The most interesting review of The Matrix Reloaded I’ve read, rating the film on spiritual grounds. Of course, the film does badly. Have a look at the “WISDOM” graph to the top-right of the page. The film barely makes a ‘D’ and half an ‘M’ on this scale.
Inspired post by Aashish on the top 10 hindi movies ever. Sholay Lagaan Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge Anand Deewar Roja Aandhi Golmaal Khamoshi Pyaar to Hona Hi Tha Comments Manoj Saraf 16 Jun 2009 8:36 am: Pyar to hona hi the should be exclluded from the list sudhir 11 Mar 2010 4:41 am: Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge & Pyaar to Hona Hi Tha should be removed….instead Dil Chahta Hai and Swades should be included Sachin 16 Aug 2010 5:39 pm: I agree with Sudhir…instead Pyassa (Guru Dutt) and Guide should be included. munish 6 Oct 2010 5:08 pm: Guide, 2. Mugal e Azam, 3. Mother India, 4. Sholey, 5. Anand, 6. Deewar, 7.Lagaan, 8. Jaane bhi Do Yaaron, 9. Paakija, 10. 3 idiots Chinmaya 18 Nov 2010 4:20 pm: 1.3 idiot 2.kaho naa pyar hai 3.solay 4.ram teri ganga maili 5.dhoom 6.andhi 7.ddl 8.lagan 9.dil chahta hai Thakur 6 Jan 2012 1:59 pm: DDLJ 2.Kuch Kuch hota hai 3.Devdas 4.Sholey 5.Sangam 6.Mughl-e-ajam 7.Guide 8.Kagaj Ke Phool 9.Chak de India 10.Anand Oolala 12 Jul 2012 7:47 pm: 1 hum apke hain kon 2 mother india 3 sholey 4 3 idiots 5 anand 6 kuchh kuchh hota hai 7 do bigha zameen 8 guide 9 mughal-e-azam 10 kranti
About Webmap. It maps the Web topographically, offering a different way of navigating. Pity, the download is not available any more.
Full text of Jeffey Archer’s short story: The Perfect Gentleman. A nice introduction to Archer’s style, if you haven’t read him. And here’s some more from Harper Collins. PS: Here’s an introduction to backgammon.
Lateral thinking: A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, “This is the strangest case I’ve ever seen. Though it’s a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished.” Reason: The sisters are Siamese twins. PS: Was Ravana a Siamese decuplet?
The Grammer of Sound. (Free registration required.) Fast-Talk has created a product which can search sound files for text. So you can type “Dil” to find all Hindi songs having the word.
US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).
25 technologies for 2003. via Anders
The Darwin Awards honor thouse who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. (Tales of silly deaths.) via Abheek
Hacking gets more focused.
I’m Debian Linux. Apparantly. via Dancing with Dogs
Google News - India launched. via Kiruba
i2 delisted. Now, somebody is going to buy them cheap.
The cost of an outgoing local call (at least, as of today) is: Rs 0.40 for landline-landline Rs 0.80 for landline-WLL Rs 1.20 for landline-cell Rs 1.75 for cell-cell Rs 1.99 for cell-landline via ET
A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction at kuro5hin. Of the authors mentioned, Orson Scott Card is the only one I’ve read. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon looks interesting, though.
Apple’s music store sold over 1 million songs in a week. To Mac users alone. At 99c (Rs 50) a song, I don’t see how that happened. Or why it’s better than P2P. via MetaFilter
The redesigned blogger – Dano. via lazy geek
The Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet photos are online. Comments Mumbai Man 3 Dec 2006 10:57 pm: try this http://mumbainews.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/local-trains-time-table/
Math comics. Including some Calvin & Hobbes.
National Academies Press has 2,500 books online. Free.