Multimodal browser

IBM has this cool tool: Multimodal browser extension. With this, I can create a textbox on my site, which you can fill in by speaking to the web page. The underlying standard is W3C’s XHTML+Voice. Two years ago, I’d have downloaded it and had it on my site in a few hours. Today, I’m a married consultant. I don’t have a few hours. :-(

Mani Rathnam and Kamal Hassan may work together again

Lazy Geek on the possibility of Mani Rathnam and Kamal Hassan working together on Dragon Fire.

FBI hounded Bobby Fischer

How the FBI hounded Bobby Fischer via Pathologically Polymathic

Eicher Maps

Bought one of these Eicher Maps. They’re fantastic. I sure wish I had access to the GIS on their website! Have a whole bunch of cool ideas.