January 2001

Brain map.

An extraordinary animated spoof of Mohabbatein.

The Economist website looks more like a newspaper now.

Even states have performance based pay. The less their fiscal deficit, the more their plan allocation. Good.

INDIA - A Country Study from the Library of Congress. A comprehensive overview of India.

People ignore banners. So we have interstitials instead.

I’ve ordered a copy of the World Employment Report. Apparently, it says that India won’t sustain its software boom, and I want to know why.

Salon’s article explains how silly people can get when firing employees.

Rick Garlikov tried using the Socratic method to teach binary numbers to a third grade class. Looks like it worked well. I’m all for the Socratic method of teaching.

Plastic – an interesting news source. I like Plastic work.

Microsoft Deathwatch. No, Bill isn’t dead, but his servers were for a while.

Eight case studies on sanctions: Cuba, South Africa, Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Burma, China and India.

I’ve replaced my old photo (left) with this new one (right). Yes, I know. I’m growing younger by the day.

Fashion lessons paid off. After reading about business wardrobes for men, and how gentlemen dress, I shopped for a suit, hoping to look my professional best. Ended up with a grey single-breasted polywool suit from Louise Phillipe.

Multinational Monitor features the 10 worst corporations of 2000.

MP3 CD players. The next big thing? It’s basically got a hard disk where you can put in any MP3s, and listen to it like a walkman. Why bother with cassettes?

My friend Manu is doing research in graphics at Ohio State. You really must see his morphs: Ash to Mandela, for example. After playing around with the grid, I realised Mandala’s pretty handsome too. Requires Java. Comments rajesh 10 Aug 2009 4:46 pm: great work!!!!!

Thinks.com has some good maths puzzles and recreation links. Cut-the-knot is good. Math cartoons are better.

Info1001 is a good site for info on shopping, investments, and even industry analysis.

Every Night Josephine is out of print. If not for copyrights, one could just copy an old print.