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Excellent article by Paul Graham on How to do what you love. [the] new definition of work [is] to make some original contribution to the world, and in the process not to starve. I think the best test is to try to do things that would make your friends say wow. If you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what’s admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one. ...

Len goes in search of Bill Watterson, the author of Calvin and Hobbes. He visits Bill’s home town, and manages to interview Mom. Apparantly, Dad is quite like Dad, but Bill is more like Hobbes than Calvin.

Starbucks economics. Why Starbucks has a better, cheaper coffee that it keeps a secret. Comments Dhar 11 Jan 2006 10:28 am: This was so damn interesting! ritzkini 12 Jan 2006 6:14 am: “The more market power firms have, the less attractive they make the cheaper products.” I can think of N Marketeers in India doing this ! Madhu 13 Jan 2006 11:10 am: Interesting to compare this with the Bottom of the Pyramid concept of CKP.

A crash course in learning theory. Comments Prakash 7 Jan 2006 12:00 pm: This link was very kool Anand. I m goin to train few users next week. It cud b of gr8 use. Thanks…

Your camera does not matter. “All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.”

Good and bad procrastination by Paul Graham. The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad?

Convert PDF to HTML via Gmail. This is the only way I know of converting something from PDF into another format. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for GoogleMail in the UK.

Paul Graham on picking a computer language. Excellent read.

Discussion on 43 Folders on presentation tips. Comments Sathya 28 Nov 2005 7:02 am: Anand … can you RSS-enable your website ? S Anand 29 Nov 2005 7:52 pm: It alread is. The XML link is on the rop right, in the bookmarks.

MIT OpenCourseWare on Google Base.

How to read when time is short. Read the “How To Find The Essential 20%” section carefully. Another interesting post from Bert on How to Learn More With No Extra Effort uses the principle in the post below to suggest we take a lot of breaks while learning. i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdanieg. the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind is amazanig. aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. the rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. amazanig huh? yaeh and yuo awlyas thohgut slpeling was ipmorantt. ...

Petals Around the Rose. A simple dice parlour game that Bill Gates apparantly cracked by memorising the sequences. Comments SlaSh 17 Oct 2005 11:15 am: hey is that you who writes articles and does interviews by the name S.Anand in the mag Outlook S Anand 17 Oct 2005 1:29 pm: No, that is someone else. jayant 18 Oct 2005 4:08 pm: Any place where I can get a solution. Sorry to say but I am dumb..:-( Raghav 18 Oct 2005 7:41 pm: As the man says - “The name of the game is petals around the rose, and the name is important” :-) Dhar 19 Oct 2005 3:29 am: Arrgh! I have not been able to figure this out. Utterly Frustrating…Solution appreciated… Please mail me at sumit.dhar at gmail Aman 19 Oct 2005 10:59 am: the solution is in the name…….for every odd no throw of dice, simply add the digits surrounding the centre on on each dice… A 19 Oct 2005 2:37 pm: aman, I dont know if I shld kill you for posting the solution or shld thank u for making my day… R 20 Oct 2005 3:22 am: what happened to your blogroll? ritzkini 20 Oct 2005 5:36 am: fantastic game..and so simple a solution..once u have read it… :P S Anand 20 Oct 2005 8:25 am: Killed my blogroll. I use Google Reader now. Will post the OPML. jayant 20 Oct 2005 3:25 pm: Well still didnt figure out…it does nt add up…and if even throw, then? jayant 20 Oct 2005 3:26 pm: Anand, any clues…since u posted, u know of any answers? S Anand 20 Oct 2005 3:39 pm: Have mailed you. Prakash 17 Nov 2005 11:55 am: I got the answer for the same ! it was a good one

Charade starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant is now in public domain (you can download it for free). So are some other classics like His Girl Friday and Dressed to Kill. See Archive.org’s feature films. (Actually, it’s not a Hitchcock film. But it’s said to be the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made.) Comments Dhar 18 Oct 2005 10:25 am: Wow! This is amazing. Have been trying to lay my hands on His Girl Friday for quite some time. WILDMAN 3 Mar 2009 5:30 pm: RE: CHARADE…DOES THE PD INCLUDE THE MUSIC? S Anand 3 Mar 2009 6:19 pm: I’m not quite sure, really… it’s been a while. Besides, it looks like the page I’d linked to has vanished. Maybe it’s no longer in public domain. Unidyne 27 Jun 2010 5:19 am: There’s a debate on the film’s public domain status, because the music composed for it and the story on which it was based are both under copyright. Also, while the film has a number of Hitchcock style touches (big name stars, plot twists, romantic scenes), it was directed by Stanley Donen. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) 11 Jul 2011 12:56 am (pingback): […] can easily be mistaken for an Alfred Hitchcock film. With wit to spare, the presence of Gary Grant and an innocent […]

Tough learning. Excellent article (speech, actually) by a physicist on how to learn. Very readable, and has a quote I won’t forget: “A change of perception is worth 80 IQ points.” Comments Ramesh 10 Sep 2005 9:50 pm: That was really a good article would highly recomment others to read the same Arun 11 Sep 2005 3:20 pm: Illuminating. Needed that right now.Thanks.

Why good programmers are lazy and dumb. Comments Prasenjeet 26 Aug 2005 3:01 pm: Like the chap who created some-language-or-the-other

The complete ‘Friends’ scripts Comments A 9 Aug 2005 3:03 pm: thats new..the place that I usually check is http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/friends/

Wikibooks. Comments Arun 2 Aug 2005 11:43 am: well, i start typing in the box…then i take the cursor away from it…hmm..it works now… :) sorry, i guess it was tempoarry hitch…anyway, not a big deal…was just irritating me at that point… Dhar 2 Aug 2005 2:49 pm: No, I still have that problem. Type something in the textbox, click somewhere else and click back on the text box. There are times the cursor plain disappears. But occasionally it does re-appear. S Anand 2 Aug 2005 8:18 pm: I haven’t been able to reproduce it. Well, hope it’s a browser glitch. kinu 11 Jan 2009 6:46 am: i havent tried it yet. could u throw light on watare the tings that a finance student wanting to go in equity research shuld inculcate.. .i mean im a perfectionist and detail oriented

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Tagging is in full swing. del.icio.us, Furl, My Web 2.0, Spurl etc. tags URLs Yummy tags PDFs Rojo tags RSS feeds Tagcloud, 24 eyes, Feedmarker, etc. tag RSS posts Technorati tags blog posts Tagsurf tags discussions Job Bazaar tags job postings Gmail tags e-mails (but you can’t share tags) Connotea and CiteULike tag academic references Swik tags open-source projects Snippets tags source code 43 things tags things you want to do 43 places tags places you want to visit Diggs tags stories Library Thing tags books Reader 2 tags books Upcoming tags events Dinnerbuzz tags restaurants Flickr tags photos Tagzania tags locations Freesound tags sounds Podcast tags podcasts Upto 11 tags P2P music Music mobs and Genie Lab tag music You tube tags videos In fact, supr.c.ilio.us tags tagging sites! ...

How to make a movie using Google Earth Comments Jayant 16 Jul 2005 5:48 am: Good stuff. Wish I worked at Google