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Bookmarks for July 25th through August 9th

silus — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:15:43 +0000

Bookmarks for July 25th through August 9th:

Infographic Of The Day: Why Should You Care About Typography? –
UNITY: Game Development Tool –
Interview: Merlin’s Katie McGrath –
Illusion: WTF Goat Decal –
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Adobe Edge Preview –
ARAS – The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism –
jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow Preview – CodeCanyon –
not shit web design. –

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 May 10th through May 21st

silus — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:08:30 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for May 10th through May 21st:

ruckerkyotopaper_ver4.pdf (application/pdf Object) – "Everything is alive." – Rudy Rucker
the story so far… – Tym Godek infinite canvas
Harnessing science to create the ultimate warrior – science-in-society – 20 May 2009 – New Scientist – "BATALLIONS of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness."
Gawker – Donald Rumsfeld's Judgment-Happy, Scary, Biblical Defense Briefing Art – Donald Rumsfeld –
The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore – "I’ve never allowed myself to fall into the golden rut, and I can’t write something unless it’s interesting to me, and because I’ve got such a very low boredom threshold, I find that everything I do I have to make it interesting and exciting to myself"
Career Advice: Boring Within or Simply Boring? – Inside Higher Ed – "Step one to improving your lecture skills is to purge yourself of bad communication habits, but the rest of lecturing is a formula. Mix with enthusiasm and repeat the following:"

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 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 October 4th through October 20th

silus — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:01:04 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for October 4th through October 20th:

Dear Stranger, » Comic –
H+ Magazine – Humanity Plus: The New Synthesis
Struggle for Survival – Governing Britain after the Bomb – 1955 Defence White Paper
Sad Guys on Trading Floors – photoblog
I killed a dog, can i be sued? – Yahoo! Answers – I think this is my favourite page on the internet so far.