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Bookmarks for March 25th through April 22nd:

• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator –
• Making temporary changes to brain could speed up learning, study reports –
• Planets Could Orbit Singularities Inside Black Holes – Technology Review – "Advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive BHs in the galactic nuclei without being visible from the outside,"
• New Scientist TV: How a magnet can turn off speech –
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• BLDGBLOG: Islands at the Speed of Light – "Imagine, for a moment, the New York Stock Exchange moving out into the mid-Atlantic, somewhere near the Azores, onto a series of New Babylon-like platforms, run not by human traders but by Watson-esque artificially intelligent supercomputers housed in waterproof tombs, all calculating money at the speed of light."
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Dangerous Minds | Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’: The Documentary –

Bookmarks for October 2nd through October 29th:

• Just Jubb! –
• Fermilab is Building a ‘Holometer’ to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion | Popular Science – "They are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn’t exist at all, and that the 3-D universe we think we live in is nothing more than a hologram. "
• What The Fuck Is My Transmedia Strategy? by Dan Hon and some other people –
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• Welcome to Aviary – Impressive.
• Van Essie – Gallery –
• What’s the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life? : AskReddit –
• What Are You Going to Do With That? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education – "People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free."
• http://www.ryman.com/HatchGallery.html –
• Time Likely To End Within Earth’s Lifespan, Say Physicists – "If the universe lasts forever, then any event that can happen, will happen, no matter how unlikely. In fact, this event will happen an infinite number of times. This leads to a problem. When there are an infinite number of instances of every possible observation, it becomes impossible to determine the probabilities of any of these events occurring. And when that happens, the laws of physics simply don't apply. They just break down."

Bookmarks for September 6th through September 30th:

• Gliese 581 g – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
• Should We Clone Neanderthals? – "This is a species-altering event, it changes the way we are creating a new generation."
• George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay « Binary Bonsai –
• CAT 10 UNDERGROUND SHELTER SYSTEM –
• Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film – Audio & Photos – NYTimes.com –
• infographiclarge_v2.png (PNG Image, 1983×1402 pixels) – Scaled (62%) – "So You Need A Typeface"
• Russian Scientist Claims to Have Found Cure for Aging – "It appears that Skulachev has synthesized a mitochondrially targeted antioxidant."
• Courses – Google Code University – Google Code –
• The Imp, by Daniel Raeburn –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Bookmarks for July 29th through September 5th:

• The Wilderness Downtown –
• Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft | Wired Science | Wired.com –
• Krull: the movie… and the wedding – Boing Boing –
• Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza – Boing Boing – "Adelstein showed up at a shady real estate office in Tokyo one Thursday afternoon with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of Duty-Free whiskey to teach these gangsters how to handle a PlayStation controller."
• Daniel Danger "They Will Take It Back" –
• IF AN A-BOMB FALLS (1951) –
• Comment on BoingBoing – "Oh man, 'Jumped the shark' has totally jumped the shark. It's about to Nuke the Fridge."
• Knucklebuster » Blog Archive » 1930 Art Deco Henderson – 1930 Art Deco Henderson
• Nissan to offer breathable Vitamin C in new cars – "The automaker plans to introduce air conditioners in its cars that spray vitamin C to moisturize skin and as well as air purifiers developed by Sharp."
• Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go? – Boing Boing – "Weaknesses in DoD's financial and management controls left it unable to properly account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in DFI funds it received for reconstruction activities in Iraq."

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:

• 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 April 16th through May 19th:

• Concept Feedback | Free Concept Reviews for Marketers, Designers and Developers –
• fivesecondtest –
• News – Virgin Galactic appoints its first Chief Executive | Virgin Galactic – "Whitesides joins Virgin Galactic from his recent role as Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). "
• Japan rocket to blast off with Venus probe and ’space yacht’ – "The technology could enable space travel without fuel as long as there is sunlight…"
• New evidence caffeine may slow Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, restore cognitive function – "Although caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug worldwide, its potential beneficial effect for maintenance of proper brain functioning has only recently begun to be adequately appreciated. "
• Mr. Bojagi starring Brian Blessed – FULL FILM – a Film & TV video –
• The Never Call – Couldn't agree more : "The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us. "
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 3D printer could build moon bases – "The D-shape printer can create a building four times faster than it could be built by conventional means, and reduces the cost to half or less. There is little waste, which is better for the environment, and it can easily “print” curved structures that are difficult and expensive to build by other means"
• Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels – "The practice of highlighting selected works and the relationships between them and of finding meaning in the sum of their parts is becoming as much a survival strategy in an age-abundant data as a cultural pursuit."
• Weymouth poets’ night launched (From Dorset Echo) – "It’s the idea of Weymouth friends Phil Coombs and Natasha Hamilton, who want to provide a regular platform for ‘wordsmiths, limerick lovers, tale tellers and rhyme wranglers’. "

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:

• 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 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 –