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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. '

Delicious bookmarks for May 10th through May 21st:

• ruckerkyotopaper_ver4.pdf (application/pdf Object) – "Everything is alive." – Rudy Rucker
• the story so far… – Tym Godek infinite canvas
• Harnessing science to create the ultimate warrior – science-in-society – 20 May 2009 – New Scientist – "BATALLIONS of super-soldiers could be selected for specific duties on the basis of their genetic make-up and then constantly monitored for signs of weakness."
• Gawker – Donald Rumsfeld's Judgment-Happy, Scary, Biblical Defense Briefing Art – Donald Rumsfeld –
• The Mighty Moore Marathon – part three of Pádraig’s talk with Alan Moore – "I’ve never allowed myself to fall into the golden rut, and I can’t write something unless it’s interesting to me, and because I’ve got such a very low boredom threshold, I find that everything I do I have to make it interesting and exciting to myself"
• Career Advice: Boring Within or Simply Boring? – Inside Higher Ed – "Step one to improving your lecture skills is to purge yourself of bad communication habits, but the rest of lecturing is a formula. Mix with enthusiasm and repeat the following:"

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 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 April 23rd through April 29th:

• Afghanistan Heroes Offer to Colonize Moon, Mars and Beyond – "Me and most of my men are on our 3rd or 4th deployment into a combat area. We are scouts, reconnaissance specialists. We go before everyone else and spend time living off the land. Sounds just like the type of men needed for a long colonization journey."
• The Methuselah Foundation-Welcome to The Methuselah Foundation –
• SourceForge.net: Mnemosyne Project –
• Happy Earth Day: Beautiful Pictures of Our Planet | Wired Science from Wired.com –
• BBC NEWS | Wales | North West Wales | Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault – "Mrs Lloyd said: "He was wearing a black bin bag and a cape and had a metal crutch in his hand."
  Mrs Lloyd said he was shouting "Darth Vader". "