Links For A Sunday Morning

• Chaat transcript
  Bangalore’s finest paani puri joints…supposedly. For things like paani puri you need to go beyond ‘joints’.
• Hungry for action
  Food worth Rs 58,000 crore is wasted every year because even after 20 years of debate India has failed to create the infrastructure needed to enable the farm-to-fork revolution.
  This is something that keeps pissing me off.
• atul’s bollywood song a day- with full lyrics
  Along with Sunday links, this blog was supposed to have a Friday movie review, a Saturday song of the week…but anyway…good to see someone else doing a great job of it.
• Weekend Competition: Tom Swifties
  “Tom Swifties” are curious puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect. For example:
  “I manufacture table tops,” said Tom counterproductively.
  “Let’s have a debate about cows,” Tom mooted.
  “Who discovered radium?” asked Marie curiously.
• Stop Doing Sit-Ups: Why Crunches Don't Work
• Dhoni takes strike
  Why I love Dhoni.
• The secret healing powers of Bangalore’s traffic
  

  In Bangalore, Mrs. Neo has quickly learned that if she keeps gasping and sighing for every near-miss, she will hyperventilate faster than a tragically over-enthusiastic Art of Living newbie.

  

• Anthony Bourdain's 13 Places to Eat Before You Die
• Strike Ends… Finally!
  Hooray!! Given the backlog and the consequent flood of releases, I’ll have to seek temporary accommodation at PVR.
• My Brief Life as a Woman
• Text of Obama’s Speech in Cairo
• Why Health Advice on 'Oprah' Could Make You Sick
  I tried watching her a few times but more than her its the hysterical audience that I can’t tolerate. Also…for some reason…standing and clapping for everything has become the norm in America.
• Marilyn Monroe – Never-Published Photos
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads
  Very good list.
• Sulfur mining in Kawah Ijen – Pictures
  …and you think your job sucks?
• If Apple Bought Twitter
  
• Blogger Buzz: Search Box gadget available to all
• Toy Story 3 – Teaser
• WordPress 2.8: What’s new
• Comic – Troll Slayer
  
• Rafa in shocking pink and yellow
  Brave man or maybe it was a sign of things to come.
• What's changed on Cricinfo
  The redesign has launched and as is with every redesign…everybody hates it. Uhh…some things never change.
• 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
  ‘Bonk’ author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious.
• Dream over: Boyle finishes second in reality show

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Why our 'amazing' science fiction future fizzled
  Or…where’s my jet pack, dude?
• 100 Abandoned Houses
  Haunting is the word I suppose.
• Ricky Gervais on Inside The Actor's Studio – Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Global warming causes 300,000 deaths a year, says Kofi Annan thinktank
• MovieStinger
  Lets you know whether or not a movie has extra footage or scenes after the credits.
  No wonder The Simpsons movie is top rated. I saw the first day first show but ‘couldn’t hold it in’ (just like Bart) till all the credits rolled. Read the reviews later and found out Lisa speaks her first word during the credits. Had to go back and watch it again.
• Summer Reading 2009
• For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’
  I am pro-hugs.
• Archie Makes His Choice (Or Does He?)
  And it’s Veronica.
• Interview with the First Lady
• Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
  

  Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.

• Coming soon: the new Cricinfo
  Finally…looking forward to it.
• Meet Bing, Microsoft’s New Search Engine
• Minigeek – Ed. 36 – The retweet
  
• Meet India's youngest MP!
  Get this…PA Sangma, former Speaker, has 4 kids…2 daughters and 2 sons, and is a fan of writers Agatha Christie and James Conrad. So guess what his kids are named? Agatha, Christie, Conrad and James…of course!
• Mongoose mayhem is beastly for bowlers
  The new Twenty20 bat gives batsmen an unfair advantage, especially as they are allowed to swap to it mid-innings. What it looks like
• Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling – Pictures
  Quite something…
• Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers
• Caring for Your Introvert. Also – Confessions of an Introverted Traveler (Both via)
• The Deck Ad Network Readership Survey
  Now thats a survey!
• Memorial Day, 2009 – Photos
• 100 Most Creative People In Business
  Don’t know what business AR Rahman is in though.
• Dumped: The Survival Guide
  Essential reading.
• Twenty thoughts on the IPL
  Again am reminded of this article. If the teams are evenly matched it is just going to be a lottery.
• Study ranks Mallika Sarabhai's website the best
  While the websites of LK Advani and Mallika Sarabhai were the most frequently updated, Sarabhai’s went a step further by raising funds, maintaining transparency and educating the voters about their constituencies.
  Future want-to-be MP’s hire the guy who ran her online campaign.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• India's massive general election – Pics
  A bit disappointing this time around…I suppose you can photograph an ink-stained finger in so many ways only.
• Comic – Simply Explained – Part 42
  A money making proposal for Twitter
• Bloggers, Beware: What You Write Can Get You Sued
• Google’s New Logo Look
• B'lore English dailies face newbie heat
  Among the newbies DNA(the other being Deccan Chronicle) has started of very well. I had hoped that it would replace Times as my newspaper of choice. But that hasn’t happened. Am still looking…
• Yahoo! India Buzz
• RunPee
  Picks the best time in a movie to head to the bathroom and let’s you know what happened while you were there.
  This is what the interweb was made for.
• Fake IPL Player: FIP RIP
  This final post(a video one) was supposed to be the big reveal but I think the consequences (and the gains to be made by remaining anonymous) stopped him. I see a book and maybe a proper column next time around.
• TAM Data Says CNN IBN Was Most Watched As Poll Results Unfolded
  I thought NDTV had the better ’stats’ ticker at the bottom though their maps were horrible. They probably also annoyed their viewers by the constant chatter even though it was light-hearted. They had the advantage of having more recognisable faces while IBN and Times Now had to hold fort with just Rajdeep and Arnab.
• Photos – Russia observes Victory Day
• Sherlock Holmes – Trailer
  Don’t really know what to make of this…it will be hard to shake off all that conditioning…
• Impassive Indians
  Recent campaigns urging the country’s youth to vote have had little influence, finds an IMRB survey.
• Sew in Love
  Very nice!
• 25 examples of great architecture
  Homes that is.
• Grid Wall Pockets
  Nice!
• Wolfram|Alpha
  Has launched.
  Also, Five Things Wolfram Alpha Does Better (And Vastly Different) Than Google
  Its definitely not in the same space as Google. Not sure where to place it though and whether it will be useful.
• Lens Blog
  A photoblog thing from the NY Times.
• Someone’s Gunning For Anil Ambani
  There is a sinister, little-known precursor to the chopper sabotage incident.
  Also – Ambani chopper case: Borge's death not a suicide
  This reads like one of those masala fiction novels.
• Presenting World's First Diet Air Coolers: Diet Tv Commercial
  Like the ad for some reason. Wonder who wrote the copy.
• Iyer Matter
  Found myself linking to more than one post here so thought I’ll link to whole blog instead.
• Q&A: Obama on Dick Cheney, War and Star Trek
• WordPress Version 2.8
• Vir Sanghvi
  

  This morning in the NDTV studio, Mukul Kesavan and I thought of a new acronym for Modi’s brand of politics: DAD.
  It stands for Death And Development.

• Veggies and fruits – storage tips

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Elections Results
  I was pretty confident of a Congress/UPA lead but certainly didn’t expect them to do this well. Was only hoping that they didn’t have to rely on the stupid Left or even worse…the ‘oily’ Mulayamar. Though they still have to contend with the very flaky Momta didi.
  One disappointment though was Bangalore with no wins for the Congress(infact the whole of Karnataka was a disappointment). Another disappointment was that the Left wasn’t decimated. Maybe next time. Same for Gowda and Son. One other disappointment was Andhra where Chiru didn’t do all that well. (Am a big fan )
  Major gains in UP will probably lead people to see Rahul baba in a different light. I think both Congress and BJP will gain if they fight it out alone. Only problem though is that parties aren’t willing to lose a few elections in the short term for long term gains.
• EasyWP Install (Beta)
  Traditionally to install WordPress you would have to download the archive, extract it to your computer, upload over 600 files to your website, and then set up your databases, etc.
  EasyWP takes all this pain an complexity out of installing WordPress by automating the whole process.
• Spam : Elliott Burford
  An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.
  
• Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
  He has solved a problem that for 20 years has thwarted researchers trying to understand the origin of life how the building blocks of RNA, called nucleotides, could have spontaneously assembled themselves in the conditions of the primitive earth. The discovery, if correct, should set researchers on the right track to solving many other mysteries about the origin of life. It will also mean that for the first time a plausible explanation exists for how an information-carrying biological molecule could have emerged through natural processes from chemicals on the primitive earth.
• Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts from other accounts
  Am still resisting…
• Indian Readership Survey R1 2009: Some Highlights
  Way too many people give competitive exams here.
• The 50 Greatest Movie Monologues
• The Simpsons theme song – a cappella
  Awesome
• Google unveils new search tools
• The inevitable ugliness of the IPL trophy
  Finally somebody points it out. The commentators obviously wouldn’t. Just cos you can and have slapped every precious stone you can find doesn’t hide the fact of its gaudy hideousness. At least they could’ve gotten the sizes of the letters equal!
• Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz
  Some really funny reviews of milk on Amazon.com (via)
• A blogger is engaged to be married to a man who began his connection to her as a commenter on her blog
  In defence of keeping your comments open?
• President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner – Part 1, Part 2
• mysunnybalcony
  

  MySunnyBalcony: a project aimed at giving everyone the dream garden that they’ve always wanted, right outside their windows.
  Any space that receives even a little bit of sunlight is a potential MySunnyBalcony space: A tiny unusable patch outside your front door, an ugly terrace on your roof, or even a back balcony in your your high rise apartment.

  Bangalore-based. Nice.

• Ignorance is no bliss says Tony Lewis
  Interview with Tony Lewis, one half of the Duckworth-Lewis team.
• Mad As A Batter
  Twenty20 is not a many-nuanced battle. It’s akin to a duel with pistols, a game of chance, not a battle of strategy. Team owners need to understand this.
  And so do the spectators.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• How David Beats Goliath
  When underdogs break the rules by Malcolm Gladwell.
• All You Need to Know to Tweet on Twitter
• Levi Meeuwenberg – Freerunning Showreel
  Nice! A bit like parkour but more artistic.
• Vodafone ZooZoos
  Hutch has changed to Vodafone here in India but their advertising pattern remains the same. They overdid the ‘kutta’ ads and now again these…Am already sick of ‘em.
• The Art of Penguin Science Fiction Book Covers
• 2009 Swine Flu outbreak – Photos
• Searching For Sachin
  Sachin Tendulkar is the subject – cricket is the game. Biographer cvwilliams keeps you up-to-date on her research on the life of the brilliant batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
• 40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks
• At Home With Tom Colicchio – Interview
  

  Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

  Buy the best you can find or afford and don’t overmanipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

• 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Emoticons
• Goodness Gracious Me! – Going out for an english and Asian Top Gear
• RGV’s Rann – First look
• How to Block Facebook Photos of Yourself
• The Webby Awards Remain the Best Scam Going and Category Inflation at the Webbys
• Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old
  Because it is used in every e-mail address and many tweets, you might be forgiven for thinking that the remarkably common symbol @, which English-speakers know as the “at sign,” but Italians call a “snail,” and south Slavs know as a “monkey,” is a fairly recent invention. In fact, as Wired magazine’s Tony Long points out, a Florentine merchant named Francesco Lapi used the symbol @ in a letter written 473 years ago today, on May 4, 1536.
• No solution, no show: filmmaker-multiplex row on
  
• First Look: Rocket Singh – Salesman of the Year
  From the Shimit Amin/Jaideep Sahni combo.
• Philips – Carousel
  Created by Tribal DDB and Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9.
  Excellent!
• Photos – The 2009 Kentucky Derby
• …for years i’ve been looking for this lucky shot…
• Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
• Ed Pilkington meets Ray Kurzweil, the man who predicts future
  The head of Google’s new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life – no wonder he is so optimistic.
• An invention that could change the internet for ever
  Revolutionary new web software could put giants such as Google in the shade when it comes out later this month.
• 15 Unusual and Creative Bus Stops

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The joy of exclamation marks
  Exclamation marks used to be frowned upon. Now look what’s happened! We use them all the time! Hurrah!!! But what is it about the age of email that gets people so over-excited?
• Let’s Hear It for the Bees
  Flowers of a given species all produce nectar at about the same time each day, as this increases the chances of cross-pollination. The trick works because pollinators, which in most cases means the honeybee, concentrate foraging on a particular species into a narrow time-window. In effect the honeybee has a daily diary that can include as many as nine appointments – say, 10:00 a.m., lilac; 11:30 a.m., peonies; and so on. The bees’ time-keeping is accurate to about 20 minutes.
• WhiteHouse 2.0
  WhiteHouse on the web.
• Mowing with goats
  Google is renting goats to mow fields at their headquarters instead of lawn mowers! and PETA On The Google Goats: Let Them Eat Grass (But They Need Perks)
• An analysis of your Masturbation timeline
• WHO fears pandemic is 'imminent'
  The UN’s World Health Organization has raised the alert over swine flu to level five – indicating human-to-human transmission in at least two countries. It is a “strong signal that a pandemic is imminent”, the WHO says.
  I keep telling…one of these days a flu is going to wipe out a lot of us.
• 100 days of Barack Obama's Facebook news feed
  This Facebook news feed bit is becoming a bit stale.
• Julie & Julia – Trailer
  Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child’s classic cookbook, ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ in one year’s time out of her small Queens kitchen. Powell blogs her daily experiences, gaining a loyal following along the way.
• The Pizza Box of the Future Has Arrived
  Nice.
• Human landscapes from above
  Some stunning pics there.
• The Twitter Approval Matrix
  Our deliberately oversimplified guide to whose tweets are worth following.
• I'm an idiot and have just started listening to podcasts via TEDtalks. Any other recommendations?
  I listen to/watch – The Bugle, Cook’s Illustrated, Fresh TV, Design Matters with Debbie Milman, Onion News, The Ricky Gervias Podcast, Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Start Cooking, WYNC’s Radio Lab and of course TED talks.
• Delivering on Change – a set on Flickr
  Pics from the Official White House photostream of Obama’s 100 days in office. Some real good ones there.
• moot wins, Time Inc. loses
  This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.
• Comic – Swine Flu
  Twitter is great for watching uninformed panics unfold live

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Kamran’s dream run-up: From tennis-ball cricket in UP village to Shane Warne’s super over
• in which the producer-multiplex owner battle forces the blogger to protest
  With no end in sight to the strike I am getting crankier by the day. I am with the producers on this one. I hate the multiplexes’ arbitrariness.
  One, the way they jack up the ticket prices for major releases(like at PVR I paid 350 bucks for the first day first show of Ghajini and 250 for Singh Is King, Bachna Ae Haseeno and Jaane Tu, when the usual price is supposed to be 160/170 bucks).
  Two, the pricing of the food stuff. PVR charges 60 bucks for popcorn when the thing can be made for 2 bucks(Act II) and get this…PVR situated on the 3rd floor of Forum Mall charges 50 bucks for Pepsi. Climb down one floor and go to the Transit food court on the 2nd floor and the same quantity of Pepsi is available for 23 bucks!
  Three, is the show timings. I watch at least 3-4 movies a week and have been doing so consistently for 3-4 years, most of them at PVR, and not one of those hundreds of shows has ever started on time.
  Four, the cancellation of shows/movies. At PVR they seem to have arrived at some sorta ‘quorum’ of 6/7. Less than that number of people and the show is cancelled. I don’t know how much of a difference it makes whether one person watches it or 6. (And they don’t tell you that the show is cancelled. They say its ’sold out’. I almost a heart attack when I was told a few weeks back that tickets for Abhijeet Sawant’s debut movie, Lottery, were ’sold out’!)
• FMyLife Moments in Greek Mythology
  
• Articles of Clothing That Go Well With Distressed Jeans
  
• Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
• Two overs too many
  Sambit Bal isn’t a fan of the Super Over and asks, “So what’s wrong with a tie?”…hmmm…am inclined to agree with him on this.
• 3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
• Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities
  I spent countless hours in tiny cyber cafes on sloooow connections building my first website on Geocities.
• Kashyap and the music in his films
  One of the less talked about aspects of his movies. No Smoking is esp. the one that doesn’t get much attention. One, cos nobody saw the movie and two, cos the score focuses on a singular not very relatable topic.
• How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
• PHD Comics: Tales from the Road talks about cancer
  The sad truth.
• To Tweet or Not to Tweet
  Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter interviewed by Maureen Dowd. Why the hell is she so bitchy…
  Turns out she pissed off a lot of other people. Couple of reactions – In defense of Twitter and the hilarious, Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone
• The Bride Was Beautiful – Series of photos
  

  Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. Katie had chased away cancer once, only to have it return – to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart. Breathing was difficult now, she had to use oxygen. The pain in her back was so intense it broke through the morphine that was supposed to act as a shield. Her organs were shutting but it would not stop her from marrying Nick Godwin, 23, who was in love with Katie since 11th grade. Five days later, Katie died.

  (click on the bigger bubble on the bottom right to navigate)

• Bookshelf-annotation
  Nice!
• Waterfall Shower to Rain Shower
  Nice!
• The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV
  Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
• Fake IPL Player
  Has the IPL owners chaddis in a twist. Much fun. There were reports that the blogger was Ranadeb Bose or Aakash Chopra and that ‘he’ had been caught. Other reports have suggested that the blogger isn’t with the Kolkotta Knight Riders but is with a rival team and has a ’source’ in KKR. That makes this a very serious issue.
• Cyber pass
  A few South Bangalore candidates are betting on an Obama strategy for their campaigns, and looking hard at the internet.
  Must say I have wondered if I should ever join a campaign team for a candidate. Quickly realised though that I find no single candidate compelling enough. (Although, if Priyanka Gandhi ever decides to join politics, I would be very interested in joining her campaign team
• Google Similar Images
  Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words.
• Google Timeline
  Organise Google news and search results on a timeline.
• Nixon's Undelivered Moon Disaster Speech [1969]
  On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. The following speech, revealed in 1999, was prepared by Nixon’s then speechwriter, William Safire, to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the astronauts on the moon.
• Link by Link – Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
  xkcd is one of my faves.
• Show me the money say lyricists and music composers
  Strangely enough in Bollywood, neither of them have any rights on the songs.
• The painful truth about trainers: Are expensive running shoes a waste of money?
  Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips…the $20 billion running – shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we’ve been told about running shoes is wrong – and that it might even be better to go barefoot…
• We Live in Public (and the end of empathy)
  

  Are we going to destroy ourselves to the point at which we unplug the Internet? Are we going to have to create private areas for discourse and lose the “Open Web” gestalt?

• Singletasking
  Hmm…should try to implement.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About
• Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars
  Forget about the hybrid auto — Shai Agassi says it’s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.
  Been following him for a while…hope he succeeds.
• Twitshirt
  Turn a tweet into a T shirt.
• Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter 'turning point'
  As Ashton Kutcher becomes the first to collect 1 million followers on Twitter and Oprah Winfrey sends out her first tweet, tech observers are debating: Does Friday mark a new peak for the microblogging service? Or the beginning of its demise?
  Whatever…
• Inquiries and Mitigations Made by Both Your Financial Consultant and Your Gynecologist
  
• 15 Creative Ads in Unusual Places
• Cricinfo – Indian Premier League 2009 – IPL Page 2
  Just a number away from Page 3.
• The high costs of running YouTube
  User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it.
• 9-months-old Colors dethrones STAR Plus the king for 9 years
  Quite amazing that. I still think there is space for more channels esp. for a Hindi music channel since there is hardly any music on MTV and Channel V these days.
• A blow for fans of boiled lobster
  Turns out crabs and lobsters do feel pain. They still taste yummy though.
• Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent
  The woman is everywhere. If you still haven’t seen this where the hell have you been…
• Six myths about Indian elections
  Do women in India vote according to the wishes of their husbands? Do Muslims vote as a community? Political scientist Yogendra Yadav examines six myths surrounding the Indian elections.
• Comic – Inconceivable
  
• Scientists warn of Twitter dangers
  Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
• I’m just tweeting to tell you I blogged
  Ya…what’s up with that!
• 'Gay writing' falls foul of Amazon sales ranking system
  Online retailer blames reduced profiles of Winterson, Hollinghurst, Vidal and others on glitch in new family-friendly charts.
• Kamran Khan
  

  …when he had to travel to attend trial camps, he used to sleep at railway stations, for he couldn’t afford hotels. “Be it Lucknow or Kanpur, I used to sleep at platforms. I used to buy a platform ticket and spend the night there,” recalls Kamran.
  Now, in a five-star hotel in South Africa, he is experiencing a different set of problems. “I’m not used to these comforts, having slept all these years on a rough floor. Neend hi nahi aayee pehli raat (I couldn’t sleep on the first night),” he laughs.

  Being touted as the next big star in Indian cricket.

• Blogertize does a MillionDollarHomepage for Indian blogs
• Juice box packaging by Naoto Fuksawa
  Nice!
• Rakta Charitra
  Ram Gopal Varma’s next based on the life of notorious politician Paritala Ravi.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• OPEN Magazine
  RPG’s newly launched magazine with Outlook’s founder Sandipan Deb at the helm. Is placing itself as a features, current affairs mag rather than a news mag which is good considering most news mags inevitably end up stale cos of their weekly/fortnightly publication. Has a nice clean design…much better than the recently redesigned India Today and definitely better than Outlook. Judging from the 2 issues that I have read, there were quite a few interesting articles but the writing seems a bit uneven. (An interview with Savita Bhabhi’s maker seems to be the du jour thing to do for most publications.)
• Squirrels!
• Photos – Holy Week
• Free Music Archive
  An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
• A different way to think about creative genius
  Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person ‘being’ a genius, all of us ‘have’ a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
  She is the one who wrote Eat Pray Love.
• Tampa Bay Mug Shots
  Online resource displaying police photographs and charges for people arrested within the last twenty-four hours in Pinellas, Hillsbourough and Pasco Counties in Florida. Hmm…
• Ford About To Test The Limits Of Social Media Branding
  Ford is giving its new Fiesta to a 100 people to drive around. Recipients range from award-winning indie filmmakers, to single moms, to aspiring dancers, and even avid gamers, and theyll document their experiences with the car through YouTube vignettes, blog posts and other social media updates for six months. And Ford will have no control over what they post.
• Dr Batra's homoeopathy clinics under FDA scanner
  I think its time we put an end to this homeopathy thing.
• GM and Segway announce two-wheeled urban transport vehicle. Its website.
  It looks quite unsafe considering it will be moving at a fair speed.
• Indian Broadband's Mbit Eyewash
  Don’t get me started…
• How Obama Is Using the Science of Change
  On how a secret team of leading behavioral scientists advised Obama during the campaign and how his administration is using behavioral science to bring about change.
  A joke from the article – How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Just one, but the bulb really has to want to change
• Import Your Old Hotmail Messages into Gmail
• India's 15th general election: tools for citizen empowerment
  Google launches Indian election website. (Its calling it the ‘largest democratic event in human history’. Fancy…)
• Perfect Scrambled Eggs Breakfast
  Demonstrated by Gordon Ramsay.
• What's Blooking?
  The love of food brims over, conquers the blogosphere.
  On Indian food bloggers.
• Krishna Byre Gowda
  Congress’ Bangalore South candidate’s website. He doesn’t seem to be blogging but is using Twitter extensively.
  Bangalore South is turning out to be an interesting contest with no shortage of good candidates. There’s BJP’s Ananth Kumar who is the 4-time winner, Capt. Gopinath of Deccan Aviation who is being supported by the JD(U) and Prof. K.E. Radhakrishna, the academician, who is the JD(S) candidate.
  Rahul baba’s pick Byregowda seems to be the best bet though. He is young(36), educated(amreeka return), has some political experience(2-time MLA and Youth Congress president) and is smart and well-spoken(from whatever little I have heard of him). Of course…need to do a bit more digging than that.
  Some other candidates who are using the interweb – Meera H Sanyal, Shashi Tharoor, Mallika Sarabhai(She is fiesty).
• Radio Sure – Free Internet Radio Player
  Very nice! Been trying it out for a couple of days now.
• IPL Teams Launch Websites & Fan Zones
• Mirchi tops in Delhi, Kolkata; Red FM in Mumbai; Big in Bengaluru
  Don’t know why and when all the FM stations here decided to stick with Kannada. Radio Indigo is the only one with English music and Radio One is the only one with Hindi gaane and its quite lousy.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• On url shorteners
  I just hate them. Don’t think I have ever used them or want to use them.
• Eatmecrunchy cereal bowl
  Never have soggy cereal again.
• Chemist explains navel fluff
  I have an unending fascination with navel lint and here’s some explanation…finally.
• Exercises for tendonitis and carpal tunnel
  Eyes, back and now the wrist. Think I should take an early retirement from web design. But these exercises are good.
• Recent scenes from Afghanistan
• April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.
  Links to may of the April Fools Day jokes.
  I liked the Guardian one, which said they are shutting down the newspaper and switching to Twitter.
  

  A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper’s archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include ‘1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!’; ‘OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5×6e for more’; and ‘JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?’

  

• BEST Office of the Dy. Engineer Erection(South)
  
• Email in Indian languages
  Gmail now in 5 Indian languages.
• KJo wants to check out Savita Bhabhi
  Karan Johar may sue the porn site for stealing Bachchan’s KANK look. Uhhh…
• Been wanting to link to a few TED talks but I never got around to it as I watch them in iTunes. Anyway…
  Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity – Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
  David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks – MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?”
  Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense – This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine ‘Minority Report’ and then some. Mistry these days is the toast of the tech world.
  Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs – Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.
  Kamal Meattle on how to grow your own fresh air – Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. All three are easily available and quite hardy. Esp. the ‘Money plant’ which can be grown using hydrophonics.
• Photos – Earth Hour 2009
  Click on the pics to toggle the before/during Earth hour scene.
• Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year
• Dancing To Connect To A Global Tribe
  

  People want to feel connected to each other. They want to be heard and seen, and they’re curious to hear and see others from places far away.

  By Matt Harding of the ‘Where The Hell is Matt’ videos.