These are my links for August 11th 2011 from 08:41 to 08:41:

• London Riot Re-enactment Society – "The London Riot Re-enactment Society was inspired by the idea that we can re-enact not the distant past, but events that we remember and may actually have taken part in. We have chosen define our re-enactment society not by choosing a period of time, but by choosing a theme. We will tap London's rich history of rioting, and make these riots live again, in our re-enactments."

These are my links for August 11th 2011 through August 12th 2011:

• How people in science see each other (created by @biomatushiq) on Twitpic –
• UCL Museums & Collections Blog » Blog Archive » Happy? Quagga Day! – Happy Quagga Day! The last of these extinct zebras died 128 years ago today:
• Alien world is blacker than coal – A dark Jupiter

These are my links for August 13th 2011 through August 14th 2011:

• How to change the drive letter in Windows 7 –
• Lewisham ’77: Battle of Lewisham Chronology –
• Untitled (http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/lae/images/LE286L2.jpg) – RT @NASAhistory Discoverer 13: the first man-made object recovered from orbit – today 1960

These are my links for August 16th 2011 from 08:11 to 08:11:

• GRAPH A STORY WITH MR. VONNEGUT –

These are my links for August 16th 2011 from 22:43 to 22:43:

• CultureLab: Hacking the system, because he could – Wow! Nice review of Ghost in the Wires in the New Scientist :-)))

These are my links for August 17th 2011 from 21:00 to 22:11:

• Print and Ship Options | HP MagCloud – Finally, a calculator for planning publishing through print-on-demand magazine service MagCloud:
• SimplyNoise – The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet. – SimplyNoise – free "color noise" generator offers soundscapes to help you sleep and concentrate

These are my links for September 10th 2011 through September 11th 2011:

• History (Certificate of Higher Education), 2011/2012 entry (part-time study) – Birkbeck, University of London –
• Why Some Languages Sound So Fast – TIME – "…your ears aren't deceiving you: Spaniards really do sprint and Chinese really do stroll, but they will tell you the same story in the same span of time."
• Menstruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using | Context and Variation, Scientific American Blog Network – "Menotoxins": the scientization of taboos against bleeding women
• Welcome · tastetheatre.com –
• NESTA – Bookshare –
• London Sound Survey featuring London maps, sound recordings, sound maps, local history, London wildlife –
• Sodcasting: more widespread and more serious than you think – Julian Treasure’s posterous – Rebranding noise pollustion as sodcasting
• Prehistoric Dog Lived, Died Among Humans : Discovery News – "The dog's skeleton, particularly its vertebrate spines, suggests that it was repeatedly used to transport loads," Losey explained. "This could have included carrying gear on its back that was used in daily activities like hunting, fishing, and gathering plant foods and firewood. The dog also could have been used to transport gear for the purposes of relocating settlements on a seasonal basis."
• Mysterious paper sculptures – Central Station Blog post – A mysterious leaves beautiful, intricate book art for literary twitterati all across Edinburgh
• The Nordic countries’ coolest cabins – in pictures | Travel | guardian.co.uk –
• walking on the moon – small steps and giant leaps, seen from orbit
• For People With Misophonia, a Chomp or a Slurp May Cause Rage – NYTimes.com – Hell is hearing other people
• John Holland – One-third of Salem talks about drugs, boys and horny cab-drivers
• Flavorwire » State of the Witch House: Predicting the Controversial Genre’s Future – What†‡ver hap▲<ned to witch house? ooOoh right

These are my links for September 11th 2011 through September 12th 2011:

• BBC News – Vintage 80s: Life on the streets – Love these RT @LDN: Life on the streets of London in the 1980s
• Gamasutra: Josh Foreman’s Blog – C.S. Lewis and Philosophy of Game Design – "As our culture becomes more and more saturated with entertainment content it has been easier for us to pick up on the patterns that are at work here. And as I discovered more and more of these mechanics, a great, dark ennui began to engulf me. When I went to a movie, rather than enjoying or being moved by a story, I was observing a mechanical process.
  …

  "Our culture has been conditioned to "see through" so much. To scrutinize things with a cynical eye so we can explain away what we disagree with. To see through advertising. To see through religion. To see through patriotism. To see through politics. To see through morals. And in our case: to see through fun."

• Remembering 9/11: A warrior’s unexpected gift to America – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs – A Kenyan kid who paid back in kine

These are my links for September 12th 2011 from 18:45 to 18:45:

• BBC News – What should spaceships look like? – "Trains must go where tracks have previously been laid down and planes have to fly where they can ultimately land.Ships are inherently romantic because they can go where no one has before. Ships are associated with freedom and conquest"

These are my links for September 14th 2011 through September 15th 2011:

• Novel rejected? There’s an e-book gold rush! – The Washington Post – File 'em high, sell 'em cheap
• Bankers: an anthropological study | Comment is free | The Guardian – A "lite" ethnography of bankers: I'll be doing some of that myself next week.
• How to Celebrate the Nerdy Passing of Time | Letters of the Proceedings of Matt Parker – In case you missed it: I'm turning π³ this year and next year I'll be 1 billion seconds old. Find your nerdy birthdays:
• The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders | Rolling Stone Politics – Insane story about two kids who became international arms dealers from their bedroom (via @jjaron) must read

These are my links for September 16th 2011 through September 17th 2011:

• Superman theft solved and collection returned to Granite City man – *blub*
• BBC News – ‘Wi-fi refugees’ shelter in West Virginia mountains – "Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless is banned across 13,000 sq miles (33,000 sq km) to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area… As a result of the radio blackout, the Quiet Zone has become a haven for people like Diane, desperate to get away from wireless technology."
• Rick Poynor: Chris Foss and the Technological Sublime: Observers Room: Design Observer – "The prevailing sensation in these paintings of awesome power contained, unleashed, or out of control (Foss loves rockets) is close to the unbridled power fantasies, furious clashes, constant explosions and radiating energy lines in superhero comic books. The paintings need to reach a deeper level of perception and experience to become art."

These are my links for September 17th 2011 from 12:19 to 13:17:

• The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town –
• Coseph Jonrad « MAGIC + DREAMS – Bass Clef's alter ego mashes up the Walkman favourites of his youth
• Murray Groat | Lovecraft and Herge – "Tintin and the Dunwich Horror" et al

These are my links for August 24th 2011 from 18:55 to 19:15:

• Eight Ways IBM Develops a View of the Potential Futures – HorizonWatching – Huh, would like to see that platform in action.. RT @pulvereyes @Horizonwatching 8 Ways IBM Develops Potential Futures
• Garland’s law of foresight journalism | Eric Garland: author, speaker, futurist, intelligence expert – RT @nelderini: Wow, @ericgarland manages to slay bad futurists, their customers, journalists & editors in one stroke!

These are my links for September 18th 2011 through September 19th 2011:

• What to serve with deep-fried, buttermilk-battered chicken – Home Cooking – Chowhound –
• Untitled (http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0610137) – Local-time effect on small space-time scale
• Middle East’s ‘Nazca lines’ discovered – Bikya Masr : Bikya Masr – ooh. middle eastern nazca lines—spoked geoglyphs, pendants, meanderings in JO v @IsabellaEHughes cc @bldgblog @a_makia
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s cooking with milk recipes | Life and style | The Guardian – Pork with milk & buttermilk-fried chicken

These are my links for August 24th 2011 through August 25th 2011:

• Untitled (http://www.mobilemediatoolkit.org/) – Fabulously useful site for journalists: Mobile Media Toolkit #journalism #mobile h/t @10000words
• "ET Technology Could Appear as Natural Objects in the Universe" (Today’s Most Popular) – RT @spacefuture: "ET Technology Could Appear as Natural Objects in the Universe"
• Scifri Videos: Where’s The Octopus? – RT @NellieNeutron: WOW! MT @martinjmckenna Unbelievable octopus camouflage. Sitting here with my jaw dropped open
• food-chain restoration – the Institute for Augmented Ecology – new post on #exoticanimal #foodchain #restoration
• Things to do outside London during September – A list of curious and interesting things to do outside London during September
• Magazines Step Up Hollywood Pursuits –

  Media Features – Media – WWD.com – The business of turning magazine stories into movies via @evanhughes @billwasik

• Print out your own home: WikiHouse | MetaFilter – Metafilter discusses the Wikihouse they're… well, it's Metafilter. They're hard to impress. Hated the hexayurt too.

These are my links for September 19th 2011 from 12:20 to 20:28:

• seanan_mcguire: Across the digital divide. – @neilhimself How ebooks can't reach the poor, and libraries can.
• The Next Future – Lapham’s Quarterly – This essay by John Crowley is a wonder, for both sf writers and futurist thinkers alike. Read it.
• Untitled (http://twitter.com/HAL9000_/status/115747021075382272/photo/1) – More #2001blurayedits

These are my links for August 26th 2011 through August 27th 2011:

• Chris Foss on the Nostromo – Den of Geek –
• The Loneliest Plant In The World : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR – The sad tale of E. woodi, a cycad alone
• Paul Gravett | Grant Morrison – Supergods – In which Gravett argues (roughly) that superheroes' endurance is because they're triumphs of branding, rather than modern myths. I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference
• sugru | Hack Things Better – Modelling clay to hard stuff
• Home: Pic du Midi –
• Bhutan, Far East | Luxury Hotels in Bhutan | Seasons –
• BBC News – African space research: Dreaming of a manned shuttle – Wow. RT @andybroomfield: The Ugandan space programme:
• DJ SPOOKY :: That Subliminal Kid – Judging by tasty selections in @djspooky Ghostworld mix, he shd have some S. Africa / Kenya music recommendations

These are my links for September 20th 2011 from 11:08 to 11:08:

• Transpontine: Gary Oldman – Gary Oldman, NWX homeboy

These are my links for August 28th 2011 from 18:11 to 22:35:

• RA: The evolution of footwork – Interview –
• Canopy & Stars – luxury camping and glamping holidays, from yurts to treehouses –
• How to write faster. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine – "Kellogg is always careful to emphasize the extreme cognitive demands of writing, which is very flattering. "Serious writing is at once a thinking task, a language task, and a memory task," he declares. It requires the same kind of mental effort as a high-level chess match or an expert musical performance. We are all aspiring Mozarts indeed. So what's holding us back? How does one write faster? Kellogg terms the highest level of writing as "knowledge-crafting." In that state, the writer's brain is juggling three things: the actual text, what you plan to say next, and—most crucially—theories of how your imagined readership will interpret what's being written. A highly skilled writer can simultaneously be a writer, editor, and audience."
• Personal names around the world –
• Mobile disco: how phones make music inescapable | Music | The Guardian – "defiantly and ostentatiously broadcasting one's music in public is part of a history of sonically contesting spaces and drawing the lines of community, especially through what gets coded as 'noise'."
• Enis’s: “Don’t eat it, taste and feel it” at Discourses – More about Enis's bizarre Waterloo café
• Nothing To See Here: Enis’s Cafe, London – The mysterious foil-clad café of Alaska Street
• BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Copycat row hits Turner Prize – "Glenn Brown's entry, Loves of Shepherds 2000, is an almost identical copy of the cover of a 1970's science fiction book."
• Under the Thatch – romantic cottages and gypsy caravan holidays in Wales. –
• Vickers Romany Caravan – near Ellesmere, the ‘Shropshire Lake District’ –

These are my links for September 21st 2011 from 19:06 to 19:06:

• Order squirrel meat online – Wild Meat Company –

These are my links for August 30th 2011 from 11:17 to 11:17:

• Ham cooked in coca cola with deep-fried pickles — Food Stories –

These are my links for September 22nd 2011 from 12:04 to 12:04:

• National Geographic Magazine – NGM.com – The kind of journalism that makes me pea-green with envy: For anyone who's ever been a teenager

These are my links for September 1st 2011 from 07:57 to 07:57:

• Inside David Lynch’s Paris nightclub | Film | The Guardian – "I feel myself almost immortal": @DAVID_LYNCH opens a psychogeographer's dream nightclub in Paris

These are my links for September 22nd 2011 from 23:20 to 23:20:

• cut-up machine – [3/16] Copy the source and paste into an online cut-up engine, for example: or .
• William S. Burroughs’ & Brion Gyson’s Non-Linear Adding Machine – [3/16] Copy the source and paste into an online cut-up engine, for example: or .

These are my links for September 4th 2011 through September 5th 2011:

• Our secret weddings | Life and style | The Guardian – "Like having an affair in reverse"
• snopes.com: Weight of the Soul – 21 grammes or less

These are my links for September 5th 2011 from 13:51 to 18:20:

• Svante Pääbo: The man rewriting human evolution – opinion – 05 September 2011 – New Scientist – "I think it's a fascinating thing to think that, with just 2000 more generations, Neanderthals would still be here with us. Would they live in suburbia or would they live in a zoo? How would we deal with them? Perhaps racism against Neanderthals would have been even worse than the racism we experience today, because they were truly different from us in some respects.

  "Or would having another form of humans around have allowed us to be more open-minded and not make this enormous distinction we make between humans and animals today? No one can know, but it's interesting to speculate."

• Infographic Of The Day: How To Use Facebook To Market Your Brand | Co. Design –

These are my links for September 5th 2011 through September 6th 2011:

• Graffiti from Pompeii – "The one who buggers a fire burns his penis" and other words of wall wisdom from antiquity
• Doing It : The New Yorker – The New Yorker on the Joy of Sex
• ‘The Joy Of Sex’: The Original Hairy, Musky Edition | The Awl –
• Steampunk and the Architecture of Idealism by David Brothers | Fantasy Magazine – New Nonfiction: Steampunk and the Architecture of Idealism by David Brothers:

These are my links for September 10th 2011 from 07:46 to 09:39:

• The New Pants Revue | Beyond The Beyond – Bruce Sterling talks trousers
• Hollow Legs: Gong Bao Chicken –
• Domitianus II – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The man who would be emperor: a Roman usurper whose power-grab is known only from two coins discovered more than a century apart
• Book our Coastal Cottages by the sea | Coastal Retreats –
• Craster Pine Lodges –
• We found a cryptid! Meet the white cheetah. –
• The League of Moveable Type –
• Grant Morrison – Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia – "Grant Morrison (born 31 January 1960) is a fictional DC Comics superhero. In 1989, Morrison successfully wrote himself into real life, impressing both his fans and his owners at DC. Since then, he has been working as a Scottish comic book writer and playright."

These are my links for October 5th 2011 from 12:31 to 13:41:

• $50 tablet: From prototype to reality – How much for India's Android tablet-for-the-masses? Do I hear $35? $45? $50?
• First look at $35 tablet ‘Aakash’ from Indian government | AndroidOS.in – How much for India's Android tablet-for-the-masses? Do I hear $35? $45? $50?
• India’s $45 tablet finally launching – check out its spec and pic – How much for India's Android tablet-for-the-masses? Do I hear $35? $45? $50?
• Climatequake: Will global warming rock the planet? – environment – 05 October 2011 – New Scientist – Climatequake > #wordoftheday
• Ice-age nettles may survive in dark Chinese caves – life – 05 October 2011 – New Scientist – Ice-age nettles survive in the murky depths of Chinese caves >

These are my links for October 27th 2011 through October 28th 2011:

• Chris Herron Design: The Hell Brand Project –
• Is reading on the loo bad for you? | Books | guardian.co.uk – "I always have New Scientist by the toilet. I use it as distraction therapy. I don't particularly want to think about crapping."
• Custom making stuffed toys with children by Child’s Own Studio – Turning kids' pictures into stuffed toys. AWESOME
• More Wild Animals, Two Day Travel To England, and Black Roses: 2001 As Imagined In 1900 | Motherboard – The Ladies Home Journal looks to the future
• Perry Walker – The eternal challenge of an open mind | the new economics foundation – "Thinking Drugs aims to present both sides of the argument on global drugs policy in a way that we believe people can digest, and then use to form or refine their opinion, in just a quarter of an hour."