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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.

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

Harvard rejects applicants using hacker services.

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

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?

What happens to your online self when you die?

On Google going public.

Fisheye photo of a stadium. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 7 Mar 2005 7:28 pm: Really Nice Pictures Nik 20 Mar 2005 12:22 am: Reminds me of a Calvin

Findory. Their site says: Just click on the articles which interest you. No signup required. The more you click, the more personalized your Findory homepage will be. Enjoy a great Personalized newspaper!

You turn your house into a bank. Act it out. Take the money and run. And then you call up and brag.

Of robots that learn to walk and robots that learn to talk (well, translate, at least).

10 steps for boosting your creativity If you’re stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this word. You’d be surprised how well this works. The concept is based on a simple but little known truth: freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.

Google Movies.