2003

The Grammer of Sound. (Free registration required.) Fast-Talk has created a product which can search sound files for text. So you can type “Dil” to find all Hindi songs having the word.

Lateral thinking: A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, “This is the strangest case I’ve ever seen. Though it’s a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished.” Reason: The sisters are Siamese twins. PS: Was Ravana a Siamese decuplet?

US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).

The Darwin Awards honor thouse who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. (Tales of silly deaths.) via Abheek

25 technologies for 2003. via Anders

I’m Debian Linux. Apparantly. via Dancing with Dogs

Hacking gets more focused.

The cost of an outgoing local call (at least, as of today) is: Rs 0.40 for landline-landline Rs 0.80 for landline-WLL Rs 1.20 for landline-cell Rs 1.75 for cell-cell Rs 1.99 for cell-landline via ET

i2 delisted. Now, somebody is going to buy them cheap.

Google News - India launched. via Kiruba

The redesigned blogger – Dano. via lazy geek

Apple’s music store sold over 1 million songs in a week. To Mac users alone. At 99c (Rs 50) a song, I don’t see how that happened. Or why it’s better than P2P. via MetaFilter

A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction at kuro5hin. Of the authors mentioned, Orson Scott Card is the only one I’ve read. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon looks interesting, though.

Relative sizes of spaceships. via Mala

National Academies Press has 2,500 books online. Free.

Math comics. Including some Calvin & Hobbes.

The Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet photos are online. Comments Mumbai Man 3 Dec 2006 10:57 pm: try this http://mumbainews.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/local-trains-time-table/

Excellent summary of what we know and don’t in corporate finance from Brealey and Myers.

Bitzi. “The Free Universal Media Catalog”.

Soap is largely oil and NaOH.