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Delicious bookmarks for July 7th through July 23rd:

• The interview: Jamie Hewlett | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts - "And people were talking and getting up and walking out, and all I could hear was, 'Yo Ice, you look cool as a kangaroo man'. And when it finished the lights came on, and everyone - was looking at me, and it was the most humiliating experience of my life"
• VIDEO: Moon transits Earth! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine - "In late May, 2008, it turned its cameras back to Earth and observed us over the course of a several hours. During this time, from EPOXI?s point of view, the Moon passed directly in front of the Earth!"
• Chinese restaurant called TRANSLATE SERVER ERROR - Boing Boing -
• DEFENDER of the favicon | Mathieu 'p01' Henri | July 2008 - "The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs."
• CO2 Pollution Could Erase Coral Reefs | Wired Science from Wired.com - "What we're doing in the next decade could mean that for the next two million years, there are no coral reefs in the ocean," said Ken Caldeira, a Stanford professor

Delicious bookmarks for May 19th through May 27th:

• Breathtaking Typographic Posters | Fonts, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine -
• Bad Astronomy Blog » Best. Image. Ever. - "Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world [...] hundreds of million of kilometers away.
  Never, ever forget: we did this. This is what we can do."
• NASA - Phoenix Makes a Grand Entrance -
• Study Says Carbon Nanotubes as Dangerous as Asbestos: Scientific American - "Inhaling carbon nanotubes could be as harmful as breathing in asbestos"
• Extinct Tiger Roars in a Mouse | Wired Science from Wired.com - "For the first time, DNA from an extinct animal has been resurrected inside a living creature."
• Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas - Times Online - "Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges ? all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled."

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."