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Lots about artificial intelligence on Yahoo Clubs, ai.about.com, and Generation5. Among other things, you can find various version of Alice to chat with.

Archimedes may have anticipated a bit of Cantor’s work on infinity. In mathematical history terms, that’s about as big as the ancient Greeks invented aeroplanes.

The Internet Oracle (ultimate source of Internet humour, IMHO) is alive and well.

Celera’s Genomic News is a pretty good source of information on what’s happening in genetic engineering.

If you thought HAL and IBM in 2001: A Space Odyssey was clever, you should read this article to learn out about the pun in Gattaca.

Sanskrit texts and bhajans are available as audio.

Am I Annoying has a list of the most and least annoying people in the world. The most annoying person I’d heard of in that list was Steven Seagal (the least was Kate Winslet)

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David Wheeler’s report shows how open source is quantintatively better than Windows. All it needs is a good user interface, a suite of applications, and a little less fanaticism about keeping it free, in order for it to commercialise.

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The Machiavellian Intelligence hypothesis says that the brain evolved more for its social purpose, than for finding food and things like that. Incidentally, Google’s collection on evolution is as comprehensive as ever.

Tim Berners-Lee’s article on The Semantic Web is the first one that helped me understand what’s so great about the RDF (Resource Description Framework).

BMW films – short films, ads for BMW, which are available only on BMWfilms.com. Great stuff for car chase lovers. Pretty good logic too, since the people who’d buy a BMW could afford a high-speed Internet connection.

The Webby Awards are out.

eBiquity has news on pervasive computing (which, as with most good things, started at Xerox.)

I saw this page 5 years ago, and thought I’d lost it since then. It’s a list of tamil film songs and their raagas. Try this: search for a song and listen online.

An excellent tutorial on cosmology from NASA.

Google Zeitgeist: trends in Google searches. (Zeitgeist means “the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era”). Similar to Buzz and Lycos50. Other sites that offer search profiles are AskJeeves, Search.com, Excite, and Goto.

I’m fiddling around with Yahoo’s add-ons like guestbook, site stats, etc. Don’t be surprised to see wierd things popping up on my page.