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Bookmarks for May 27th through June 23rd:

• 10 Myths About Introverts || CarlKingCreative.com || Los Angeles, CA – "Myth #2 – Introverts are shy.<br />
  Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need is a reason to interact. They don’t interact for the sake of interacting. If you want to talk to an Introvert, just start talking. Don’t worry about being polite."
• Three arguments against the singularity – Charlie’s Diary – "Finally, the simulation hypothesis builds on this and suggests that if we are already living in a cyberspatial history simulation (and not a philosopher's hedonic thought experiment) we might not be able to apprehend the underlying "true" reality. In fact, the gap between here and there might be non-existent. Either way, we can't actually prove anything about it, unless the designers of the ancestor simulation have been kind enough to gift us with an afterlife as well."
• Justin.tv – From Stage – NoMeansNo live, 2011.06.22 @ Proxima –
• Owls with Stupid Expressions on their Faces – a gallery on Flickr –
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• World’s first womb transplant planned – Telegraph –
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• Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors | NeuroTribes –
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• Blade Runner Polaroids –

Bookmarks for April 24th through May 24th:

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• Kill Screen – Infinity Blade Review –
• Billions of Lonely Planets, Adrift in Space – NYTimes.com –
• Sitting Down is Killing You [infographic] –
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• Stolen Camera Finder – find your photos, find your camera –
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• SpaceX aims to put man on Mars in 10-20 years – "We're going all the way to Mars, I think… best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."

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 –
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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 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. "
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• 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 February 3rd through February 25th:

• Synecdoche Screenplay –
• Nomeanswhatever.com – The Official Nomeansno Forum / Tour Dates / News / Website –
• People Sighing On Twitter – Brilliant
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• 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. –
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• 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 –
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• 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."