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Delicious bookmarks for March 10th through March 15th:

• Brain Scanners Know Where You've Been | Wired Science from Wired.com – "After analyzing activation patterns and correlating them with a record of test subjects' movements, Maguire's team found that patterns could actually be used to predict location. "
• Designer Babies: A Right to Choose? | Wired Science from Wired.com – "So the human race would bifurcate into modified superiors and unmodified inferiors."
• isslivestream.asx (video/x-ms-asf Object) – IIS Webcam
• The “Raiders” Story Conference – "The original 1978 story conference between Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan for a little film called Raiders of the Lost Ark"
• 억지 웃음, 가짜 설렘, 가식적 표정 :: 네이버 블로그 –

Delicious bookmarks for February 28th through March 4th:

• Charles Stross: The 21st century: FAQ –
• What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com – "I've never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems."
• 'We're All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence' –
• x-phi – "It has a name to delight an advertising executive: x-phi. It has blogs and books devoted to it, and boasts an expanding body of researchers in elite universities. It even has an icon: an armchair in flames. If philosophy ever can be, x-phi is trendy."
• Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005) – "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Delicious bookmarks for February 12th through February 26th:

• Tabbloid – "Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine"
• Electra Amsterdam Balloon 8sp [88437] – £719.95 : Ridelow, The No.1 in Europe for Lowrider, Chopper and Cruiser Bikes, BMX, Clothing, Parts and Accessories –
• The wheel thing: Will Self on the Brompton bike – The Independent – "It was love at first sight – the first time I saw a Brompton folding bicycle, I fell in love with it."
• False Memories – "False memories implanted by researchers, it turns out, look basically identical to real memories. Neuroimaging machines can't tell them apart and neither can researchers."
• BBC – Film Network – This Way Up – "A.T Shank & Son have a bad day at the parlour when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company."

Delicious bookmarks for January 23rd through February 9th:

• Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering. "
• Bloop – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – "According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If it is an animal, it would have to be, reportedly, much larger than even a Blue Whale, the largest known animal on the earth."
• Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations, brain scans suggest – "Readers understand a story by simulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change."
• Thought proving charity art exhibition at the Sutton Poyntz waterworks. (From Dorset Echo) –
• Doll Fabbed From Living Cells: Science Fiction in the News – "A tiny doll made of living cells was fabricated by researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science. The intent was to demonstrate the possibility of making three-dimensional biological structures, like human organs"

Delicious bookmarks for January 13th through January 22nd:

• The New York Times > Magazine > Watching TV Makes You Smarter – "I believe that the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down"
• Our world may be a giant hologram – space – 15 January 2009 – New Scientist – "The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level."
• Open the Future: Life on Mars? Why It Matters –
• Scott McCloud on comics | Video on TED.com – "Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch."
• Hack your brain – "How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio"

Delicious bookmarks for November 21st through January 12th:

• Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons – "This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion.
  Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press 'Nuke It!'"
• Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008 | Wired Science from Wired.com – "Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008."
• SPACE.com — Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected – "The signal is measured to be six times brighter than the combined emission of all known radio sources in the universe."

  For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.

• BBC NEWS | England | Seahorse habitat under threat – Ed Jones for the BBC
• Warren Ellis » Deep Weird Day – "More time passed with more than one human species than without. And, even stranger to me — we forgot all about our sibling species until discovering and comprehending their bones in the mid-1800s. And it’s been a hair over 150 years from then to the first test of an interplanetary internet."

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 October 4th through October 20th:

• Dear Stranger, » Comic –
• H+ Magazine – Humanity Plus: The New Synthesis
• Struggle for Survival – Governing Britain after the Bomb – 1955 Defence White Paper
• Sad Guys on Trading Floors – photoblog
• I killed a dog, can i be sued? – Yahoo! Answers – I think this is my favourite page on the internet so far.

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"