Author name: S Anand

Music helps identify software bugs. I’m sure it can be extended to many other forms of ordered data. DNA sequences, time series, etc.

Speaking of bugs, here are some famous software glitches — right from the Patriot missiles misfiring to the London Millenium bridge wobbling. Some links are broken, though. (More glitches and links)

And speaking of glitches, Beflix has a site on the “aesthetics of digital corruption”. He posts screen images of computers that have gone kaput. Some of the animations, especially the ZX Spectrum ones, are a bit familiar.

Man has epilepsy. Woman thinks it’s a heart attack. Gets upset and sues epileptic. via Metafilter

11 film-makers make films on 11/9/01. The films will be 11 min, 9 seconds and 1 frame long. via Plastic

I always knew it. If you’re taking an injection, don’t look at the needle.

The Oracle of Google is the coolest Google app so far. Ask it a question with 4 choices, and it uses Google to guess the answer. It knows that Abdul Kalam is India’s President, though it did prefer Vajpayee to former Presidents. via Google Weblog

My current project: transcribing every Calvin and Hobbes into text. Because I’d like to search, using text, for the strip in which Tracer Bullet has “six slugs, one of lead and five of bourbon” or where Dad explains why the Sun rises.

Mahesh is experimenting with a new blog format. Something like this has been on my mind for a while too. Will be watching it with great interest.

Is using the Net for schoolwork plagiarism? James McKenzie had some thoughts right in 1998.