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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:

• 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!

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 –

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. "

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."

Delicious bookmarks for October 30th through November 11th:

• Ninjalistics – corporate assassination solutions – Welcome to Ninjalistics – "We shall maintain cutting-edge technical standards in stealth, disguise, camouflage, combat, wall and rope climbing, dart blowing, clouding weak minds, and miscellaneous mysterious ninja-related activities"
• Unknown "Structures" Tugging at Universe, Study Says – "The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know"
• Margaux Lange: Barbie Jewelry – "While wearing plastic ears in our own ears may feel a bit creepy, the wit and originality that the earrings provide relieve any hesitation you may have."
• The vOICe Interactive Visual Sound Applet ♫ Draw your own Sound! –
• Emotiv Home – "While Emotiv is currently focusing on the electronic gaming industry, the applications for the Emotiv EPOC™ technology and interface span an amazing variety of potential industries"

Delicious bookmarks for September 7th through September 16th:

• "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat." – "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat." – Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University (and D:Ream)
• grinding.be » Blog Archive » On the Eve of Destruction – "History is a heat, it is the heat of accumulated information and accumulated complexity. As our culture progresses, we find that we gather more and more information and that we slowly start to move almost from a fluid to a vaporous state as we approach the ultimate complexity of a social boiling point. I believe that our culture is turning to steam." — Alan Moore
• Human Genetics is Now a Viable Hobby — 23andMe Cuts its Price to $399 –
• MoreCowbell.dj –
• 'Go LHC Go' – VIDEO – "Find out more about the significant role of the UK has played in CERN"

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 5th through June 18th:

• Astronauts Float in Largest Space Jam Ever | Wired Science from Wired.com – "taking advantage of the fact that the Kibo module is the largest on the Space Station to stretch out and perform some aerobatics"
• MagCloud – magazine pod
• Warren Ellis » Every Single Day – "…in fact, our universe may well be nothing but one of a chain of entire serial realities."
• Warren Ellis » Everything Is Happening – "So today we no longer wait for the breakers to hit every 11 years (roughly: rock, 55. Psychedelia, 66. Punk, 77. Acid, 1988). Instead, micro-movements pop up every month. Some new eddy in the hardcore continuum"
• grinding.be » Blog Archive » RepRap – the DIY, Open-Source Fabricator achieves self-replication! – "RepRap achieved self-replication at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath University in the UK."

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."