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Bookmarks for May 20th through June 21st

silus — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:08:49 +0000

Bookmarks for May 20th through June 21st:

80 Photographies de Tokyo en HDR | Geekiz Magazine –
BBC Radio Four: The Infinite Monkey Cage | See Further Festival 2010 – "Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are joined by special guests Jonathan Ross and renowned graphic novelist Alan Moore to explore the world of science and science fiction"
Observations: Why so many artists have lazy eyes, and other things art can teach us about the brain – "The advent of three-D movies and TV, however, has left many people squinting in vain. Some 10 percent of all people do not have stereopsis (depth perception), resulting from misalignment of the eyes or focusing trouble, and has trouble seeing depth in three-dimensional movies, art and even, often, physical surroundings. "
Tarvuism – The official international internet website for the Tarvuist faith –
The Wild And Wonderful Whites of West Virginia – "Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing – what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family."
diaspora – "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network"
BBC News – ‘Artificial life’ breakthrough announced by scientists – "We don't know how these organisms will behave in the environment."
New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source – Interesting…
JCVI: Research / Projects / First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell / Overview – "Now, this scientific team headed by Drs. Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith and Clyde Hutchison have achieved the final step in their quest to create the first synthetic bacterial cell."
Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space –

Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 25th

silus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:23:13 +0000

Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 25th:

Synecdoche Screenplay –
Nomeanswhatever.com – The Official Nomeansno Forum / Tour Dates / News / Website –
People Sighing On Twitter – Brilliant
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Intellectual Ventures –
Spillway: Pocket Utopias – "And as the asylums are total environments – in contrast to other 19th-century institutional buildings, such as prisons, schools and workhouses, they provide for every aspect and stage of a person's life – there is unparalleled scope for turning them into little models of a perfect world, a “pocket utopia”. With that in mind, it's possible to see in greater detail their appeal to 19th-century social reformers."
Twitpic / Astro_Soichi –
Highlights from TED 2010, Wednesday: "We can eat to starve cancer" Boing Boing –
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy – Science, I don't know what you're saying, but your voice is pretty…
"The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point."
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything –

Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th

silus — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:17:24 +0000

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 April 8th through April 14th

silus — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:04:04 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for April 8th through April 14th:

Time-Lapse Video of Gamma-Ray Sky – "The video shows a soft blue sky aglow with gamma radiation, punctuated by colorful bursts from bright gamma-ray sources. Most of the blazes are aptly-named blazars, galaxies with active nuclei that shoot jets of plasma directly at Earth. "
Black Rain on Vimeo – "Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME's (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission."
TED Blog: Warp your room (not your mind) with this awesome illusion –
Warren Ellis » Battlesbridge – "And there’s been generations of mine, too, standing here by the water’s edge, with a cigarette in their hand, watching the Crouch go by. When I stand here, I’m standing with my dad, and my grandad. Nothing between us but years. And you learn, after a while, that years mean nothing at all."
John Goekler: The Most Dangerous Person in the World? – "Terrorism is an act of the weak. But so is walking through the airport in our socks."

Bookmarks for February 28th through March 4th

silus — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:13:05 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for February 28th through March 4th:

Charles Stross: The 21st century: FAQ –
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com – "I've never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems."
'We're All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence' –
x-phi – "It has a name to delight an advertising executive: x-phi. It has blogs and books devoted to it, and boasts an expanding body of researchers in elite universities. It even has an icon: an armchair in flames. If philosophy ever can be, x-phi is trendy."
Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005) – "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Bookmarks for November 11th through November 20th

silus — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:01:26 +0000

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."

Bookmarks for October 30th through November 11th

silus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:02:38 +0000

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 â™« 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"

Bookmarks for September 24th through October 1st

silus — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:06:25 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for September 24th through October 1st:

NASA – Microscope Image of a Martian Soil Surface Sample –
NASA – Martian Sunrise at Phoenix Landing Site, Sol 101 – "This sequence of nine images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the sun rising on the morning of the lander's 101st Martian day after landing. "
Miwa YANAGI ã‚„ãªãŽã¿ã‚ –
The Best Ever: Death Speeches – "Improvised by Rutger Hauer on the spot, replicant Roy Batty's deeply moving existential soliloquy on a rain-lashed rooftop looks back on his galaxy-spanning four-year life as the final seconds tick away."
Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next – Boing Boing – "If you want to live and thrive in a free country, you must defend us too: we must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately. "
Kenchikukagu: Apartment Folds Out of a Box (Well, 3 Boxes) : TreeHugger – "A kitchen, an office and a bedroom that fold out of cabinets, designed by Toshihiko Suzuki Architect. "

Bookmarks for August 25th through September 4th

silus — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:27:58 +0000

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"

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!