2002

I’ve been reading a lot about augmented reality lately.

news.google.com. Still in Beta, and a little unimpressive, but as with most things at Google, likely to become a de facto search engine.

IP Telephony in India. At last.

The original Google paper.

I searched on Altavista after a long time (oh, for no other reason than the fact that Google said I could also try my searches on Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc.) and I was surprised how much the search results resembled Google’s.

Yahoo! starts charging for autoforward facility. I’ve been used to its unavailability for quite a while, so it doesn’t bother me too much.

Google fights googlebombing… or does it?

Powerful thoughts against digitization. And since these days I need an excuse to justify the amount of paper I’m using, this article helps ease my conscience.

World Gazetteer: a fantastic demographic and geographic database.

Here’s a good reason for me not to advertise my website. Here’s a site on time travel anamolies in films, which is not accessible, thanks to Yahoo’s restrictions on data transfer. One listing on Metafilter probably killed the site. But then, the question probably is, is that a reason to hate Yahoo?

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.