Links

O’Reilly on why Gmail is not bad.

This week’s Business Week issue is on Wireless Wonders. Interesting reading about the wireless world.

Amazon’s A9 search leverages what they’re good at – offering reviews of sites, related entries, and recent history.

A huge list of Lord of the Rings deviations between the movie and the book.

Some people think The Onion is serious.

Interesting card trick using the Kruskal Count.

There’s software that can locate where you are using a photograph of buildings.

Melodyhound identifies tunes if you whistle them.

Emdros can understand English grammer, and lets you query texts grammatically. Found it while browsing through an A-Z list of AI applications on the AI FAQ.

Xavier’s Institute of Communication offers some interesting arts courses.

What we can do with brain scans today.

List of Disney animation films

Phones can be used on flights. (from The Economist. Requires subscription) On an average transatlantic flight, several phones are usually left switched on by accident, and the avionics systems on modern aircraft are hardened against radio interference. No, the use of phones on planes is banned because they disrupt mobile networks on the ground. An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, can befuddle a mobile network as the phones busily hop from one base-station to the next. ...

I was trying to buy the Mathematical American but the server seems to have some problem.

Kottke on real-life multiplayer games.

Smart way of captioning digital pictures.

Toilets of the world. The page has a section on futuristic toilets. I’ve used something like those when I was at Honda in 1998. Really nifty devices :-)

A different perspective on Google mail.

Good introduction to quantum computing.

I was unwell. I’m almost back to normal now, and likely to update a little more frequently.