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Caltech vs MIT pranks.

lickr: Flickr, without the Flash. Flickr is a popular photo hosting service that uses embedded Flash files as part of their interface. On every page, there will be a little delay while a new Flash file loads. Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript. ...

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles

Chemosphere is the world’s most modern residence. Incidentally, Charlie’s Angels 2 was filmed here. via MeFi Leonard Malin was a young aerospace engineer in late-1950s L.A. whose father-in-law had just given him a plot north of Mulholland Drive, near Laurel Canyon. The only catch: at roughly 45 degrees, the slope was all but unbuildable. Lautner sketched a bold vertical line, a cross, and a curve above it. “Draw it up,” he told his assistant. Now publisher Benedikt Taschen owns Chemosphere. ...

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Google sightseeing. See the US through Google Maps satellite images. Comments S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:00 am: Also check out the Googlemaps tag on Flickr S Anand 8 Apr 2005 11:12 am: and the Memory maps

Uri Geller, the spoon-bender, has a blog. via Monish

How to get that perfect shave. Keep your face wet with hot water, use a brush, and a double-edged razor. Comments Jetru 7 Apr 2005 9:18 am: errr.cool!

A great demo of augmented reality at MIT Media Labs. Comments Dhar 6 Apr 2005 3:55 am: Just had a look at your book recos. Have read a few, will check out the remaining. Recently picked up “Clash of Civilizations” and “Getting Things Done”. Both look interesting.

It’s a flat world after all. Thomas Freidman on Globalization, Bangalore, … Second, the Netscape stock offering triggered the dot-com boom, which triggered the dot-com bubble, which triggered the massive overinvestment of billions of dollars in fiber-optic telecommunications cable. That overinvestment, by companies like Global Crossing, resulted in the willy-nilly creation of a global undersea-underground fiber network, which in turn drove down the cost of transmitting voices, data and images to practically zero, which in turn accidentally made Boston, Bangalore and Beijing next-door neighbors overnight. ...

21 strongest influences on contemporary design. Includes blogs at #9.

The invention of the Hindu. Hinduism is largely a fiction, formulated in the 18th and 19th centuries out of a multiplicity of sub-continental religions, and enthusiastically endorsed by Indian modernisers. Unlike Muslims, Hindus have tended to borrow more than reject, and it has now been reconfigured as a global rival to the big three monotheisms. In the process, it has abandoned the tradition of toleration which lie in its true origins. ...

April fool.

Firefox prefetches Google results.

You are currently using 18 MB (2%) of your 1101 MB. Gmail storage increases by 1MB per minute. They are planning to hike capacity to 2GB. Exactly 1 year after launch.

How to beat the free account limits in Flickr. Comments Dhar 4 Apr 2005 10:46 am: Read the article with great interest. This was an unfortunate title as it does not tell you anything about Dhar 4 Apr 2005 10:47 am: beating the limit, all it does it tell you how to maximize the number of photos you can upload. Pity… :( S Anand 4 Apr 2005 11:35 am: Actually, using sets, you can upload as many photos as you want and view them. So that’s really beating the limit, in a way. Dhar 5 Apr 2005 1:24 pm: Ahhh, will check the funda of sets when I get back to Mumbai after my trip to Jammu!

100 Amazon hacks.

When I use the URL http://www.geocities.com/root_node/?200531 to view my site, it doesn’t show the Yahoo! ad bar on the right. But when I use any other number, like http://www.geocities.com/root_node/?200530, or load it plain, like http://www.geocities.com/root_node, it doesn’t work. I suspect the 200531 is related to today’s date (2005 Mar 31), that it changes every day, and that this feature is used by one of Firefox’s ad blockers. Comments Jetru 31 Mar 2005 9:15 am: Cool! Jetru 31 Mar 2005 9:25 am: Hey, your search searches the html. S Anand 1 Apr 2005 3:51 am: It does use dates. On April 1, I have to use 20051 instead of 200531 S Anand 1 Apr 2005 3:52 am: Yes, Jetru – the search box does a regular expression search of all HTML

Clocky. Clocky is, quite simply, for people who have trouble waking up. When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will roll off the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until it eventually finds a spot to rest. Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky. This ensures that the person is fully awake before turning it off. Small wheels that are concealed by Clocky’s shag enable it to move and reposition itself, and an internal processor helps it find a new hiding spot every day. ...

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