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Jared dresses up in an iPod costume and wins.

Jugglezine: How to find the time to do anything (not everything!) On a purely practical level, however, the reason we can’t find time for that one thing we’ve always wanted to do is that we don’t set aside time for it. Logging how much time things take for two weeks will transform you, because if you know and acknowledge in advance how long something will take, then you can make wise decisions about where to spend your time ...

Malcolm Gladwell on drug prices in the US. AstraZeneca twenty-six billion dollars on Prilosec. The patent was due to expire. AstraZeneca decided on a subtle piece of chemical reengineering, creating a single isomer version. The new drug was called Nexium. The F.D.A. gave its blessing, and Nexium hit the pharmacy shelves priced at a hundred and twenty dollars for a month’s worth of pills. But the article goes on to show that the US drug industry isn’t necessarily overpriced.

Blogstreet India.

All of Mysore is on WiFiy.

Man 1 Bank 0. In May of 1995, I suddenly found myself smack in the middle of a very unusual ’life experiment.’ I deposited a junk mail check into my ATM and to my absolute astonishment, it cashed.

A decade with Netscape. I’ve been wavering between IE, Opera and Mozilla over the last few months, and have come a full circle. IE: Default browser. Works with BCG’s intranet. Opera: Great offline browsing. Fast downloading. Tabbed browsing. Mouse gestures. Mozilla: Powerful plugins. IE: A9 toolbar. Fantastic way of searching. IE again: Google desktop. Solves all offline browsing problems I had.

Gmail File System for Windows.

Alan Cox: Tips on writing better software.

iamlearn and rrobot are self-writing blogs. Written by programs, that is. They’re quite readable, though somewhat meaningless. (Why not write a useful self-writing blog… like Google News?)

Dave Archambault’s portfolio – paintings using just a ball-point pen.

Comic Central offers comics downloads via eMule. This includes an Asterix collection (which is best read annotated. Comments rajesh 17 Jan 2007 9:22 am: great man thanks a lot niketha 27 Sep 2004 12:00 pm: Nice to see this website. Nahush Chaturvedi 27 Sep 2004 12:00 pm: Good job !!

FBI Guide to Investigation Guide of Concealable Weapons. Check out the throwing cards. These cards are regular sized, but they are all metal and edged on all sides, designed to be thrown at a target.

Some interesting material on complexity that I found when hunting through the web. What if… Wired: 12 principles of the networked world Trojan Mice: What are complex adaptive systems?

Excellent article by a Microsoft cognitive psychologist on how we recognise words. We recognize a word’s component letters simultaneously, then use that visual information to recognize a word.

Southwest Airline’s effort to be humourous. Southwest … have [my business] because of low fares, and force-marching their employees through comic routines will do little to affect my choice of carrier. They are, however, wasting their “research” dollars and undoubtedly humiliating their employees. I suggest they stop. While the phrases themselves were well-crafted specimens of humor, delivered with carefully practiced inflection of the voice, the eyes of the pressganged comedians were cold and dead. ...

Outsource your own job. A programmer outsourced his job to an Indian programmer. Salary arbitrage: $67,000 - $12,000 = $55,000. He’s planning to get another job and do this again. (It’s probably not true, though)

Watson and Crick’s original paper on DNA in Nature magazine. It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. Comments Dae-Hyun Hahm 12 Sep 2006 6:22 am: I am a teaching professor and I need that paper in PDF for teaching in University.

Alternate exchanges: Hollywood Stock Exchange, Innovation futures, Blogshares. These exchanges are supposed to be remarkably accurate in predictions.

Google games