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Bookmarks for December 7th through December 14th:

• seamonster : The Complete Edition: Amazon.co.uk: Nathan Castle: Books – Yay! (A more resonably priced version will be available directly from me soon. But still. Yay!)
• Warren Ellis » Lede Of The Day – "Evidence that our universe has been struck by four other universes."
• Young female Star Wars fan rescued from bullies by girl-geeks (& friends) around the world – Boing Boing –
• MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG –
• Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press – Boing Boing –
• Black Milk — Threepio –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners’ wishes) – Charlie’s Diary –
• Download audiobook | Cory Doctorow – With a Little Help –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Bookmarks for September 6th through September 30th:

• Gliese 581 g – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Should We Clone Neanderthals? – "This is a species-altering event, it changes the way we are creating a new generation."
• George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay « Binary Bonsai –
• CAT 10 UNDERGROUND SHELTER SYSTEM –
• Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film – Audio & Photos – NYTimes.com –
• infographiclarge_v2.png (PNG Image, 1983×1402 pixels) – Scaled (62%) – "So You Need A Typeface"
• Russian Scientist Claims to Have Found Cure for Aging – "It appears that Skulachev has synthesized a mitochondrially targeted antioxidant."
• Courses – Google Code University – Google Code –
• The Imp, by Daniel Raeburn –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Bookmarks for July 29th through September 5th:

• The Wilderness Downtown –
• Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft | Wired Science | Wired.com –
• Krull: the movie… and the wedding – Boing Boing –
• Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza – Boing Boing – "Adelstein showed up at a shady real estate office in Tokyo one Thursday afternoon with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of Duty-Free whiskey to teach these gangsters how to handle a PlayStation controller."
• Daniel Danger "They Will Take It Back" –
• IF AN A-BOMB FALLS (1951) –
• Comment on BoingBoing – "Oh man, 'Jumped the shark' has totally jumped the shark. It's about to Nuke the Fridge."
• Knucklebuster » Blog Archive » 1930 Art Deco Henderson – 1930 Art Deco Henderson
• Nissan to offer breathable Vitamin C in new cars – "The automaker plans to introduce air conditioners in its cars that spray vitamin C to moisturize skin and as well as air purifiers developed by Sharp."
• Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go? – Boing Boing – "Weaknesses in DoD's financial and management controls left it unable to properly account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in DFI funds it received for reconstruction activities in Iraq."

Bookmarks for June 28th through July 28th:

• Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million – CNN.com – "Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million"
• Quantum Time Machine Lets You Travel to the Past Without Fear of Grandfather Paradox | Popular Science – "This form of theoretical time travel solves two major problems associated with the feat. For one, it doesn’t require the bending of spacetime as most time travel theories do. Considering the conditions necessary to bend the fabric of spacetime might only exist in black holes, that’s a good thing. But further, due to the probabilistic laws of quantum mechanics, anything this method of time travel allows to happen already had a finite chance of happening anyhow. That means a particle can’t really go back and accidentally destroy itself."
• Monkey Terrorists – "The monkeys are sometimes offered bananas and peanuts as 'a series of rewards and punishments to gradually teach them how to' fire Kalashnikovs, light machine guns and trench mortars. "
• Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Death of Nemesis: The Sun’s Distant, Dark Companion – "the origin of the 27 million year extinction cycle is hotting up to become one of the great scientific mysteries of our time."
• squid314: Stuff –
• Php Object Generator (v3.0e) – Open Source PHP Code Generator –
• Small Press – we’ll sell your stuff FREE | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log –
• Lao Che Air Freight | Last Exit to Nowhere –
• Bill Murray: The Curious Case of Hollywood’s White Whale | Movies | EW.com – ''He was always unexpected. Where anyone else would go subtle, he would go huge. And where anyone else would go big, he would go very subtle.''
• Flickr: State Library and Archives of Florida’s Photostream –

Bookmarks for February 25th through April 13th:

• DEARJOSEPH on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos –
• Seamonster by Nathan Castle – Seamonster is a slightly surreal, gently nightmarish story of doomed relationships, seaside towns, and misguided escapism. Dave's search for connection and meaning lead him to confront the illusory nature of the very structure he seeks.
• Internet Archive: Free Download: Seamonster – Seamonster is a slightly surreal, gently nightmarish story of doomed relationships, seaside towns, and misguided escapism. Dave's search for connection and meaning lead him to confront the illusory nature of the very structure he seeks.
• GREAT SHOWDOWNS by scott c. –
• Warren Ellis » He May Have A Razor On Him – 'When Baird tried to tell the news editor at the Daily Express what he’d done, the hack got the Fear and hissed to his staff: "He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless. Watch him– he may have a razor on him."'
• First quantum effects seen in visible object – physics-math – 17 March 2010 – New Scientist – "The first ever quantum superposition in an object visible to the naked eye has been observed."
• From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter — and new questions –
• raiders of the lost ark poster by *strongstuff on deviantART –
• Atemporality for the Creative Artist | Beyond The Beyond –
• Synecdoche Script – transcript from the screenplay and/or the Charlie Kaufman movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman – "you begin to lose your characteristics one by one as you learn there is no one watching you and there never was,"

Bookmarks for December 11th through February 2nd:

• xkcd – Spirit Rover –
• The 10:23 'overdose' event | The 10:23 Campaign | #ten23 – "At 10:23am on January 30th, more than three hundred homeopathy sceptics nationwide will be taking part in a mass homeopathic 'overdose' in protest at Boots' continued endorsement and sale of homeopathic remedies, and to raise public awareness about the fact that homeopathic remedies have nothing in them."
• The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade – Brand New –
• Daytrotter: The source for new music discovery and free MP3 downloads from the best emerging bands. –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights | The Januarist – "[The policeman is] there to protect, protect the free citizen, not to chase criminals, that’s an incidental part of his job. The free citizen is always more of a nuisance to the policeman that the criminal. He knows what to do about the criminal …"
• Richard Nash: Book Publishing 10 Years in the Future – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat – "The mechanically reproduced object will have its aura restored in this Age of Digital Reproduction and we'll wish, again, that Walter Benjamin could have seen all this."
• Akinator, the Web Genius –
• Rethinking artificial intelligence – "This time, they are determined to get it right — and, with the advantages of hindsight, experience, the rapid growth of new technologies and insights from the new field of computational neuroscience, they think they have a good shot at it."
• Stack Overflow –

Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th:

• Maxthon Browser – Full-Featured Browser –
• UK space agency is go | Science | guardian.co.uk – "Britain is to get its own space agency"
• Life in Space: Email from the ISS – People – Dwell –
• Scripturetext.com: Online Multilingual Bible –
• How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal –
• Exclusive SpaceShipTwo unveiling gallery (Updated!) Boing Boing –
• Cyclone Power Press Release EATR Rumors Final 16 July 09.pdf (application/pdf Object) – “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,”
  You really couldn't make this up…
• symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » First particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider –
• Spirit Rover Wiggles Her Wheels | Wired Science | Wired.com – Nearly six years now Spirit and Opportunity have been up there…
• Marginal Revolution: Jeremy Taylor quotes Richard Wrangham on the domestication of human beings – "I think we have to start thinking about the idea that humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves. If we're following the bonobo or dog pattern, we're moving toward a form of ourselves with more and more juvenile behavior. And the amazing thing once you start thinking in those terms is that you realize that we're still moving fast. I think that current evidence is that we're in the middle of an evolutionary event in which tooth size is falling, jaw size is falling, brain size is falling, and it's quite reasonable to imagine that we're continuing to tame ourselves. "
• IBM Makes Supercomputer Significantly Smarter Than Cat – 'The model also exhibits "strong scaling," which means that increases in the amount of memory per CPU enable them to run the model faster, so that it will eventually be able to simulate a cortex in real time. '

Bookmarks for October 14th through November 17th:

• Adobe® BrowserLab – Browser/system comparison with onion skinning. Nice!
• Mystery 'dark flow' extends towards edge of universe – space – 16 November 2009 – New Scientist – "The dark flow appears to have been caused shortly after the big bang by something no longer in the observable universe"
• THE AGE OF THE INFORMAVORE— A Talk with Frank Schirrmacher – "…because we have the Internet, [we are] now entering a phase where Darwinian structures, where Darwinian dynamics, Darwinian selection, apparently attacks ideas themselves: what to remember, what not to remember, which idea is stronger, which idea is weaker."
• Do Anything 021 by Warren Ellis – "Everything is comics. Comics are air. Cave paintings, the Stations of the Cross, the Bayeux Tapestry, woodcut novels, army maintenance guides, airplane safety cards — all comics. Comics are everywhere, the ideoplasmic universe of human culture from its dawn to one second ago and up the line until the sun goes dark. Nothing but words and pictures: but they are what define the way we frame ideas and experiences. They do anything."
• The Waste Land – Gutenberg version
• GoCGR.jpg (JPEG Image, 1134×1512 pixels) –
• ESP_014426_2070.jpg (JPEG Image, 2560×1920 pixels) – Scaled (33%) –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• First black hole for light created on Earth – physics-math – 14 October 2009 – New Scientist –
• Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com – "the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one."

Bookmarks for July 8th through September 11th:

• Mice Levitated in Lab | LiveScience – "Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields."
• Knome, Inc. | Know Thyself –
• grinding.be » Blog Archive » AUGMENTED REALITY!!1 –
• lighttpd fly light –
• The Pekar Project – "His first ongoing webcomic series"
• Polar Rose | Naming is sharing! – "Polar Rose detects the faces of the people in your online photos"
• Wikitude – "Augmented Reality (AR) platform which allows you to browse the world and helps you discover information about places and points of interest around you."
• Layar – "Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. Layar is a global application, available for the T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones in all Android Markets. It also comes pre-installed on the Samsung Galaxy in the Netherlands."
• Jonbar Hinge – "Jonbar hinges often refer to small non-descript events that had an important effect on history, but because of time travel the outcome of the choice or event was changed leading to a different future or an alternate history."
• Nasa aims to move Earth | Environment | The Observer – "All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system. "
• 10 Mysteries of you: Art – 05 August 2009 – New Scientist – "Explaining the peculiar human urge to create works of art in terms of evolutionary survival is a challenge."
• Complete Poems – Emily Dickinson –
• Post-it Note Stories | Man Not Superman by Jonathan Goldstein –
• 555 KUBIK | facade projection | on Vimeo – "How it would be, if a house was dreaming"
• Research Statement « The Pinocchio Theory –
• Reid Peppard –
• Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS – Ooh!

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 –