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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 –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 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 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 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 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 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 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."