Bookmarks

Worst Pink Floyd Cover Ever: Comfortably numb performed out of tune and out of sync. Even the guitarist is relieved to finish playing even before the song has finished.
The Future of Screen Technology: The Astonishing Tribe visualizes the power of smart-phones in the year 2014. Wishful thinking?
Microbes Redefine Life: NASA astrobiologists discover microbes that have replaced phosphorus atoms - one of six elements necessary in life - with arsenic atoms.
It’s like if you or I morphed into fully functioning cyborgs after being thrown into a room of electronic scrap with nothing to eat.

Slide Screen for Android: Enhance the Android UI with this nifty app. It replaces the default home screen with something more palpable for those with information overload problems.
Quantitative Easing Explained: Microsoft Sam voices and animated bears help teach lessons about the Fed's move to purchase more Treasury Bonds as a method known as "Quantitative Easing".
So You Need A Typeface?: Yes, I do need a typeface. Tell me more.
Supercomputers the Size of Sugar Cubes: They want to stack processors one on top of another, envisioning vast stacks, each separated by water cooling channels not much more than a hair's breadth in thickness.
Too Embarassing? Too Funny!: Listen to the sales rep as he doesn't miss a beat when mentioning the domain name.
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: Six visualization methods available with numerous elements to represent each. Hover over each element for a graphic representation of itself.
Earth at Night: Over 6.5 billion people in the world today.
Brand Advertisers Dominate Google AdWords.: "We don't really think of brands."

Miniature Star Contains Nuclear Fusion Experiment: The National Ignition Facility has built a sphere shaped containment unit to run experiments on a potentially valuable power source.
Columbus Day Sanitized: America has it all wrong
Zach Hill - "Astrological Straights": So fast. For fans of Lightning Bolt, Blood Brothers, Hella
Double Daggers: Punk rock graphic design.
Google's Unmanned Vehicles: "Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves."

Half Plant, Half Animal: "...the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant."
Opening Statement of Stephen Colbert at Subcommittee Hearing on Immigration: "...even the invisible hand doesn't want to pick beans."
BP Halloween Costume: I approve this message.
Facebook's Building a Phone?: Just as the smart phone market wasn't competitive enough...
Moore's Law Holds True: "Researchers at those competing companies said that the phenomenon exploited by the Rice scientists had been seen in the literature as early as the 1960s."
Death - Keep On Knocking: Post Stooges and pre Bad Brains. Punk rock's lost years.
Drunk History, Volume 6 - Nikola Tesla Invents Electricity: "Tesla.. was the electric Jesus."
Link Building Case Study: Four pages worth of one man's attempt at acquiring backlinks.

Biggest Defaulters on Mortgages Are the Rich: “I’m a businessman,” he explained. “I have to be upbeat.”

Prickles & Goo: The creators of South Park conceptualize, in an animated video, an audio recording of British philosopher Alan Watts exploring personality types common to society.
Matt Cutts on Indexation and Crawling: Google's Webspam Chief, Matt Cutts, discusses indexation and crawling with interviewer Eric Enge. Read the abridged version of the interview which highlights the most interesting and important points discussed.
Spike Jonze's Humanoid Love Story: I'm Here is a 30 minute flick about two robots falling in love. A slightly comedic yet utterly romantic storyline offers an updated meaning to "till death do we part". Did I mention it's free to watch?

What Does It All Mean?: Semantics in HTML 5.
Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels: Chart that converts points to pixels, ems, and percentages.
Designing for the Web: Mark Boulton's book is now available online for free!
I’m Going to Out These Guys to Matt Cutts: Dave Snyder :
Yes or no, they are directing search users with the intent to contact local businesses to pages with aggregate content, that also display contextual ads for competition from the SERPs? Yes or no, sites have been banned for the exact same issue?
Dave makes it clear. Google is setting a double standard. Businesses operate with their own best interests in mind and Google's own policies don't fit their agenda.
Web is 95% Typography: At first glance, you may think the text size on this web page is too large. In fact, this is the default text size shipped in all browsers. You'll end up thanking me later when you realize you don't have to squint to read the text on this page.
HTML Entity Character Reference: A reference of the first 128 HTML character entities most commonly used.
Google's C-Day Approaches: Google talks of plans to lift censorship off it's search engine results within China.
Texas Approves Curriculum Revised by Conservatives: ...they made dozens of minor changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the American Revolution.