2004

Bruce deserves Gmail. Context: Google has invited active bloggers on Blogger.com to use Gmail Beta. Bloggers who joined post facto have not been invited. (I can empathise with what Bruce feels.)

Terrorists use the Internet well.

The Economist: Americans get better service because they complain more. (subscription required)

O’Reilly on why Gmail is not bad.

This week’s Business Week issue is on Wireless Wonders. Interesting reading about the wireless world.

Some people think The Onion is serious.

A huge list of Lord of the Rings deviations between the movie and the book.

Amazon’s A9 search leverages what they’re good at – offering reviews of sites, related entries, and recent history.

Emdros can understand English grammer, and lets you query texts grammatically. Found it while browsing through an A-Z list of AI applications on the AI FAQ.

Melodyhound identifies tunes if you whistle them.

There’s software that can locate where you are using a photograph of buildings.

Interesting card trick using the Kruskal Count.

Phones can be used on flights. (from The Economist. Requires subscription) On an average transatlantic flight, several phones are usually left switched on by accident, and the avionics systems on modern aircraft are hardened against radio interference. No, the use of phones on planes is banned because they disrupt mobile networks on the ground. An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, can befuddle a mobile network as the phones busily hop from one base-station to the next. ...

List of Disney animation films

What we can do with brain scans today.

Xavier’s Institute of Communication offers some interesting arts courses.

Toilets of the world. The page has a section on futuristic toilets. I’ve used something like those when I was at Honda in 1998. Really nifty devices :-)

Smart way of captioning digital pictures.

Kottke on real-life multiplayer games.

I was trying to buy the Mathematical American but the server seems to have some problem.