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Bookmarks for December 11th through February 2nd:

• xkcd – Spirit Rover –
• The 10:23 'overdose' event | The 10:23 Campaign | #ten23 – "At 10:23am on January 30th, more than three hundred homeopathy sceptics nationwide will be taking part in a mass homeopathic 'overdose' in protest at Boots' continued endorsement and sale of homeopathic remedies, and to raise public awareness about the fact that homeopathic remedies have nothing in them."
• The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade – Brand New –
• Daytrotter: The source for new music discovery and free MP3 downloads from the best emerging bands. –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights | The Januarist – "[The policeman is] there to protect, protect the free citizen, not to chase criminals, that’s an incidental part of his job. The free citizen is always more of a nuisance to the policeman that the criminal. He knows what to do about the criminal …"
• Richard Nash: Book Publishing 10 Years in the Future – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat – "The mechanically reproduced object will have its aura restored in this Age of Digital Reproduction and we'll wish, again, that Walter Benjamin could have seen all this."
• Akinator, the Web Genius –
• Rethinking artificial intelligence – "This time, they are determined to get it right — and, with the advantages of hindsight, experience, the rapid growth of new technologies and insights from the new field of computational neuroscience, they think they have a good shot at it."
• Stack Overflow –

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,”
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• 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. '

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 June 20th through July 2nd:

• Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo – "14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands"
• Scientists: It Once Rained on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Drizzle once fell on Martian soil, according to a new geochemical analysis"
• keytarded – Norwich, UK – Electro / Showtunes / Bossa Nova – www.myspace.com/keytardedband –
• neurotic » home – "Each robot has the ability to pogo up to an imposing height of 2.3 metres. Controlling these robots is a Neural Network modeled on the neurology of the human brain and educated in punk music."
• Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice – Melons straight in!