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Kids with cameras. Give cameras to kids. Train them a bit. See what they see. Comments Dhar 8 Mar 2005 9:02 am: Not relevant to this post, but I see from the fiction collection you read a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. But I did not find the “Song of Fire and Ice” in your list. If you are interested, I have a copy. (Oh, those Russians) Sathish 8 Mar 2005 11:21 am: Dhar, I was also thinking of that.. I am currently reading the last part of it.. It is excellent. and thanx for your list.. I got some links to read from them

How to find MP3s using Google. Create a montage using Google. Add persistent searches to Gmail. Get credit card numbers using Google. Convert your desktop into a search engine. All using Google. Comments Dhar 8 Mar 2005 10:17 am: Even more using Google: http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

What happens to your online self when you die?

Fictionbook.lib is a nice source of fiction (full-text). Mostly Russian. But if you check out your favourite author, maybe they have a few books. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 7 Mar 2005 7:28 pm: Thanks Anand!! S Anand 8 Mar 2005 3:43 am: Quite welcome :-) S Anand 17 Mar 2005 9:42 am: Here are some more free ebooks mani 3 Apr 2007 5:06 am: hi.. i read a few books from fictionbook, like ‘Three Men in a boat’ and ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ etc Now i just cant find the same book there.. have they removed all english versions of novles, from that site?

An information civil rights organization has data mined an NSA mailing list. The first chapter is online. The graphs are interesting.

I had disabled commenting for a while. It’s back on. Comments TOPFRAME 7 Mar 2005 9:48 am: not working… S Anand 7 Mar 2005 10:31 am: Try now. I think I’ve fixed the TOPFRAME problem as well. Jetru 7 Mar 2005 6:39 pm: oh, umm workin!! Jetru 7 Mar 2005 7:05 pm: isn’t working right… S Anand 8 Mar 2005 3:43 am: Check now. Should be fine. Jetru 8 Mar 2005 2:44 pm: Cool! My name saves only 4 the session though. Based on IP? S Anand 8 Mar 2005 3:13 pm: Cookies, actually.

Fisheye photo of a stadium. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 7 Mar 2005 7:28 pm: Really Nice Pictures Nik 20 Mar 2005 12:22 am: Reminds me of a Calvin

On Google going public.

Of robots that learn to walk and robots that learn to talk (well, translate, at least).

You turn your house into a bank. Act it out. Take the money and run. And then you call up and brag.

Findory. Their site says: Just click on the articles which interest you. No signup required. The more you click, the more personalized your Findory homepage will be. Enjoy a great Personalized newspaper!

Stephen Covey’s mission builder. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 25 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Using site tool Anonymous 25 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Does it realy help? Anand, you can tell better.

Google Movies.

10 steps for boosting your creativity If you’re stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this word. You’d be surprised how well this works. The concept is based on a simple but little known truth: freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.

Complete Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Grab while the site lasts. (Alternate Calvin and Hobbes collection. I’ve typed the quotes.) Comments S Anand 15 Apr 2005 3:11 pm: Quotes from Calvin’s Dad

Google India Zeitgeist.

The Google-like blogger template had me for a while, when I was browsing Shamit’s page. Comments Kaviraj 21 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Hi Anand TOPFRAME 21 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: that was pretty good.. Dhar 8 Mar 2005 8:06 am: In the free anti virus category, I would put Clam-Av, in firewalls for Linux - iptables, IDS I am surprised they didnt put in SNORT, website ripper - wget.

The 46 best ever freeware utilities. What do you find useful? Comments Ashu 21 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: thats cool m1109113562454 21 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: I use freemind too

It’s incredible what RFID and GPS are being used to track: cars, trucks, drug bottles, passports, driver’s licenses, ID cards, loyalty cards, luggage, rifles, casino chips, shopping carts, soda cans, newspapers, razor blades, clothing, books, tyres, etc. What’s even more interesting (scary?) is when it’s used to track kids, students, teens, girlfriends, employees, patients and criminals. Comments S Anand 17 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: I use a domain hosting service that uses hidden frames to point to my Geocities site. Know of any better (cheaper) ones? TOPFRAME 17 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: why do you have to keep the URL at “http://www.s-anand.net” when I follow a link from your page? It’s very irritating actually.

Marc Eisenstadt has analysed 15 years of email. … it is trivially easy to get to 2.5 hours per workday assuming a fairly ruthless, ‘one-touch’, knee-jerk email interaction regime. And worse if you deviate from the regime. Then there are other sources of workflow: blogs, aggregator summaries, phone calls (rare, but I still allow one or two), cell-phone, text message, instant messaging (my buddy list is very large, and most of them are work-related). ...