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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 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 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:

• 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!

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 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 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 April 23rd through April 29th:

• Afghanistan Heroes Offer to Colonize Moon, Mars and Beyond – "Me and most of my men are on our 3rd or 4th deployment into a combat area. We are scouts, reconnaissance specialists. We go before everyone else and spend time living off the land. Sounds just like the type of men needed for a long colonization journey."
• The Methuselah Foundation-Welcome to The Methuselah Foundation –
• SourceForge.net: Mnemosyne Project –
• Happy Earth Day: Beautiful Pictures of Our Planet | Wired Science from Wired.com –
• BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault – "Mrs Lloyd said: "He was wearing a black bin bag and a cape and had a metal crutch in his hand."
  Mrs Lloyd said he was shouting "Darth Vader". "