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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 15th through April 20th:

• Comic Book Resources > CBR News: Alan Moore’s Bestiary of Fictional Worlds – "…our hopes, our fears, the things that we express in dreams, as a culture we express through our fiction, particularly our fantastic fictions. And it’s really interesting. It is actually saying something about our world, not purely a literary exercise. It is a fabulous literary game, but I’m starting to realize after the fact, as usual, that it’s more than that because of the interconnected nature of the world of fiction and our material world, that they’re interdependent on each other. [...] Yes, it is real flesh-and-blood people who create these fictional beings, but the fictional beings create us as well. It’s not as straightforward as it looks…"
• White Fungus – Bruce Sterling – Architecture Fiction
• kokomoo.com –
• Omegle – Talk to strangers
• Eleven Fine Art – Current exhibition – No Love Lost
  Daisy de Villeneuve and Natasha Law

Delicious bookmarks for March 17th through April 1st:

• "Fucking Hell" – Jake & Dinos rebuild Hell
• Skimmer – We Are Fallon – Desktop social aggregator with AIR
• Quotes On Comics » Quotes on Comic Books, Updated Daily! –
• Memory Switch Could Enable Brain Hacks | Wired Science from Wired.com – "…a signal that appears to precede the formation of any memory type. It could be an all-purpose memory switch, determining when the brain enters a favorable encoding state, roughly akin to the overwrite tab on an old-fashioned floppy disk. "
• Alan Moore talks about Watchmen | guardian.co.uk – "Things that we did in Watchmen on paper could be frankly horrible or sensationalist or unpleasant if you were to interpret them literally through the medium of cinema. When it's just lines on paper, the reader is in control of the experience – it's a tableau vivant. And that gives it the necessary distance. It's not the same when you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second."

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 November 11th through November 20th:

• Why the universe may be teeming with aliens – space – 19 November 2008 – New Scientist – "As astronomers explore newly discovered planets and create computer simulations of virtual worlds, they are discovering that water, and life, might exist on all manner of weird worlds where conditions are very different from those on Earth. And that means there could be vastly more habitable planets out there than we thought possible."
• The Last Viridian Note – Bruce Sterling – "The hours you
  waste stumbling over your piled debris, picking, washing, storing, re-storing,
  those are hours and spaces that you will never get back in a mortal lifetime.
  Basically, you have to curate these goods: heat them, cool them, protect them
  from humidity and vermin. Every moment you devote to them is lost to your
  children, your friends, your society, yourself."
• Photo Gallery: The World of Trench Warfare in Color – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International – "The overwhelming majority of photos taken during World War I were black and white, lending the conflict a stark aesthetic which dominates our visual memory of the war."
• Jesus Christ » In the Name of the Gun – Jesus fights Nazis
• The Phoenix > Lifestyle Features > Space cowboy – "For more than 50 years, UConn physics professor Ronald Mallett had a secret. Now that it's out, we may be one step closer to traveling back in time."

Delicious bookmarks for October 4th through October 20th:

• Dear Stranger, » Comic –
• H+ Magazine – Humanity Plus: The New Synthesis
• Struggle for Survival – Governing Britain after the Bomb – 1955 Defence White Paper
• Sad Guys on Trading Floors – photoblog
• I killed a dog, can i be sued? – Yahoo! Answers – I think this is my favourite page on the internet so far.

Delicious bookmarks for August 25th through September 4th:

• Ice Clouds in Martian Arctic (Accelerated Movie) – "Particles of water-ice make up these clouds, like ice-crystal cirrus clouds on Earth. Ice hazes have been common at the Phoenix site in recent days. "
• Latest Extinction is the Greatest | Wired Science from Wired.com – "If unchecked, the current extinction threatens to be the greatest killer of all time," write the researchers
• Index of /the conet project –
• Google Chrome – COMIC: Scott McCloud explains new Google browser.
• Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars – "This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager, shows the sun rising on the morning of sol 90, Aug. 25, 2008, the last day of the Phoenix nominal mission."
• The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels – "Step up now, Gentlemen and Ladies, come this way, here in the Moon and Serpent"

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."

Delicious bookmarks for July 23rd through July 29th:

• BBtv at Virgin Galactic launch, Mojave Spaceport, 07-28-08 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! –
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cern lab goes 'colder than space' – "The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) – colder than deep space."
• Man to live on the moon | The Daily Telegraph – "We're going back, and this time we're going to stay,''
• Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran Edgar Mitchell | The Daily Telegraph – "FORMER NASA astronaut and moonwalker Dr Edgar Mitchell – a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission – has stunningly claimed aliens do exist."
• as17-134-20384.jpg (JPEG Image, 3000×3003 pixels) – "Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag …. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background"
• Warren Ellis » GRAVEL: Scriptment Writing – "…a style called 'scriptment.' It?s partway between a full script and a "treatment," or detailed synopsis."
• Science! ~ T-Shirts on the Edge of Forever – by Jeremy Kalgreen –