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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 7th through September 16th:

• "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat." – "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat." – Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University (and D:Ream)
• grinding.be » Blog Archive » On the Eve of Destruction – "History is a heat, it is the heat of accumulated information and accumulated complexity. As our culture progresses, we find that we gather more and more information and that we slowly start to move almost from a fluid to a vaporous state as we approach the ultimate complexity of a social boiling point. I believe that our culture is turning to steam." — Alan Moore
• Human Genetics is Now a Viable Hobby — 23andMe Cuts its Price to $399 –
• MoreCowbell.dj –
• 'Go LHC Go' – VIDEO – "Find out more about the significant role of the UK has played in CERN"

Delicious bookmarks for August 25th through September 4th:

• Ice Clouds in Martian Arctic (Accelerated Movie) – "Particles of water-ice make up these clouds, like ice-crystal cirrus clouds on Earth. Ice hazes have been common at the Phoenix site in recent days. "
• Latest Extinction is the Greatest | Wired Science from Wired.com – "If unchecked, the current extinction threatens to be the greatest killer of all time," write the researchers
• Index of /the conet project –
• Google Chrome – COMIC: Scott McCloud explains new Google browser.
• Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars – "This red-filter image taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager, shows the sun rising on the morning of sol 90, Aug. 25, 2008, the last day of the Phoenix nominal mission."
• The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels – "Step up now, Gentlemen and Ladies, come this way, here in the Moon and Serpent"

Delicious bookmarks for August 6th through August 21st:

• VernissageTV art tv – "VernissageTV (VTV) takes you to opening receptions (vernissages) of exhibitions and events. Online, worldwide, on demand. VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the art world. For you, Vernissage TV is talking with artists in a relaxed style."
• Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com –
• Primordial Mars Resembled Primordial Earth | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Mars was much more Earth-like than it is today," said Bell. "We don't know if it was a living planet, but there would have been lakes, ponds, rivers, snowfall and glaciers."
• All Over Coffee by Paul Madonna –
• OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN – "shows photos of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s."

Delicious bookmarks for June 20th through July 2nd:

• Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo – "14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands"
• Scientists: It Once Rained on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Drizzle once fell on Martian soil, according to a new geochemical analysis"
• keytarded – Norwich, UK – Electro / Showtunes / Bossa Nova – www.myspace.com/keytardedband –
• neurotic » home – "Each robot has the ability to pogo up to an imposing height of 2.3 metres. Controlling these robots is a Neural Network modeled on the neurology of the human brain and educated in punk music."
• Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice – Melons straight in!

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."