Links For A Sunday Morning

• Google Mars
• The Fifth Annual Brilliant 10
  Worms, planets, extra dimensions: just a few of the things that inspire the most creative young scientists of the year
• Top 10 Worst Portrayals of Technology in Film
• Mosquitoes’ sweet tooth targeted
  Mosquitoes’ thirst for sugar could prove to be the answer for eliminating malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases, say scientists.
• How to explain RSS the Oprah way
• Split Magazine
  An online music magazine focusing on Indian rock music.
• World’s Most Valuable Comic Books.
• Vitamin ‘may block MS disability’
  Vitamin shots may help protect multiple sclerosis patients from severe long-term disability, a study suggests.
• MommyBuzz
  Social network for moms.
• Scientists develop a sunless tan
  Scientists have given mice a tan without exposing them to the sun. They have developed a cream, which has not yet been tested on humans, that switches on the tanning machinery in skin cells.
• Mallika Sherawat’s official website
• The Yahoo! Current Network
• What’s the longest a person has gone without sleep?
• Voices in the head ‘are normal’
  Phew..
• Black and white to colour
  
• Picasa goes online, gets new features too
• India’s e-tutors give UK children homework help
  Call centres charge £50 a month for unlimited individual help to pupils thousands of miles away
• The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube
• Texting Etiquette
• Adoptive mums win maternity right
  Women who adopt babies in India will now be eligible for maternity leave, a federal government order says.
• Anousheh Ansari: A passion for space travel
  Ms. Ansari says she will write the first blog from space.
• How to talk like a pirate
  

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Google Mars
• The Fifth Annual Brilliant 10
  Worms, planets, extra dimensions: just a few of the things that inspire the most creative young scientists of the year
• Top 10 Worst Portrayals of Technology in Film
• Mosquitoes’ sweet tooth targeted
  Mosquitoes’ thirst for sugar could prove to be the answer for eliminating malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases, say scientists.
• How to explain RSS the Oprah way
• Split Magazine
  An online music magazine focusing on Indian rock music.
• World’s Most Valuable Comic Books.
• Vitamin ‘may block MS disability’
  Vitamin shots may help protect multiple sclerosis patients from severe long-term disability, a study suggests.
• MommyBuzz
  Social network for moms.
• Scientists develop a sunless tan
  Scientists have given mice a tan without exposing them to the sun. They have developed a cream, which has not yet been tested on humans, that switches on the tanning machinery in skin cells.
• Mallika Sherawat’s official website
• The Yahoo! Current Network
• What’s the longest a person has gone without sleep?
• Voices in the head ‘are normal’
  Phew..
• Black and white to colour
  
• Picasa goes online, gets new features too
• India’s e-tutors give UK children homework help
  Call centres charge £50 a month for unlimited individual help to pupils thousands of miles away
• The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube
• Texting Etiquette
• Adoptive mums win maternity right
  Women who adopt babies in India will now be eligible for maternity leave, a federal government order says.
• Anousheh Ansari: A passion for space travel
  Ms. Ansari says she will write the first blog from space.
• How to talk like a pirate
  

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The 25 Worst Web Sites
• Wives tell gangsters to lay down arms or go without sex
  Gang members in one of Colombia’s most violent cities face an ultimatum: give up guns or give up sex. In what is being called a “strike of crossed legs”, supported by the Pereira mayor’s office, the wives and girlfriends of gang members have said they will not have sex with their partners until they vow to give up violence.
• Sarah Waters heads Booker shortlist
• Microsoft’s iPod rival Zune Gets Officially Announced
• Yahoo’s excellent Mail Beta now open to everyone
• Web sites to finally get govt accreditation
  India has become one of the first countries in the world to grant government accreditation to journalists working on the Internet.
• blogsitter.net
  blogsitter.net is the platform for bloggers who need caring people to sit their blogs.
• Viral Video Chart
  The world’s most talked about videos…currently tracking YouTube, MySpace and Google Video
• How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger
  (via)
• Madrid bans waifs from catwalks
  Madrid fashion week, one of Spain’s most prestigious shows, is banning underweight models on the basis of their body mass index (BMI).
• Jambav – Education and entertainment software for children of all abilities
  Finally something new from an Indian startup.
• Celebrate your freedom to read
  Explore banned books on Google.
• Top 25 Simpsons Guest Appearances
• Modern Ways Open India’s Doors to Diabetes
• How many calories do you burn while sleeping?
• Weightlifting ‘link to eye risk’
  Regular weightlifting may increase the risk of the eyesight-threatening condition glaucoma, research suggests.
  Definitely not the cause of my glaucoma.
• Assaulted, Abused, Evicted – for not “showing respect” to Indian national anthem
• The Onion’s 9/11 issue
  Includes..’U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We’re At War With’ and ‘Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell’.
• What Slows Windows Down?
  Norton Anti-virus and too many installed fonts top the list.
• Flickr Support for Blogger in beta
• Legal precedent set for web accessibility
  Federal judge sustains discrimination claims against Target; precedent establishes that retailers must make their websites accessible to the blind under the ADA.
• 10 Reasons To Drink More Water
• 8 Important Lessons Learned from ’80s Cartoons
• Second lottery win for US woman
  A US woman who won $1m (�536,000) in the New York state lottery four years ago has beaten the odds by winning another $1m lottery jackpot. Experts say that the chances of her winning both games were an incredible 1 in 3,669,120,000,000.
• Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The 25 Worst Web Sites
• Wives tell gangsters to lay down arms or go without sex
  Gang members in one of Colombia’s most violent cities face an ultimatum: give up guns or give up sex. In what is being called a “strike of crossed legs”, supported by the Pereira mayor’s office, the wives and girlfriends of gang members have said they will not have sex with their partners until they vow to give up violence.
• Sarah Waters heads Booker shortlist
• Microsoft’s iPod rival Zune Gets Officially Announced
• Yahoo’s excellent Mail Beta now open to everyone
• Web sites to finally get govt accreditation
  India has become one of the first countries in the world to grant government accreditation to journalists working on the Internet.
• blogsitter.net
  blogsitter.net is the platform for bloggers who need caring people to sit their blogs.
• Viral Video Chart
  The world’s most talked about videos…currently tracking YouTube, MySpace and Google Video
• How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger
  (via)
• Madrid bans waifs from catwalks
  Madrid fashion week, one of Spain’s most prestigious shows, is banning underweight models on the basis of their body mass index (BMI).
• Jambav – Education and entertainment software for children of all abilities
  Finally something new from an Indian startup.
• Celebrate your freedom to read
  Explore banned books on Google.
• Top 25 Simpsons Guest Appearances
• Modern Ways Open India’s Doors to Diabetes
• How many calories do you burn while sleeping?
• Weightlifting ‘link to eye risk’
  Regular weightlifting may increase the risk of the eyesight-threatening condition glaucoma, research suggests.
  Definitely not the cause of my glaucoma.
• Assaulted, Abused, Evicted – for not “showing respect” to Indian national anthem
• The Onion’s 9/11 issue
  Includes..’U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We’re At War With’ and ‘Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell’.
• What Slows Windows Down?
  Norton Anti-virus and too many installed fonts top the list.
• Flickr Support for Blogger in beta
• Legal precedent set for web accessibility
  Federal judge sustains discrimination claims against Target; precedent establishes that retailers must make their websites accessible to the blind under the ADA.
• 10 Reasons To Drink More Water
• 8 Important Lessons Learned from ’80s Cartoons
• Second lottery win for US woman
  A US woman who won $1m (�536,000) in the New York state lottery four years ago has beaten the odds by winning another $1m lottery jackpot. Experts say that the chances of her winning both games were an incredible 1 in 3,669,120,000,000.
• Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The 19 Best Elearning Blogs
• Ten major news stories the media is ignoring
• Unbox
  Amazon.com video downloads.
• The Ultimate Blog Post
  

  Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it.

  

• Google Related Links
  Webmasters can place these units on their site to provide visitors with links to useful information related to the site’s content, including relevant videos, news, searches, and pages.
• Thoughts of woman in ‘waking coma’ revealed
  Brain scans of vegetative patient ignites debate over her awareness.
• eBible.com
• Top 10 Ping Pong Shots of All Time
• Why YouTube works
• Learning from your referrers
• Six Apart Acquires Rojo
• 12 Rules for Marriage
• Will Vista stall Net traffic?
  Thanks to new directory software, Windows Vista could put a greater load on Internet servers. But experts disagree over whether we’re headed for a prime-time traffic jam or insignificant slowdown.
• Google opens up 200 years of news
  Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the launch of the Google News Archive Search.
• Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
• Materazzi breaks Zidane silence
  Marco Materazzi has finally explained what he said to Zinedine Zidane before he was headbutted by the Frenchman during Italy’s World Cup final victory.
• How 9/11 changed America: In statistics
• Who Writes Wikipedia?
• The Discovery Channel Killed Steve Irwin
  

  Discovery is responsible for creating the “naturalists have to risk their lives to be credible” genre

• Steve Irwin, the Croc Hunter, dead at 44
  

  Steve was authentic, passionate, curious, and deeply knowledgeable about his craft. He approached his work with a off-the-charts level of enthusiasm. We should all have as much fun at our jobs. We should all love what we do as much as Steve loved what he did.

• Germaine Greer: ‘That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin’
  

  What Irwin never seemed to understand was that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal cause of species loss. There was no habitat, no matter how fragile or finely balanced, that Irwin hesitated to barge into, trumpeting his wonder and amazement to the skies. There was not an animal he was not prepared to manhandle. Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress. Every snake badgered by Irwin was at a huge disadvantage, with only a single possible reaction to its terrifying situation, which was to strike.

  The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin, but probably not before a whole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small has learned to shout in the ears of animals with hearing 10 times more acute than theirs, determined to become millionaire animal-loving zoo-owners in their turn.

• The Dilbert Blog: What? No Way!
  Scott Adams on Steve Irwin’s death.
• Do wild animals ever get overweight or obese?
• A Cock-and-Bull Story
  Explaining the huge rise in teen oral sex.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• The 19 Best Elearning Blogs
• Ten major news stories the media is ignoring
• Unbox
  Amazon.com video downloads.
• The Ultimate Blog Post
  

  Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it.

  

• Google Related Links
  Webmasters can place these units on their site to provide visitors with links to useful information related to the site’s content, including relevant videos, news, searches, and pages.
• Thoughts of woman in ‘waking coma’ revealed
  Brain scans of vegetative patient ignites debate over her awareness.
• eBible.com
• Top 10 Ping Pong Shots of All Time
• Why YouTube works
• Learning from your referrers
• Six Apart Acquires Rojo
• 12 Rules for Marriage
• Will Vista stall Net traffic?
  Thanks to new directory software, Windows Vista could put a greater load on Internet servers. But experts disagree over whether we’re headed for a prime-time traffic jam or insignificant slowdown.
• Google opens up 200 years of news
  Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the launch of the Google News Archive Search.
• Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
• Materazzi breaks Zidane silence
  Marco Materazzi has finally explained what he said to Zinedine Zidane before he was headbutted by the Frenchman during Italy’s World Cup final victory.
• How 9/11 changed America: In statistics
• Who Writes Wikipedia?
• The Discovery Channel Killed Steve Irwin
  

  Discovery is responsible for creating the “naturalists have to risk their lives to be credible” genre

• Steve Irwin, the Croc Hunter, dead at 44
  

  Steve was authentic, passionate, curious, and deeply knowledgeable about his craft. He approached his work with a off-the-charts level of enthusiasm. We should all have as much fun at our jobs. We should all love what we do as much as Steve loved what he did.

• Germaine Greer: ‘That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin’
  

  What Irwin never seemed to understand was that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal cause of species loss. There was no habitat, no matter how fragile or finely balanced, that Irwin hesitated to barge into, trumpeting his wonder and amazement to the skies. There was not an animal he was not prepared to manhandle. Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress. Every snake badgered by Irwin was at a huge disadvantage, with only a single possible reaction to its terrifying situation, which was to strike.

  The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin, but probably not before a whole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small has learned to shout in the ears of animals with hearing 10 times more acute than theirs, determined to become millionaire animal-loving zoo-owners in their turn.

• The Dilbert Blog: What? No Way!
  Scott Adams on Steve Irwin’s death.
• Do wild animals ever get overweight or obese?
• A Cock-and-Bull Story
  Explaining the huge rise in teen oral sex.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Tracking the web with Single Page Aggregators
• On being a Macintosh girl at Microsoft
• Cell phones won’t keep your secrets
  Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.
• Norwegian police recover ‘The Scream’
• 9 Ways for Newspapers to Improve Their Websites
• Pluto is a Planet Protest
  
• Download the classics
  Starting today, you can go to Google Book Search and download full copies of out-of-copyright books to read at your own pace.
• Pictures of the family of the person who stole my cell phone posted to my flickr account
• What exactly is a booger?
• Google chief joins Apple’s board
• Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
  Share what you make and how others can make it.
• Political blogs unite for advertising venture
  Britain’s leading political blogs have joined forces to sell their advertising space, in an attempt to cash in on the growing commercial potential of the blogosphere.
• Interview – Conan O’Brien
• Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking
• Spammers manipulate stock markets
  Spam messages that tout stocks and shares can have real effects on the markets, a study suggests.
• Unconferences are Overrated
• B’lore to be India’s first Wi-Fi city
• Bill Watterson’s rarest
• Normal Timepieces
  Love the one in the middle.
• Cell phones taking over as timepieces
  The proliferation of cell phones, with their list of extra features, has had the knock-on effect of eliminating the need to wear a wristwatch unless it is to make a fashion statement.
• Great shot – where’d you take that?
  Flickr adds geotagging.
• gladwell.com: Dependency Ratios: one last time
  

  One of my frustrations with the blogosphere–as those of you who read this blog know–is that I think that the immediacy of web publishing makes some people lazy. They type faster than they think; or they believe that a reaction is the same thing as an argument.

• Think Flat
  The Infosys blog. I don’t get it.
• They know all about you
  Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google and co.
• The Myth About Homework
  Think hours of slogging are helping your child make the grade? Think again.
• Inside the actors studio – The Simpsons
  Must see for Simpsons fans.
• WikiCharts — Top 100
  This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most.
• Google Office ‘version 1.0′ debuts
  Google doesn’t yet have an Office 2.0–a full suite of hosted productivity applications aimed at the Microsoft Office crowd, especially the small- and medium-sized firms–but starting tomorrow companies or organizations can deploy Google email, calendar, chat and Web page (Page Creator) hosting for free (ad supported).
• Me
  On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since. In 2004, Lee compiled all of her daily images into a montage with a wistful musical score.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Tracking the web with Single Page Aggregators
• On being a Macintosh girl at Microsoft
• Cell phones won’t keep your secrets
  Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.
• Norwegian police recover ‘The Scream’
• 9 Ways for Newspapers to Improve Their Websites
• Pluto is a Planet Protest
  
• Download the classics
  Starting today, you can go to Google Book Search and download full copies of out-of-copyright books to read at your own pace.
• Pictures of the family of the person who stole my cell phone posted to my flickr account
• What exactly is a booger?
• Google chief joins Apple’s board
• Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
  Share what you make and how others can make it.
• Political blogs unite for advertising venture
  Britain’s leading political blogs have joined forces to sell their advertising space, in an attempt to cash in on the growing commercial potential of the blogosphere.
• Interview – Conan O’Brien
• Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking
• Spammers manipulate stock markets
  Spam messages that tout stocks and shares can have real effects on the markets, a study suggests.
• Unconferences are Overrated
• B’lore to be India’s first Wi-Fi city
• Bill Watterson’s rarest
• Normal Timepieces
  Love the one in the middle.
• Cell phones taking over as timepieces
  The proliferation of cell phones, with their list of extra features, has had the knock-on effect of eliminating the need to wear a wristwatch unless it is to make a fashion statement.
• Great shot – where’d you take that?
  Flickr adds geotagging.
• gladwell.com: Dependency Ratios: one last time
  

  One of my frustrations with the blogosphere–as those of you who read this blog know–is that I think that the immediacy of web publishing makes some people lazy. They type faster than they think; or they believe that a reaction is the same thing as an argument.

• Think Flat
  The Infosys blog. I don’t get it.
• They know all about you
  Every time you use an internet search engine, your inquiry is stored in a huge database. Would you like such personal information to become public knowledge? Yet for thousands of AOL customers, that nightmare has just become a reality. Andrew Brown reports on an incident that has exposed how much we divulge to Google and co.
• The Myth About Homework
  Think hours of slogging are helping your child make the grade? Think again.
• Inside the actors studio – The Simpsons
  Must see for Simpsons fans.
• WikiCharts — Top 100
  This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most.
• Google Office ‘version 1.0′ debuts
  Google doesn’t yet have an Office 2.0–a full suite of hosted productivity applications aimed at the Microsoft Office crowd, especially the small- and medium-sized firms–but starting tomorrow companies or organizations can deploy Google email, calendar, chat and Web page (Page Creator) hosting for free (ad supported).
• Me
  On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since. In 2004, Lee compiled all of her daily images into a montage with a wistful musical score.