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Bookmarks for June 28th through July 28th

silus — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:07:50 +0000

Bookmarks for June 28th through July 28th:

Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million – CNN.com – "Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million"
Quantum Time Machine Lets You Travel to the Past Without Fear of Grandfather Paradox | Popular Science – "This form of theoretical time travel solves two major problems associated with the feat. For one, it doesn’t require the bending of spacetime as most time travel theories do. Considering the conditions necessary to bend the fabric of spacetime might only exist in black holes, that’s a good thing. But further, due to the probabilistic laws of quantum mechanics, anything this method of time travel allows to happen already had a finite chance of happening anyhow. That means a particle can’t really go back and accidentally destroy itself."
Monkey Terrorists – "The monkeys are sometimes offered bananas and peanuts as 'a series of rewards and punishments to gradually teach them how to' fire Kalashnikovs, light machine guns and trench mortars. "
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Death of Nemesis: The Sun’s Distant, Dark Companion – "the origin of the 27 million year extinction cycle is hotting up to become one of the great scientific mysteries of our time."
squid314: Stuff –
Php Object Generator (v3.0e) – Open Source PHP Code Generator –
Small Press – we’ll sell your stuff FREE | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log –
Lao Che Air Freight | Last Exit to Nowhere –
Bill Murray: The Curious Case of Hollywood’s White Whale | Movies | EW.com – ''He was always unexpected. Where anyone else would go subtle, he would go huge. And where anyone else would go big, he would go very subtle.''
Flickr: State Library and Archives of Florida’s Photostream –

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 September 12th through October 14th

silus — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:39 +0000

Bookmarks for September 12th through October 14th:

Maintainable PHP Framework –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Now, a 'switch' to reverse biological clock! – "The team believes this protein and the switch it turns on and off, called Notch, will be the key for drug development in the future."
Edge: SHOW ME THE SCIENCE by Daniel C. Dennett –
Billionaire clown heads for space station – Forbes.com – If that isn't the best headline in human history… only made better by the following excerpt:
"He brought several of the novelty noses for his crew mates, and has also said he will tickle them as they sleep."
William Safire's Finest Speech – William Safire – Gawker – "Here is the speech he drafted for Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon!"
EE Exclusive Signed Alex Ross Flash Gordon Action Figure – Bif Bang Pow! – Flash Gordon – Action Figures: Exclusive at Entertainment Earth –
Classics in Lego – a set on Flickr –
How to Create Quantum Superpositions of Living Things – "The experiment will first involve storing a virus in a vacuum and then cooling it to its quantum mechanical ground state in a microcavity. Zapping the virus with a laser then leaves it in a superposition of the ground state and an excited one. This works only if the virus behaves like a dielectric, can survive the vacuum and appears transparent to laser light, which would otherwise rip it apart."
Ananova – Missing Link found in church – "A Catholic who believed his prayers were answered when he was rescued from a lift was killed when he went to church to give thanks and the stone altar fell on him."

Bookmarks for July 8th through September 11th

silus — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:24:53 +0000

Bookmarks for July 8th through September 11th:

Mice Levitated in Lab | LiveScience – "Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields."
Knome, Inc. | Know Thyself –
grinding.be » Blog Archive » AUGMENTED REALITY!!1 –
lighttpd fly light –
The Pekar Project – "His first ongoing webcomic series"
Polar Rose | Naming is sharing! – "Polar Rose detects the faces of the people in your online photos"
Wikitude – "Augmented Reality (AR) platform which allows you to browse the world and helps you discover information about places and points of interest around you."
Layar – "Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. Layar is a global application, available for the T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones in all Android Markets. It also comes pre-installed on the Samsung Galaxy in the Netherlands."
Jonbar Hinge – "Jonbar hinges often refer to small non-descript events that had an important effect on history, but because of time travel the outcome of the choice or event was changed leading to a different future or an alternate history."
Nasa aims to move Earth | Environment | The Observer – "All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system. "
10 Mysteries of you: Art – 05 August 2009 – New Scientist – "Explaining the peculiar human urge to create works of art in terms of evolutionary survival is a challenge."
Complete Poems – Emily Dickinson –
Post-it Note Stories | Man Not Superman by Jonathan Goldstein –
555 KUBIK | facade projection | on Vimeo – "How it would be, if a house was dreaming"
Research Statement « The Pinocchio Theory –
Reid Peppard –
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS – Ooh!

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 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". "