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Bookmarks for September 8th through September 21st

silus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:11:27 +0000

Bookmarks for September 8th through September 21st:

Bookmarks for May 20th through June 21st

silus — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:08:49 +0000

Bookmarks for May 20th through June 21st:

80 Photographies de Tokyo en HDR | Geekiz Magazine –
BBC Radio Four: The Infinite Monkey Cage | See Further Festival 2010 – "Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are joined by special guests Jonathan Ross and renowned graphic novelist Alan Moore to explore the world of science and science fiction"
Observations: Why so many artists have lazy eyes, and other things art can teach us about the brain – "The advent of three-D movies and TV, however, has left many people squinting in vain. Some 10 percent of all people do not have stereopsis (depth perception), resulting from misalignment of the eyes or focusing trouble, and has trouble seeing depth in three-dimensional movies, art and even, often, physical surroundings. "
Tarvuism – The official international internet website for the Tarvuist faith –
The Wild And Wonderful Whites of West Virginia – "Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing – what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family."
diaspora – "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network"
BBC News – ‘Artificial life’ breakthrough announced by scientists – "We don't know how these organisms will behave in the environment."
New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source – Interesting…
JCVI: Research / Projects / First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell / Overview – "Now, this scientific team headed by Drs. Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith and Clyde Hutchison have achieved the final step in their quest to create the first synthetic bacterial cell."
Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space –

Bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th

silus — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th:

Simon Schubert – Illustration by scoring and folding.
Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-368 Release –
Astrometry Bags a ‘Cold Jupiter’ – “We found a Jupiter-like planet at around the same relative place as our Jupiter, only around a much smaller star. It’s possible this star also has inner rocky planets. And since more than seven out of 10 stars are small like this one, this could mean planets are more common than we thought.”
Meteorites a Key to Habitability? – "the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) some four billion years ago wasn’t an average time. The research team used models of meteoritic impact rates during the bombardment to calculate that billions of tons of carbon dioxide and water vapor would have been delivered to Earth’s atmosphere each year over the entire twenty million years that spanned the LHB. "
INTERVIEW PROJECT – NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS – David Lynch interviews people and posts a video every three days for a year.
Weird Science – Boing Boing – "Our conscious minds display some of the same features as quantum mechanics. When we're not thinking about anything in particular, our thoughts evolve in a continuous, multi-universe kind of way—but when we focus on something, we carry out something like the quantum collapse that characterizes the process of measurement. "

Bookmarks for February 28th through March 4th

silus — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:13:05 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for February 28th through March 4th:

Charles Stross: The 21st century: FAQ –
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com – "I've never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems."
'We're All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence' –
x-phi – "It has a name to delight an advertising executive: x-phi. It has blogs and books devoted to it, and boasts an expanding body of researchers in elite universities. It even has an icon: an armchair in flames. If philosophy ever can be, x-phi is trendy."
Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005) – "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Bookmarks for January 13th through January 22nd

silus — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:02:55 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for January 13th through January 22nd:

The New York Times > Magazine > Watching TV Makes You Smarter – "I believe that the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down"
Our world may be a giant hologram – space – 15 January 2009 – New Scientist – "The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level."
Open the Future: Life on Mars? Why It Matters –
Scott McCloud on comics | Video on TED.com – "Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch."
Hack your brain – "How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio"

Bookmarks for November 11th through November 20th

silus — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:01:26 +0000

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."

Bookmarks for July 23rd through July 29th

silus — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:01:43 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for July 23rd through July 29th:

BBtv at Virgin Galactic launch, Mojave Spaceport, 07-28-08 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! –
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cern lab goes 'colder than space' – "The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) – colder than deep space."
Man to live on the moon | The Daily Telegraph – "We're going back, and this time we're going to stay,''
Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran Edgar Mitchell | The Daily Telegraph – "FORMER NASA astronaut and moonwalker Dr Edgar Mitchell – a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission – has stunningly claimed aliens do exist."
as17-134-20384.jpg (JPEG Image, 3000×3003 pixels) – "Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag …. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background"
Warren Ellis » GRAVEL: Scriptment Writing – "…a style called 'scriptment.' It?s partway between a full script and a "treatment," or detailed synopsis."
Science! ~ T-Shirts on the Edge of Forever – by Jeremy Kalgreen –

Bookmarks for June 20th through July 2nd

silus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06:43 +0000

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!

Bookmarks for June 3rd through June 4th

silus — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:03 +0000

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."

Bookmarks for May 8th through May 15th

silus — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:51:56 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for May 8th through May 15th:

LHCountdown.com – “Welcome to LHCountdown.com, this site is primarily a countdown site to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider”
Star Wars: The Clone Wars | The Clone Wars: Theatrical Trailer – “Debuting in theaters along with Speed Racer, here’s the trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Star Wars as you’ve never seen it before, coming to the big screen on August 15, 2008.”
MoMA exhibit dies five weeks into show – The Art Newspaper – “One of the central works in the exhibition ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. “