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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
GoCGR.jpg (JPEG Image, 1134×1512 pixels) –
ESP_014426_2070.jpg (JPEG Image, 2560×1920 pixels) – Scaled (33%) –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
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 March 17th through April 1st

silus — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:12:33 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for March 17th through April 1st:

"Fucking Hell" – Jake & Dinos rebuild Hell
Skimmer – We Are Fallon – Desktop social aggregator with AIR
Quotes On Comics » Quotes on Comic Books, Updated Daily! –
Memory Switch Could Enable Brain Hacks | Wired Science from Wired.com – "…a signal that appears to precede the formation of any memory type. It could be an all-purpose memory switch, determining when the brain enters a favorable encoding state, roughly akin to the overwrite tab on an old-fashioned floppy disk. "
Alan Moore talks about Watchmen | guardian.co.uk – "Things that we did in Watchmen on paper could be frankly horrible or sensationalist or unpleasant if you were to interpret them literally through the medium of cinema. When it's just lines on paper, the reader is in control of the experience – it's a tableau vivant. And that gives it the necessary distance. It's not the same when you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second."

Bookmarks for March 10th through March 15th

silus — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:09:16 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for March 10th through March 15th:

Brain Scanners Know Where You've Been | Wired Science from Wired.com – "After analyzing activation patterns and correlating them with a record of test subjects' movements, Maguire's team found that patterns could actually be used to predict location. "
Designer Babies: A Right to Choose? | Wired Science from Wired.com – "So the human race would bifurcate into modified superiors and unmodified inferiors."
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The “Raiders” Story Conference – "The original 1978 story conference between Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan for a little film called Raiders of the Lost Ark"
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Bookmarks for February 12th through February 26th

silus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:02:52 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for February 12th through February 26th:

Tabbloid – "Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine"
Electra Amsterdam Balloon 8sp [88437] – £719.95 : Ridelow, The No.1 in Europe for Lowrider, Chopper and Cruiser Bikes, BMX, Clothing, Parts and Accessories –
The wheel thing: Will Self on the Brompton bike – The Independent – "It was love at first sight – the first time I saw a Brompton folding bicycle, I fell in love with it."
False Memories – "False memories implanted by researchers, it turns out, look basically identical to real memories. Neuroimaging machines can't tell them apart and neither can researchers."
BBC – Film Network – This Way Up – "A.T Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlour when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company."

Bookmarks for January 23rd through February 9th

silus — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:23:00 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for January 23rd through February 9th:

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering. "
Bloop – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – "According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale, the largest known animal on the earth."
Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest – "Readers understand a story by simulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change."
Thought proving charity art exhibition at the Sutton Poyntz waterworks. (From Dorset Echo) –
Doll Fabbed From Living Cells: Science Fiction in the News – "A tiny doll made of living cells was fabricated by researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. The intent was to demonstrate the possibility of making three-dimensional biological structures, like human organs"

Bookmarks for April 23rd through April 29th

silus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:46 +0000

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". "