Links For A Sunday Morning

• CNN.com
  Has redesigned.
• IBNLive
  Also redesigned.
• Analysis: ‘Sicko’ numbers mostly accurate; more context needed
  I saw it a few days back. And if you live in America you should too.
• Embiggening the smallest man
  There are few places on the planet where the influence of five bright yellow, boggle-eyed residents of Springfield has yet to be felt, and there will be fewer still with the long-awaited arrival of the first Simpsons movie. Oliver Burkeman meets the creators of the longest-running animated show in television history, hears the origins of ‘D’oh!’, what it feels like to see someone with a Simpsons tattoo – and why Maggie has learned only one word in 20 years.
• BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype
  
• Drying your hands just got easier
  Get rid of those useless hand dryers already.
• Getting the most out of your Windows keyboard
• Meet the neighbours: Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
  Astronomer David Whitehouse explores the perils of a close encounter.
• ‘Stealth racism’ stalks deep South
  This World investigates the rise of discrimination in America’s deep south as six black youths are charged with an alleged attack on a white student, which could see them jailed for up to 50 years.
• What the World Eats
  This is a fascinating look at what’s on people’s dinner tables across the globe.
• Cursed, Yet Blessed
  Munyiva is one of a remarkable group of 25 Nairobi prostitutes who are the subjects of intensive scientific study. The fact that they have no symptoms of AIDS is not so amazing, since HIV can lie dormant in the body for many years before it begins its deadly work. What is surprising is that the virus cannot be found in these women at all; it apparently cannot establish itself in their cells.
• Knock-out name for baby girl
• ABC News: 100 Blogs We Love
  Like Kottke says: “100 blogs they love so much that they’re not going to link to a single one.”
• Olympic sprinter Marion Jones is broke
  One-time millionaire’s bank of balance down to $2,000, records show.
• 14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit
• Social sites reveal class divide
  Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study.
• Poll names most irritating web words
• If you’re tired of being nagged all the time, here are 8 tips to STOP the NAGGING.
• Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students
• Six ways to make a good e-mail signature
• HIV infection theory challenged
• If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers
  (Have linked to this before..?)
• iPhone – A Guided Tour
• The American Film Institute’s top 100 movies
• Research Finds Firstborns Gain the Higher I.Q.
• How to Memorize Anything
• The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
• Microsoft Surface Parody
  
• How to Take Great Group Photos
• Skyping Baby Names
  
• 10 tips for beating blogger’s block
• The seven most annoying things about the future
  
• How to Write a Book in 60 Days or Less
• Swajana
  

  Our goal is to show daily life in India through the eyes of people who actually live there.

• Webware 100 Winners
  The top 100 web apps.
• Yahoo’s Chief Resigns, and a Founder Takes Over
• Rickshaw Driving 101
• 8hands
  8hands brings social networks to your desktop. Access all your social networks (MySpace, Blogs, Flickr, YouTube etc.) from a single entry point.
• LUCID DREAMS
  Lucid dreaming is a state in which the sleeper becomes alert and conscious that he or she is dreaming. The imagery in this state is reported to be more vivid than in non-lucid states, and it is difficult to distinguish between the dream and reality. The dreamer is able to control what is dreamed.
• Configurable T-shirt
  This t-shirt provides a matrix of pixels that can be coloured in with a black felt-tip pen in order to turn them “off”.
• Digital Cameras: The Top 10 Things You Need to Know
• The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes
• Warnings of ‘internet overload’
  As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year.
• Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey
• Too Many Dot Balls
  Gavaskar’s long been a part of the Indian cricket establishment. Has it been worth it?
  Finally somebody has belled the cat.

Sorry

No Sunday links this week.

Sorry

No Sunday links this week.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• YouTube – Remixer
  Edit videos from within YouTube.
• Men suffer from phantom pregnancy
  Expectant fathers can suffer from pregnancy symptoms.
• The 50 best business blogs
• Spot The Fake Smile
  I got 18 outta 20 correct.
• The Hottest Female Podcasters of 2007
• Oven cleaner offers glaucoma hope
  A substance found in oven cleaner could be used to treat the eye disease glaucoma.
• Gravity Bookshelf
  Nice.
• Give your Photos the fun of Flickr
  Yahoo Photos will be shut down in 99 days for some users, but Yahoo has released tools to let members move their pictures to alternative sites.
• Introducing Blogger… in draft
  an experimental version of the site where the early adopters among you can try out new features before they’re ready for full release.
• What happens when you name your sons Winner and Loser?
• Pencil carvings
• Apple.com
  Redesigned.
• Safari 3 Public Beta
  Now on Windows.
• Equilink
  The world’s premier horse search engine.
• ESPN acquires Cricinfo
• Top 25 Most Popular Blogs June 2007
• How to Nap at Work – or Anyplace You Need a Rest
• 27 Skills Your Child Needs to Know That She’s Not Getting In School
• Make your own homemade Cockroach Exterminator
• Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’
  A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• YouTube – Remixer
  Edit videos from within YouTube.
• Men suffer from phantom pregnancy
  Expectant fathers can suffer from pregnancy symptoms.
• The 50 best business blogs
• Spot The Fake Smile
  I got 18 outta 20 correct.
• The Hottest Female Podcasters of 2007
• Oven cleaner offers glaucoma hope
  A substance found in oven cleaner could be used to treat the eye disease glaucoma.
• Gravity Bookshelf
  Nice.
• Give your Photos the fun of Flickr
  Yahoo Photos will be shut down in 99 days for some users, but Yahoo has released tools to let members move their pictures to alternative sites.
• Introducing Blogger… in draft
  an experimental version of the site where the early adopters among you can try out new features before they’re ready for full release.
• What happens when you name your sons Winner and Loser?
• Pencil carvings
• Apple.com
  Redesigned.
• Safari 3 Public Beta
  Now on Windows.
• Equilink
  The world’s premier horse search engine.
• ESPN acquires Cricinfo
• Top 25 Most Popular Blogs June 2007
• How to Nap at Work – or Anyplace You Need a Rest
• 27 Skills Your Child Needs to Know That She’s Not Getting In School
• Make your own homemade Cockroach Exterminator
• Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’
  A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• CrowdVine
  Create your own social network.
• 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
• Unforgettable Photos
• Random Pizza Generator
  I got Feta, Cauliflowers, Roasted Eggplant, Artichoke Hearts, Tomatoes, Tandoori Chicken.
• 20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches
• Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client
  !
• Did pirates really say “arrrr”?
  No. And nobody ever walked the plank, either.
• “Does my bum look big in this?” – What Clothes to Wear in Portraits
• The Next Internet Millionaire Web Reality Show
• Movable Type 4 Beta: We’re On A Mission
  MT4 beta released..to be open sourced.
• The Profit Calculator
  The wild risks, unexpected niches, and day-in-day-out grind behind making a dollar in New York for everyone… from a drug dealer to Goldman Sachs.
• Business card that sprouts
• 850,000 phones meet death by toilet yearly in the UK
  
• A contest
  Lamest ever Orkut challenge – The objective is to come up with the most outrageously inappropriate (but hilarious) ‘let’s be friends’ Orkut approach possible.
• Announcing ‘Rickshaw Run’ Aspirations
• Disable Annoying Vista UAC popups with TweakUAC (free!)
• How I Work – Marissa Mayer
  
• Back Up your Cell Phone Contacts
  
• Apple – iPhone – TV Ads
  Coming June 29th.
• 10 Free Ways to Track All Your Passwords
• Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine

Links For A Sunday Morning

• CrowdVine
  Create your own social network.
• 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
• Unforgettable Photos
• Random Pizza Generator
  I got Feta, Cauliflowers, Roasted Eggplant, Artichoke Hearts, Tomatoes, Tandoori Chicken.
• 20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches
• Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client
  !
• Did pirates really say “arrrr”?
  No. And nobody ever walked the plank, either.
• “Does my bum look big in this?” – What Clothes to Wear in Portraits
• The Next Internet Millionaire Web Reality Show
• Movable Type 4 Beta: We’re On A Mission
  MT4 beta released..to be open sourced.
• The Profit Calculator
  The wild risks, unexpected niches, and day-in-day-out grind behind making a dollar in New York for everyone… from a drug dealer to Goldman Sachs.
• Business card that sprouts
• 850,000 phones meet death by toilet yearly in the UK
  
• A contest
  Lamest ever Orkut challenge – The objective is to come up with the most outrageously inappropriate (but hilarious) ‘let’s be friends’ Orkut approach possible.
• Announcing ‘Rickshaw Run’ Aspirations
• Disable Annoying Vista UAC popups with TweakUAC (free!)
• How I Work – Marissa Mayer
  
• Back Up your Cell Phone Contacts
  
• Apple – iPhone – TV Ads
  Coming June 29th.
• 10 Free Ways to Track All Your Passwords
• Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine

Links For A Sunday Morning

• 17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy
• Australians in a lather over shampoo
  Dogs washed weekly look and smell pretty much the same as those that aren’t. So is the same true of people who use shampoo and those that don’t?Australia’s national broadcaster interested 523 people in a six- week trial and came up with a result that was certainly conclusive.
• Startup Search. Directory of web technology startups
• Tiny Animals On Fingers – a photoset on Flickr
• Man described as a top spammer arrested
  A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday.
• Doctored Magazine Covers
• Gizmoz
  Generate animated avatars, buddy icons…
• Mahalo
  Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine.
• Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt
  Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company’s recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.
• Google Gears (BETA)
  A browser plug-in to enable offline web apps.
• PC World – The 100 Best Products of 2007
• 20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters
• CBS buys Last.fm for $280m
• Microsoft Surface – Behind the Scenes with VIDEO
  The software giant will announce at the D5 conference today that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.
  Cool!
• Introducing… Street View!
  Google maps adds 3D street view
• Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia
  A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state.
• Drifting rubber duckies chart oceans of plastic
  A flotilla of yellow bathtub rubber ducks, lost at sea when they fell off a container ship in the North Pacific in 1992, is about to wash up on Europe’s western shores, according to an oceanographer who has been tracking them for years.
  More of the much-traveled toys are thought to be heading down the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, where their arrival would offer new data on ocean currents and wind patterns.
• Virtual Barbershop
  This is clever and spooky. You’ll need headphones though and do close your eyes.
• Every good domain is taken. Here’s why.
• 10 Ways to Send Huge Files
• Here’s what top Indian CEOs earn
• Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children

Links For A Sunday Morning

• 17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy
• Australians in a lather over shampoo
  Dogs washed weekly look and smell pretty much the same as those that aren’t. So is the same true of people who use shampoo and those that don’t?Australia’s national broadcaster interested 523 people in a six- week trial and came up with a result that was certainly conclusive.
• Startup Search. Directory of web technology startups
• Tiny Animals On Fingers – a photoset on Flickr
• Man described as a top spammer arrested
  A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday.
• Doctored Magazine Covers
• Gizmoz
  Generate animated avatars, buddy icons…
• Mahalo
  Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine.
• Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt
  Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company’s recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.
• Google Gears (BETA)
  A browser plug-in to enable offline web apps.
• PC World – The 100 Best Products of 2007
• 20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters
• CBS buys Last.fm for $280m
• Microsoft Surface – Behind the Scenes with VIDEO
  The software giant will announce at the D5 conference today that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.
  Cool!
• Introducing… Street View!
  Google maps adds 3D street view
• Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia
  A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state.
• Drifting rubber duckies chart oceans of plastic
  A flotilla of yellow bathtub rubber ducks, lost at sea when they fell off a container ship in the North Pacific in 1992, is about to wash up on Europe’s western shores, according to an oceanographer who has been tracking them for years.
  More of the much-traveled toys are thought to be heading down the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, where their arrival would offer new data on ocean currents and wind patterns.
• Virtual Barbershop
  This is clever and spooky. You’ll need headphones though and do close your eyes.
• Every good domain is taken. Here’s why.
• 10 Ways to Send Huge Files
• Here’s what top Indian CEOs earn
• Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children