Links For A Sunday Morning

• Insect/bug Macros – a photoset on Flickr
  Fabulous!
• Woman swallows cell phone after argument
  !!!
• Feed Icons – Help establish the new standard
  Spread the word.
• cuteaggedon
  noun. An adorable, orgasmic, apocalypticish moment of cuteness that leaves no “aww” un-”aww”-ed.
  More such on the blog.
• S Korea cloning research was fake
  Research into cloning embryonic human stem cells – hailed as a breakthrough earlier this year – was fabricated, South Korean investigators have said.
• The end of the period
  A new contraceptive will soon let women stop menstruating. Is it the pinnacle of liberation, or a reckless experiment?
• You Are Beautiful
  

  One early Sunday morning, we arrived at our predesignated fence. With a box of cups, and a thermos full of coffee, we set to work.

  Quite an interesting social experiment.

• Daydreaming of differential equations
  Leta – Month 22. Thats the best pic I have seen of her.
• Why good dancers are attractive
  Someone who can cut a dash on the dance-floor has always been seen as a good catch, but scientists have now explained why.
• Performancing for Firefox
  A Firefox plugin that allows you to easily post to any of your blogs from within Firefox. Quite good.
• Kinja, the weblog guide
  Kinja has relaunched with lots of upgrades.
• Kama: Devadasi Escort
  Have seen this before but don’t remember linking to it.
  

  This is the personal diary and commentary of an Indian Devadasi escort living and working in the UK. I am hoping that this Blog will let me record my experiences and feelings about being young, foreign, and selling sex in the UK.
  I am an Indian Devadasi. I therefore believe that sex with men is divine and draws me closer to the presence of my Gods.

• Coming Soon: Center for Citizen Media
  

  Starting in 2006, I’ll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.

  Dan Gillmor announces.

• Yahoo! Picks – Top Picks of 2005
• DIY – Paper Bookmarks
  Me like.
• The 10 Best Tech Podcasts of 2005
  Am finally warming up to podcasts..expect more podcasting links in the future.
• Teen’s blog confession forces him to plead guilty in fatal crash
• Websites alienate Firefox users
  One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows.
• Firefox 1.5 Stability Problems? Readers And Mozilla Respond
  I haven’t been too happy either :-s
• Cricinfo Magazine to hit the stands first week of January
• Shooting a film in two hours!
  Malayalam film Atbhutham has been made in just two hours and 14 minutes.
• 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging
• US ‘winning war’ on e-mail spam
  The number of unsolicited e-mails received in the US appears to be falling thanks to new laws and better technology.
• 2005 Year-end Google Zeitgeist
• Court rejects ‘intelligent design’ in science class
  “Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.
• IBNLive
  Rajdeep Sardesai’s CNN-IBN goes live.
• Time Saving Search Shortcuts
  Yahoo Open Shortcuts are custom keywords that take you directly to a site, a search, or start a task right from the search box.
• Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
  

  In this world, adolescents announce schedules of their next masturbation for customers who pay fees for the performance or monthly subscription charges. Eager customers can even buy “private shows,” in which teenagers sexually perform while following real-time instructions.

  An NYT investigation. Slate’s Jack Shafer comments on the investigation
  

  …journalists stop being journalists when they become cogs in a prosecutorial wheel.

• Yoga ‘can help to cut back pain’
  Regular yoga sessions may be an effective way to combat chronic lower back pain, research suggests.
  A friend of mine has offered to teach me yoga to combat my back pain.
• Chocolate may cut heart disease
  Researchers have produced more evidence that dark chocolate may help to reduce the risk of serious heart disease.
• The Edublog Awards – 2005 Winners Announced
  The Edublog Awards are awards for scholarly and education focused bloggers.
• How (Blogging) Awards Work
• IE/Mac
  Microsoft has announced that they will cease all support for IE/Mac as of December 31, 2005 and will cease all distribution of the software on January 31, 2006.
  One less browser for me to worry about.
• How to give away £51m
  Body Shop founder Anita Roddick says she plans to give away her entire £51m fortune to good causes. But there’s nothing straightforward about philanthropy these days.
• Google, Yahoo and Dogpile’s Top Searches of 2005 List
  

  This really illustrates that lots of searchers don’t understand how search works (at even the most BASIC of level).

• TIME – Persons of the Year
• How Google woos the best and brightest
  Free cafeteria food, annual ski trips to the Sierra and free laundry are just some of the fringe benefits of working at Google. Getting hired is the trick.
• Million Dollar Belly
  

  I want to lose 30 lbs in 60 days. I definitely need motivation for this. In order to tune up my motivation you may cover my BELLY with advertisements. You may own 1 pixel of advertisement spaces for 1 USD. I am sure each advertisement space will strengthen my motivation. If I achieve loosing 30 lbs with your support, first day I will eat chocolate as much as I can.

• Swiss hospital to allow suicide
  A hospital in Switzerland says it will allow assisted suicide on its premises for terminally ill patients.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Insect/bug Macros – a photoset on Flickr
  Fabulous!
• Woman swallows cell phone after argument
  !!!
• Feed Icons – Help establish the new standard
  Spread the word.
• cuteaggedon
  noun. An adorable, orgasmic, apocalypticish moment of cuteness that leaves no “aww” un-”aww”-ed.
  More such on the blog.
• S Korea cloning research was fake
  Research into cloning embryonic human stem cells – hailed as a breakthrough earlier this year – was fabricated, South Korean investigators have said.
• The end of the period
  A new contraceptive will soon let women stop menstruating. Is it the pinnacle of liberation, or a reckless experiment?
• You Are Beautiful
  

  One early Sunday morning, we arrived at our predesignated fence. With a box of cups, and a thermos full of coffee, we set to work.

  Quite an interesting social experiment.

• Daydreaming of differential equations
  Leta – Month 22. Thats the best pic I have seen of her.
• Why good dancers are attractive
  Someone who can cut a dash on the dance-floor has always been seen as a good catch, but scientists have now explained why.
• Performancing for Firefox
  A Firefox plugin that allows you to easily post to any of your blogs from within Firefox. Quite good.
• Kinja, the weblog guide
  Kinja has relaunched with lots of upgrades.
• Kama: Devadasi Escort
  Have seen this before but don’t remember linking to it.
  

  This is the personal diary and commentary of an Indian Devadasi escort living and working in the UK. I am hoping that this Blog will let me record my experiences and feelings about being young, foreign, and selling sex in the UK.
  I am an Indian Devadasi. I therefore believe that sex with men is divine and draws me closer to the presence of my Gods.

• Coming Soon: Center for Citizen Media
  

  Starting in 2006, I’ll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.

  Dan Gillmor announces.

• Yahoo! Picks – Top Picks of 2005
• DIY – Paper Bookmarks
  Me like.
• The 10 Best Tech Podcasts of 2005
  Am finally warming up to podcasts..expect more podcasting links in the future.
• Teen’s blog confession forces him to plead guilty in fatal crash
• Websites alienate Firefox users
  One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows.
• Firefox 1.5 Stability Problems? Readers And Mozilla Respond
  I haven’t been too happy either :-s
• Cricinfo Magazine to hit the stands first week of January
• Shooting a film in two hours!
  Malayalam film Atbhutham has been made in just two hours and 14 minutes.
• 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging
• US ‘winning war’ on e-mail spam
  The number of unsolicited e-mails received in the US appears to be falling thanks to new laws and better technology.
• 2005 Year-end Google Zeitgeist
• Court rejects ‘intelligent design’ in science class
  “Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.
• IBNLive
  Rajdeep Sardesai’s CNN-IBN goes live.
• Time Saving Search Shortcuts
  Yahoo Open Shortcuts are custom keywords that take you directly to a site, a search, or start a task right from the search box.
• Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
  

  In this world, adolescents announce schedules of their next masturbation for customers who pay fees for the performance or monthly subscription charges. Eager customers can even buy “private shows,” in which teenagers sexually perform while following real-time instructions.

  An NYT investigation. Slate’s Jack Shafer comments on the investigation
  

  …journalists stop being journalists when they become cogs in a prosecutorial wheel.

• Yoga ‘can help to cut back pain’
  Regular yoga sessions may be an effective way to combat chronic lower back pain, research suggests.
  A friend of mine has offered to teach me yoga to combat my back pain.
• Chocolate may cut heart disease
  Researchers have produced more evidence that dark chocolate may help to reduce the risk of serious heart disease.
• The Edublog Awards – 2005 Winners Announced
  The Edublog Awards are awards for scholarly and education focused bloggers.
• How (Blogging) Awards Work
• IE/Mac
  Microsoft has announced that they will cease all support for IE/Mac as of December 31, 2005 and will cease all distribution of the software on January 31, 2006.
  One less browser for me to worry about.
• How to give away £51m
  Body Shop founder Anita Roddick says she plans to give away her entire £51m fortune to good causes. But there’s nothing straightforward about philanthropy these days.
• Google, Yahoo and Dogpile’s Top Searches of 2005 List
  

  This really illustrates that lots of searchers don’t understand how search works (at even the most BASIC of level).

• TIME – Persons of the Year
• How Google woos the best and brightest
  Free cafeteria food, annual ski trips to the Sierra and free laundry are just some of the fringe benefits of working at Google. Getting hired is the trick.
• Million Dollar Belly
  

  I want to lose 30 lbs in 60 days. I definitely need motivation for this. In order to tune up my motivation you may cover my BELLY with advertisements. You may own 1 pixel of advertisement spaces for 1 USD. I am sure each advertisement space will strengthen my motivation. If I achieve loosing 30 lbs with your support, first day I will eat chocolate as much as I can.

• Swiss hospital to allow suicide
  A hospital in Switzerland says it will allow assisted suicide on its premises for terminally ill patients.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
  It’s been quite a year.
• Media Photoshop Retouching
  

  The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips.
  This photo is a good example of how easy it is to alter a photo so it suits the beauty ideals of the media world.
  We cannot stop the photos but we can make you aware that many of them are based on a lie. And because of this, it is completely impossible to compare yourself to them.

• TV4all.com
  The ultimate guide to Live TV webcasts.
• BBC News – The Open News Archive
  Quite a few interesting clips available for download.
• Topless sandals
  Aaaa…
• Key gene ‘controls skin colour’
  Scientists believe that studying the humble zebrafish may have helped solve the mystery of human skin colour.
• LibriVox
  

  LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.

  Wonderful!

• How To Wolf Whistle
  I have started practising.
• Slower conception ‘leads to boys’
  The longer a woman takes to get pregnant, the more likely she is to have a boy, scientists suggest.
• How to: Flickr Intro
• YourDailyFeed.com
  YourDailyFeed.com is a blog that features a unique or interesting RSS feed everyday. From comic strips to coupons, we will have something interesting for you everyday. (via)
• timbl’s blog
  Tim Berners-Lee’s blog.
• Hyphen-ventaliting
  For the content/copy writers amongst you.
• Searching for music
  Google music search
• Top Ten Alternative Search Engines
  Have previously linked to FoodieView and Healthline, 2 of the best.
• Yahoo! 2005 Top Searches
• The Da Vinci Code – Trailer
• It’s still orange
  There is finally some agreement on the icon to be used to represent feeds.
• No Feed is an Island: Introducing FeedFlare
  Feedburner adds additional functionality to feeds including links to a post, email this post, email the author, tag the post at del.icio.us…
• Internet encyclopaedias go head to head
  Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
• Are Migraines All in Your Heart?
  Doctors treating patients with a congenital heart defect have found an unexpected side effect of their work — repairing the heart condition apparently relieves migraines.
• Self-destruct SMS proves popular
  Thousands of people have subscribed to a self-destruct text message service which started on Sunday in the UK.
• At war, with just a pen and brush
  Steve Mumford joined the ranks of combat artists armed only with a sketch pad. He spent 10 months embedded with US troops. (via)
• Let’s see some ID, please – The end of anonymity on the Internet?
  Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are. (via)
• The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
  Over the last few hundred years, many perplexing artifacts have been unearthed that do not fit the currently excepted theories of geology and the history of man.
• Women go to bed for space science
  Twelve women have spent two months in bed with their feet higher than their head – all in the name of science.
• Parents divorced? Ask Libby, 10, what to do
  Move over Deepak Chopra, here is the new self-help guru: 10-year-old Libby Rees. She has written a book on how children can cope when their parents divorce.
• 15 years of the World Wide Web
  The top 10 “Web moments” since the World Wide Web was born.
• Lists 2005
  A complete list of the best/worst/etc lists.
• Learn Thai Cooking – ThaiTable.com
  Me loves Thai food.
• From Del.icio.us to WordPress: How to automatically post daily links
  This might also work for Blogger, though I haven’t tried it out.
• Web journalism now eligible for Pulitzer Prize
  (via)
• CookingByNumbers
  Get clicking on what you’ve got and we’ll show you what you can cook..
• The New York Times Magazine – Year in Ideas
  As always, we seek to gain some perspective on what has transpired since January by compiling a digest of the most noteworthy ideas of the past 12 months.
• Yahoo! Widget Engine 3
  Includes Picture Frame (which integrates with Flickr), Weather Widget, Notepad Widget, Day Planner, Yahoo! Search Widget, Yahoo! Maps Widget, Stock Ticker, Yahoo! Mail Checker, Yahoo! Contacts Widget. (via)
• Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers
  Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses.
• Aspiring TV writers get their chops together online
  Internet TV shows gaining in popularity.
• Furniture To Go
  Meal Box is a Japanese-style dining-table with chairs that can all be packed in a box. Perfect for late night fast food binges in the office or picnics.
  Me like. Me also like the sitting-down style though I don’t think my back can take it now. (via)
• Paramount buys rival Dreamworks
• New York Times Podcasts
• Free file host list
• Some award winning nature pics from National Geographic

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
  It’s been quite a year.
• Media Photoshop Retouching
  

  The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips.
  This photo is a good example of how easy it is to alter a photo so it suits the beauty ideals of the media world.
  We cannot stop the photos but we can make you aware that many of them are based on a lie. And because of this, it is completely impossible to compare yourself to them.

• TV4all.com
  The ultimate guide to Live TV webcasts.
• BBC News – The Open News Archive
  Quite a few interesting clips available for download.
• Topless sandals
  Aaaa…
• Key gene ‘controls skin colour’
  Scientists believe that studying the humble zebrafish may have helped solve the mystery of human skin colour.
• LibriVox
  

  LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.

  Wonderful!

• How To Wolf Whistle
  I have started practising.
• Slower conception ‘leads to boys’
  The longer a woman takes to get pregnant, the more likely she is to have a boy, scientists suggest.
• How to: Flickr Intro
• YourDailyFeed.com
  YourDailyFeed.com is a blog that features a unique or interesting RSS feed everyday. From comic strips to coupons, we will have something interesting for you everyday. (via)
• timbl’s blog
  Tim Berners-Lee’s blog.
• Hyphen-ventaliting
  For the content/copy writers amongst you.
• Searching for music
  Google music search
• Top Ten Alternative Search Engines
  Have previously linked to FoodieView and Healthline, 2 of the best.
• Yahoo! 2005 Top Searches
• The Da Vinci Code – Trailer
• It’s still orange
  There is finally some agreement on the icon to be used to represent feeds.
• No Feed is an Island: Introducing FeedFlare
  Feedburner adds additional functionality to feeds including links to a post, email this post, email the author, tag the post at del.icio.us…
• Internet encyclopaedias go head to head
  Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
• Are Migraines All in Your Heart?
  Doctors treating patients with a congenital heart defect have found an unexpected side effect of their work — repairing the heart condition apparently relieves migraines.
• Self-destruct SMS proves popular
  Thousands of people have subscribed to a self-destruct text message service which started on Sunday in the UK.
• At war, with just a pen and brush
  Steve Mumford joined the ranks of combat artists armed only with a sketch pad. He spent 10 months embedded with US troops. (via)
• Let’s see some ID, please – The end of anonymity on the Internet?
  Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are. (via)
• The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
  Over the last few hundred years, many perplexing artifacts have been unearthed that do not fit the currently excepted theories of geology and the history of man.
• Women go to bed for space science
  Twelve women have spent two months in bed with their feet higher than their head – all in the name of science.
• Parents divorced? Ask Libby, 10, what to do
  Move over Deepak Chopra, here is the new self-help guru: 10-year-old Libby Rees. She has written a book on how children can cope when their parents divorce.
• 15 years of the World Wide Web
  The top 10 “Web moments” since the World Wide Web was born.
• Lists 2005
  A complete list of the best/worst/etc lists.
• Learn Thai Cooking – ThaiTable.com
  Me loves Thai food.
• From Del.icio.us to WordPress: How to automatically post daily links
  This might also work for Blogger, though I haven’t tried it out.
• Web journalism now eligible for Pulitzer Prize
  (via)
• CookingByNumbers
  Get clicking on what you’ve got and we’ll show you what you can cook..
• The New York Times Magazine – Year in Ideas
  As always, we seek to gain some perspective on what has transpired since January by compiling a digest of the most noteworthy ideas of the past 12 months.
• Yahoo! Widget Engine 3
  Includes Picture Frame (which integrates with Flickr), Weather Widget, Notepad Widget, Day Planner, Yahoo! Search Widget, Yahoo! Maps Widget, Stock Ticker, Yahoo! Mail Checker, Yahoo! Contacts Widget. (via)
• Yahoo offers Movable Type for bloggers
  Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses.
• Aspiring TV writers get their chops together online
  Internet TV shows gaining in popularity.
• Furniture To Go
  Meal Box is a Japanese-style dining-table with chairs that can all be packed in a box. Perfect for late night fast food binges in the office or picnics.
  Me like. Me also like the sitting-down style though I don’t think my back can take it now. (via)
• Paramount buys rival Dreamworks
• New York Times Podcasts
• Free file host list
• Some award winning nature pics from National Geographic

Growing up

There she was, whiling away her time watching TV and drawing…just last month. But this month she seems to have suddenly grown up…giving “interviews” for her school admissions.

She is going to see the blackboard soon, and often. Hopefully she will still doodle…not the Math equation though, there is still time for that. That was just me…

The last redesign for the year is now up.

Growing up

There she was, whiling away her time watching TV and drawing…just last month. But this month she seems to have suddenly grown up…giving “interviews” for her school admissions.

She is going to see the blackboard soon, and often. Hopefully she will still doodle…not the Math equation though, there is still time for that. That was just me…

The last redesign for the year is now up.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The 10 Best Books of 2005 – New York Times
  (via)
• Answering 6 common interview questions
  I hate the tell-me-about-yourself one :-S
• Tom Judd’s Everyday
  

  365 pages ago I had a very silly idea. Draw a page everyday for one year. Each day I spent around 1 hour on the page, sometimes more, sometimes less.

• Why this brain flies on rat cunning
  The “brain”, grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida. (via)
• y.ah.oo!
  Yahoo acquires del.icio.us
• Militants’ new tack in cyber war
  A message has been posted to several radical Islamist – or jihadi – websites announcing a competition to design a new site for a militant group in Iraq. The prize offered is the chance to fire missiles remote-controlled by computer at a US military base in Iraq.
  I am so entering this contest.
• Botched stock trade costs Japan firm $225M
  All cos of a typo.
• Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay
  I suck at analogies
• Windows Live Local
• Live keyboard
  Keyboard used for sprouting beans. (via)
• Words You Shouldn’t Say Onstage for $500, Alex
  Quite a tamasha at the Les Blogs conference!
• Yahoo! Answers
  New from Yahoo.
• The World Wide Web project
  The first page ever on the WWW.
• Public transit via Google
  Google Transit – Trip Planner. Another one from the Google stable.
• Blue bulbs phenomenon hits Bloggers
  Haha. Kumar Permalinkum…now why didn’t I think of that
• Carpetbagger – New York Times Blog
  The Carpetbagger is a daily blog designed to run the length of the Oscar season.
• India Accelerating: Building a Highway
  Articles in this series in the NYT are examining India’s highway modernization, a vast undertaking reflecting the country’s overall transformation. Haven’t read them yet.
• WTF is this?
  (via)
• The RSStroom Reader, Feeds On Your Toilet Paper
  Combining your RSS addiction with your daily trip to the can !!
  I already read the newspaper there…so why not my feeds..
• How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi
  The problem has become so serious that fishery officials from Japan, China and South Korea are to meet this month for a “jellyfish summit” to discuss strategies for dealing with the invasion.
• English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
  Handy resource.
• Fake or Photo?
  

  Spend a few minutes with our reality check and see if you can tell the difference…

  I got 9 of them right. The monkeys fooled me.

• The Consumerist
  New blog from Gawker.
• Consumating.com is now part of CNET Networks
• Ricky Gervais podcast
• Security officials to spy on chat rooms
  The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal.
• Secret sites
  

  How about you…any secret sites? Why keep them on the down-low?

  I have 2 of them

• Wikipedia tightens editorial rules after complaint
• XX..naah
  Thumbnails of images that look like porn but aren’t really porn. (via)
• 11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog
• Now That’s What I Call Blogging
  43 songs about the blogosphere My fave – Is Anyone Reading This?(0 comments)
  (via)
• Snow comes to deserts of Dubai
  The largest indoor snow park in the world has opened in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai.
• The AXE Effect
  Print ad for Axe deo. Nice.
• Nick Robinson’s Newslog
  BBC ventures into blogging.
• Girls ambient room
  The room was specially designed for Taiwanese teenage girls, reflecting their aesthetic, their taste, and their values. Data is gathered from different chat services, email and comment entries to their personal online journals. (via)
• ‘New mammal’ seen in Borneo woods
• Fido’s First Cell Phone
  A bone-shaped, slobber-proof cell phone for dogs will hit the market next year. Has the world gone barking mad?
• Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs
  A Parisian catwalk model and Unix programmer named Anina drags the fashion industry into the world of blogs and moblogs.
• Sound of Dog’s ‘Laugh’ Calms Other Pooches
  They actually laugh.
• Growing pains for Wikipedia
  After two scandals in one week, Wikipedia’s founder decides to make a change to the anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia.
• Google: Ten Golden Rules
  Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here’s how we do it at google.
  

  Cater to their every need. As Drucker says, the goal is to “strip away everything that gets in their way.” We provide a standard package of fringe benefits, but on top of that are first-class dining facilities, gyms, laundry rooms, massage rooms, haircuts, carwashes, dry cleaning, commuting buses—just about anything a hardworking engineer might want. Let’s face it: programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.

  Haircuts??

• PCWorld.com – The 100 Best Products of 2005
  Firefox gets picked as the product of the year.
• Free blog hosts
  There is also Diaryland and some Indian hosts like Rediffblogs, Rediff iLand, Indiatimes, Sify, Sulekha…
• 10 Tips to Better Blogging
  

  Why not just copy, paste, and post on things you read that you don’t really want to go in-depth on but want to notify your readers about?

  Oooh..thats me!

• NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
• Wasps could replace bomb, drug dogs
  Trained wasps could someday replace dogs for sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.
• Why do people get goose bumps when they’re cold?
• ‘Gay weddings’ become law in UK
• The Weblog Awards
  Nominations have been announced.
• Weird ritual of the burning goat
  A giant straw goat erected every year in a Swedish town to mark the festive season has been burned down – again. Its been the same since 1966 despite fire-proofing, security guards and a web camera.
• Tag Graph: Sunsets by time
  About 15000 photos tagged “sunset” taken within the last year, superimposed.
• When murder hits the blogosphere
• Monopoly for Asians in the UK
  Desi Monopoly is a new special edition board-games celebrating Indians, Pakastanis and other Asians living in the UK.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The 10 Best Books of 2005 – New York Times
  (via)
• Answering 6 common interview questions
  I hate the tell-me-about-yourself one :-S
• Tom Judd’s Everyday
  

  365 pages ago I had a very silly idea. Draw a page everyday for one year. Each day I spent around 1 hour on the page, sometimes more, sometimes less.

• Why this brain flies on rat cunning
  The “brain”, grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida. (via)
• y.ah.oo!
  Yahoo acquires del.icio.us
• Militants’ new tack in cyber war
  A message has been posted to several radical Islamist – or jihadi – websites announcing a competition to design a new site for a militant group in Iraq. The prize offered is the chance to fire missiles remote-controlled by computer at a US military base in Iraq.
  I am so entering this contest.
• Botched stock trade costs Japan firm $225M
  All cos of a typo.
• Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay
  I suck at analogies
• Windows Live Local
• Live keyboard
  Keyboard used for sprouting beans. (via)
• Words You Shouldn’t Say Onstage for $500, Alex
  Quite a tamasha at the Les Blogs conference!
• Yahoo! Answers
  New from Yahoo.
• The World Wide Web project
  The first page ever on the WWW.
• Public transit via Google
  Google Transit – Trip Planner. Another one from the Google stable.
• Blue bulbs phenomenon hits Bloggers
  Haha. Kumar Permalinkum…now why didn’t I think of that
• Carpetbagger – New York Times Blog
  The Carpetbagger is a daily blog designed to run the length of the Oscar season.
• India Accelerating: Building a Highway
  Articles in this series in the NYT are examining India’s highway modernization, a vast undertaking reflecting the country’s overall transformation. Haven’t read them yet.
• WTF is this?
  (via)
• The RSStroom Reader, Feeds On Your Toilet Paper
  Combining your RSS addiction with your daily trip to the can !!
  I already read the newspaper there…so why not my feeds..
• How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi
  The problem has become so serious that fishery officials from Japan, China and South Korea are to meet this month for a “jellyfish summit” to discuss strategies for dealing with the invasion.
• English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
  Handy resource.
• Fake or Photo?
  

  Spend a few minutes with our reality check and see if you can tell the difference…

  I got 9 of them right. The monkeys fooled me.

• The Consumerist
  New blog from Gawker.
• Consumating.com is now part of CNET Networks
• Ricky Gervais podcast
• Security officials to spy on chat rooms
  The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal.
• Secret sites
  

  How about you…any secret sites? Why keep them on the down-low?

  I have 2 of them

• Wikipedia tightens editorial rules after complaint
• XX..naah
  Thumbnails of images that look like porn but aren’t really porn. (via)
• 11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog
• Now That’s What I Call Blogging
  43 songs about the blogosphere My fave – Is Anyone Reading This?(0 comments)
  (via)
• Snow comes to deserts of Dubai
  The largest indoor snow park in the world has opened in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai.
• The AXE Effect
  Print ad for Axe deo. Nice.
• Nick Robinson’s Newslog
  BBC ventures into blogging.
• Girls ambient room
  The room was specially designed for Taiwanese teenage girls, reflecting their aesthetic, their taste, and their values. Data is gathered from different chat services, email and comment entries to their personal online journals. (via)
• ‘New mammal’ seen in Borneo woods
• Fido’s First Cell Phone
  A bone-shaped, slobber-proof cell phone for dogs will hit the market next year. Has the world gone barking mad?
• Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs
  A Parisian catwalk model and Unix programmer named Anina drags the fashion industry into the world of blogs and moblogs.
• Sound of Dog’s ‘Laugh’ Calms Other Pooches
  They actually laugh.
• Growing pains for Wikipedia
  After two scandals in one week, Wikipedia’s founder decides to make a change to the anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia.
• Google: Ten Golden Rules
  Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here’s how we do it at google.
  

  Cater to their every need. As Drucker says, the goal is to “strip away everything that gets in their way.” We provide a standard package of fringe benefits, but on top of that are first-class dining facilities, gyms, laundry rooms, massage rooms, haircuts, carwashes, dry cleaning, commuting buses—just about anything a hardworking engineer might want. Let’s face it: programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.

  Haircuts??

• PCWorld.com – The 100 Best Products of 2005
  Firefox gets picked as the product of the year.
• Free blog hosts
  There is also Diaryland and some Indian hosts like Rediffblogs, Rediff iLand, Indiatimes, Sify, Sulekha…
• 10 Tips to Better Blogging
  

  Why not just copy, paste, and post on things you read that you don’t really want to go in-depth on but want to notify your readers about?

  Oooh..thats me!

• NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
• Wasps could replace bomb, drug dogs
  Trained wasps could someday replace dogs for sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.
• Why do people get goose bumps when they’re cold?
• ‘Gay weddings’ become law in UK
• The Weblog Awards
  Nominations have been announced.
• Weird ritual of the burning goat
  A giant straw goat erected every year in a Swedish town to mark the festive season has been burned down – again. Its been the same since 1966 despite fire-proofing, security guards and a web camera.
• Tag Graph: Sunsets by time
  About 15000 photos tagged “sunset” taken within the last year, superimposed.
• When murder hits the blogosphere
• Monopoly for Asians in the UK
  Desi Monopoly is a new special edition board-games celebrating Indians, Pakastanis and other Asians living in the UK.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Top 10 tips for effective blog reading – part 1
• Blogging styles and traffic stats
  Seven distinct types of traffic-generating blogging styles.
• Photos of the world’s most difficult runways to land on
  (via)
• Slide
  Slide turns your photos into slide shows that play on your computer.
• The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award
• Don’t Call It Spyware
  First the company that created Gator was considered a scourge. Now it’s a rising star — selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars.
• Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki
  Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.
• LookLater
  Like del.icio.us but private.
• Different Strokes
  New blog on Cricinfo.
• Stirring Sound of Stress
  Why we sometimes wake up a minute before the alarm rings. (via)
• Skype adds in video to net calls
• chesterblogs.co.uk
  All the Chester City councillors get their own blogs. Have even dared to open comments. Interesting. (via)
• Top Ways To Use Web Analytics To Improve Your Blog or Website
• Windows OneCare Live
  Anti-virus, firewall, backups..
• The Unofficial Gay Test for Men
  
• Paul Schmelzer’s project to collect autographs of his name from famous people
  (via)
• Meet the IT Gigolo
  This is the guy I had linked to last week…he fixes computers in return for sexual favours.
• PodDater.com
  This is the whole Web 2.0 thing gone too far.
• Rediff iLand
  Rediff doesn’t seem to have learnt much from RediffBlogs. What happens to it anyway? Here is my iLand. Uhhh…
• Google Talkabout
  The Google Talk blog.
• Woman has first face transplant
• 100 Notable Books of the Year – New York Times
• What’s the buzz? Teens can’t stand it
  Stapleton has taken the lesson he learned that day–that children can hear sounds at higher frequencies than adults can–to fashion a novel device that he hopes will provide a solution to the eternal problem of obstreperous teenagers who hang around outside stores and cause trouble.
• Turkey, Talk, Family:One More Reason It All Seems Familiar
  Understanding déjà vu. I find it endlessly fascinating.
• Blogging With a Wooden Tongue
  The result of officialdom’s embrace of the blog format is that the wooden tongue has reached blogging.
• Romantic love ‘lasts just a year’
  Some couples may disagree, but romantic love lasts little more than a year, Italian scientists believe.
• Simplicity gets its media moment
  About time.
• Mouse-less Firefox
  On Firefox keyboard shortcuts.
• 20 Types of Blog Posts – Battling Bloggers Block
• Some Students Find Themselves In Principal’s Office Over Blogs
  Schools crack down on students’ blogs.
• Browser Makers Band Together Against Phishers
  Representatives from the most prominent browser makers — including Microsoft and Mozilla — recently gathered to discuss ways to make it clearer to users which Web sites are safe and which are fake.
• Firefox – Rediscover the web
  1.5 is now out.
• Poetry Archive
  

  The Poetry Archive is the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

• Gtalkr
  Access Google Talk anywhere.
• The process I use to sharpen my mind
  By Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons.
• Yahoo! expands RSS services to Mail (beta) and Alerts
• The Path to Pwn
  

  …here’s the definitive top ten things you need to do to turn you from a fragile little newbie into an arse-kicking Computing expert.
  10. Finally the one key rule about being a master of home computing
  Never play Minesweeper. This will blow your cover before you even start.

• Dishing it out
  Man beams 5,000 radio, TV channels with a dozen satellite receivers.
• Entrepreneur Launches Web’s First Tag Directory to Raise Money for His Wedding
  A 37-year-old Canadian entrepreneur wants to pay for his wedding – and walk away debt-free – by selling listings on his del.icio.us account for $20 per listing.
• Longer needles needed for fatter buttocks – study
  Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle.
• Teen With Peanut Allergy Dies After Kiss
  A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack. Now thats tragic…
• Ten Bloglines Hacks
  Steve Rubel continues his “Ten” series.
• What do people shoplift?
• Tags Sort Out Music Mess
  Tagging song files makes it easier to manage a library.
• Bose Suspension Takes on Potholes
  Best known by audiophiles for his acoustic technology, MIT alumnus Amar Bose has worked for 50 years to develop an automobile suspension system that would corner well and give a smooth ride.
• Simple Memorizing Techniques
• 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
• A Sense of Scale
  A Visual Comparison of Various Distances

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Top 10 tips for effective blog reading – part 1
• Blogging styles and traffic stats
  Seven distinct types of traffic-generating blogging styles.
• Photos of the world’s most difficult runways to land on
  (via)
• Slide
  Slide turns your photos into slide shows that play on your computer.
• The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award
• Don’t Call It Spyware
  First the company that created Gator was considered a scourge. Now it’s a rising star — selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars.
• Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki
  Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation.
• LookLater
  Like del.icio.us but private.
• Different Strokes
  New blog on Cricinfo.
• Stirring Sound of Stress
  Why we sometimes wake up a minute before the alarm rings. (via)
• Skype adds in video to net calls
• chesterblogs.co.uk
  All the Chester City councillors get their own blogs. Have even dared to open comments. Interesting. (via)
• Top Ways To Use Web Analytics To Improve Your Blog or Website
• Windows OneCare Live
  Anti-virus, firewall, backups..
• The Unofficial Gay Test for Men
  
• Paul Schmelzer’s project to collect autographs of his name from famous people
  (via)
• Meet the IT Gigolo
  This is the guy I had linked to last week…he fixes computers in return for sexual favours.
• PodDater.com
  This is the whole Web 2.0 thing gone too far.
• Rediff iLand
  Rediff doesn’t seem to have learnt much from RediffBlogs. What happens to it anyway? Here is my iLand. Uhhh…
• Google Talkabout
  The Google Talk blog.
• Woman has first face transplant
• 100 Notable Books of the Year – New York Times
• What’s the buzz? Teens can’t stand it
  Stapleton has taken the lesson he learned that day–that children can hear sounds at higher frequencies than adults can–to fashion a novel device that he hopes will provide a solution to the eternal problem of obstreperous teenagers who hang around outside stores and cause trouble.
• Turkey, Talk, Family:One More Reason It All Seems Familiar
  Understanding déjà vu. I find it endlessly fascinating.
• Blogging With a Wooden Tongue
  The result of officialdom’s embrace of the blog format is that the wooden tongue has reached blogging.
• Romantic love ‘lasts just a year’
  Some couples may disagree, but romantic love lasts little more than a year, Italian scientists believe.
• Simplicity gets its media moment
  About time.
• Mouse-less Firefox
  On Firefox keyboard shortcuts.
• 20 Types of Blog Posts – Battling Bloggers Block
• Some Students Find Themselves In Principal’s Office Over Blogs
  Schools crack down on students’ blogs.
• Browser Makers Band Together Against Phishers
  Representatives from the most prominent browser makers — including Microsoft and Mozilla — recently gathered to discuss ways to make it clearer to users which Web sites are safe and which are fake.
• Firefox – Rediscover the web
  1.5 is now out.
• Poetry Archive
  

  The Poetry Archive is the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

• Gtalkr
  Access Google Talk anywhere.
• The process I use to sharpen my mind
  By Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons.
• Yahoo! expands RSS services to Mail (beta) and Alerts
• The Path to Pwn
  

  …here’s the definitive top ten things you need to do to turn you from a fragile little newbie into an arse-kicking Computing expert.
  10. Finally the one key rule about being a master of home computing
  Never play Minesweeper. This will blow your cover before you even start.

• Dishing it out
  Man beams 5,000 radio, TV channels with a dozen satellite receivers.
• Entrepreneur Launches Web’s First Tag Directory to Raise Money for His Wedding
  A 37-year-old Canadian entrepreneur wants to pay for his wedding – and walk away debt-free – by selling listings on his del.icio.us account for $20 per listing.
• Longer needles needed for fatter buttocks – study
  Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle.
• Teen With Peanut Allergy Dies After Kiss
  A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack. Now thats tragic…
• Ten Bloglines Hacks
  Steve Rubel continues his “Ten” series.
• What do people shoplift?
• Tags Sort Out Music Mess
  Tagging song files makes it easier to manage a library.
• Bose Suspension Takes on Potholes
  Best known by audiophiles for his acoustic technology, MIT alumnus Amar Bose has worked for 50 years to develop an automobile suspension system that would corner well and give a smooth ride.
• Simple Memorizing Techniques
• 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
• A Sense of Scale
  A Visual Comparison of Various Distances