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Delicious bookmarks for March 10th through March 15th:

• Brain Scanners Know Where You've Been | Wired Science from Wired.com – "After analyzing activation patterns and correlating them with a record of test subjects' movements, Maguire's team found that patterns could actually be used to predict location. "
• Designer Babies: A Right to Choose? | Wired Science from Wired.com – "So the human race would bifurcate into modified superiors and unmodified inferiors."
• isslivestream.asx (video/x-ms-asf Object) – IIS Webcam
• The “Raiders” Story Conference – "The original 1978 story conference between Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan for a little film called Raiders of the Lost Ark"
• 억지 웃음, 가짜 설렘, 가식적 표정 :: 네이버 블로그 –

Delicious bookmarks for February 12th through February 26th:

• Tabbloid – "Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine"
• Electra Amsterdam Balloon 8sp [88437] – £719.95 : Ridelow, The No.1 in Europe for Lowrider, Chopper and Cruiser Bikes, BMX, Clothing, Parts and Accessories –
• The wheel thing: Will Self on the Brompton bike – The Independent – "It was love at first sight – the first time I saw a Brompton folding bicycle, I fell in love with it."
• False Memories – "False memories implanted by researchers, it turns out, look basically identical to real memories. Neuroimaging machines can't tell them apart and neither can researchers."
• BBC – Film Network – This Way Up – "A.T Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlour when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company."

Delicious bookmarks for January 23rd through February 9th:

• Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering. "
• Bloop – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – "According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale, the largest known animal on the earth."
• Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest – "Readers understand a story by simulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change."
• Thought proving charity art exhibition at the Sutton Poyntz waterworks. (From Dorset Echo) –
• Doll Fabbed From Living Cells: Science Fiction in the News – "A tiny doll made of living cells was fabricated by researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. The intent was to demonstrate the possibility of making three-dimensional biological structures, like human organs"

Delicious bookmarks for January 13th through January 22nd:

• The New York Times > Magazine > Watching TV Makes You Smarter – "I believe that the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down"
• Our world may be a giant hologram – space – 15 January 2009 – New Scientist – "The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level."
• Open the Future: Life on Mars? Why It Matters –
• Scott McCloud on comics | Video on TED.com – "Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch."
• Hack your brain – "How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio"

Delicious bookmarks for October 30th through November 11th:

• Ninjalistics – corporate assassination solutions – Welcome to Ninjalistics – "We shall maintain cutting-edge technical standards in stealth, disguise, camouflage, combat, wall and rope climbing, dart blowing, clouding weak minds, and miscellaneous mysterious ninja-related activities"
• Unknown "Structures" Tugging at Universe, Study Says – "The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know"
• Margaux Lange: Barbie Jewelry – "While wearing plastic ears in our own ears may feel a bit creepy, the wit and originality that the earrings provide relieve any hesitation you may have."
• The vOICe Interactive Visual Sound Applet ♫ Draw your own Sound! –
• Emotiv Home – "While Emotiv is currently focusing on the electronic gaming industry, the applications for the Emotiv EPOC™ technology and interface span an amazing variety of potential industries"

Delicious bookmarks for August 6th through August 21st:

• VernissageTV art tv – "VernissageTV (VTV) takes you to opening receptions (vernissages) of exhibitions and events. Online, worldwide, on demand. VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the art world. For you, Vernissage TV is talking with artists in a relaxed style."
• Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com –
• Primordial Mars Resembled Primordial Earth | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Mars was much more Earth-like than it is today," said Bell. "We don't know if it was a living planet, but there would have been lakes, ponds, rivers, snowfall and glaciers."
• All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna –
• OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN – "shows photos of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s."