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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 –

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:

• 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:

• 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 May 21st through May 29th:

• MobileMe Gallery – Twin Peaks photos –
• Should you forward that email? – Flowchart.
• Amazon.com: Nathan Castle: Books –
• Missing Link in Pulsar Evolution Is a Cannibal | Wired Science | Wired.com – "A dying star has been caught in the act of resurrecting itself by eating its neighbor."
• The Hunt for Centauri Planets – "The discovery of habitable worlds around any star would be front-page news, but finding them around our next-door neighbors would catalyze a scientific and cultural revolution, an immense rising wave of effort to learn whether our sister stars’ habitable planets were in fact inhabited. The ripples would spread beyond science to touch and change our literature and art, our politics and religion, perhaps even aiding our struggles to unite, survive, and expand as a species. The chain of chance that brought us into existence would swing to point outward to the stars, strengthening our resolve to someday reach them."

Delicious bookmarks for May 10th through May 21st:

• ruckerkyotopaper_ver4.pdf (application/pdf Object) – "Everything is alive." – Rudy Rucker
• the story so far… – Tym Godek infinite canvas
• Harnessing science to create the ultimate warrior – science-in-society – 20 May 2009 – New Scientist – "BATALLIONS of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness."
• Gawker – Donald Rumsfeld's Judgment-Happy, Scary, Biblical Defense Briefing Art – Donald Rumsfeld –
• The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore – "I’ve never allowed myself to fall into the golden rut, and I can’t write something unless it’s interesting to me, and because I’ve got such a very low boredom threshold, I find that everything I do I have to make it interesting and exciting to myself"
• Career Advice: Boring Within or Simply Boring? – Inside Higher Ed – "Step one to improving your lecture skills is to purge yourself of bad communication habits, but the rest of lecturing is a formula. Mix with enthusiasm and repeat the following:"

Delicious bookmarks for April 23rd through May 8th:

• Possible site of free will found in brain – life – 07 May 2009 – New Scientist – "When a neurosurgeon electrically jolted this region in patients undergoing surgery, they felt a desire to, say, wiggle their finger, roll their tongue or move a limb. Stronger electrical pulses convinced patients they had actually performed these movements, although their bodies remained motionless."
• NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ENIGMA – "Eduardo Kac, Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist's own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008."
• Lost in Space | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK – "What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space."
• POLAROID KIDD at NEEDLES+PENS – "Mike Brodie aka 'The Polaroid Kidd' is a somewhat accidental documentary photographer. By photographing his friends, their homes, and lifestyles, Brodie has captured a marginalized segment of the American population that's not so prevalent in main stream society. His haunting photos of hobos, punks, and squatters criss-crossing the country in boxcars are reminiscent of Horace Bristol's Grapes of Wrath era pics that captured migrant workers on their way to California ….except now with facial tattoos. "
• Gliese 581d – Waterworld – "The planet is likely to have a makeup similar to Neptune or Uranus, which are dominated by ices of water, ammonia and methane. In the warmth of the habitable zone, these substances should form a sea thousands of kilometres deep"