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Better be a bit careful about online payments. A Russian hacker stole from 40 companies. Amazon’s subsidiary was hit. And IBM’s Net.Commerce is buggy.

Details on who paid how much for the US Presidential elections, and what they expect in return, on Mother Jones 400. Incidentally, candidates who raised more money than their opponents captured all but 29 of the 469 seats.

Some press clippings about the IIM-B convocation (and me).

I’m graduating today, and there’s a live webcast of the IIM-B convocation starting 6:15PM IST.

Adobe lets you create PDF files on the Web without using any software.

China and the Internet.

Warner Brothers are making a Harry Potter movie. Comments Khanjan 26 Sep 2008 12:27 am: Harry Potter is best movie. please watching me thi movies

Human Spell Check tosses out some glaring spelling mistakes at famous websites – which presumably would have run a spell-checking software on their site. Mind you, I personally do not.

IBM has been accused of aiding Nazis during WWII.

I can’t seem to locate the access log (which used to be on unix2 at /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log). So, sorry – can’t give any more statistics on the hits.

With the Internet economy booming despite the collapse of dot-coms, the OECD countries are getting ready to tax the Internet.

Toonopedia – encyclopaedia of cartoons

Everyone’s talking about the budget. 123india | ET | EquityMaster | Sharekhan | Indya | India.com | MoneyControl | MyIris | NDTV | Rediff | TNT | SIFY | Webdunia

It’s possible to have better than 20/20 vision: SuperVision. Apparantly, even 20/2.5 is possible.

The Nervous Dog competes with Onion to be the funniest satire on the Web.

You can make a tip on the Web using Amazon’s honour system.

The Library of Congress has a collection of eBook sources.

India Economic Survey. The general review is worth a read.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has published a list of the fastest growing occupations from 1998-2008. The Indian Labour Bureau publishes some useful statistics too.

Clayton’s parents are divorced, and his mother has custody. But he wants to see his father, so he went on a hunger strike. His site raises the important question: how much can kids decide which divorced parent to be with?