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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 February 25th through April 13th

silus — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:58 +0000

Bookmarks for February 25th through April 13th:

DEARJOSEPH on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos –
Seamonster by Nathan Castle – Seamonster is a slightly surreal, gently nightmarish story of doomed relationships, seaside towns, and misguided escapism. Dave's search for connection and meaning lead him to confront the illusory nature of the very structure he seeks.
Internet Archive: Free Download: Seamonster – Seamonster is a slightly surreal, gently nightmarish story of doomed relationships, seaside towns, and misguided escapism. Dave's search for connection and meaning lead him to confront the illusory nature of the very structure he seeks.
GREAT SHOWDOWNS by scott c. –
Warren Ellis » He May Have A Razor On Him – 'When Baird tried to tell the news editor at the Daily Express what he’d done, the hack got the Fear and hissed to his staff: "He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless. Watch him– he may have a razor on him."'
First quantum effects seen in visible object – physics-math – 17 March 2010 – New Scientist – "The first ever quantum superposition in an object visible to the naked eye has been observed."
From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter — and new questions –
raiders of the lost ark poster by *strongstuff on deviantART –
Atemporality for the Creative Artist | Beyond The Beyond –
Synecdoche Script – transcript from the screenplay and/or the Charlie Kaufman movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman – "you begin to lose your characteristics one by one as you learn there is no one watching you and there never was,"

Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 25th

silus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:23:13 +0000

Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 25th:

Synecdoche Screenplay –
Nomeanswhatever.com – The Official Nomeansno Forum / Tour Dates / News / Website –
People Sighing On Twitter – Brilliant
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Intellectual Ventures –
Spillway: Pocket Utopias – "And as the asylums are total environments – in contrast to other 19th-century institutional buildings, such as prisons, schools and workhouses, they provide for every aspect and stage of a person's life – there is unparalleled scope for turning them into little models of a perfect world, a “pocket utopia”. With that in mind, it's possible to see in greater detail their appeal to 19th-century social reformers."
Twitpic / Astro_Soichi –
Highlights from TED 2010, Wednesday: "We can eat to starve cancer" Boing Boing –
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy – Science, I don't know what you're saying, but your voice is pretty…
"The teleportation process allows you to inject quantum energy at one point in the universe and then exploit quantum energy fluctuations to extract it from another point."
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything –

Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th

silus — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:17:24 +0000

Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th:

Maxthon Browser – Full-Featured Browser –
UK space agency is go | Science | guardian.co.uk – "Britain is to get its own space agency"
Life in Space: Email from the ISS – People – Dwell –
Scripturetext.com: Online Multilingual Bible –
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal –
Exclusive SpaceShipTwo unveiling gallery (Updated!) Boing Boing –
Cyclone Power Press Release EATR Rumors Final 16 July 09.pdf (application/pdf Object) – “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,”
You really couldn't make this up…
symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » First particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider –
Spirit Rover Wiggles Her Wheels | Wired Science | Wired.com – Nearly six years now Spirit and Opportunity have been up there…
Marginal Revolution: Jeremy Taylor quotes Richard Wrangham on the domestication of human beings – "I think we have to start thinking about the idea that humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves. If we're following the bonobo or dog pattern, we're moving toward a form of ourselves with more and more juvenile behavior. And the amazing thing once you start thinking in those terms is that you realize that we're still moving fast. I think that current evidence is that we're in the middle of an evolutionary event in which tooth size is falling, jaw size is falling, brain size is falling, and it's quite reasonable to imagine that we're continuing to tame ourselves. "
IBM Makes Supercomputer Significantly Smarter Than Cat – 'The model also exhibits "strong scaling," which means that increases in the amount of memory per CPU enable them to run the model faster, so that it will eventually be able to simulate a cortex in real time. '

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 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 June 5th through July 1st

silus — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:04:38 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for June 5th through July 1st:

thehumanprinter – cmyk dot printing by hand
io9 – Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – "Transformers: ROTF is so long, you'll need to wear adult diapers to it. But the movie's pure celebration of the primal urge, and unfiltered living, will make you rejoice in your adult diapers. You'll relieve yourself in your seat with a savage joy, your barbaric yawp blending in with the crowd's screams of excitement."
FT.com / Reportage – A library of the world’s most unusual compounds – "Nearby are panes of glass that clean themselves, metal that remembers the last shape it was twisted into, and a thin tube of Tin Stick which, when bent, emits a sound like a human cry."
ComingAnarchy.com » Early 1980s Nuclear Armageddon Films –
Amazon.com: Seamonster Book One: Nathan Castle: Books –

Bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th

silus — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th:

Simon Schubert – Illustration by scoring and folding.
Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-368 Release –
Astrometry Bags a ‘Cold Jupiter’ – “We found a Jupiter-like planet at around the same relative place as our Jupiter, only around a much smaller star. It’s possible this star also has inner rocky planets. And since more than seven out of 10 stars are small like this one, this could mean planets are more common than we thought.”
Meteorites a Key to Habitability? – "the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) some four billion years ago wasn’t an average time. The research team used models of meteoritic impact rates during the bombardment to calculate that billions of tons of carbon dioxide and water vapor would have been delivered to Earth’s atmosphere each year over the entire twenty million years that spanned the LHB. "
INTERVIEW PROJECT – NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS – David Lynch interviews people and posts a video every three days for a year.
Weird Science – Boing Boing – "Our conscious minds display some of the same features as quantum mechanics. When we're not thinking about anything in particular, our thoughts evolve in a continuous, multi-universe kind of way—but when we focus on something, we carry out something like the quantum collapse that characterizes the process of measurement. "