February 2001

Toonopedia – encyclopaedia of cartoons

The Nervous Dog competes with Onion to be the funniest satire on the Web.

It’s possible to have better than 20/20 vision: SuperVision. Apparantly, even 20/2.5 is possible.

Everyone’s talking about the budget. 123india | ET | EquityMaster | Sharekhan | Indya | India.com | MoneyControl | MyIris | NDTV | Rediff | TNT | SIFY | Webdunia

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has published a list of the fastest growing occupations from 1998-2008. The Indian Labour Bureau publishes some useful statistics too.

India Economic Survey. The general review is worth a read.

The Library of Congress has a collection of eBook sources.

You can make a tip on the Web using Amazon’s honour system.

Top 50 e-books in 2000. Actually, lots of eBooks have come out recently. eBookNet is a portal for eBooks. The ebook webring and eBooks Plus webring are other places to look for eBooks.

Room102 is a search engine that previews websites.

Clayton’s parents are divorced, and his mother has custody. But he wants to see his father, so he went on a hunger strike. His site raises the important question: how much can kids decide which divorced parent to be with?

BCG has been kind enough to employ me.

A (almost) live update on IIM-B’s placements.

The home page competition results are out. Congrats to Section C, and to Section A, who were close behind.

Some interesting electronic toys have come up at ToyFair.

Genome browser.

Napster must pay.

Google bought Deja. I don’t know which is better news – that they have money to buy companies, or that I can now search the Usenet.

Celera has released the human genome.

Eric has updated The Cathedral & the Bazaar