April 2005

I am on vacation. Comments sathish 20 Apr 2005 3:39 am: enjoy madi.. have fun. harish 21 Apr 2005 10:57 pm: hi anand. have fun mark wu 22 Apr 2005 2:31 pm: yes and thank you Venkat 25 Apr 2005 6:01 am: Enjoy maadi Dhar 25 Apr 2005 12:36 pm: Coming back here after a long break. Have quite a few interesting links to check out! Will certainly check out the MIT Prank once I am on a good Net connection. sunshine 29 Apr 2005 8:46 am: Anand u r so cute he he he sunshine 29 Apr 2005 8:47 am: Hey that one was to pull ur leg(i read that u hate being called cute" bharani 29 Apr 2005 10:26 pm: this commenting style doesnt look very clean…leaves a lot of blank space on your page…i was wondering if there was some pic there that was not showing up…lol… S Anand 1 May 2005 8:54 am: True, Bharani. I’ve been thinking the same. Am planning some changes, and will have them online by mid-May. sathish 4 May 2005 4:08 am: Anand, One suggestion is that you could have the comments below the main post, instead of right hand side of the post. rinku 9 May 2005 4:59 am: rinku:where did u get a copy of “What do you care what other people think"by Richard Feynmann.I have been hunting for that book for around 2 years and still no success. Venkat 16 May 2005 4:55 am: Where are you right now Boss? sp 16 May 2005 8:53 am: hi “rinku”…i have a old copy of the book, and you Sriram 23 May 2005 6:21 am: I work for Dell and they seem to have blocked your weblog!! Any clues why? Dhar 25 May 2005 10:20 am: Or if you dont have a server outside that you can use, try searching on Google for something called JAP (Java Anonymity and Proxy)

MIT pulls a prank on the World Multi-Conference on Systemics by submitting a computer-generated paper titled “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy”. I was among the people spammed by Nagib Callaos, the organizer of the conference. The students were soliciting cash donations so they could attend the conference and give what Stribling billed as a “completely randomly-generated talk, delivered entirely with a straight face.” They exceeded their goal, with $2,311.09 cents from 165 donors. ...

Google Maps, UK. I’m thrilled!

Yahoo’s Buzz Game tracks various technology markets, and lets people bet on which one will win. So, for instance, C leads language, Livejournal leads blogs, Flickr leads tags, and Bittorrent leads P2P.

D-Lib magazine reviews Social Bookmarking Tools. Comments Jetru 18 Apr 2005 7:38 am: i think you forgot something:D

Adobe Photoshop comic art effect.

MERLOT is like a Wikipedia for online learning materials are collected here (along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments).

There are a fair number of Tamil torrent and Hindi torrent sites. TamilTorrents.net and TMSTorrents.com look good for Tamil, and DesiTorrents.com (search for invites) & bwtorrents.com for Hindi. I've collected a bunch of sites that have Indian torrents. Loading Tamil movies are available for online viewing here. It's not a frequently refreshed list, but I hope to get there soon.

The Corporate Takeover Photoshop contests has some cool pictures: Revlon’s lip service, AT&T’s takeover of the moon, and Microsoft toilet. Comments Kingsley 19 Apr 2005 12:01 am: and then, there’s the adome macromedia merger. Photoshop that

An incredibly detailed look into the rescue of the Apollo 13 mission. What follows is a little known story, even to many involved in the Apollo 13 mission. While they have been complimented on rapidly getting the lunar module into lifeboat mode, stretching its resources to keep the crew alive for the journey back to Earth, few realize the lunar module controllers first had to overcome a basic problem: how to get the lunar module to turn on at all. ...

Surprises lurk in satellite maps. Like the tsunami hitting Sri Lanka, an erupted volcano, bombing at Baghdad, etc.

Compare Yahoo and Google searches. This site lets you compare the rankings of each site on identical searches with Yahoo and Google.

GDS Extreme is a Windows GUI front-end for Google Desktop Search that lets you filter / sort results (like X1.)

If you move the mouse over a link, a popup appears, showing the most popular tags on del.icio.us for the link. Click on the tag to visit all related links on del.icio.us. Comments Sathish 15 Apr 2005 3:56 am: What is this post related to? Did try out the new “big del.icio.us post” script? or are you talking of something else? S Anand 15 Apr 2005 4:02 am: If you move your mouse over any of my blog posts, a tooltip pops up. Did you notice? Sathish 18 Apr 2005 5:05 am: I notice it now.. I notice it on the right hand side corner of the page.. I am using firefox to view.. is it how u planned to show it or is there a problem? S Anand 18 Apr 2005 6:03 am: Looks like a problem. I will check it out. sathish 20 Apr 2005 3:59 am: it works now..

Pictures from the Mumbai Blogger’s meet with Aadisht, Altaf, Amit, Anand, Arnab, Nandan, Ravikiran, Saket, Sameer, Yazad, Zainab, and myself. Comments S Anand 15 Apr 2005 5:33 am: More photos from Sameer

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles

lickr: Flickr, without the Flash. Flickr is a popular photo hosting service that uses embedded Flash files as part of their interface. On every page, there will be a little delay while a new Flash file loads. Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript. ...

Caltech vs MIT pranks.

How to make your own annotated Google Maps. Like a craigslist on Google Maps.

Uri Geller, the spoon-bender, has a blog. via Monish