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A busy weekend ahead. A night of Antakshari, followed by a day at Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square, an evening at The Phantom of the Opera, and to cap it off, Madame Tussauds and the London Planetarium!

I hope to tour Europe next week. The Backpack Traveller tells me about rail travel, and Eurolines about bus. Of course, there’s a lot to see in London.

Business Week’s B-School rankings ranks LBS as the #2 non-US school (behind INSEAD). IIM-A is not listed even in the third tier, while IIM-B is not even included in their survey.

A whole new range of domain names, ranging from .museums to .sansansan have been bid for. I wonder who .biz and .xxx will go to.

Business India’s business school rankings seem surprising. I’ll check with LBS and ask them what they think.

ePrarthana.com lets you do your puja online. That’s what I call true disintermediation. No pujari anymore – they do the puja for you, and you get the benefit. More details at CNET. Comments A.Chandrasekhar sarma 27 Feb 2007 1:27 pm: i request you to give moreinformation on Vedic culture and stotras on ain voice mode

Has Linux failed?

eLiterature.org is a directory of electronic literature. Nothing great so far, but maybe, some day…

The Golem project is rather like SETI@Home, except that your screensaver builds ‘physical locomoting machines’. Neat.

On 24th August I said “Life in the 21st century doesn’t look promising”. A Force More Powerful would make me eat those words. It’s a collection of stories about non-violent conflict in the 20th century, and it appears to work more effectively than most wars.

Prove God exists. Descartes proved it by assuming that ‘Cogito, ergo sum’. ProofGodExists.com uses what’s called the Watchmaker Argument – that there can be no watch without a watchmaker. Richard Dawkins countered that beautifully in The Blind Watchmaker. Now, I’m a religious guy and all that. But I’d rather take God on faith than proof, OK? Comments Clare McIntaggart 19 Feb 2007 12:19 pm: regardless of my religious convictions Descartes reasoning was flawed when he ‘proved’ the exsistance of god. flawed for many reasons which only one of was the lack of applying his own method of doubt.

Vault.com has some extremely good free reports. They include the Guide to Consulting and the Guide to Investment Banking. They also have some extremely good company reports. Ideal for placement research.

Krislyn’s Strictly Business sites is a portal for business sites. It’s appeal is in its flat structure and small list of good sites.

This would be it. If Ram Vilas Paswan sticks to his word and provides toll-free ISP numbers, Internet access in India would really shoot up. I’m sure Caltiger would be the first to benefit from this.

Vault.com is another great career resource like Wetfeet.

I went to the Tower of London on a guided tour with a hilarious Yeoman Guard. The Tower Bridge, just next to it, is what people usually mistake to be the London Bridge. Oxford Street was expensive, but great for window shopping. The British Musuem, however, is free, and is a whole universe in itself.

Biz, AOLiza and other chatbots are programs that lurk chat space. Have a look at their conversations, especially this one with a guy who was jilted. It’s bewildering, and yet…

Internet Indicators has a report on how the 4 layers of the Internet economy have been progressing.

Remember the US site that lets people auction their votes? Now they’ve moved it to Bulgaria, out of the US jurisdiction. The Internet is truly borderless!

AdReady has a neat idea: pop up advertisements near the mouse pointer, when the mouse is sitting idle. Cool. But I don’t want anything popping up when I’m reading! Besides, since this is an easy idea to copy, I doubt they should have it as their USP.