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[V]Host – interesting text-to-speech web application. You can put Flash characters on your site that’ll read out anything.

The Poincare conjecture may have been solved. via Joseph

googlemenus.blogspot.com.

A new use for mobile phones.

An in-depth analysis of which side of the road people drive on (and why). via andersja

An interesting Google result for “French military victories”. Unfortunately, it no longer returns the same result. But sure was an interesting find. via RHF

The next Mumbai Blogger’s Meet is on May 4th.

The Indian Railways reservation site is among the largest e-commerce sites in Asia-Pacific.

A periodic table of mathematicians. via leuschke.org Comments robyn 7 Mar 2007 5:00 pm: what is the periodic table of mathematicians?

I glanced through Sysinternal’s utilities. Nice. (Got the link from a kuro5hin article on the importance of EULAs.)

A good (but technical) overview of complex networks literature (PDF). If you do pick it up, just glance through “III. Properties of networks”. It gives a good sense of what little we know of real-world networks.

i2 may have to delist. And delisting may be good for them.

Blogshares – creating an economy out of blogs. You get $500 (notional) and you can buy or sell blogs with it. via andersja

Complexity Digest. A collection of articles on complexity from cyberspace. via missing matter

Pictorial economics of the Iraq war.

Yahoo on a time traveler busted for insider trading. Unfortunately, the urban legends site denounces it. via Sid

Impressive ASCII art of Bollywood heroines. via Rajneesh

W3C’s making the first concrete, organised, meaningful move against intellectual property over-protection. W3C standards will be royalty-free.

Excellent kuro5hin article on the brain and Turing machines. While on brains, kuro5hin also talks about geniuses.

Google hacks on BuzzToolBox.com.