the libarynth

tr.im links in varying stages of bitrot and/or link corrruption. ..

• 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 3×10^9 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

• “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