The Kleinman report is another interesting (monthly) report on web happenings.

Hal Varian has a site on the Information Economy. It contains a huge list of links relating to economics of information, which is his area.

Google has a bunch of resume resources that tell you how to write a resume. A good one to look at is Quest Career’s, and another is at Learn2.

HowStuffWorks and Learn2 are great places to learn something new on the Net. I learnt how to tie a necktie at Learn2.

Tradeport has a wonderful collection of Indian industry reports and market research along with lots of other stuff on India and other countries.

Deckard was a replicant! The movie BladeRunner starring Harrison Ford raised a controversy. Read the script if you like. Was he an android? The author says he was.

An interesting story about a hacked computer network and how they recovered.

CNet argues that on the Internet (in the US), you have just about no civil rights. Among other things, your employer can monitor your web surfing and e-mail – even at home.

Pickover’s site is always a pleasure to visit. His puzzles are great, but you really go there for a blend of art, computers, mathematics and science.

First and second looks much cheaper than Fabmart or Rediff. Compare Archer’s “To cut a long story short”, for example. Rediff: 167. Fabmart: 127. First and second: 105. Or “Built to last”. Rediff: not available. Fabmart: 354. First and second: 274. Oh well, I’m going to need a bot. Why can’t I make one?

Kjell Sandved goes about taking photographs of plants and animals that have strange patterns. You have to see the moth with a ‘Hi’ written on it to believe.

This site has a menu of messages that have been forwarded many times over. I never saw the point in forwarding jokes in the first place. You can always catch up with the good ones at rec.humor.funny.

Microsoft dumps Java. Doesn’t worry me to much. I’ve never had much use for Java as a user. They’ve ‘adopted’ Perl, though. And I was always a Perl fan.

CNet has a comprehensive outline on what’s happening all over the world on digital signatures. Frankly, I’m won over by CNet’s “Big Picture” concept.

First and Second claims to be the largest bookshop in India. It’s possible. They’re the only ones that stock The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. I ordered them instantly, and it came in 2 days! I’m sold.

I’ve scanned the photos I took at Lehman Brothers during summers. Comments Praveen 10 Jul 2000 12:00 pm: I would really like to see some photos of LB Mumbai.

Whose sites are the most popular on this server? Last month, the top 10 sites were admissions, placement, Prof. Srinivasan’s, and Prof. Bandi’s. I ran http-analyze to get these results.

A paper at eLab talks about how CDNow prices its online advertisements. It argues that CPM is an archaic model, and measuring advertisement performance is more important.

Apps.com is a directory of Internet applications.

An behind-the-scenes report on a hacking attempt. These guys set up a trap and waited for it to get hacked. Once it did, they recorded the conversations of the hackers. If you’re UNIX savvy, it’s a must read.