February 2002

The Japanese are creating new forms of life. (OK, they just created new bases.)

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

Enron’s voice mail. No, that’s not true, but it’s pretty similar to Enron’s real voice mail at 1-703-853-6161. (And funnier, too).

Is there hope? Could the copyright duration be brought down from 70 years?

Interesting article on complexity in basketball (from NECSI)

A good article on why your digital data could one day disappear. Digital, when you think about it, is far less permanent than paper.

Well connected. A database of sites and e-mails that people trust. You can build your own trust network on this. (Given that Google once started out as google.stanford.edu, I wonder what this one could become.)

Weird news on the rise. A search for weird news on Google reveals popular news sites like USA Today, MSNBC, ABCNews and even Reuters (via Yahoo) taking an interest in this area.

Tech Review. Interesting magazine with recent tech trends. Comments

Blue marble. NASA’s incredibly detailed pictures of earth. Downloadable.

Valentine’s day. This year, I rather looked forward to it. Funny that some people didn’t.

The etymology of hello.

Serious lego. The Rubik’s cube solver by Brown is so incredible that I can’t even believe it! Some day, I’d like to do stuff like this.

Scantips. Ways to improve your scanning.

Gosh, a ZX Spectrum emulator in Java. Hadn’t thought of the day when the most powerful computer I had once touched would be reduced to an applet.

The secret lives of numbers. These people searched Google for the number of occurrences of EACH number upto 1 million.

The deaf use mobile phones through SMS. Good idea.

Spyware.

Looplabs. Make your own music with a Flash synthesizer. I still have no clue how to work the controls. Comments ujubhai 2 Apr 2007 5:12 pm: yeah.er..how do you play it then?

Pity… Netsurfer’s Digest now costs $20 a year. They’d been hinting about it for a while. I’d probably pay for it, if there weren’t alternatives. I find myself using them less, and substitutes like Metafilter are pretty good too.