Salon’s article explains how silly people can get when firing employees.

I’ve ordered a copy of the World Employment Report. Apparently, it says that India won’t sustain its software boom, and I want to know why.

Asian option calculators from Enron and DerivativesModels.com.

A neat banking & finance portal by Northern Light. Covers mergers, reforms, technology, regulations, country-specific info, etc.

Every Night Josephine is out of print. If not for copyrights, one could just copy an old print.

Info1001 is a good site for info on shopping, investments, and even industry analysis.

Thinks.com has some good maths puzzles and recreation links. Cut-the-knot is good. Math cartoons are better.

My friend Manu is doing research in graphics at Ohio State. You really must see his morphs: Ash to Mandela, for example. After playing around with the grid, I realised Mandala’s pretty handsome too. Requires Java. Comments rajesh 10 Aug 2009 4:46 pm: great work!!!!!

MP3 CD players. The next big thing? It’s basically got a hard disk where you can put in any MP3s, and listen to it like a walkman. Why bother with cassettes?

Multinational Monitor features the 10 worst corporations of 2000.

Fashion lessons paid off. After reading about business wardrobes for men, and how gentlemen dress, I shopped for a suit, hoping to look my professional best. Ended up with a grey single-breasted polywool suit from Louise Phillipe.

I’ve replaced my old photo (left) with this new one (right). Yes, I know. I’m growing younger by the day.

Eight case studies on sanctions: Cuba, South Africa, Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Burma, China and India.

Fantastic websites, Section A and Section C.

Sweden has ruled that it’s OK to have links to illegal MP3s, so long as the server is in a country where illegal MP3s are legal. That’s in stark contrast with France vs Yahoo. In fact, the norm is that linking even to the front page of commercial sites needs permission sometimes. A court in Utah ruled that providing links to copyrighted material could constitute copyright infringement. Better check out cyberlaws and ensure compliance with copyright rules on the Internet. ...

Apparantly looks do matter. May as well learn a bit about men’s fashion.

Software can kill. Literally. Read software horror stories.

After telling Yahoo to remove Nazi memorabilia from its auction site, France is now considering taxing computers and other recording devices to compensate artists for piracy. I mean, Paris and art is all fine, but this is crazy! And Germany’s apparantly already done this.

Free online science fiction at the Baen Library.

Oil prices could rise further. That’s bad.