Links

The Man Project. Cool Flash.

Star Wars on Telnet. In text. Still worth a look.

I hate this. “Beginning April 2, 2002, we – Geocities – will no longer provide FTP access as part of our free home page service.” Nice of them to let me know well in advance, though.

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

The Japanese are creating new forms of life. (OK, they just created new bases.)

Is there hope? Could the copyright duration be brought down from 70 years?

Enron’s voice mail. No, that’s not true, but it’s pretty similar to Enron’s real voice mail at 1-703-853-6161. (And funnier, too).

Tech Review. Interesting magazine with recent tech trends. Comments

Weird news on the rise. A search for weird news on Google reveals popular news sites like USA Today, MSNBC, ABCNews and even Reuters (via Yahoo) taking an interest in this area.

Well connected. A database of sites and e-mails that people trust. You can build your own trust network on this. (Given that Google once started out as google.stanford.edu, I wonder what this one could become.)

A good article on why your digital data could one day disappear. Digital, when you think about it, is far less permanent than paper.

Blue marble. NASA’s incredibly detailed pictures of earth. Downloadable.

Serious lego. The Rubik’s cube solver by Brown is so incredible that I can’t even believe it! Some day, I’d like to do stuff like this.

The etymology of hello.

Valentine’s day. This year, I rather looked forward to it. Funny that some people didn’t.

Scantips. Ways to improve your scanning.

The secret lives of numbers. These people searched Google for the number of occurrences of EACH number upto 1 million.

Gosh, a ZX Spectrum emulator in Java. Hadn’t thought of the day when the most powerful computer I had once touched would be reduced to an applet.

Looplabs. Make your own music with a Flash synthesizer. I still have no clue how to work the controls. Comments ujubhai 2 Apr 2007 5:12 pm: yeah.er..how do you play it then?

Spyware.