=== extractology @zzkt === tr.im links in varying stages of bitrot and/or link corrruption. .. === redirections === * Beware the "Gödelian spoilers" http://tr.im/U3Up -> http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/07/the-parrot/ * "Preliminary makeup patterns to hide from face detection" http://tr.im/TWKD -> http://ahprojects.com/blog/117 * "Questions like these are very difficult to answer. But this does not mean that they don t have answers." http://tr.im/TSei -> http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_in_the_name_of_science3/ * "Geneva, 30 March 2010. Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme" http://tr.im/TPwB -> http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR07.10E.html * "The evidence has mounted that human gene patents are doing more harm than good" BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents invalidated. http://tr.im/TO2J -> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKJ6pynnd0_ZTnKTIY90nfDYil2gD9EOIJGG1 * Escher Circuits. programmable perception, mnemonic tessellation and visual static. http://tr.im/TmzJ -> http://www.scientificblogging.com/mark_changizi/eye_computer_turning_vision_programmable_computer * 1 Rosenfeld = electricity savings of 3x10^9 kWh per year (or one 500 megawatt coal-fired power plant). http://tr.im/T10W -> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/03/09/the-rosenfeld-unit-of-energy-efficiency/ * "Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili" http://tr.im/T0X2 -> http://tr.im/T0X2 * "2000 2009 was the warmest decade on record since the beginning of modern instrumental measurements around 1850." http://tr.im/SZST -> http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcdmp/documents/WMOStatement2009.pdf * "Long Finance" summaries. Long terming thinking, responsibility and 10,000 year time horizon. http://tr.im/SYWd -> http://thefinanser.co.uk/fsclub/2010/02/the-long-now-of-finance.html and http://tr.im/SYWs -> http://thefinanser.co.uk/fsclub/2010/02/the-long-now-of-finance-part-two.html * extracts from Du Pont's guide to "Farming with Dynamite" http://tr.im/SSW5 -> http://culiblog.org/2010/02/working-your-land-with-a-heavy-hand/ * Do it yourself Genetic Engineering, New York Times, February 2010 http://tr.im/SR8m -> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14Biology-t.html?pagewanted=all (via @livingarchitect ) #DIYbio #biohacking * nonskeptical heretics and climate change pragmatism. http://tr.im/SR0h -> http://www10.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/science/01climate.html?_r=5&pagewanted=all * an "open source approach" to #opendata http://tr.im/RgoO -> http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/truly-open-data.html and the "Eclipse Data Tools Platform" http://tr.im/RgoS -> http://www.eclipse.org/datatools/ * When we tried to fight evil, we found ourselves becoming evil http://tr.im/QTyK -> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=all * "To send Scheme into deep space." http://tr.im/QAyP -> http://people.csail.mit.edu/paulfitz/cosmicos.shtml * "Hollywood plays a vital role in educating the public about the proper response to zombie infestation." http://tr.im/Qylf -> http://models.street-artists.org/?p=554 * "understandable by any possible intelligent extraterrestrial life form, for use in interstellar radio transmissions." http://tr.im/QybU -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_(language) * The Tanganyika laughter epidemic - thousands of people continuously laughing for months. http://tr.im/Qy1h -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic * "bizarre and astonishing mistakes on a grand scale" Fordl�ndia and Belterra. http://tr.im/OqaB -> http://www.damninteresting.com/the-ruins-of-fordlandia * Nina Khosla's #TED notes. http://tr.im/OgUE -> http://youngandbrilliant.net/tagged/ted * IPCC errors: facts and spin. http://tr.im/OgSv -> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/02/ipcc-errors-facts-and-spin/ * Open discussion of major global risks qualifies as "psychological terror" http://tr.im/OgLd -> http://www.superstructgame.org/StoryView/586 #errorism #GEAS * Stross, Reynolds, Vinge and Schroeder on the SIngularity in SF. http://tr.im/0x20 -> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/what-i-did-this-weekend.html * "Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies" http://tr.im/O3OW -> http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/ * "Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms" http://tr.im/O0Ya -> http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69352-recent-progress-in-quantum-algorithms/fulltext * "Risk Interconnection Map 2010" http://tr.im/rim2010 -> http://www.weforum.org/documents/riskbrowser2010/risks/ * "My privacy concerns are not trite. They are linked to my actual physical safety" http://tr.im/NTuf -> http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/ * "Nature? It's the best science fiction magazine still in publication." http://tr.im/NEDf -> http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/09/can-we-believe-in-high-climate.html * The Khymos perspective of "The Flemish Primitives" http://tr.im/NCqO -> http://blog.khymos.org/2010/02/09/the-flemish-primitives-2010-part-1/ #TFP10 * "a three-way interference pattern, which accounts for sensations such as foresight, d�j� vu, nostalgia and precognition" http://tr.im/NACT -> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Xceedium-Expands-Management-Team-Adds-Seasoned-Marketing-Executive-998134.htm * conspiracy theories as "the inevitable distortions of closed-off, self-reinforcing belief systems." http://tr.im/NrUs & http://tr.im/NrVv * "the freedom to research, regardless of our wealth; the freedom to read, widely and technically, beyond our means." http://tr.im/LZLM * "There were injuries caused by flying glass. The game wasn't resumed until after lunch." http://tr.im/LKNv #xtalpunk * A short history of the chinese typewriter. http://tr.im/LKtY -> http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/chinesetypewriter * "In the 1700's [ ] engineers were trying to make machines look and feel more like living things--soft, flexible, moist." http://tr.im/LfvU -> http://scienceblogs.com/oscillator/2010/01/synthetic_voices.php * Exopolitics - an interdisciplinary field with roots in the political sciences that focuses on extraterrestrial life. http://tr.im/KOXG -> http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org/ * "Collective hallucinations and inefficient markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s" http://tr.im/KOJu -> http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/hallucinations.pdf * Weather problems? http://tr.im/KOuC -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sky_and_weather_gods * RT @carvalhais "It is also important to differentiate between composers who use algorithms and algorithmic composers...." http://tr.im/KOgJ -> http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post/340629444/it-is-also-important-to-differentiate-between * Norway Time Hole Leak Plunges Northern Hemisphere Into Chaos. http://tr.im/KmlH -> http://www.daily.pk/norway-time-hole-%E2%80%9Cleak%E2%80%9D-plunges-northern-hemisphere-into-chaos-14311/?hnbgfv * "singing to the plants" http://tr.im/KfTc -> http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2010-01-11-1714-0.txt * South Park Zen: Alan Watts, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. http://tr.im/K2WF -> http://souljerky.com/articles/south_park_zen_alan_watts_trey.html * @_wiz_ if you prefer peer-review to mere speculation, i suggest IPCC AR4. http://tr.im/K2JK -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report * religion, politics, science and starting your own space alien cult that is "at least as plausible as secular romanticism" http://tr.im/yasac -> http://home.earthlink.net/~peter.a.taylor/midrash.htm === corrupted links === * "The monster footprint of digital technology" http://tr.im/JG1V -> http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/embodied-energy-of-digital-technology.html * CIA joins the earth observatory providing #climatedata as MEDEA is revived. http://tr.im/JABp -> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/science/earth/05satellite.html * "If I were a PsyOps specialist at Monsanto, I'd have invented FarmVille." http://tr.im/JAtn -> http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2009/11/farmville.php * "Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010" http://tr.im/Joka -> http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/373/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html * An A-Z of obsolete skills. http://tr.im/IqZI -> http://obsoleteskills.com/skills/skills * @BEFLIX alternatively, spray with ethylene. http://tr.im/Ip9a -> ??? * Chaos and farce reigned at the birth of climate accord. missing statesmen. stampeding hacks. descent into incoherence. http://tr.im/I42a -> ??? * business as usual in the face of "one of the greatest challenges of our time"... http://tr.im/I3W9 -> ??? #cop15 * EU whitepaper "Adapting to climate change". http://tr.im/HY0p #climate #resilience * leaked UNFCCC draft on an "unsustainable pathway" at 15/12/09 23.00 http://tr.im/HXXk -> ??? #cop15 * "Better Ido Flex-Matching" in emacs http://tr.im/HU7G -> http://scottfrazersblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/emacs-better-ido-flex-matching.html * "Great Firewall of Australia" commentary from @doctorow at http://tr.im/HTkT -> ??? #nocleanfeed * @gonetopersia "They will have proven it possible to flourish through the active repression of free expression." http://tr.im/HMLb -> http://ourmadworld.com/2010/09/24/into-the-lions-mouth-singapore/ * failed utopias, post-socialist realities & rare, epigrammatic science fiction - the @transmediale film & video programme: http://tr.im/HEZ7 * "One day flying pencils fly. And then they explode like fireworks. Then they vanish forever." http://tr.im/HFmm * "Bypassing Internet Censorship" and the great firewall of oz. http://tr.im/HFiM #nocleanfeed #flossmanuals #OSS #censorship #oz * a ruse, within a ruse? "Canada Announces New Agenda For Climate and World Development" http://tr.im/HAUQ #cop15 * collating and collecting #climatedata with @blprnt > http://tr.im/HAA5 & http://tr.im/HAzR * a #climatedata proposal from @mtchl. http://tr.im/HAt0 -> ??? * "the question of quantum chaos" http://tr.im/HAht * The Annotated "Ecopragmatist Manifesto". http://tr.im/HzZV #resilence #TIGER * The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) http://tr.im/HtT3 * IDEO's HCD toolkit "Design Thinking for Social Innovation". http://tr.im/HtJU * The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). http://tr.im/HtFP * "What is GEOSS?: The Global Earth Observation System of Systems" http://tr.im/geoss * "Global-average temperature data released" from the UK Met Office. http://tr.im/H3QQ #cop15 #data * Arup director Peter Head on how the world can make the transition towards an "ecological age". http://tr.im/GXiJ * "Adaptive Fritting" to control heat gain and modulate light. http://tr.im/GCPX #materials #architecture #glass * the ISS "a beautiful, self-sufficient system." http://tr.im/GBwG (Nicole Stott via @bruces) * @evowebnet "Because As We All Know, The Green Party Runs the World." http://tr.im/Go6S * "Somali nautical pirates have established a stock-market where guns and cash are invested in upcoming hijackings" http://tr.im/GpgX * Peter Watts cranks the "Climate-Change Hoax Machine". http://tr.im/Go6S * @medialabprado ...more on DIWO. http://tr.im/GhoG & http://tr.im/GhoV * The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator: http://tr.im/FYUG - a cautionary tale for those working at the accident-prone #LHC * "The idea that something is uncool because it s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness." Brian Eno http://tr.im/FWXC * realtime. gutenberg. forgetting. mesmer. capturing. transience. "hello, who am i talking to?". toasters. realtime. http://tr.im/FRN3 * insect sushi. http://tr.im/Fm8l * Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. [pdf] http://tr.im/Fm24 * "an international network trafficking human fat" http://tr.im/FlVk * @stilgherrian "1972 Burroughs decided that his dissatisfaction with Scientology merited an attack on the organisation" http://tr.im/Fhn3 * "long-term economic growth is closely tied to climate policy." http://tr.im/FdxP (via @cop15) #cop15 #economy #climate * speciation in action. http://tr.im/F9n4 #evolution #creation #science #Galapagos #darwin * obsessive attention to mostly irrelevant details. http://tr.im/F4OL * COP15 "will not yield a legally binding treaty, but a comprehensive political agreement at best." http://tr.im/F45u * "It signifies an abandonment of moral responsibility that a position of leadership on the world stage clearly implies" http://tr.im/F45i * "Building Civilizational Resilience" @cascio on #resilience http://tr.im/EWKf * "Gymnemic acid makes sugar taste like sand [..] In case you were wondering, gymnemic acid ruins miraculin too." http://tr.im/EWEJ -> http://www.cookingissues.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-everything-taste-bad-in-a-very-instructive-way-and-how-to-eat-20-limes/ * "Protons and plants, bottom quarks and butterflies" an interview with Fermilab's ecologist. http://tr.im/EWb6 -> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/11/13/protons-and-plants-bottom-quarks-and-butterflies/ * RT @honorharger illusions, neuro-archaeology & behaviour patterns. http://tr.im/EU1T * computer vision algorithms based on "known or suspected elements" of the fly brain. http://tr.im/ETCi * Charles Stross on generational starships, work ethics and "metastable multiple-attractor society" http://tr.im/ET3B -> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the-myth-of-the-starship.html #resilients #longnow * When the Mundaneum opened in 1910, its purpose was to collect all of the world s knowledge on neatly organized cards. http://tr.im/ESTu * Frithjof Bergmann's talk at FoAM http://tr.im/ESCL (via @theunk) more at http://tr.im/ESCG (including @dougald http://tr.im/ESCY and others) * "biochemist oliver peoples explains how his polymer-producing microbes could transform the plastics industry" http://tr.im/EKdT #materials * Julian Bleecker's "Notes on Heliotropic Smartsurfaces" http://tr.im/EAKk #solar #materials * Dimitri Orlov accidently blunders into "Anthropoclastic Climate Change" http://tr.im/Ek2S * "Even though we've run out of Future, it's important that we continue to strive to make Gibson's visions come true..." http://tr.im/EfXD * data ecologies stream is gathering steam. #de09 http://tr.im/DGkm -> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/data-ecologies-09 * "Neuroleptics may relieve symptoms of exorcism-resistant possession." http://tr.im/DrKY * "the synthetic experience of the apparition was very similar to the one experienced in the natural setting" http://tr.im/DrJA * France, Reconstructed from Apparently Inadequate Data. http://tr.im/D57k * @adriancheok you should also check out Joanna Berzowska's work with soft electronics. http://tr.im/D4I7 * "points which are individually uncontroversial [...] to support a conclusion which is surprising and counterintuitive." http://tr.im/CL4T * RT @livingarchitect "Science behind the robotic walking gel" (non paywall version at http://tr.im/CFvN ) * "We don t know about what is at the bottom of the ocean or what made a huge noise there in the Summer of 1997" http://tr.im/CDIk * another apocalypse postponed. http://tr.im/20121221 * @adriancheok Sk�l! http://tr.im/skoal * RT @seedmag A new visual language for biological systems - the circuit diagrams of biology. http://tr.im/A5oJ #SGBN http://tr.im/A5od * @MrPrudence thanks. further diversions (in kit form) http://tr.im/A0dX * "From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations" http://tr.im/zZx5 * "Accidents intervene. You are not present at episodes. You depend on reports." http://tr.im/zvPM * empirical verification of the "Coefficient of Inefficiency" http://tr.im/zgUg * "history suggests that one is not well advised to bring a spreadsheet to a gun fight." http://tr.im/yYLT * "to feel the specific places where infrastructure interferes with the Earth's magnetic field." http://tr.im/yXoC * inadvertent haiku finder. http://tr.im/h4iku * subpixel typsetting. http://tr.im/yWx0 * "Thunderbirds will grow a generation of mad engineers" http://tr.im/ySGa #resilients #NNNI * "there's a copyright record for a book that has no writer, only a psychic who received the text #clairaudiently." http://tr.im/yS87 * "What we are seeking is the minimum amount of technology that will generate the maximum number of options for all." http://tr.im/yMJS * rigorous mapping of ridiculous data http://tr.im/yEh8 in "The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins Within Nevada" http://tr.im/yEfY * The Human Hair Solar Panel Hoax. http://tr.im/yqCs * The Turing Apology. http://tr.im/ypM8 * "Repeated levitation tests showed the mice, even when not sedated, could quickly acclimate to levitation inside the cage." http://tr.im/ylsL * RFC: CLtL3 Charter. http://tr.im/xSxO * "Seeing with your tongue may seem unusual, but arguably not as weird as skin vision." http://tr.im/xRvd * "Tutte le genti che passeranno, E tutti quelli che passeranno" http://tr.im/xO1L * "botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and arbortecture" http://tr.im/xMzE * "it's full of stars!" http://tr.im/xMv5 * Chandrayaan-1 provides compelling evidence that moon-landing conspiracies are insufficiently complex. http://tr.im/xMoI * clj-processing provides a #clojure interface for #processing ( http://tr.im/xDoP (with some sketches http://tr.im/xDpr ) )) ) * rise of the "Plasmobot" http://tr.im/xCpC * measuring the speed of light using marshmallows, a microwave oven and a ruler. http://tr.im/xeYV * "It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger." http://tr.im/x2Yz * "Autonomous Systems: social, legal and ethical issues" http://tr.im/wQfY (pdf) * RT @honorharger "I wanted to create opportunities for unpredictability and serendipity for numerous happy accidents": http://tr.im/wOnT