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

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

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..

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

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

Caltech vs MIT pranks.

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. ...

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Chemosphere is the world’s most modern residence. Incidentally, Charlie’s Angels 2 was filmed here. via MeFi Leonard Malin was a young aerospace engineer in late-1950s L.A. whose father-in-law had just given him a plot north of Mulholland Drive, near Laurel Canyon. The only catch: at roughly 45 degrees, the slope was all but unbuildable. Lautner sketched a bold vertical line, a cross, and a curve above it. “Draw it up,” he told his assistant. Now publisher Benedikt Taschen owns Chemosphere. ...

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Google sightseeing. See the US through Google Maps satellite images. Comments S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:00 am: Also check out the Googlemaps tag on Flickr S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:12 am: and the Memory maps

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

Shanahan’s Amazon Zuggest. It searches Amazon live.

How to get that perfect shave. Keep your face wet with hot water, use a brush, and a double-edged razor. Comments Jetru 7 Apr 2005 9:18 am: errr.cool!

A great demo of augmented reality at MIT Media Labs. Comments Dhar 6 Apr 2005 3:55 am: Just had a look at your book recos. Have read a few, will check out the remaining. Recently picked up “Clash of Civilizations” and “Getting Things Done”. Both look interesting.

It’s a flat world after all. Thomas Freidman on Globalization, Bangalore, … Second, the Netscape stock offering triggered the dot-com boom, which triggered the dot-com bubble, which triggered the massive overinvestment of billions of dollars in fiber-optic telecommunications cable. That overinvestment, by companies like Global Crossing, resulted in the willy-nilly creation of a global undersea-underground fiber network, which in turn drove down the cost of transmitting voices, data and images to practically zero, which in turn accidentally made Boston, Bangalore and Beijing next-door neighbors overnight. ...

21 strongest influences on contemporary design. Includes blogs at #9.

The invention of the Hindu. Hinduism is largely a fiction, formulated in the 18th and 19th centuries out of a multiplicity of sub-continental religions, and enthusiastically endorsed by Indian modernisers. Unlike Muslims, Hindus have tended to borrow more than reject, and it has now been reconfigured as a global rival to the big three monotheisms. In the process, it has abandoned the tradition of toleration which lie in its true origins. ...

April fool.

Firefox prefetches Google results.