Bookmarks for 2012-02-16

February 17th, 2012 | brainjuice

Crystals May Be Possible In Time As Well As Space – Science News
"Nobel Prize–winning physicist Frank Wilczek lays out the mathematics of how an object moving in its lowest energy state could experience a sort of structure in time. Such a “time crystal” would be the temporal equivalent of an everyday crystal, in which atoms occupy positions that repeat periodically in space."
(tags:sci time TIME+CRYSTALS )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-14

February 15th, 2012 | brainjuice

Wake up, little SUSY (Blog) – physicsworld.com
"some of the most reliable gossips in the particle-physics blogosphere had being saying to expect news of evidence for a supersymmetry particle – or sparticle – to come from the Large Hadron Collider today… four or five searches for several supersymmetric partners of various quarks and leptons – squarks and sleptons called the stop, stau and sbottom…"
(tags:sci neologism )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-14

February 14th, 2012 | brainjuice

How secret renditions shed light on MI6′s licence to kill and torture | World news | The Guardian
"Section 7 of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act offers protection not only to spies involved in bugging or bribery, but also to any who become embroiled in far more serious matters, such as murder, kidnap or torture – as long as their actions have been authorised in writing by a secretary of state."
(tags:war pol crime )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-13

February 13th, 2012 | brainjuice

Planck mission steps closer to the cosmic blueprint
"It comes from the region surrounding the galactic centre and looks like a form of energy called synchrotron emission"
(tags:space )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-11

February 12th, 2012 | brainjuice

Remote Sensing Tutorial Table of Contents
" Remote Sensing is a technology for sampling electromagnetic radiation comprising a signal emanating from its source target that is used to acquire and interpret non-contiguous geospatial data from which to extract information about features, objects, and classes on the Earth's land surface, oceans, and atmosphere (and, where applicable, on the exteriors of other bodies in the Solar System, or, in the broadest framework, celestial bodies such as stars and galaxies)."
(tags:tech sci drones surveillance space )
Guernica – Inside & Out: A Talk at Fordham University-Lincoln Center
“I note what you say about your aspiration to edit a magazine. I am sending you by this mail a six-chambered revolver. Load it and fire every one into your head. You will thank me after you get to hell and learn from other editors there how dreadful their job was on earth.”
(tags:magazines )
Hidden Communal Guns Are More Common – NYTimes.com
"Somebody said, ‘Get the Waka Flocka.’ Two men broke off, crossed East 161st Street, entered the lobby of an apartment building, approached the bank of 207 mailboxes and opened one. Waka Flocka is the name of a rapper. But to these men, the phrase described something else. The community gun."
(tags:crime social )
Unknown Fields Division
Living Jelly, from UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION http://www.unknownfieldsdivision.com
(tags:ifttt googlereader UNKNOWN FIELDS DIVISION )
NASA Unveils Future Aircraft Designs: Stunning Models (PHOTOS)
"The stunningly innovative designs, which NASA calls "greener flying machines for the year 2025", are being developed by three firms under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) Project."
(tags:tech design+fiction )
[Video] Artist’s Time-Lapse Map of the World’s 2053 Nuclear Explosions
"The video was created in 2003 as a series expressing Hashimoto's view of, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons." The video represents nuclear tests with a colored dot and a beep on a map. It starts slow in 1945, showing a world view of a couple flashes in the southwestern United States before zooming in on the two bombs dropped in Japan. The video then pans out and continues for the duration from a birds-eye view of the world. The climax comes between 1955 and 1970 as the Soviet Union joined the U.S. as a nuclear power and England, France, India and Pakistan eventually joined the arms race."
(tags:war )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-10

February 11th, 2012 | brainjuice

Russia sounds alarm over spiralling teenage suicides
"The number of 15 to 19-year-olds taking their own lives is almost three times higher than the world average at 19 to 20 per 100,000, the health ministry's chief psychiatrist Zurab Kekelidze told a round table in Moscow."
(tags:social )
Mystery of Britain’s Largest Meteorite Solved. Found at Druids burial site near Stonehenge « Stonehenge News and Information
"With a weight that rivals a baby elephant, a meteorite that fell from space some 30,000 years ago is likely Britain’s largest space rock. And after much sleuthing, researchers think they know where it came from and how it survived so long without weathering away."
(tags:space geo )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-09

February 10th, 2012 | brainjuice

Humans, Version 3.0 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
"This mystery mechanism of human transformation is neuronal recycling, coined by neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, wherein the brain’s innate capabilities are harnessed for altogether novel functions."
(tags:bodymod future bio neuro )
Sentient Developments: PETA names plaintiffs in their suit against SeaWorld: Five orca whales
"This is the first time a U.S. court will hear legal arguments over whether animals should enjoy the same constitutional protections as humans. The lawsuit invokes the 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution, which abolished "slavery or involuntary servitude" in that country."
(tags:law )
Guernica / Russ Baker: Is Israel Really Iran’s Main Adversary? The West Doth Protest Too Much
"The battle between the Prime Minister and the former spymasters got so intense that Netanyahu ordered an investigation into leaks about an impending Israeli attack on Iran, which he believed had been perpetrated by the retired spooks. How do we know about this secret leak investigation? The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz picked up a report from a Kuwaiti newspaper which cited an unnamed Israeli source. Such arcane telegraphs reek of covert struggle. The public is the last to know what’s really going on, or why."
(tags:pol war )
Guernica / White on Noir
"…the town is a post-apocalyptic industrial hellhole. When you first get there you think, “This is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. There’s nothing attractive about it, there’s nothing inviting, let’s just leave.” After two hours, you realize that every place you’re going is numbered, as if you’re inside the guts of a circuit board or you’re living in a combination lock. The two people I was traveling with would send me a text, “Oh we’re in Region 8” or “Come meet us at 8174.” After the first three or four hours we started looking around and saying “Oh my god, we’re in an Alphaville set…”"
(tags:cities energy war )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-08

February 9th, 2012 | brainjuice

Legacy of nuclear drilling site in Colorado still lingers | MNN – Mother Nature Network
"In 1969, the US government detonated a subterranean nuclear bomb to break loose natural gas deposits from tight sandstone formations more than 8,000 feet below ground on a Colorado mountain. The bomb was twice as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945."
(tags:eco energy )
an atlas of iphone landscapes – mammoth // building nothing out of something

(tags:eco comms )


Bookmarks for 2012-02-07

February 8th, 2012 | brainjuice

North Korea Developing UAV Based on U.S. Drone | sUAS News
"The North Korea drones are based on Raytheon’s MQM-107D Streaker target drones, which are used by the U.S. Army, and imported from a Middle East nation believed to be Syria, Yonhap news agency reported."
(tags:drones war pol )
Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil
"The genome represents the first high-coverage, complete genome sequence of an archaic human group – a leap in the study of extinct forms of humans. “We hope that biologists will be able to use this genome to discover genetic changes that were important for the development of modern human culture and technology, and enabled modern humans to leave Africa and rapidly spread around the world, starting around 100,000 years ago” says Pääbo."
(tags:history sci )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-06

February 7th, 2012 | brainjuice

Can Bees Make Tupperware?: Scientific American
"…it’s emblematic of the fact that there’s an enormous amount we don’t know about the world around us. It makes me wonder how many other things there are like this."
(tags:eco materials sci )
BBC News – ExoMars cooperation between Nasa and Esa near collapse
The American space agency looks set to pull the plug on its joint missions to Mars with the European Space Agency… budget woes…"
(tags:space )
Doyle McManus: U.S. targeted killing program needs discussion – latimes.com
"We needed a court order to eavesdrop on him," Hayden notes, "but we didn't need a court order to kill him. Isn't that something?"
(tags:drones war pol crime )
High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?
"Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long shot."
(tags:space )
Cult Den interview answers – Jeff Noon, Feb 2012. –      MOVIES.SHOWS.COMICS.BOOKS.GAMES.MORE
"Science Fiction is a massive, ever-expanding experiment with content, and I love it for that, I really do. Nothing else comes close. But I’m always surprised by the way the genre tends (apart from some notable examples) to ignore the experimentation of form. Form is the Host, Content is the Virus." 
(tags:sf writing )
BLDGBLOG: Object Cancers
"…object cancers: bulbous, oddly textured, and other dramatically misshapen errors that only appear in 3D-reprinted objects. Chairs with tumors, mutant silverware, misbegotten watches—as if the offspring of industrial reproducibility is a molten world of Dalí-like surrealism."
(tags:fabbing printing physibles art )

Bookmarks for 2012-02-05

February 6th, 2012 | brainjuice

On This Whole “Web Is Dead” Meme | John Battelle’s Search Blog
"No one site on the web is any more or less accessible than any other site. If it’s on the web, you can find it and visit it. This is a corollary of “no gatekeepers,” but again, it bears elucidation. In current versions of AppWorld, finding anything is a challenge, and the winners are almost always those who get special treatment in a gatekeeper’s storefront."
(tags:web )

Bookmarks for 2012-01-29

January 30th, 2012 | brainjuice

deconcrete: Neil Harbisson’s third eye
"Neil Harbisson introduces himself as the first cyborg ever legally recognized by any Government (2004). He was born colour-blind; so he can only see in black and white (Achromatopsia disorder). An electronic device implanted in his neck allows him to translate colours into sounds. The camera that hangs from his forehead 24/7 was accepted as part of his British passport photo. By that very fact, the camera became congenital and not prosthetic to his body anymore. Thanks to it, light frequencies are captured and translated into sound frequencies by the chip, which in turn sends them to his brain. He literally listens to colours with his electronic eye. A standard eye perceives light, tone and saturation. Harbisson’s organic eyes perceive light, but tone is converted into sound, and saturation into volume through his third eye."
(tags:bodymod )

Bookmarks for 2012-01-28

January 29th, 2012 | brainjuice

Future Perfect » The Reverse Tip
"Thoughts for today: the situations where the buyer or seller will shift a measurable value (cash, money) into other less comparable forms (fapioa, …) to disguise the real value of the exchange. Who they are disguising it from. The legal and social rules surrounding the exchange. Aftermarkets for the receipts."
(tags:money culture social )

Bookmarks for 2012-01-28

January 28th, 2012 | brainjuice

Yemen’s State Within a Failed State – Photos By Tom Finn | Foreign Policy
"The Arab uprisings, however, have shifted the dynamics of the struggle. With the regime's firepower focused on dissenters in the major cities, Saada quietly slid out of its control. A mini-state has sprung up, run almost entirely by the Houthis, who have taken on the responsibilities of government. They have appointed their own governor (a notorious arms dealer), police the streets, and rebuilt schools and houses destroyed in the war. Despite their efforts, Saada remains a destitute city, filled with sprawling graveyards, bullet-pocked mud-brick houses and lean-looking children on crutches hobbling frantically alongside lines of moving traffic, begging for food and money."
(tags:pol photography war )
BBC News – Bournemouth resident mystified by ‘blue sphere shower’
"Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said: "The sky went a really dark yellow colour. "As I walked outside to go to the garage there was an instant hail storm for a few seconds and I thought, 'what's that in the grass'?""
(tags:fortean weird )

In Which Ariana Takes Horny Werewolf Day A Step Too Far

January 26th, 2012 | brainjuice

BECAUSE SERIOUSLY WHY WOULD SHE EVEN DO THIS

PREVIEW: Antony Johnston’s WASTELAND #33 (warrenellis.com) Arguably (warrenellis.com) The Fonal Jukebox (warrenellis.com)

Happy Horny Werewolf Day Cards

January 25th, 2012 | brainjuice

Ariana and I have been saying we’d do these for years, and we keep forgetting.  Ariana remembered last night.  And so here they are, at the usual place.

Night Music: Kristine Barrett (warrenellis.com) Supers (warrenellis.com)

SPEKTRMODULE Mugs

January 23rd, 2012 | brainjuice

Are now live at the store, since a few people asked for them. [image][image]

 

SPEKTRMODULE 5 went live over the weekend, and the shirts went live last week.  Good morning.


Bookmarks for 2012-01-21

January 21st, 2012 | brainjuice

Warren Jeffs’ revelations – Google Maps
"Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader Warren Jeffs predicted several cities and nations would have tragedies befall them. Here are the cities, and what will happen to them according to Jeffs."
(tags:maps cult mad )

January 20th, 2012 | brainjuice

Also, this and some other things happened:

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SPEKTRMODULE T-Shirts & Etc

January 19th, 2012 | brainjuice

[image] At our shop now.

SOPA

January 18th, 2012 | brainjuice

The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, two laws currently working their way through the American legislative system, will do untold damage to the structure of the internet if passed.  Neither law is fit for its spoken purpose.  I am not American, nor do I live in America.  But the internet is an interdependent creature, and unilateral SOPA or PIPA actions will affect the entire animal.  One country, even a country I love and admire, should not wield that power, especially in service of a cause both confused and mendacious.

As Charlie says, meddling in another country’s politics is rarely wise.  But I support the blackout.

I’ll see you on the 19th.



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