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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

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."

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 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 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."

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. “

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."

Delicious bookmarks for March 31st through April 21st:

• Adobe kuler – Colour scheme tool
• 'Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom – tech – 08 April 2008 – New Scientist Tech – "The molecule, which stitches together strands of RNA, became 90 times more efficient after just 70 hours of evolution."
• JAXA | ?????????????????????????? – HDTV full Earthrise
• The Ape that Was – "…the average male silverback gorilla is about six feet tall and weighs in at 400 pounds. Munns calculated that the average Gigantopithecus male was more than ten feet tall and weighed as much as 1,200 pounds – comparable to a large male polar bear."
• Tate Shots – Issue 12 – "interviews with artists, highlights of performances and the stories behind well-known works in Tate?s Collection"
• English Russia » The Parachute Jumping –
• Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? – "The theory suggests the possibility of a ?quantum bounce,? where our universe stems from the collapse of a previous universe. "
• Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008) – Reintroducing the Coreys!
• Americans Find Out NASA Is Going Back to the Moon | Wired Science from Wired.com – "If you want to plan for a year, plant a seed. If you want to plan for a decade plant a forest. If you want to plan for a century build a school. If you want to plan for a millennium, explore space."
• Freeware Game Pick: Rom Check Fail (Farbs) – "…clear the screen of all enemies to complete each level, but the task is made a little more difficult by the random switching of gameplay rules where ideas are recycled and remastered as an odd mix of arcade or console classics from the past."
• Life Before Death at the Wellcome Collection | Society | guardian.co.uk –
• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) PALAOA – Livestream – "You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean with a delay of a few seconds here."
• Graveyard Game – "You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game."