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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.

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 やなぎみわ –
• 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. "

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"

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."

Delicious bookmarks for July 23rd through July 29th:

• BBtv at Virgin Galactic launch, Mojave Spaceport, 07-28-08 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! –
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cern lab goes 'colder than space' – "The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) – colder than deep space."
• Man to live on the moon | The Daily Telegraph – "We're going back, and this time we're going to stay,''
• Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran Edgar Mitchell | The Daily Telegraph – "FORMER NASA astronaut and moonwalker Dr Edgar Mitchell – a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission – has stunningly claimed aliens do exist."
• as17-134-20384.jpg (JPEG Image, 3000×3003 pixels) – "Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag …. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background"
• Warren Ellis » GRAVEL: Scriptment Writing – "…a style called 'scriptment.' It?s partway between a full script and a "treatment," or detailed synopsis."
• Science! ~ T-Shirts on the Edge of Forever – by Jeremy Kalgreen –

Delicious bookmarks for June 3rd through June 4th:

• HiBlog: HiRISE Team Blog » Blog Archive » Backdrop –
• Pharmaceutical Fountain of Youth Could Cost Pennies | Wired Science from Wired.com – "This is happening now. They're in clinical trials — and the general public has no idea what's coming,"
• Scientists Find Rare, Ultra-Magnetic Star | Wired Science from Wired.com – "[the stars] stretch the very fabric of matter, contorting atoms into thin cigar-shaped structures."
  Under that stress, the star's very crust can split open, temporarily releasing over a thousand times more energy than all of the stars in a galaxy."
• Warren Ellis » Bending Mars – "In forty years I want my grandkids to email me from a .mars address. It?s not like we have to hunt whales or give a Tasmanian Devil face cancer to do it. It?s just sitting there. Why not bend it?"
• COCO WANG: 5.12 EARTHQUAKE STRIPS – "I am going to send you comic strips almost everyday from now on, I hope you could know something about the earthquake in China, although you don't have to do anything, but I hope you could feel our love and hope."

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 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". "

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."