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Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 25th

silus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:23:13 +0000

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

silus — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:08:44 +0000

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 July 8th through September 11th

silus — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:24:53 +0000

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!

Bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th

silus — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for June 1st through June 4th:

Simon Schubert – Illustration by scoring and folding.
Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-368 Release –
Astrometry Bags a ‘Cold Jupiter’ – “We found a Jupiter-like planet at around the same relative place as our Jupiter, only around a much smaller star. It’s possible this star also has inner rocky planets. And since more than seven out of 10 stars are small like this one, this could mean planets are more common than we thought.”
Meteorites a Key to Habitability? – "the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) some four billion years ago wasn’t an average time. The research team used models of meteoritic impact rates during the bombardment to calculate that billions of tons of carbon dioxide and water vapor would have been delivered to Earth’s atmosphere each year over the entire twenty million years that spanned the LHB. "
INTERVIEW PROJECT – NEW EPISODE EVERY THREE DAYS – David Lynch interviews people and posts a video every three days for a year.
Weird Science – Boing Boing – "Our conscious minds display some of the same features as quantum mechanics. When we're not thinking about anything in particular, our thoughts evolve in a continuous, multi-universe kind of way—but when we focus on something, we carry out something like the quantum collapse that characterizes the process of measurement. "

Bookmarks for April 23rd through May 8th

silus — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:05:16 +0000

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"

Bookmarks for October 30th through November 11th

silus — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:02:38 +0000

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 â™« 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"

Bookmarks for June 5th through June 18th

silus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:04:15 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for June 5th through June 18th:

Astronauts Float in Largest Space Jam Ever | Wired Science from Wired.com – "taking advantage of the fact that the Kibo module is the largest on the Space Station to stretch out and perform some aerobatics"
MagCloud – magazine pod
Warren Ellis » Every Single Day – "…in fact, our universe may well be nothing but one of a chain of entire serial realities."
Warren Ellis » Everything Is Happening – "So today we no longer wait for the breakers to hit every 11 years (roughly: rock, 55. Psychedelia, 66. Punk, 77. Acid, 1988). Instead, micro-movements pop up every month. Some new eddy in the hardcore continuum"
grinding.be » Blog Archive » RepRap – the DIY, Open-Source Fabricator achieves self-replication! – "RepRap achieved self-replication at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath University in the UK."