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Bookmarks for April 24th through May 24th

silus — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:00:10 +0000

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 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. –
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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 November 20th through December 11th

silus — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:17:24 +0000

Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th:

Maxthon Browser – Full-Featured Browser –
UK space agency is go | Science | guardian.co.uk – "Britain is to get its own space agency"
Life in Space: Email from the ISS – People – Dwell –
Scripturetext.com: Online Multilingual Bible –
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal –
Exclusive SpaceShipTwo unveiling gallery (Updated!) Boing Boing –
Cyclone Power Press Release EATR Rumors Final 16 July 09.pdf (application/pdf Object) – “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,”
You really couldn't make this up…
symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » First particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider –
Spirit Rover Wiggles Her Wheels | Wired Science | Wired.com – Nearly six years now Spirit and Opportunity have been up there…
Marginal Revolution: Jeremy Taylor quotes Richard Wrangham on the domestication of human beings – "I think we have to start thinking about the idea that humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves. If we're following the bonobo or dog pattern, we're moving toward a form of ourselves with more and more juvenile behavior. And the amazing thing once you start thinking in those terms is that you realize that we're still moving fast. I think that current evidence is that we're in the middle of an evolutionary event in which tooth size is falling, jaw size is falling, brain size is falling, and it's quite reasonable to imagine that we're continuing to tame ourselves. "
IBM Makes Supercomputer Significantly Smarter Than Cat – 'The model also exhibits "strong scaling," which means that increases in the amount of memory per CPU enable them to run the model faster, so that it will eventually be able to simulate a cortex in real time. '

Bookmarks for October 14th through November 17th

silus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:06 +0000

Bookmarks for October 14th through November 17th:

Adobe® BrowserLab – Browser/system comparison with onion skinning. Nice!
Mystery 'dark flow' extends towards edge of universe – space – 16 November 2009 – New Scientist – "The dark flow appears to have been caused shortly after the big bang by something no longer in the observable universe"
THE AGE OF THE INFORMAVORE— A Talk with Frank Schirrmacher – "…because we have the Internet, [we are] now entering a phase where Darwinian structures, where Darwinian dynamics, Darwinian selection, apparently attacks ideas themselves: what to remember, what not to remember, which idea is stronger, which idea is weaker."
Do Anything 021 by Warren Ellis – "Everything is comics. Comics are air. Cave paintings, the Stations of the Cross, the Bayeux Tapestry, woodcut novels, army maintenance guides, airplane safety cards — all comics. Comics are everywhere, the ideoplasmic universe of human culture from its dawn to one second ago and up the line until the sun goes dark. Nothing but words and pictures: but they are what define the way we frame ideas and experiences. They do anything."
The Waste Land – Gutenberg version
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First black hole for light created on Earth – physics-math – 14 October 2009 – New Scientist –
Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com – "the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one."

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 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 September 24th through October 1st

silus — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:06:25 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for September 24th through October 1st:

NASA – Microscope Image of a Martian Soil Surface Sample –
NASA – Martian Sunrise at Phoenix Landing Site, Sol 101 – "This sequence of nine images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the sun rising on the morning of the lander's 101st Martian day after landing. "
Miwa YANAGI ã‚„ãªãŽã¿ã‚ –
The Best Ever: Death Speeches – "Improvised by Rutger Hauer on the spot, replicant Roy Batty's deeply moving existential soliloquy on a rain-lashed rooftop looks back on his galaxy-spanning four-year life as the final seconds tick away."
Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next – Boing Boing – "If you want to live and thrive in a free country, you must defend us too: we must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately. "
Kenchikukagu: Apartment Folds Out of a Box (Well, 3 Boxes) : TreeHugger – "A kitchen, an office and a bedroom that fold out of cabinets, designed by Toshihiko Suzuki Architect. "

Bookmarks for August 25th through September 4th

silus — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:27:58 +0000

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"

Bookmarks for August 6th through August 21st

silus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:02:10 +0000

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."

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!