My best links

Google games on Metafilter.

Zen stories. Read some of these first in Douglas Hofstader’s Godel, Escher, Bach. Searched for a collection for a long time. This looks like quite a comprehensive one. If you want a flavour of these, Zen Master Gutei‘s story is one of those bizarre ones.

Pictures of pedestrians at Marble Arch. Now, that’s an inspiring site (to me, at least!)

A quick round-up on the Indian bloggers’ lists:

• Anita’s list: 103 blogs. Comprehensive (static)
• Anita’s ring: 47 blogs. Big, collaborative
• Eatonweb: 41 blogs. Collaborative, growing
• Kamat’s list: 34 blogs. Flexible (moderated)

Other methods like Blogchalk India yield too few hits. If you want to go beyond these lists, Google searches like indian blogger are probably your best bet.

W3C runs a HTML validator service. Quite useful. I managed to find several flaws on my site’s HTML (particularly wrong nesting.)

The Economist Technology Quarterly. Great tech news, a little infrequent though. (Thanks, Markose!)

Realistic lateral thinking puzzles.

Science jokes. Includes several old classics like “The four branches of arithmetic – ambition, distraction, uglification and derision.” (Lewis Caroll).

Interesting article on complexity in basketball (from NECSI)

Rick Garlikov tried using the Socratic method to teach binary numbers to a third grade class. Looks like it worked well. I’m all for the Socratic method of teaching.