Interesting thought-piece by The Economist on how bankruptcy laws may be hurting America. The logic is, industries with excess capacity have bankruptcies. The bankruptcy restores a balance. If courts help bankrupt companies shed debt and re-enter business, excess capacity again results. Leading to bankruptcies again.
Hongo-san turned 115 yesterday. But she slept through it. She sleeps two days, and stays awake for two days. The secret of longevity?
India Today on blogging. Very nice article, Nidhi. (You need to have a subscription ID. But if you just keep typing random 4-digit numbers, it eventually lets you in.) Featuring Rohini, Prachi, Prabhakar Venkataraman, Radhika, Aditi, Rajesh, Anand, Mahesh, Anita, Arun, Jaykrishnan Nair, Rushi, Kiruba, Madhuri and Sylvia. Comments golu 25 May 2007 6:44 pm: thanx a lot yaar """" 4181 """"" worked for me nkt 29 May 2007 6:33 am: 4181 still works, thanx man!! Sai 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: 4181 works!!! Thanks a lot rejin 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: thanks mohit 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: thanks worked for me gbaja biamila 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: this works for me too, thanks man, appreciate it Krishna 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: It still works, dude! 29th Aug 2007 hksubbu 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: works…… 10/10/07 Amit 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: thanks a lot….it still works 01/11/07 :-) g 17 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: still works .. nov 10 2007
The world’s 100m record is broken. Without drugs, this time. At 9.78 seconds, Montgomery has been running at over 35 km per hour. I used to drive that fast, on average.
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service. I take a photo, and send it by SMS. I take a video, and post it on my weblog through my cell phone. Nice.
Writing screenplays. Interesting: modern murder-movies are based on Three Little Pigs, Psycho is based on Little Red Riding Hood, Pretty Woman on Cinderella, …
Bullet time. How they did it in ‘The Matrix’. (Answer: with lots of cameras.)
Ian McKellan (Gandalf) shares his views in “The Grey Book”. via LoTR channel
God has been talkative lately. via andersja
More e-mail being used as evidence. This time, by the evil RIAA against Morpheus and Kazaa. I wonder if this goes against some legal principle? Aren’t you supposed to say, “Anything you say can be used against you?” Reminds me of ‘American Beauty’, in which Ricky agrees to kills Jane’s parents on video.
Waiving import duty for Sachin’s Ferrari is kicking up a controversy. Fair enough. The smartest thing I see Sachin do is drive it for a while, and auction it for charitable purposes. Announcing, of course, his intentions beforehand.
Speaking of bugs, here are some famous software glitches – right from the Patriot missiles misfiring to the London Millenium bridge wobbling. Some links are broken, though. (More glitches and links)
Music helps identify software bugs. I’m sure it can be extended to many other forms of ordered data. DNA sequences, time series, etc.
Rant on HP’s customer service. Long, but interesting. I read it end-to-end. It’s curious, how impersonal a big company can get. via Metafilter
And speaking of glitches, Beflix has a site on the “aesthetics of digital corruption”. He posts screen images of computers that have gone kaput. Some of the animations, especially the ZX Spectrum ones, are a bit familiar.
My current project: transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes into text. Because I’d like to search, using text, for the strip in which Tracer Bullet has “six slugs, one of lead and five of bourbon” or where Dad explains why the Sun rises. Comments The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net 21 May 2010 11:55 am (pingback): […] So I set out to build one. I can’t remember when, exactly, but it was before Sep 11, 2002. […]
I always knew it. If you’re taking an injection, don’t look at the needle.
11 film-makers make films on 11/9/01. The films will be 11 min, 9 seconds and 1 frame long. via Plastic
Mahesh is experimenting with a new blog format. Something like this has been on my mind for a while too. Will be watching it with great interest.
The Oracle of Google is the coolest Google app so far. Ask it a question with 4 choices, and it uses Google to guess the answer. It knows that Abdul Kalam is India’s President, though it did prefer Vajpayee to former Presidents. via Google Weblog