Lateral thinking: A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, “This is the strangest case I’ve ever seen. Though it’s a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished.” Reason: The sisters are Siamese twins. PS: Was Ravana a Siamese decuplet?
The Grammer of Sound. (Free registration required.) Fast-Talk has created a product which can search sound files for text. So you can type “Dil” to find all Hindi songs having the word.
US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).
25 technologies for 2003. via Anders
The Darwin Awards honor thouse who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. (Tales of silly deaths.) via Abheek
Hacking gets more focused.
I’m Debian Linux. Apparantly. via Dancing with Dogs
Google News - India launched. via Kiruba
i2 delisted. Now, somebody is going to buy them cheap.
The cost of an outgoing local call (at least, as of today) is: Rs 0.40 for landline-landline Rs 0.80 for landline-WLL Rs 1.20 for landline-cell Rs 1.75 for cell-cell Rs 1.99 for cell-landline via ET
A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction at kuro5hin. Of the authors mentioned, Orson Scott Card is the only one I’ve read. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon looks interesting, though.
Apple’s music store sold over 1 million songs in a week. To Mac users alone. At 99c (Rs 50) a song, I don’t see how that happened. Or why it’s better than P2P. via MetaFilter
The redesigned blogger – Dano. via lazy geek
Math comics. Including some Calvin & Hobbes.
National Academies Press has 2,500 books online. Free.
Relative sizes of spaceships. via Mala
Excellent summary of what we know and don’t in corporate finance from Brealey and Myers.
Bitzi. “The Free Universal Media Catalog”.
Caltiger is dead. Comments Ranabir 8 Mar 2011 9:43 am: Caltiger was a company which brought internet for common.. I don’t know how and why it is dead, but it is… I was in class 7 that time when caltiger guys came to our school and gave us a floppy containing something , I was not having a computer at my home that time … but one of my senior had it .. so he took it from me and used it .. and then returned it to me.. :) Now I know what he did with the disk and the password page… But whatever happened is happened.. caltiger must rise again.. I would love to support it once again jose 3 Jun 2012 7:56 am: Long live caltiger, it was every indian’s first internet access opportunity. Joginder singh 12 Feb 2019 9:30 am: We are indebted to India’s first people’s internet service. They will be legends forever
Soap is largely oil and NaOH.