundation -
• SourceForge.net: Mnemosyne Project -
• Happy Earth Day: Beautiful Pictures of Our Planet | Wired Science from Wired.com -
• BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault - "Mrs Lloyd said: "He was wearing a black bin bag and a cape and had a metal crutch in his hand."
  Mrs Lloyd said he was shouting "Darth Vader". "

Delicious bookmarks for March 31st through April 21st:

• Adobe kuler - Colour scheme tool
• 'Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom - tech - 08 April 2008 - New Scientist Tech - "The molecule, which stitches together strands of RNA, became 90 times more efficient after just 70 hours of evolution."
• JAXA | ?????????????????????????? - HDTV full Earthrise
• The Ape that Was - "…the average male silverback gorilla is about six feet tall and weighs in at 400 pounds. Munns calculated that the average Gigantopithecus male was more than ten feet tall and weighed as much as 1,200 pounds - comparable to a large male polar bear."
• Tate Shots - Issue 12 - "interviews with artists, highlights of performances and the stories behind well-known works in Tate?s Collection"
• English Russia » The Parachute Jumping -
• Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? - "The theory suggests the possibility of a ?quantum bounce,? where our universe stems from the collapse of a previous universe. "
• Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008) - Reintroducing the Coreys!
• Americans Find Out NASA Is Going Back to the Moon | Wired Science from Wired.com - "If you want to plan for a year, plant a seed. If you want to plan for a decade plant a forest. If you want to plan for a century build a school. If you want to plan for a millennium, explore space."
• Freeware Game Pick: Rom Check Fail (Farbs) - "…clear the screen of all enemies to complete each level, but the task is made a little more difficult by the random switching of gameplay rules where ideas are recycled and remastered as an odd mix of arcade or console classics from the past."
• Life Before Death at the Wellcome Collection | Society | guardian.co.uk -
• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) PALAOA - Livestream - "You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean with a delay of a few seconds here."
• Graveyard Game - "You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game."

by Leighton Johns