NASSCOM 2001 is on.

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

In Delhi & Mumbai, you can send voice messages, and soon (hopefully) use the telephone to access e-mail. Through Indivoice. They have a long way to go, though, to get on par with Yahoo! by Phone.

Fucked company reports that X-Drive.com is likely to lay off people. Given their accuracy, I’d recommend anyone having files on X-Drive make backups in the near future.

The Annals of Improbable Research have sent all kinds of things by post. Almost two-thirds were delivered. I doubt if it would happen in India.

Dream Research and Dream Bank. Lots about the analysis of dreams.

Of the films selected by the National Film Registry for preservation in 2000, I haven’t seen a single one! Not even read the script of any, for that matter.

Kumbha Mela from space. If they can do this for free, I suppose Frederick Forsyth’s and Tom Clancy’s description of satellites catching individual’s faces can’t be far from the truth. They’ve got a pretty good gallery.

Online classics: video-on-demand for operas, plays, and dance. Video is definitely in these days, with NASA, CNN and a whole lot of others.

US Postal Department archives interesting letters. It includes famous love letters and ‘Dear Santa’s.

The California power crisis is not due to computers. So distributed projects like Seti@home and RC5 are not to blame.

The greatest hacks ever. And now, credit cards stolen from Bill Gates, George Soros and Yoshiro Mori.

Web usability. About interface design on the Web.

Kerala chat. Joseph, find yourself a nice girl!

KPMG Consulting is going public.

Tomments. Tom Murcko, CEO of InvestorGuide.com, writes about once a month, when he feels something important isn’t being said by anyone else, like whether Bill Gates is a good investor.

Forbes: Best of the Web

A sneak preview of MS IE6. What is worrying is that Microsoft may not release IE6 as a standalone application. They’re planning to bundle it with their next OS: Whister.

BountyQuest is a place where companies post rewards for documents – and anyone who comes up with such documents gets a prize. Many requests are for patent debunks.

A new look for News.com. It’s supposed to make ads more clickable. Personally, I don’t think so.