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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 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 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. "

Bookmarks for March 31st through April 21st

silus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:11:44 +0000

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."