2002

Now the UK wants a DMCA-like law.

Pictures of pedestrians at Marble Arch. Now, that’s an inspiring site (to me, at least!)

Bizarre. Funeral homes offer to convert cremated ashes into a diamond.

Good summary of what Microsoft is up to at the Economist.

It’s possible to type with your eyes. Hope this is commercialised soon. The details are available for free.

Publicly available web services from xmethods.

Musharraf is now officially a dictator. In all but name.

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!