March 2002

The Hindutva org-chart. Worrying. Think about it after reading about terrorism.

This DNA computer seems to have done some good work.

Interesting read. A weblogger’s date read his weblog. Lesson to all webloggers: say nice thing about yourself.

The green eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic has been found.

The Doomsday clock has been advanced by 2 minutes. It now reads 7 minutes from midnight. That’s the level is was during the cold war.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Spraying dots prevents theft. The range of application for the technology appears wide.

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.

Lots more ZX Spectrum emulators and games. Makes me nostalgic.

Read about the guy who hacked phones by whistling a perfect 2600Hz tone while watching the most intrusive ad format I’ve seen so far – animations floating around in the background. This is the first ad that forced me to click on it. Result: I’m going to avoid such sites. I still like Google’s concept: give ads only to those who ask for them – and keep them seperate.

Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.

All ISPs are going to start offering Internet Telephony pretty soon. Good.

Looks like the US has interfered a lot in all kinds of things. The Economist wants them to “… try again”.

Kopczuk and Slemrod demostrate that people will die later if it saves inheritance tax. I fully empathise.

Who’d have thought that you could steal data by recording LED lights!

The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it. Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!

Mindless addictive Shockwave game.

The news on Morpheus and Gnutella.

My sleeping posture “suggests” that I’m narrow-minded, self-centered, etc. Not true. (?)

DivX 5 is out. Sounds good.