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Bookmarks for July 25th through August 9th

silus — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:15:43 +0000

Bookmarks for July 25th through August 9th:

Infographic Of The Day: Why Should You Care About Typography? –
UNITY: Game Development Tool –
Interview: Merlin’s Katie McGrath –
Illusion: WTF Goat Decal –
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Adobe Edge Preview –
ARAS – The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism –
jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow Preview – CodeCanyon –
not shit web design. –

Bookmarks for March 25th through April 22nd

silus — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:02:14 +0000

Bookmarks for March 25th through April 22nd:

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txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator –
Making temporary changes to brain could speed up learning, study reports –
Planets Could Orbit Singularities Inside Black Holes – Technology Review – "Advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive BHs in the galactic nuclei without being visible from the outside,"
New Scientist TV: How a magnet can turn off speech –
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BLDGBLOG: Islands at the Speed of Light – "Imagine, for a moment, the New York Stock Exchange moving out into the mid-Atlantic, somewhere near the Azores, onto a series of New Babylon-like platforms, run not by human traders but by Watson-esque artificially intelligent supercomputers housed in waterproof tombs, all calculating money at the speed of light."
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Dangerous Minds | Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’: The Documentary –

Bookmarks for February 18th through March 22nd

silus — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:04:19 +0000

Bookmarks for February 18th through March 22nd:

booktwo.org | Literature + Technology –
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Weymouth bakery teams up with Dorset artists (From Dorset Echo) –
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An interview with Warren Ellis : The Setup – "I personally believe that the first step to improving things would be to see to it that, every Monday morning, on arriving for work, the iTunes For Windows dev team were punched in the throat by Liam Neeson."
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi on Vimeo –
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BBC News – Robots to get their own internet –
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Bookmarks for November 7th through December 3rd

silus — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:00:01 +0000

Bookmarks for November 7th through December 3rd:

Badgeville –
digital arts & sciences | Behind the Scenes of Google Creative Lab’s The Wilderness Downtown –
Dorset Online Catalogue | Adlib Internet Server 3 –
My Galleries – Minus –
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Ponoko – Making System –
APOD: 2010 November 15 – Home from Above –
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Motion to Take Note (Continued): 1 Nov 2010: House of Lords debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) –

Bookmarks for October 2nd through October 29th

silus — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:07:25 +0000

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 –
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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

silus — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:07:50 +0000

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 April 16th through May 19th

silus — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:02:45 +0000

Bookmarks for April 16th through May 19th:

Concept Feedback | Free Concept Reviews for Marketers, Designers and Developers –
fivesecondtest –
News – Virgin Galactic appoints its first Chief Executive | Virgin Galactic – "Whitesides joins Virgin Galactic from his recent role as Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). "
Japan rocket to blast off with Venus probe and ’space yacht’ – "The technology could enable space travel without fuel as long as there is sunlight…"
New evidence caffeine may slow Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, restore cognitive function – "Although caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug worldwide, its potential beneficial effect for maintenance of proper brain functioning has only recently begun to be adequately appreciated. "
Mr. Bojagi starring Brian Blessed – FULL FILM – a Film & TV video –
The Never Call – Couldn't agree more : "The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us. "
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3D printer could build moon bases – "The D-shape printer can create a building four times faster than it could be built by conventional means, and reduces the cost to half or less. There is little waste, which is better for the environment, and it can easily “print” curved structures that are difficult and expensive to build by other means"
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels – "The practice of highlighting selected works and the relationships between them and of finding meaning in the sum of their parts is becoming as much a survival strategy in an age-abundant data as a cultural pursuit."
Weymouth poets’ night launched (From Dorset Echo) – "It’s the idea of Weymouth friends Phil Coombs and Natasha Hamilton, who want to provide a regular platform for ‘wordsmiths, limerick lovers, tale tellers and rhyme wranglers’. "

Bookmarks for November 20th through December 11th

silus — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:17:24 +0000

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

silus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:06 +0000

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
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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 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!