S Anand

OpenSearch. “We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content.” It’s an RSS interface to search, and is an extremely powerful concept.

I have introduced a “Search” box near the top. It searches for posts that contain the string (regular expression) you type in that box. Comments Jetru 17 Mar 2005 7:51 am: Superb! man you are smart! S Anand 17 Mar 2005 9:29 am: Just Javascript, actually. Jetru 17 Mar 2005 5:48 pm: Whatever.Looks impressive here. ritzkini 24 Mar 2005 5:18 am: tooo much !! too bloody much ! bu the event isnt shown taking place and fasssssssssssst !! good on u ! Deshi 24 Mar 2005 6:19 pm: Like he says, this is quite simple to do. But it makes the page more clutterred. Blogs have to be simple, and easy to read.. Kind of loses the purpose Jetru 26 Mar 2005 5:14 pm: No I like this format, except for the Permalink button S Anand 28 Mar 2005 3:17 am: Yeah, I don’t like the Permalink button either. Any suggestions?

Bruce Schneier on The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication. Two factor authentication replaces passwords with two things: something you have (e.g. a security token that changes numbers every minute) and something you know (e.g. password). Bruce says this won’t help against two new kinds of attacks we’re seeing: Man-in-the-Middle attack. An attacker puts up a fake bank website and entices user to that website. User types in his password, and the attacker in turn uses it to access the bank’s real website. Done right, the user will never realize that he isn’t at the bank’s website. Then the attacker either disconnects the user and makes any fraudulent transactions he wants, or passes along the user’s banking transactions while making his own transactions at the same time. ...

Amul ad hits. Comments BINDU NAIR 8 Dec 2011 12:50 pm: LOVE THE JINGLE OF THE AD UTTERLY BUTTERLY DELICIOUS AMUL

Bollycat: a list of Bollywood films plagiarized from Hollywood.

Cognitive daily. Are rich kids more troubled than poor kids? How do we decide what we’re seeing? What else are we doing when we watch a movie? What are we doing when we watch a movie? etc.

The long tail of software. The most interesting statistic however, was that while the top 10 searches were thousands of times more popular than the average search, these top-10 searches represented only 3% of our total volume. 97% of our traffic came from the long tail: queries asked a little over once a day. Search is a long tail business and that is the source of its power and profit. Read Chris Anderson’s Wired article ...

Telecom Italia’s Gandhi ad.

Which search engine to use? If you want to find websites that you can trust: Pinakes If you want to search the invisible web Lots more…

17-year old Panna Felsen defeats 3 robots in arm-wrestling. The slashdot comments are hilarious.

Harvard rejects applicants using hacker services.

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

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

Hacking Google Print

MoSoSos: Mobile Social Software services. I checked in to dodgeball, she said, and “I got an alert that ‘so-and-so has a crush on you, and he is at X bar, go and say hi.’” she said. So McGunigle went to the bar, and by coincidence, it was the same guy she’d just seen on the subway. Like her, he’d been too shy to make an approach, but not to send a text message. ...

Every number is special. Here’s what’s special about the first 10,000 numbers (almost). For instance, “8281 is the only 4-digit square whose two 2-digit pairs are consecutive.” And “5851 is the only prime so that it, its square, and its cube all have the same sum of digits.”

Stand clear of closing doors. Ever wonder what the London Underground Map would look like if it were geographically accurate?

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.

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

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?