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The IIMB PGP99 Birthday calendar is online. You can add it to Google Calendar, iCal or Mozilla Calendar. Here’s the XML version.

Meet the Author releases short videos of authors introducing their books on Google Video. It covers fiction and non-fiction, like James Surowiecki on The Wisdom of Crowds, Richard Dawkins on The Selfish Gene, Jeffrey Archer on False Impression and Frederick Forsyth on The Avenger.

Why is nanotechnology in the top Google queries from India? Comments ravi 15 Apr 2006 10:48 am: from all countries in the list indians are the only one with something technical in their queries. hurrah for that Prabhu 17 Apr 2006 6:03 am: Could be due to the fact that Sujatha is writing an article about it in a tamil weekly S Anand 17 Apr 2006 7:37 am: If so, Tamil Nadu would have to be a big chunk of India’s Google searches. Given the absense of other Tamil queries, I doubt this was the only factor… but it sure must have contributed! Gautam 26 Apr 2006 6:05 pm: funny how sania mirza ranks over aishwarya, though !

Google Calendar is out. But for some reason, it’s too slow for me. Comments Dhar 13 Apr 2006 8:08 am: You are right. It was too frigging slow in the beginning. But after the initial wait, things worked out. :)) Krishna 15 Apr 2006 5:48 pm: Do you still see it being slow? S Anand 16 Apr 2006 6:45 am: It loads slowly, but is OK now. I’m having problems importing data in the iCal format, though.

Google Calendar screenshots.

Grow by shrinking a market. For every dollar of revenue Microsoft made, it took away six dollars of revenue from their competitors. Every dollar of Microsoft’s gain caused an asymmetrical amount of pain in the marketplace. They made money by shrinking the market.

Windows XP commands for the command prompt. Comments sathish 11 Apr 2006 11:18 am: this is a cool link

Beautiful people are paid more because of a positive feedback mechanism. Employers expect them to perform better. They expect themselves to perform better. And these come across. Comments Madhu 10 Apr 2006 7:12 am: he he.. my research deals with whether board of directors have any impact on CG et al. I should probably consider the looks of the board as an important parameter S Anand 12 Apr 2006 7:10 pm: It’s supposed to be a stronger effect with women. You could factor that in :-) Madhu 14 Apr 2006 7:28 am: and probably suggestion reservation for women in the board;)

Reducing your memory usage in Firefox.

The seven plus or minus two rule. That’s all your brain can remember.

Google Related Links. Google’s following Yahoo’s lead in Y!Q.

Live Plasma. An interesting way to explore music and movies. Great visual design too.

What programmers do.

Chennai on Google Earth in high resolution. Mylapore and other areas near the coast are not yet in hi-res, though.

Stock transactions by Bill Gates. He periodically sells a few million of Microsoft shares. Wonder what he does with the $300 million or so every week.

Domain name analysis. All two-letter and three-letter acronyms are taken. About 80% of 4-letter acronyms are taken. All common names are taken. 90% of common full names are taken. And more.

Marriages in Britain are lasting longer. But part of the reason is that there are fewer marriages. More people just live together. The ones that do marry are older (30 years, as against 26 years a decade ago) and probably more religious.

Why people rush out of a plane at Bangalore but not at Delhi. via Kaps

The sun and moon look smaller than you think. The apparent large size of the Sun and Moon as we see them in the sky is a psychological illusion. There are several different explanations for this. If you take a picture of the moon with a camera lens that has the same field of view as Celestia, you may be surprised at the small size of its image. Here is something you might try: a finger at arm’s length is about two degrees wide for most people. That means that you can fit four moons side by side. Go outside and check it. Now have a direct look at your finger indoors. Can you still believe that four moons will fit on it? ...

Job openings at Google on Google Base. Comments Gautam 30 Mar 2006 6:39 am: Yeah, naukri, Monster and Recruitment Management Systems need to spruce up their offerings