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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

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.

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.

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. ...

Bollycat: a list of Bollywood films plagiarized from Hollywood.