Hindutva org-chart

The Hindutva org-chart. Worrying. Think about it after reading about terrorism.

Time travel anamolies

Here’s a good reason for me not to advertise my website. Here’s a site on time travel anamolies in films, which is not accessible, thanks to Yahoo’s restrictions on data transfer. One listing on Metafilter probably killed the site. But then, the question probably is, is that a reason to hate Yahoo?

Doomsday clock advanced by 2 minutes

The Doomsday clock has been advanced by 2 minutes. It now reads 7 minutes from midnight. That’s the level is was during the cold war.

National Geographic girl found

The green eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic has been found.

1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Move away from IE

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.

Spraying dots prevents theft

Spraying dots prevents theft. The range of application for the technology appears wide.

Asimov had AIDS

Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.

Whistling a perfect 2600Hz tone

Read about the guy who hacked phones by whistling a perfect 2600Hz tone while watching the most intrusive ad format I’ve seen so far – animations floating around in the background. This is the first ad that forced me to click on it. Result: I’m going to avoid such sites. I still like Google’s concept: give ads only to those who ask for them – and keep them seperate.

ZX Spectrum

Lots more ZX Spectrum emulators and games. Makes me nostalgic.

ISPs to start offering Internet Telephony

All ISPs are going to start offering Internet Telephony pretty soon. Good.

Die later if it saves inheritance tax

Kopczuk and Slemrod demostrate that people will die later if it saves inheritance tax. I fully empathise.

US has interfered a lot

Looks like the US has interfered a lot in all kinds of things. The Economist wants them to “… try again”.

Google and blogs

The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it. Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!

Steal data by recording LED lights

Who’d have thought that you could steal data by recording LED lights!

Morpheus and Gnutella

The news on Morpheus and Gnutella.

DivX 5

DivX 5 is out. Sounds good.

My sleeping posture

My sleeping posture “suggests” that I’m narrow-minded, self-centered, etc. Not true. (?)

Mac and PCs

Good and Bad. Mac and PCs. On TV.

256 byte page

How good can a 256 byte webpage be? See the 256b.htm competition. I was particularly impressed by Bonz-Mandelbrot, Poi-Metaballs and Mados-Divo. 256b.com has more 256-byte stuff.