Author name: S Anand

Hongo-san turned 115 yesterday. But she slept through it. She sleeps two days, and stays awake for two days. The secret of longevity?

Interesting thought-piece by The Economist on how bankruptcy laws may be hurting America. The logic is, industries with excess capacity have bankruptcies. The bankruptcy restores a balance. If courts help bankrupt companies shed debt and re-enter business, excess capacity again results. Leading to bankruptcies again.

Writing screenplays. Interesting: modern murder-movies are based on Three Little Pigs, Psycho is based on Little Red Riding Hood, Pretty Woman on Cinderella, …

The world’s 100m record is broken. Without drugs, this time. At 9.78 seconds, Montgomery has been running at over 35 km per hour. I used to drive that fast, on average.

MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service. I take a photo, and send it by SMS. I take a video, and post it on my weblog through my cell phone. Nice.

God has been talkative lately. via andersja

Bullet time. How they did it in ‘The Matrix’. (Answer: with lots of cameras.)

Waiving import duty for Sachin’s Ferrari is kicking up a controversy. Fair enough. The smartest thing I see Sachin do is drive it for a while, and auction it for charitable purposes. Announcing, of course, his intentions beforehand.

More e-mail being used as evidence. This time, by the evil RIAA against Morpheus and Kazaa. I wonder if this goes against some legal principle? Aren’t you supposed to say, “Anything you say can be used against you?” Reminds me of ‘American Beauty’, in which Ricky agrees to kills Jane’s parents on video.

Ian McKellan (Gandalf) shares his views in “The Grey Book”. via LoTR channel