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Bookmarks for June 20th through July 2nd

silus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06:43 +0000

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!

Silus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:02:17 +0000

television personalities and jubb! Done with 1 hours notice

Silus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:55:53 +0000

silus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:04:15 +0000

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."

silus — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:42:38 +0000

My stuff in the recent exhibition at Weymouth Museum:

silus — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:03 +0000

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."

Silus — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:57:03 +0000

silus — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:00:13 +0000

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."

silus — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:51:56 +0000

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. “

silus — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:03:12 +0000

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."