2002

Interesting read. A weblogger’s date read his weblog. Lesson to all webloggers: say nice thing about yourself.

The Hindutva org-chart. Worrying. Think about it after reading about terrorism.

This DNA computer seems to have done some good work.

The green eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic has been found.

The Doomsday clock has been advanced by 2 minutes. It now reads 7 minutes from midnight. That’s the level is was during the cold war.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.

Spraying dots prevents theft. The range of application for the technology appears wide.

Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.

Read about the guy who hacked phones by whistling a perfect 2600Hz tone while watching the most intrusive ad format I’ve seen so far — animations floating around in the background. This is the first ad that forced me to click on it. Result: I’m going to avoid such sites. I still like Google’s concept: give ads only to those who ask for them — and keep them seperate.