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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 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 May 1st through May 4th:

• Dorset Art Weeks – SouthWest ArtWork – "a group of young emerging artists who are keen to display their fresh vision in various mediums including graphic art and design, sound and video installations, textile art work, sculpture as well as site specific performance art."
• Platinum Studios Store – Drunk Duck Anthology – CONTRIBUTORS: Chuck and Steve Rowles, Dan McMahn, David Recine, Dawn M. Griffin, Gigi, Reed Hawker, David Davis, Jenny Lui, Rebecca Long, Neil Purcell, Nathan Castle, Greg Morris, Amanda Hardy, and Shane "inkmonkey" Woodis
• Carbon chauvinism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – "… applied to those who assume that the molecules responsible for the chemical processes of life must be constructed primarily from carbon."
• The New York Times — Hand Codes Website – "It?s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to ?hand code? everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results." – Correct!
• Ghost Bike – "A Ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and afixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car driver."

From the Dorset Art Weeks website:

“Expect a spectacular fusion of contemporary art and performance from Weymouth Arts Network; a group of young emerging artists who are keen to display their fresh vision in various mediums including graphic art and design, sound and video installations, textile art work, sculpture as well as site specific performance art.

Located in the hub of Hope Square, within The Brewers Quay this exhibition promises to delight art lovers and novices alike with a wealth of talent complimentarily placed within the industrial workings of the old brewery. Industrial engine enthusiasts will also enjoy viewing the old engine room, which is kept in perfect working order to this day.

Weymouth Arts Network has been meeting together and exhibiting since 2006 and the group are eager to demonstrate that contemporary art does not have to be limited to larger city areas. They have been working on a number of new and exciting pieces since the successful run at St Peters Church on Portland in July 2007, which saw over 650 visitors from all over the South West in just under two weeks.

All visitors will have a chance to meet with the artists throughout the exhibition to discuss the work and methods and materials used within their process.

Due the nature of our contemporary practice some of the work on display will be unavailable for sale however most pieces will be available to buy at affordable prices. Commissions welcome.”