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Edgar Allen Poe’s 150 year old puzzle has been solved.

Free PCs are dead. Freebies are dying, since online advertising is dying. Now, Altavista’s free ISP died. Is this the beginning of the end for free ISPs in India? For that matter, is this the end of free everything? No. Free software thrives (Opera will be free). Why is that?

Tamil movies finally get a website at Galatta.com. They’ve started off with Seenu, Priyamaanavale and Snehidiye

Google likes directory sites. Google likes Yahoo!. Google uses peer review. Google is good.

It’s finally happened. The Internet has grown to the point were a meta-search engine (a search engine to search among search engines) has come up. Lookoff.com.

I have a sneakemail account – a neat way to kill spam.

Trivialistic’s trivia on entertainment is amazing. The one about Neil Armstrong is my favourite.

Find tutorials with tutorialfind.

Want to record downloaded MP3s into an audio CD? Want to take home software? See the CD-Recordable FAQ. Rookies, see Josh’s page

I bought an MP3 CD from Tamil MP3 CD. You get about 150 songs for about Rs. 900, including shipping. Of course, you can only listen to it on a computer.

The classic collection of smileys and more :-)

You can book train tickets online in Chennai. In fact, the Indian Railways will probably introduce it soon.

What’s new on 123india is a good way to find out new Indian sites. So is What’s new on Yahoo.

More Indian sites: Fortunecity India, Britannica India, and Weather India.

I received a file called Navidad.exe a few days ago and stupidly ran it. Turned out to be a virus that killed the system. Google produced no answers to searches on “Navidad.exe virus” except a posting on egroups – in Spanish. A translation through Babelfish almost yielded readable material and I was able to fix it. Symantec’s AV Center has a cure.

Stephen King has stopped writing ‘The Plant’. People downloaded the chapters, but haven’t paid. So he’s mad. Smart move.

typographic. All you wanted to know about fonts.

What are brands worth?

Not that I’m into art or anything, but ever since I saw the Louvre, and came out wondering what’s so great about the Mona Lisa, I figured I may as well get some culture. The Van Gogh light exhibition is a good start.

moneycontrol.com is an Indian financial site. Yahoo gets most of its Indian news feed from here. Comments Jayesh 22 Nov 2000 12:00 pm: very good site