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Bookmarks for April 16th through May 19th:

• Concept Feedback | Free Concept Reviews for Marketers, Designers and Developers –
• fivesecondtest –
• News – Virgin Galactic appoints its first Chief Executive | Virgin Galactic – "Whitesides joins Virgin Galactic from his recent role as Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). "
• Japan rocket to blast off with Venus probe and ’space yacht’ – "The technology could enable space travel without fuel as long as there is sunlight…"
• New evidence caffeine may slow Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, restore cognitive function – "Although caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug worldwide, its potential beneficial effect for maintenance of proper brain functioning has only recently begun to be adequately appreciated. "
• Mr. Bojagi starring Brian Blessed – FULL FILM – a Film & TV video –
• The Never Call – Couldn't agree more : "The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us. "
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 3D printer could build moon bases – "The D-shape printer can create a building four times faster than it could be built by conventional means, and reduces the cost to half or less. There is little waste, which is better for the environment, and it can easily “print” curved structures that are difficult and expensive to build by other means"
• Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels – "The practice of highlighting selected works and the relationships between them and of finding meaning in the sum of their parts is becoming as much a survival strategy in an age-abundant data as a cultural pursuit."
• Weymouth poets’ night launched (From Dorset Echo) – "It’s the idea of Weymouth friends Phil Coombs and Natasha Hamilton, who want to provide a regular platform for ‘wordsmiths, limerick lovers, tale tellers and rhyme wranglers’. "

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 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."

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 –

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 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 やなぎみわ –
• 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. "

Delicious bookmarks for July 7th through July 23rd:

• The interview: Jamie Hewlett | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts – "And people were talking and getting up and walking out, and all I could hear was, 'Yo Ice, you look cool as a kangaroo man'. And when it finished the lights came on, and everyone – was looking at me, and it was the most humiliating experience of my life"
• VIDEO: Moon transits Earth! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine – "In late May, 2008, it turned its cameras back to Earth and observed us over the course of a several hours. During this time, from EPOXI?s point of view, the Moon passed directly in front of the Earth!"
• Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR – Boing Boing –
• DEFENDER of the favicon | Mathieu 'p01' Henri | July 2008 – "The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs."
• CO2 Pollution Could Erase Coral Reefs | Wired Science from Wired.com – "What we're doing in the next decade could mean that for the next two million years, there are no coral reefs in the ocean," said Ken Caldeira, a Stanford professor

Delicious bookmarks for May 19th through May 27th:

• Breathtaking Typographic Posters | Fonts, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine –
• Bad Astronomy Blog » Best. Image. Ever. – "Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world [...] hundreds of million of kilometers away.
  Never, ever forget: we did this. This is what we can do."
• NASA – Phoenix Makes a Grand Entrance –
• Study Says Carbon Nanotubes as Dangerous as Asbestos: Scientific American – "Inhaling carbon nanotubes could be as harmful as breathing in asbestos"
• Extinct Tiger Roars in a Mouse | Wired Science from Wired.com – "For the first time, DNA from an extinct animal has been resurrected inside a living creature."
• Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas – Times Online – "Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges ? all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled."

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."