Links For A Sunday Morning

• What is friendship?
• Google in China
  Google tries to address the censorship and other issues with regard to Google China.
• Google AdSense begins rich media beta test
  Google AdSense is moving beyond the traditional text and graphical advertising to rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads.
  Oh no!
• Bloggers in Amsterdam
  Bloggers get an all expenses paid trip to Amsterdam in exchange for an interview about the trip and adspace on their blog.
  Not bad at all. (via)
• Another Blog Book Deal
• Thumb Thing helps you keep books open
  Nice!
• Man lives in tree after domestic spat
  An Indian man has been living in a tree for the past 15 years despite passionate appeals by his mother to return home.
• Sex ‘cuts public speaking stress’
  Forget learning lines or polishing jokes – having sex may be the best way to prepare for giving a speech.
• So You Wanna Be a Sportstar
  Sportstar magazine has been converted to a weekly tabloid.
• Desicritics
  Is launched. Still trying to figure this one out. Whats with the tagline though.
• StopBadware
  

  StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

• flickr logo maker
  Make your own personalised logo in the Flickr style.
• Scientists find ’smallest fish’
  Researchers have found the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
• My Week as a Waiter
  NYT food critic’s week as a waiter.
• Sweden Raises The Renewable Energy Bar
  Sweden plans on being the first country in the world to be free from oil in 2020. (via)
• Copper – Step-by-Step
  Detailed tutorial on how Kazu Kibuishi creates one of his Copper comics. The entire process from rough sketches to the final touches in Photoshop. Wonderful! (via)
• Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal
• Whale ‘vomit’ sparks cash bonanza
  An Australian couple who picked up an odd-looking fatty lump from a quiet beach are in line for a cash windfall.
• Movie Poster Awards: 2005
• And now, News
  Google News is out of beta. Finally!
• TV’s ’sleep’ button stands accused
  Britons waste the equivalent of around two power stations’ worth of electricity each year by leaving TV sets and other gadgets on standby.
• Okwap’s matching phones for saints and sinners
  (via)
• Surgeons may put patients in suspended animation
  Patients could soon be put into a state of suspended animation (no pulse, no blood, no electrical activity in the brain, and tissues consume no oxygen) while doctors drain their blood to carry out emergency surgery. Patients would be hovering in a twilight zone between life and death for hours before being revived. Once repairs are complete their blood would be warmed up and pumped back into their bodies, bringing them “back to life”. (via)
• Viamatic foXpose
  Firefox extension. Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.
• Bloggies >> Sixth Annual Weblog Awards
  Finalists announced.
• Osama ‘plug’ boosts anti-US book
  Osama Bin Laden has seemingly propelled a book by an obscure historian into the US bestseller list, by endorsing it in an audio message.
• SLANKET : THE BEST BLANKET EVER
  Definitely the best.
• Why Comic Sans?
  An article from the font’s creator on how the font came into being.
  Worst font ever!

Links For A Sunday Morning

• What is friendship?
• Google in China
  Google tries to address the censorship and other issues with regard to Google China.
• Google AdSense begins rich media beta test
  Google AdSense is moving beyond the traditional text and graphical advertising to rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads.
  Oh no!
• Bloggers in Amsterdam
  Bloggers get an all expenses paid trip to Amsterdam in exchange for an interview about the trip and adspace on their blog.
  Not bad at all. (via)
• Another Blog Book Deal
• Thumb Thing helps you keep books open
  Nice!
• Man lives in tree after domestic spat
  An Indian man has been living in a tree for the past 15 years despite passionate appeals by his mother to return home.
• Sex ‘cuts public speaking stress’
  Forget learning lines or polishing jokes – having sex may be the best way to prepare for giving a speech.
• So You Wanna Be a Sportstar
  Sportstar magazine has been converted to a weekly tabloid.
• Desicritics
  Is launched. Still trying to figure this one out. Whats with the tagline though.
• StopBadware
  

  StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

• flickr logo maker
  Make your own personalised logo in the Flickr style.
• Scientists find ’smallest fish’
  Researchers have found the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
• My Week as a Waiter
  NYT food critic’s week as a waiter.
• Sweden Raises The Renewable Energy Bar
  Sweden plans on being the first country in the world to be free from oil in 2020. (via)
• Copper – Step-by-Step
  Detailed tutorial on how Kazu Kibuishi creates one of his Copper comics. The entire process from rough sketches to the final touches in Photoshop. Wonderful! (via)
• Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal
• Whale ‘vomit’ sparks cash bonanza
  An Australian couple who picked up an odd-looking fatty lump from a quiet beach are in line for a cash windfall.
• Movie Poster Awards: 2005
• And now, News
  Google News is out of beta. Finally!
• TV’s ’sleep’ button stands accused
  Britons waste the equivalent of around two power stations’ worth of electricity each year by leaving TV sets and other gadgets on standby.
• Okwap’s matching phones for saints and sinners
  (via)
• Surgeons may put patients in suspended animation
  Patients could soon be put into a state of suspended animation (no pulse, no blood, no electrical activity in the brain, and tissues consume no oxygen) while doctors drain their blood to carry out emergency surgery. Patients would be hovering in a twilight zone between life and death for hours before being revived. Once repairs are complete their blood would be warmed up and pumped back into their bodies, bringing them “back to life”. (via)
• Viamatic foXpose
  Firefox extension. Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click.
• Bloggies >> Sixth Annual Weblog Awards
  Finalists announced.
• Osama ‘plug’ boosts anti-US book
  Osama Bin Laden has seemingly propelled a book by an obscure historian into the US bestseller list, by endorsing it in an audio message.
• SLANKET : THE BEST BLANKET EVER
  Definitely the best.
• Why Comic Sans?
  An article from the font’s creator on how the font came into being.
  Worst font ever!

Links For A Sunday Morning

• ScienceBlogs
  Seed Magazine has launched a network of science blogs.
  They have a good group of writers but can’t really say the same about the topics. (via)
• Account Hijackings Force LiveJournal Changes
  LiveJournal on Thursday announced sitewide changes for users logging into their accounts — changes prompted by a hacker group’s successful hijacking of potentially hundreds of thousands of user accounts.
• When Graphic Designers Get Bored
  Nice collection of manipulated pics.
• Found in My Inbox. An odd GMail “feature”
  If you registered a Gmail account in some of the first waves of invitations, a small bug may have let more than one person create variants of email addresses (john.doe vs. johndoe) that the system considers to be the same, thus you both get each other’s mail – as has happened to the author.
  Quite crazy.
• I had been blind 25 years. I had a heart attack, woke up, and could see. I said to my husband: ‘You’ve got older’
• How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
  Rules for trolls (via)
• Garrett World
  Quite like Scott Garrett’s illustrations and his sense of humour. (via)
• Mobiles cancer link ‘disproved’
  Mobile phone use does not lead to a greater risk of brain tumour, the largest study on the issue has said.
• Mugging victim draws his own police sketch
  After a burglar broke into caricaturist Bill “Weg” Green’s Heathmont home on Sunday, it took the 82-year-old just seconds to draw his attacker. Fifteen minutes later, patrolling police caught a suspect – and Mr Green’s drawing proved they had the right man.
• FreshArrival
  One amazingly cool thing, every weekday.
• The girl who named a planet
  Venetia Phair isn’t a name that immediately springs to mind when you mention astronomy. But the retired teacher from Epsom in Surrey has left an indelible signature on our map of the Solar System.
• Don’t Look Now, But It’s Happening
  The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.The Mountain View-based search engine opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents.
  Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government’s effort “vigorously.”
  …The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google.
• How to Do What You Love
• Simpsonmaker
  Make your own Simpsons character.
• Is Your Computer Killing You?
  Ten ways computing can hurt you — and how you can protect yourself.
• Everyday People Cartoons
  Lovely cartoons by Cathy Thorne. My fave.
• Dating: Positive Thinking
  Maria resolved to spend one year responding positively to all flirting and saying yes to literally anyone who asked her out. The ensuing 150 dates included a homeless man, several non-English speakers, 10 taxi drivers, two lesbians and a mime. Her memoir of the experience, “The Year of Yes,” is now in bookstores.
• Magazine Illusions – Cool Pictures
  (via)
• FeedXs
  FeedXS lets you create a feed without the need for a website. Users can subscribe to that feed and you can even update it via MSN.
• Mouthy parrot ‘reveals sex secret’
  A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover’s name.
• Blackmailers target $1m website
  Extortionists knocked the Million Dollar Homepage over with a denial-of-service attack after the owner refused to pay a ransom.
• Knickers: A Lingerie Weblog
  Might not be work safe. (via)
• Shutting Themselves In
  

  ..hikikomori, which translates as “withdrawal” and refers to a person sequestered in his room for six months or longer with no social life beyond his home. Some hikikomori do occasionally emerge from their rooms for meals with their parents, late-night runs to convenience stores or, in Takeshi’s case, once-a-month trips to buy CD’s. And though female hikikomori exist and may be undercounted, experts estimate that about 80 percent of the hikikomori are male, some as young as 13 or 14 and some who live in their rooms for 15 years or more.

  (via)

• The Omarosa Experiment
  Reality TV isn’t for the weak of ego, or the merely normal; to succeed, you must be “super-normal.” Our reporter talks to some of the industry’s most infamous offspring about their lives after the show—and the psychologists who were responsible for vetting them in the first place.
  Fascinating article on how contestants are chosen for reality TV shows. (via)
• Blog That Chart!
  You can now get Technorati search results as a chart and can also add that chart to your blog.
• If Poets Named Breakfast Cereals
• Nuvvo
  

  Nuvvo is a Learning Management System (LMS) powered by Savvica and designed for the individual instructor. It’s the first system of its kind to offer individual teachers, professors, tutors, and trainers their own Online Learning Portal from which to run courses and teach students.

• Is ‘Dr. Jekyll’ bound in mister hide?
  Finest library collections hold books wrapped in human skin. (via)
• In India, it’s IKEA without the assembly
  India, like most of Asia, has no IKEA outlet. Indians who buy the catalogs aren’t interested in mail order. Instead, they do what middle-class Indians have always done – have local carpenters make the furniture.
  I have also done by bit of “IKEA inspired” furniture design. (via)
• Top ten reasons why nobody reads your blog
  #5 – You have nothing to say.
  Applies to this blog.
• Timing is everything
  A gallery of new high-speed photos.
• Fill My Room!
  Become part of internet history by helping me fill my room! For every dollar you donate, I will add 1 block to the room! I will not stop until my room is full!
  A real world version of the Million Dollar Homepage (via)
• ViewMyCurrency
  A Firefox extension that automatically converts all foreign currencies on a web page into your currency using live exchange rates.
• Feed Overload Syndrome: 5 Reccomended Ways To Cure It
  Fighting RSS feed overload.
• Bloggers Are So Wrong About Media
  Interesting read.
• Bangladesh to curb ‘vulgar’ calls
  Bangladeshi authorities have ordered mobile phone operators to stop offering free calls after midnight, to protect the morals of young people.
  Uhh..
• Bill Walsh’s Blogslot
  The blog accompaniment to The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors
• Stardust capsule lands in Utah
  A capsule carrying dust particles from the tail of a comet parachuted to Earth on Sunday, and elated NASA scientists were eager to examine the samples for clues about how the solar system formed.
• The Philippine name game
  Naming a child is often a difficult decision. For many Filipinos, individuality is an important factor, with many chosing unconventional first names.
• PODZINGER
  A podcast search which uses speech recognition technology to turn audio into searchable text. You can even listen to the snippet that has the search term.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• ScienceBlogs
  Seed Magazine has launched a network of science blogs.
  They have a good group of writers but can’t really say the same about the topics. (via)
• Account Hijackings Force LiveJournal Changes
  LiveJournal on Thursday announced sitewide changes for users logging into their accounts — changes prompted by a hacker group’s successful hijacking of potentially hundreds of thousands of user accounts.
• When Graphic Designers Get Bored
  Nice collection of manipulated pics.
• Found in My Inbox. An odd GMail “feature”
  If you registered a Gmail account in some of the first waves of invitations, a small bug may have let more than one person create variants of email addresses (john.doe vs. johndoe) that the system considers to be the same, thus you both get each other’s mail – as has happened to the author.
  Quite crazy.
• I had been blind 25 years. I had a heart attack, woke up, and could see. I said to my husband: ‘You’ve got older’
• How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
  Rules for trolls (via)
• Garrett World
  Quite like Scott Garrett’s illustrations and his sense of humour. (via)
• Mobiles cancer link ‘disproved’
  Mobile phone use does not lead to a greater risk of brain tumour, the largest study on the issue has said.
• Mugging victim draws his own police sketch
  After a burglar broke into caricaturist Bill “Weg” Green’s Heathmont home on Sunday, it took the 82-year-old just seconds to draw his attacker. Fifteen minutes later, patrolling police caught a suspect – and Mr Green’s drawing proved they had the right man.
• FreshArrival
  One amazingly cool thing, every weekday.
• The girl who named a planet
  Venetia Phair isn’t a name that immediately springs to mind when you mention astronomy. But the retired teacher from Epsom in Surrey has left an indelible signature on our map of the Solar System.
• Don’t Look Now, But It’s Happening
  The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.The Mountain View-based search engine opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents.
  Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government’s effort “vigorously.”
  …The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed to release the information, but not Google.
• How to Do What You Love
• Simpsonmaker
  Make your own Simpsons character.
• Is Your Computer Killing You?
  Ten ways computing can hurt you — and how you can protect yourself.
• Everyday People Cartoons
  Lovely cartoons by Cathy Thorne. My fave.
• Dating: Positive Thinking
  Maria resolved to spend one year responding positively to all flirting and saying yes to literally anyone who asked her out. The ensuing 150 dates included a homeless man, several non-English speakers, 10 taxi drivers, two lesbians and a mime. Her memoir of the experience, “The Year of Yes,” is now in bookstores.
• Magazine Illusions – Cool Pictures
  (via)
• FeedXs
  FeedXS lets you create a feed without the need for a website. Users can subscribe to that feed and you can even update it via MSN.
• Mouthy parrot ‘reveals sex secret’
  A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover’s name.
• Blackmailers target $1m website
  Extortionists knocked the Million Dollar Homepage over with a denial-of-service attack after the owner refused to pay a ransom.
• Knickers: A Lingerie Weblog
  Might not be work safe. (via)
• Shutting Themselves In
  

  ..hikikomori, which translates as “withdrawal” and refers to a person sequestered in his room for six months or longer with no social life beyond his home. Some hikikomori do occasionally emerge from their rooms for meals with their parents, late-night runs to convenience stores or, in Takeshi’s case, once-a-month trips to buy CD’s. And though female hikikomori exist and may be undercounted, experts estimate that about 80 percent of the hikikomori are male, some as young as 13 or 14 and some who live in their rooms for 15 years or more.

  (via)

• The Omarosa Experiment
  Reality TV isn’t for the weak of ego, or the merely normal; to succeed, you must be “super-normal.” Our reporter talks to some of the industry’s most infamous offspring about their lives after the show—and the psychologists who were responsible for vetting them in the first place.
  Fascinating article on how contestants are chosen for reality TV shows. (via)
• Blog That Chart!
  You can now get Technorati search results as a chart and can also add that chart to your blog.
• If Poets Named Breakfast Cereals
• Nuvvo
  

  Nuvvo is a Learning Management System (LMS) powered by Savvica and designed for the individual instructor. It’s the first system of its kind to offer individual teachers, professors, tutors, and trainers their own Online Learning Portal from which to run courses and teach students.

• Is ‘Dr. Jekyll’ bound in mister hide?
  Finest library collections hold books wrapped in human skin. (via)
• In India, it’s IKEA without the assembly
  India, like most of Asia, has no IKEA outlet. Indians who buy the catalogs aren’t interested in mail order. Instead, they do what middle-class Indians have always done – have local carpenters make the furniture.
  I have also done by bit of “IKEA inspired” furniture design. (via)
• Top ten reasons why nobody reads your blog
  #5 – You have nothing to say.
  Applies to this blog.
• Timing is everything
  A gallery of new high-speed photos.
• Fill My Room!
  Become part of internet history by helping me fill my room! For every dollar you donate, I will add 1 block to the room! I will not stop until my room is full!
  A real world version of the Million Dollar Homepage (via)
• ViewMyCurrency
  A Firefox extension that automatically converts all foreign currencies on a web page into your currency using live exchange rates.
• Feed Overload Syndrome: 5 Reccomended Ways To Cure It
  Fighting RSS feed overload.
• Bloggers Are So Wrong About Media
  Interesting read.
• Bangladesh to curb ‘vulgar’ calls
  Bangladeshi authorities have ordered mobile phone operators to stop offering free calls after midnight, to protect the morals of young people.
  Uhh..
• Bill Walsh’s Blogslot
  The blog accompaniment to The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors
• Stardust capsule lands in Utah
  A capsule carrying dust particles from the tail of a comet parachuted to Earth on Sunday, and elated NASA scientists were eager to examine the samples for clues about how the solar system formed.
• The Philippine name game
  Naming a child is often a difficult decision. For many Filipinos, individuality is an important factor, with many chosing unconventional first names.
• PODZINGER
  A podcast search which uses speech recognition technology to turn audio into searchable text. You can even listen to the snippet that has the search term.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye
  Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
• Tips for getting to sleep faster and sleeping better
  I keep reading lotsa tips but they don’t seem to work for me.
• The Word is out
  Indibloggies results.
• Plants revealed as methane source
  Scientists in Germany have discovered that ordinary plants produce significant amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which helps trap the sun’s energy in the atmosphere. The findings have been described as “startling”, and may force a rethink of the role played by forests in holding back the pace of global warming.
  This is quite sensational.
• ‘Doomsday’ seed bank to be built
  Norway is planning to build a “doomsday vault” inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world’s crops.
• Automatically back up your hard drive
• Look! Apartments Seen From Above
  Small apartments photographed from above. Interesting.
• Covers
  Book covers blog.
• Top 10 tech trends for India
• iNods: search reviews and advice
  Nods is a pre-shopping research engine for you to find reviews and advice about the products, services, and other things you are looking to buy.
• 1000tags.com
  After the Million Dollar Homepage its now this.
• Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
  Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
• Like a ‘revirgin’, touched for the very first time
  The newest trend in plastic surgery for US women is vaginal reconstruction, including hymenoplasty, which offers patients new virginity.
• The Most Popular Myths in Science
• Comedian
  Great trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld movie, Comedian.
• Macworld.
  

  Lazarus — Combining the mighty power of the Intel processor and iLife ‘06, Apple has found a way to bring people back from the dead. Enter the right information into the iFlux Capacitor, click Submit, and your loved one or figure in history will be sent to you via FedEx (no overnight to Alaska or Hawaii). Engraving will be free for the first month.

  More such predictions ahead of the annual MacWorld.

• A new year for Google Video
  The all new Google video store.
• How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
  Scientists find that meditation not only reduces stress but also reshapes the brain.
• Head-tripping four-eyes image
  Damn…don’t stare at it for too long.
• Sun-Times nets Google ad deal
  In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times.
• Very nice promotional ads for McCann-Erickson
  
• How to speed up your mac and make it more stable when web browsing in 3 simple steps
  
  I guess it is the same for Windows. I use Foxit reader.
• Flower Mandalas Project
  For the past two years, I’ve been taking pictures of flowers and manipulating the images to form mandalas.
• Results of Netherlands Latte Art Championships
  Wow! (via)
• kirstenulve
  Some fabulous caricatures.
• Dogs as good as screening for cancer detection
  Dogs do as well as state-of-the-art screening tests at sniffing out people with lung or breast cancer.
• Tour Diaries
  Another new blog at Cricinfo.
• Best of CES Awards – CES 2006 – Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas
• Glaucoma Research Foundation
  Funding innovative research to find a cure for glaucoma.
  Well designed site with accessibility features. Hope they find a cure in my lifetime.
• 2005 Food Blog Awards Nominee List
• Extratasty
  Drink recipe site. Nicely done.
• iBelieve
  Inspired by the world’s obsession and devotion to the iPod, iBelieve is a replacement lanyard for your iPod Shuffle.
  Oh lord!
• “The Simpsons”: Behind the scenes of an episode

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye
  Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
• Tips for getting to sleep faster and sleeping better
  I keep reading lotsa tips but they don’t seem to work for me.
• The Word is out
  Indibloggies results.
• Plants revealed as methane source
  Scientists in Germany have discovered that ordinary plants produce significant amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which helps trap the sun’s energy in the atmosphere. The findings have been described as “startling”, and may force a rethink of the role played by forests in holding back the pace of global warming.
  This is quite sensational.
• ‘Doomsday’ seed bank to be built
  Norway is planning to build a “doomsday vault” inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world’s crops.
• Automatically back up your hard drive
• Look! Apartments Seen From Above
  Small apartments photographed from above. Interesting.
• Covers
  Book covers blog.
• Top 10 tech trends for India
• iNods: search reviews and advice
  Nods is a pre-shopping research engine for you to find reviews and advice about the products, services, and other things you are looking to buy.
• 1000tags.com
  After the Million Dollar Homepage its now this.
• Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
  Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
• Like a ‘revirgin’, touched for the very first time
  The newest trend in plastic surgery for US women is vaginal reconstruction, including hymenoplasty, which offers patients new virginity.
• The Most Popular Myths in Science
• Comedian
  Great trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld movie, Comedian.
• Macworld.
  

  Lazarus — Combining the mighty power of the Intel processor and iLife ‘06, Apple has found a way to bring people back from the dead. Enter the right information into the iFlux Capacitor, click Submit, and your loved one or figure in history will be sent to you via FedEx (no overnight to Alaska or Hawaii). Engraving will be free for the first month.

  More such predictions ahead of the annual MacWorld.

• A new year for Google Video
  The all new Google video store.
• How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
  Scientists find that meditation not only reduces stress but also reshapes the brain.
• Head-tripping four-eyes image
  Damn…don’t stare at it for too long.
• Sun-Times nets Google ad deal
  In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times.
• Very nice promotional ads for McCann-Erickson
  
• How to speed up your mac and make it more stable when web browsing in 3 simple steps
  
  I guess it is the same for Windows. I use Foxit reader.
• Flower Mandalas Project
  For the past two years, I’ve been taking pictures of flowers and manipulating the images to form mandalas.
• Results of Netherlands Latte Art Championships
  Wow! (via)
• kirstenulve
  Some fabulous caricatures.
• Dogs as good as screening for cancer detection
  Dogs do as well as state-of-the-art screening tests at sniffing out people with lung or breast cancer.
• Tour Diaries
  Another new blog at Cricinfo.
• Best of CES Awards – CES 2006 – Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas
• Glaucoma Research Foundation
  Funding innovative research to find a cure for glaucoma.
  Well designed site with accessibility features. Hope they find a cure in my lifetime.
• 2005 Food Blog Awards Nominee List
• Extratasty
  Drink recipe site. Nicely done.
• iBelieve
  Inspired by the world’s obsession and devotion to the iPod, iBelieve is a replacement lanyard for your iPod Shuffle.
  Oh lord!
• “The Simpsons”: Behind the scenes of an episode

New design for January ‘06

The basic idea for the design came from this post by Alpha and our search that day for photo albums with “corner pockets”.

Once the “corner pockets” and the photo was in place, I just clipped together a few pieces of paper to jot things down.

New design for January ‘06

The basic idea for the design came from this post by Alpha and our search that day for photo albums with “corner pockets”.

Once the “corner pockets” and the photo was in place, I just clipped together a few pieces of paper to jot things down.

New design for January ‘06

The basic idea for the design came from this post by Alpha and our search that day for photo albums with “corner pockets”.

Once the “corner pockets” and the photo was in place, I just clipped together a few pieces of paper to jot things down.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Google Pack
  A free collection of essential software. Includes Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Ad-Aware, Norton Antivirus 2005, Adobe Reader 7…
• The Google Labs Aptitute Test
  Includes the question – Write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality.
• Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005
  (via)
• Yahoo! Go
  A new suite of products and services for your PC, mobile phone and even your TV.
• Get in on the mad rush for new “dot” addresses
  Yahoo Mail has opened up “dot” addresses. Maybe I should change mine.
• Comic Stewart will present Oscars
  Wonderful!
• Naukri.com, CNBC TV18 to launch ‘Job Show’
  A first on Indian television.
• Magnet therapies ‘have no effect’
  Magnet therapies which are claimed to cure conditions ranging from back pain to cancer have no proven benefits, according to a team of US researchers.
• web economy bullshit generator
• Virender Sehwag Official Website
  (via)
• podbazaar
  Podbazaar is the premier online source for stimulating and entertaining podcasts focused on the interests and needs of South Asian audiences, worldwide.
  (via)
• Edge
  Each year, Edge.org asks some of the brightest minds in science and technology to consider one question and respond in essay form. The question for 2006 is: What is your dangerous idea? Read the responses.
• technoranki
  Blog ranking service.
• Surprise secret to soccer appeal
  American football, basketball and baseball have millions of followers, but they can’t match soccer for sheer excitement, says a team of scientists.
• Simpsons creator praises Gervais
  The Simpsons creator Matt Groening said Ricky Gervais did such a good job writing an episode of the hit US comedy show that he wants him to do more.
  Two of my fave people. Looking forward to that episode.
• Google logo celebrating Louis Braille’s birthday
  Oh the irony!
• Introducting Bastards of the Blogs
  Bastards of the Blogs are Blog Personalities we feel are deserving of some kind of honor — but it might not be the type of honor they are expecting. We will be releasing one every few weeks, and the readers will be able to vote on who should be a Bastard.
• retrievr – search by sketch
  retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
  Quite interesting.
• Free online file storage/sending services
• Outspoken Chinese blogger censored by Microsoft
• Intel Unveils New Brand Identity
• AllPeers : Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want!
  The best thing to happen to Firefox since Firefox – is what they claim.
  Sounds interesting albeit controversial.
• Rich Editing in BlogThis!
  Blogger improves BlogThis.
• Lake Superior State University 2006 List of Banished Words
  The annual List is out. My fave…BREAKING NEWS – Once it stopped presses. Now it’s a lower-intestinal condition brought about by eating dinner during newscasts
• Buzzword Hell
  

  So many people seemed to exhibit a certain disdain towards them but had no place to properly vent their frustrations. So, I thought up a simple way for people to express these feelings – send the buzzwords to hell.

  Nice colours on the site.

• Bloggies >> Sixth Annual Weblog Awards
  Nominations now open.
• Yahoo shapes up online video project / Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the Internet
  (via)
• Scientists dismiss detox schemes
• Rowdy air passenger cast away on remote Atlantic isle
  A drunken passenger on a holiday flight from England to Spain was dropped at a tiny island off the African coast after he swore at the cabin crew.
• Drawn! The Illustration Blog
  Drawn! is a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw.
• This to That (Glue Advice)
  

  We are here to help you choose the right glue for your bonding requirements. We are committed to keeping current with the adhesive market, but we don’t claim to know everything about every glue on the market.

  This is why I love the interweb thingy. (via)

• The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb)
  The web’s largest movie script resource!
  Excellent!