2003

Impressive ASCII art of Bollywood heroines. via Rajneesh

W3C’s making the first concrete, organised, meaningful move against intellectual property over-protection. W3C standards will be royalty-free.

Excellent kuro5hin article on the brain and Turing machines. While on brains, kuro5hin also talks about geniuses.

Google hacks on BuzzToolBox.com.

The Economist on Sony’s strategy. via emergic

The most interesting part of the budget, for me, is the little line that reads “Electronic filing of returns”. What that really means is that “the Income Tax Act is being amended to enable electronic filing of returns”. Hope the IT Department puts this facility on their site by this year.

Information Age Intelligence talks about how “… the information age … opens up the opportunity for those with weaker memories to compete on a more even playing field than those with good ones.” And it’s the one of the best things that ever happened to me. via andersja

Gladwell on The Talent Myth. Maybe smart people aren’t as special as they’re made out to be.

Word Spy’s top 100 words has Google on top right now, probably because Google asked them not to verbify them.

Experimenting with GeoURL. It also gives an interesting perspective of blog usage, geographically.

Google buys Pyra. Pyra runs Blogger and BlogSpot. via Scripting News

The ubiquitous Peter Weinberger. A man whose face was etched on CDs, circuit boards, walls, tables, and even watertowers. via RobotWisdom

Interesting stories from a guy who always wore a nametag. via MetaFilter

Poodle predictor: good diagnostic tool for websites. via Filter Coffee

Connections in Space has an interesting navigational metaphor – the London Underground. The site itself is somewhat interesting. via MetaFilter

Vote swapping site declared legal via slashdot

MSN’s attempt to foil Opera. via andersja

Kasparov draws Deep Junior.

A blogger’s first week at Google. Ovidiu Predescu. via GoogleBlog

An invisible cloak, a la Harry Potter. Except that it’s real, and Japanese. via KurzweilAI