August 2002

I’m famous. Thanks, Anita!

Matt’s excellent summary of the current state of the Standard Model at kuro5hin. (The Standard Model what we know of fundamental particles today. Quarks and stuff.)

Suku on movies. Beautiful. Says what I feel.

FindArticles: A good search for magazine articles (review)

A different approach to spam. Habeas is using haikus to morph spam into copyright violation – making it more prosecutable. Clever, but practical?

Yahoo PayDirect is free again. This is the first time I’m seeing a paid site turning free. I’m sure Internet history of some sort was made. Yahoo!

Maybe the DMCA is not as Draconian as we thought.

The most cruel sentence I’ve heard. Death by stoning. Crime: childbirth over 9 months after divorce. Redeeming feature: stoning to take place after weaning.

I like this. Information Wave, an ISP, has banned RIAA from accessing their network. But, they will take their own measures to ensure copyright violation doesn’t happen. That’s solid.

A dozen IIMB junta got together at Hotel Pritam, Mumbai.

Coke and Pepsi paintings on the hills have to be removed because “… species of moss… have been destroyed by the painting.” Gosh!

A Wired article, Born Digital, talks about kids born in the digital age. I liked the bit about them trading places with adults.

Air Sahara is auctioning tickets. Pity Chennai is not on their list!

A quick round-up on the Indian bloggers’ lists: Anita’s list: 103 blogs. Comprehensive (static) Anita’s ring: 47 blogs. Big, collaborative Eatonweb: 41 blogs. Collaborative, growing Kamat’s list: 34 blogs. Flexible (moderated) Other methods like Blogchalk India yield too few hits. If you want to go beyond these lists, Google searches like indian blogger are probably your best bet.

The STAR exchange is a stock exchange listing companies with good governance. That’s a good criterion to list by, given the accounting we read about. This exchange has managed to outperform the conventional counterpart (Borsa), BTW.

A blog on tech gadgets. Love it!

Under the staircase of Bandra station lies a two-storeyed apartment. Dupleix layout, single room. East-facing, with elevated entrance. It’s 8:00am. The man on the ladder is a boot polish-walla. He’s picking up his box, getting ready for work, while his colleague watches. Their families is still asleep in the single room. And in the room, along with them, is a rather cramped storage space. I wonder how many live in such conditions. Of course, it’s much better than the slums around Mahim. Still, it looks like a rather difficult life. ...

To: Rajnish Kanojia Subject: Would love to talk/meet up. Mail me.

Now, if you earn dollars, you can keep the dollars. Interesting that this move comes at just the time when the dollar is falling.

Intel vs Hamidi raises the issue of whether sending an e-mail could constitute “trespassing”.