S Anand

A Flickr related tag browser.

Searching the invisible web. Comments S Anand 11 Apr 2005 3:42 am: More here

Transparent laptop screens. Quite clever, actually. via Dhar Comments S Anand 30 Mar 2005 6:15 am: More transparent screens at Flickr

Uncyclopedia. As Arnab points out, this is much tougher than Wikipedia. Comments Jetru 30 Mar 2005 6:38 am: what the heck is this? TOUGHER???! S Anand 30 Mar 2005 6:41 am: Yeah. The lies have to be consistent with all previous lies. Jetru 30 Mar 2005 1:21 pm: oh.lol

Yahoo! Next. It’s a showcase of some of Yahoo!’s newest and coolest projects. Like Google Labs.

How Yahoo got its Mojo back.

Maciej Ceglowski invites you to become an Idlewords macropatron by donating $300,000. Only cheques. No Paypal. And smaller amounts won’t be accepted. Comments sathish 29 Mar 2005 12:00 pm: :).

Metafor is a tool that turns English into code. Check out the movie demo and Hugo’s Metafor website.

Pirate Bay has been receiving threats from various firms, like Microsoft, EA, SEGA, etc. Their response has been straightforward. via Dhar Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question. Oh wait, just kidding. We haven’t, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you’re in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people :-(. ...

Scientific American gives up. In retrospect, this magazine’s coverage of socalled evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it. ...

Ovid catches his credit card thieves. This morning, I found out that thousands of dollars of charges had been made on two of my credit cards in the past two days. Now, the identity thieves are sitting in jail. This is how it happened. It involves identity theft, a careless thief, one pissed-off Ovid and lots of luck.

Create a permanent paging file in Windows XP. It speeds up the system when you have lots of applications running. Comments S Anand 30 Mar 2005 9:28 am: More tweaks here Samba 28 Mar 2005 12:00 pm: Want to know more about Paging!!!

Droogle. Drink recipes. Comments Jetru 24 Mar 2005 5:04 pm: Doesnt look like the XML feed is working… Deshi 24 Mar 2005 6:17 pm: This is one lousy blog! Genmys 25 Mar 2005 1:49 am: Lassi features as South Indian drink. Obscure results for Butter Milk ritzkini 25 Mar 2005 8:13 am: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.droogle.ca Port 80(25/03/2005-at 1:45 PM IST) Shamit 26 Mar 2005 4:41 am: It is getting a bit cluttered … S Anand 28 Mar 2005 3:20 am: Yes, it is, rather. Will see what I can do about that. S Anand 30 Mar 2005 7:23 am: Fixed the XML feed.

code.google.com Comments ritzkini 24 Mar 2005 5:18 am: google rocks !!

Spammer ploys. From the Scientific American.

10 best intranets of 2005 according to Jakob Nielsen.

13 things that do not make sense From the New Scientist. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 5:50 pm: Good one

AmazType is a typographic book search based on Amazon. I didn’t understand what that meant either, until I searched for Six Degrees. Try it. Then click on a few of the book images. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 7:56 am: Cool :D

Google Local Business Center. Fill in the address of your business. Google matches with its database, and edit the category, hours, payment terms, etc…. of course it’s not going to do this without some kind of validation. After you’ve submitted your listing Google will send you a letter within two weeks with a PIN and activation instructions for making your edits “live” on Google Local. Your listing won’t be included on the site until this process is gone through. ...

Where is Google X? It used to at labs.google.com/googlex, but there’s a 404 now. More at MetaFilter.