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About Webmap. It maps the Web topographically, offering a different way of navigating. Pity, the download is not available any more.

Full text of Jeffey Archer’s short story: The Perfect Gentleman. A nice introduction to Archer’s style, if you haven’t read him. And here’s some more from Harper Collins. PS: Here’s an introduction to backgammon.

Lateral thinking: A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, “This is the strangest case I’ve ever seen. Though it’s a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished.” Reason: The sisters are Siamese twins. PS: Was Ravana a Siamese decuplet?

The Grammer of Sound. (Free registration required.) Fast-Talk has created a product which can search sound files for text. So you can type “Dil” to find all Hindi songs having the word.

US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).

25 technologies for 2003. via Anders

The Darwin Awards honor thouse who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. (Tales of silly deaths.) via Abheek

Hacking gets more focused.

I’m Debian Linux. Apparantly. via Dancing with Dogs

Google News - India launched. via Kiruba

i2 delisted. Now, somebody is going to buy them cheap.

The cost of an outgoing local call (at least, as of today) is: Rs 0.40 for landline-landline Rs 0.80 for landline-WLL Rs 1.20 for landline-cell Rs 1.75 for cell-cell Rs 1.99 for cell-landline via ET

A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction at kuro5hin. Of the authors mentioned, Orson Scott Card is the only one I’ve read. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon looks interesting, though.

Apple’s music store sold over 1 million songs in a week. To Mac users alone. At 99c (Rs 50) a song, I don’t see how that happened. Or why it’s better than P2P. via MetaFilter

The redesigned blogger – Dano. via lazy geek

The Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet photos are online. Comments Mumbai Man 3 Dec 2006 10:57 pm: try this http://mumbainews.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/local-trains-time-table/

Math comics. Including some Calvin & Hobbes.

National Academies Press has 2,500 books online. Free.

Relative sizes of spaceships. via Mala

Excellent summary of what we know and don’t in corporate finance from Brealey and Myers.