The most interesting part of the budget, for me, is the little line that reads “Electronic filing of returns”. What that really means is that “the Income Tax Act is being amended to enable electronic filing of returns”. Hope the IT Department puts this facility on their site by this year.
Word Spy’s top 100 words has Google on top right now, probably because Google asked them not to verbify them.
Gladwell on The Talent Myth. Maybe smart people aren’t as special as they’re made out to be.
Experimenting with GeoURL. It also gives an interesting perspective of blog usage, geographically.
Google buys Pyra. Pyra runs Blogger and BlogSpot. via Scripting News
The ubiquitous Peter Weinberger. A man whose face was etched on CDs, circuit boards, walls, tables, and even watertowers. via RobotWisdom
Poodle predictor: good diagnostic tool for websites. via Filter Coffee
Interesting stories from a guy who always wore a nametag. via MetaFilter
Connections in Space has an interesting navigational metaphor – the London Underground. The site itself is somewhat interesting. via MetaFilter
An invisible cloak, a la Harry Potter. Except that it’s real, and Japanese. via KurzweilAI
A blogger’s first week at Google. Ovidiu Predescu. via GoogleBlog
Kasparov draws Deep Junior.
MSN’s attempt to foil Opera. via andersja
Vote swapping site declared legal via slashdot
A funny one about a kitty litter box. “Curiosity kills the cat”. (And while on the topics of cats, here’s some cat haiku)
I have blogged about 5 days last month – my lowest since June 2000. Guess it shows that the combination of consulting and family life cures even the most determined Web addicts. I’m not sure when life will return to normal. Please excuse the infrequent updates until then.
The Economist on how copyrights aren’t really helping creativity, which is what they were intended to do in the first place. via andersja
Some (light?) reading on physics: Motion Mountain – a rather large and comprehensive physics book for download. And some links on Quantum Field Theory.
Letters to the Editor. Except that they’re a marketing campaign. By the President, no less. via Scripting News
Smarter spam via Scripting News