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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

MIT’s Social Media Group

About the mad life we have with children. Aniruddha will appreciate this.

Bald actresses. They look nice without the hair too. Comments kesh 27 Feb 2009 8:53 pm: where s d photos ? S Anand 28 Feb 2009 7:55 am: Looks like the original link went bad. Have replaced it with a Google search.

Interesting idea to use gmail for backup.

Nilesh on the Uncanny valley. The point at which a simulation becomes close enough to reality that it stops matching up. I have seen a lot of this happen in software design too.

Street dogs in Athens are being poisoned. Maybe this happens everywhere. Maybe it is for the good. I just wish there were another way. (Don’t watch the clip.)

The Best Google Answers.

Conversational cheap shots.

A good way to get things done at a call center.

Kevin Rose tests gmail performance at 1 GB.