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 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 9th 2011 from 13:40 to 18:04:

• Trading Post Special: On the Riots in Peckham | Londonist –
• new economics foundation | London can’t afford to ignore inequality any longer –
• Ian Bogost – Gamification is Bullshit – Gamification is Bulls**t – My position statement at the Wharton Gamification Symposium (Ian Bogost)
• Untitled (http://www.techmeme.com/110809/p13#a110809p13) – Gamification is Bulls**t – My position statement at the Wharton Gamification Symposium (Ian Bogost)

These are my links for August 8th 2011 from 13:29 to 13:29:

• The Quietus | News | PJ Harvey For Royal Albert Hall Gig – PJ Harvey to play the Royal Albert Hall for the first time this October

These are my links for August 7th 2011 from 16:27 to 22:41:

• Sherry Lutz Zivley – Satan in Orbit: Paradise Lost: IX: 48-86 – Milton Quarterly 31:4 – Milton's surprising astronomical accuracy
• Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt – review | Books | The Guardian –
• Acting up: is hysteria all in the mind? | Life and style | The Guardian – "some of the facets of what was once termed hysteria, do, [Hustvedt] says, still exist: in the many neurological complaints that still go undiagnosed; in eating disorders (some of Charcot's hysterics refused food); in the increasingly widespread diagnosis of depression (Augustine, Blanche and Geneviève all led extremely troubled and traumatic lives: towards the end of his life, Charcot was approaching a psychosomatic explanation for their symptoms); in self-mutilation, multiple personality disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome; and even in the sudden outbreak of rashes reported by schoolgirls across America in the wake of 9/11."
• diamond geezer walks the capital ring –
• World Wide Words: The Colour of Words – Pink is named after the flower, orange after the fruit… and puce after the flea
• N+7 – "The N+7 procedure, invented by Jean Lescure of Oulipo, involves replacing each noun in a text with the seventh one following it in a dictionary." [This generates N+1 to N+15]
• African Dope Publishing presents Zoo City: The Soundtrack – A non-sucky book soundtrack: "lush, dark, gritty mix of kwaito and electronica"
• WHAT YOU SEE IS *not* WHAT YOU GET – WYSI*not*WYG Project by Olivier Ratsi – Anarchitecture: "it's about time, not space"
• WordPress › Support » how to change the "Read More.." text –
• Typekit –
• Knoydart Accommodation – Luxury Lodges Scotland –
• My Dryer Has A Brain –
• Thought You Should See This – The Missing Human Heart of Innovation –
• Why would a blind man love cricket? For its sounds, its scores, its slowness | Peter White | Comment is free | The Guardian – "At the special blind school where I and my friends regularly played, two totally blind batsmen would cheerfully hare off from opposite ends for quick singles, frequently colliding in the middle with earth-moving consequences"
• Scottish Cruises | The Majestic Line –
• The Breckland Society > Warrens Project – Rediscovering the lost rabbit farms of the Norfolk and Suffolk Brecks
• Dan Hillier Gallery – Altered engravings

These are my links for August 6th 2011 from 23:15 to 23:40:

• The Landmark Trust | Holidays in Historic Buildings –
• Chatsworth holiday cottages –
• Plas Gwynfryn – near Snowdonia
• Holiday Cottages Scotland Self Catering Scottish Holidays Special Offers and Deals –
• The Big Cottage Company –
• Shepherds Huts by Shepherds Rest, Somerset UK bespoke hand crafted shepherds huts –
• FT Alphaville » Willem Buiter thinks water will be bigger than oil – "Water as an asset class will, in my view, become eventually the single most important physical-commodity based asset class, dwarfing oil, copper, agricultural commodities and precious metals," says Citi economist. Bloody hell

These are my links for August 5th 2011 from 15:46 to 15:46:

• Twitpic – Share photos and videos on Twitter – Simply briiliant picture caption for this New Scientist article – give the subeditor a raise!
• Sex on the brain: What turns women on, mapped out – life – 05 August 2011 – New Scientist – Simply briiliant picture caption for this New Scientist article – give the subeditor a raise!

These are my links for August 3rd 2011 through August 4th 2011:

• Salt: More confirmation bias for your preferred narrative « Science-Based Pharmacy – "The true finding from the Cochrane review is that dietary interventions to reduce salt intake are largely ineffective at reducing salt consumption. Salt’s impact on cardiovascular events is less clear than its effects on blood pressure. And the long-term benefits of population-level interventions to reduce dietary salt consumption are not yet well established. Until the data are more clear, you can find the data to support whatever narrative you believe."
• New Yorker on iPad Shows Viewers Want to Read – NYTimes.com –
• Are chess players getting better over time? — Marginal Revolution – "Mostly"
• Why Van Halen demanded no brown M&Ms – Candy as canary
• 5 Big Mistakes To Avoid in Your QR Code Marketing Campaign –
• 15 Creative QR Codes [PICS] –

These are my links for August 2nd 2011 from 17:03 to 17:03:

• Art of Swimming –

These are my links for August 2nd 2011 from 07:51 to 07:51:

• Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11 – Yahoo! News – A bust of Helen Keller, a cast of the Thinker, forty thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy

These are my links for July 31st 2011 through August 1st 2011:

• Speakeasies: Wanna Buy A Book? : The New Yorker – A secret bookshop in Manhattan
• THE RIDE NY – Megabus
• Things People Post To Museums – “An Urgent Message to the Population of Earth from the Human Population in Andromeda”
• Premium WordPress Themes | Elegant Themes –
• Inspire Well – "A flexible grid-based premium Tumblr theme that is perfect for sharing creative inspiration"
• Home – Web design inspiration from siteInspire –
• What Does Your Face Sound Like? – As featured at the Extraordinary Voices weekender at the Barbican
• CASIO – – Home to the Sexy Friends and Unicorn War mixtapes
• You Are What You Hear: How Music and Territory Make Us Who We Are by Dr. Harry Witchel –
• Hollow Legs: Crab, Prawn & Samphire Sambal –
• Palace On Wheels Official Website Luxury Trains India, Travel India, Tour India, Palace Train Rajasthan –

These are my links for July 30th 2011 from 12:04 to 12:55:

• Amazon.com: Kindle Singles Submissions – Policy, Editorial Guidelines for Kindle Singles eBooks –
• Goya, Francisco de: The Dog (c1820) – Great Works, Art – The Independent – "It is only a head, a consciousness, lost in a universe of terrors, afraid for its life."
• Social connections and content – Google Social Search – Google's social graph

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 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 21st 2011 from 19:06 to 19:06:

• Order squirrel meat online – Wild Meat Company –

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 August 30th 2011 from 11:17 to 11:17:

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