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Bookmarks for July 29th through September 5th

silus — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:03:35 +0000

Bookmarks for July 29th through September 5th:

The Wilderness Downtown –
Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft | Wired Science | Wired.com –
Krull: the movie… and the wedding – Boing Boing –
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza – Boing Boing – "Adelstein showed up at a shady real estate office in Tokyo one Thursday afternoon with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of Duty-Free whiskey to teach these gangsters how to handle a PlayStation controller."
Daniel Danger "They Will Take It Back" –
IF AN A-BOMB FALLS (1951) –
Comment on BoingBoing – "Oh man, 'Jumped the shark' has totally jumped the shark. It's about to Nuke the Fridge."
Knucklebuster » Blog Archive » 1930 Art Deco Henderson – 1930 Art Deco Henderson
Nissan to offer breathable Vitamin C in new cars – "The automaker plans to introduce air conditioners in its cars that spray vitamin C to moisturize skin and as well as air purifiers developed by Sharp."
Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go? – Boing Boing – "Weaknesses in DoD's financial and management controls left it unable to properly account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in DFI funds it received for reconstruction activities in Iraq."

Bookmarks for December 11th through February 2nd

silus — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:08:44 +0000

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 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 July 7th through July 23rd

silus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:04:34 +0000

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

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."