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.

anand_m26blr: Hi Sonisha! How’re you? sonisha_jd: hi anand_m26blr: Where are you from? sonisha_jd: adb anand_m26blr: Sorry? ADB? sonisha_jd: adilabad sonisha_jd: a.p anand_m26blr: Oh, I see. I’m right now in Mumbai. anand_m26blr: Which chat room are you in? The reason I asked this was because sonisha_jd wasn’t in the chat room I was in, and I was logged in invisibly. I have a theory on who sonisha_jd is, but that’s a different story. ...

A good collection of Bollywood links.

BBC’s study on human faces analyses how beauty can be measured, how we can spot lies, etc. They even have a video that shows Bill Clinton’s testimony – and a furrowed brow.

Easel is a GUI for Linux written by people from Apple. Hopefully, it will really bring Linux to the masses.

Google has an image search with 150 million images. (While on the topic of Google, try this search on dead.long.live.)

The public preview of IE 6 is out. The revolutionary feature is smart tags. I think the image toolbar is a pretty neat idea too.

PC World’s Best of the Web uncovers gems like Safeweb (like Anomymizer.com but free), MegaPixel (digital cameras), Betanews, ArtistDirect (music search) and Multimedia Library.

Sony Entertainment’s site has an archive of broadband content, including trailers, Sony TV interviews, etc. Pretty good!

The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.

The new GNU C Compiler GCC 3.0 includes a Java compiler.

Google just goes on. They’re working on voice search now.

Among all concepts I have encountered on the Web, this one is the most intruiging. Ideosphere has created a futures market for ideas. You put a claim on this website, and people can buy/sell coupons based on these ideas. When the claim becomes true/false, these coupons increase/decrease in value. Of course, no real money is involved – it’s just a score. Very interesting, nevertheless, to get a feel of what people think. (There’s a similar exchange for Bollywood.)

A bizzarre calculation on the limits of computing power using fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

Yahoo has come up with a ‘conversations’ site. Will it pick up? (BTW, the new version of Yahoo Messenger supports webcams, message archives, and file sharing.)

The Ancient History Sourcebook contains many ancient books in full-text (English), such as The Odyssey, The Code of Hammurabi, etc. Also included are the Manusmriti and Chanakya’s Arthashastra. Chanakya has also written a lesser known Niti Shastra.

The University of Virginia computes the Bacon Number for any actor, similar to the Erdos number in mathematics. We trace the acting links of Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and even Prabhu Deva to Kevin Bacon. (BCG did the same for consultants who have worked together, and it turns out that I have a Bruce Henderson number of 3.)