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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 September 12th through October 14th

silus — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:39 +0000

Bookmarks for September 12th through October 14th:

Maintainable PHP Framework –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Now, a 'switch' to reverse biological clock! – "The team believes this protein and the switch it turns on and off, called Notch, will be the key for drug development in the future."
Edge: SHOW ME THE SCIENCE by Daniel C. Dennett –
Billionaire clown heads for space station – Forbes.com – If that isn't the best headline in human history… only made better by the following excerpt:
"He brought several of the novelty noses for his crew mates, and has also said he will tickle them as they sleep."
William Safire's Finest Speech – William Safire – Gawker – "Here is the speech he drafted for Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon!"
EE Exclusive Signed Alex Ross Flash Gordon Action Figure – Bif Bang Pow! – Flash Gordon – Action Figures: Exclusive at Entertainment Earth –
Classics in Lego – a set on Flickr –
How to Create Quantum Superpositions of Living Things – "The experiment will first involve storing a virus in a vacuum and then cooling it to its quantum mechanical ground state in a microcavity. Zapping the virus with a laser then leaves it in a superposition of the ground state and an excited one. This works only if the virus behaves like a dielectric, can survive the vacuum and appears transparent to laser light, which would otherwise rip it apart."
Ananova – Missing Link found in church – "A Catholic who believed his prayers were answered when he was rescued from a lift was killed when he went to church to give thanks and the stone altar fell on him."

Bookmarks for July 8th through September 11th

silus — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:24:53 +0000

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!

Bookmarks for November 21st through January 12th

silus — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:15:50 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for November 21st through January 12th:

Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons – "This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion.
Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press 'Nuke It!'"
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008 | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008."
SPACE.com — Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected – "The signal is measured to be six times brighter than the combined emission of all known radio sources in the universe."
For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.
BBC NEWS | England | Seahorse habitat under threat – Ed Jones for the BBC
Warren Ellis » Deep Weird Day – "More time passed with more than one human species than without. And, even stranger to me — we forgot all about our sibling species until discovering and comprehending their bones in the mid-1800s. And it’s been a hair over 150 years from then to the first test of an interplanetary internet."

Bookmarks for March 31st through April 21st

silus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:11:44 +0000

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."