Links For A Sunday Morning

• 17 home remedies for bites, aches and burns
• End of Support for Netscape web browsers
  RIP Netscape.
• Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007
• 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections)
• The Ink Fades on a Profession as India Modernizes
• kwout
  Knout lets you quote a part of a website by taking a screenshot of it and allowing you to embed it on your website.
• Festive greetings ‘from Heaven’
  A man from the US state of Oregon has stunned friends and relatives by sending them Christmas cards, two months after his own death.
  The 34 handwritten cards were sent and signed by Chet Fitch, who died in October aged 88, with ‘Heaven’ given as the return address.
  In a message on the cards, Mr Fitch said God had allowed him back to Earth specially to deliver the cards.
• Local Girl’s day in pictures
• Facebook is so last year – welcome to the hit websites of 2008
• Henry Sene Yee Design
  Portfolio of book cover designs.
• Cereal Killers
  Kreepsville Industries presents Cereal Killers. A spooky, kooky coffin table cartoon art book featuring terrorfying takes on some of your favorite breakfast cereal’s.
• Dark chocolate ‘not so healthy’
  Plain chocolate is naturally rich in flavanols, plant chemicals that are believed to protect the heart. But an editorial in the Lancet points out that many manufacturers remove flavanols because of their bitter taste.
• Heal thyself: One doctor’s experiment
  Oncologist devised her own treatment plan and beat the odds.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Lost – Season 4 Trailer
• Bangalore records highest rainfall in 14 years
  Somebody up there has got the seasons mixed up. It is supposed to be winter now.
• Reuters – Pictures of the Year 2007
• Unwrapping the Miraculous Logistics Behind Operation Christmas
  
  I like the Naughty/Nice algorithm.
• PFCRonin – The Next Generation of Movie Reviewers : Call for Entries
  We sure need ‘em. And good ones.
• 15 Powerful Ways to Differentiate Your Blog from the Crowd
• Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading
• Vishal Bharadwaj’s Blood Brothers
  Staring Siddarth, Ayesha Takia, Pavan Malhotra and Pankaj Kapur.
  One of the 4 films made for World AIDS Day. This one along with Santosh Sivan’s Prarambh are the 2 I liked. All 4 will supposedly get a YouTube release sometime soon.
• Let’s Rethink Doping
  Baah. Why pretend to have a competition for atheletes then. Let the scientists compete and let’s award them for the best steroids, hormones, masking agents… And even with drugs it isn’t going to be a level playing field. It will just be about access to the better scientist and the better drug.
• Simpsons House In Real World
• Reality check: what we know (and don’t) about Windows 7
• New Wall-E trailer
• The Golden Suicides
  

  When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?

• New WALL•E Trailer
• Google Releases First Zeitgeist for India
• Handmade 2.0
  What are so many crochet-hook-wielding, papermaking, silversmithing handicrafters doing online? Trying to prove that the future of shopping – and of work – is all about the past.
• Rule 1 for Collaborative Media: Ask First
• IPL and the name game
  

  The IPL will open up new avenues in creativity: new logos, hideous T-shirt design competitions and names for the teams, sorry franchises, from the macho end of the animal kingdom like Tigers and Cobras (but how can anyone leave out the elephants?)

• Weblogs rack up a decade of posts
  The word ‘weblog’ celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997.
• Facebook in 30 years
  
• Netiquette (Internet Etiquette)
• Homer Simpson takes a photo of himself everyday for 39 years
  Homer Simpson mimics Noah Kalina’s famous photo time lapse. From “The Simpsons” episode 19×09 which aired December 16, 2007.
• Google Profiles

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Stats, stats, baby!
  Stats and a new uploader on Flickr.
• Jen Stark: Kaleidoscopic Paper Eruptions
• OpenID Commenting
  Now available on Blogger.
• Gamer jargon becomes word of the year
  “W00t” is word of the year. Umm..
• Google Zeitgeist 2007
• Yahoo! Shortcuts
  A WordPress plugin by Yahoo to show rich content in blog posts.
• Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
  Google to launch Knol.
  

  Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read. The goal is for knols to cover all topics, from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions.

• A definitive list of where the in-jokes & self references in Pixar’s feature films & shorts are located.
• GoodURLBadURL.com
  A photojournal of good and bad URL’s in the real world.
• You’ve Got Letter
  British designer Craig Oldham has been conducting an ongoing task called the hand.written.letter.project. He has been inviting designers around the world to ‘tackle the issue of personality in a world of depersonalisation, and to reflect on the state of transition from physical to digital, by recording their visual reaction[…]‘ in a handwritten letter addressed back to Craig. More than forty designers have graciously played along.
• Dus Kahaniyaan – Poems
  For fellow Gulzar lovers. Poems written by Gulzar for the movie Dus Kahaniyaan. (Not sure about the music and the actors reciting them. I’ll have to write them down and read.)
• We now go live to our reporter on the scene…
  
• B’lore disciplines lovers, denies them leafy cover
  The old bushes and trees in LalBagh are being pruned to ensure that young couples can’t steal a kiss behind them. *sigh*
• Sidewalk Docs!
  Tell ya what..that “Hotnes of Liver” is a killer.
• Book Autopsies
  Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.
• The 53 Places to Go in 2008
• Accurate Facebook Mini-Feed
  
• The year in ideas
  70 ideas that helped make 2007 what it was.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• ‘Skin cell cure’ for sickle cells
  By reprogramming skin cells in the lab to become stem cells, the US team were able to treat mice with a human type of sickle cell anaemia.
  (Used to know someone who had the sickle cell trait..so..)
• Rarely Used Parenthetical Statements
  
• Life inside a black hole
  Beneath the glitter of India are dark alleys in which are trapped poisonous gases and millions of Dalits who do our dirty job in return for disease and untouchability. The complete series of articles on the subject. See the photoessay too.
• Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista
  Tabbed conversation windows..finally! This is just a preview though…no photo/file sharing, no webcam, no chat rooms..
• Heard at Mecca: ‘Are you single?’
  Matchmaking is a profession that’s at least as old as Mecca. But until now, say Saudi scholars, it hasn’t been practiced at Islam’s holiest site. (via)
• Yahoo! 2007 Top Trends in Search
• Trolls Take Note: Teacher Arrested For Leaving Offensive Anonymous Comment On Blog
• Technorati
  Has been relaunched.
• Edit your photos! On Flickr!
• The Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold
• Eyejot
  Send video mail.
• Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?
  Advertising is the bread and butter of the web, yet most of my friends claim that they never click on ads, typically using a peacock tone that signals their pride in being ad-averse. The geekier amongst them go out of their way to run Mozilla scripts to scrape ads away, bemoaning the presence of consumer culture. Yet, companies increasingly rely on ad revenue to turn a profit and, while clicking on ads may be declining, it certainly hasn’t gone away. This raises a critical question: Who are the people that click on ads?
• howjsay
  English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound
• Six Apart sells LiveJournal
  Never liked LJ. It has a good but “closed” community though.
• Far away
  Some nights typing “*hug*” just doesn’t cut it.
  Yup.
• Gul Panag – why am I blogging?
  Ms. Panag be blogging-shlogging.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Free Hit
  Sharda Ugra’s blog on India Today.
• Wake Up and Smell The Million Dollar Story
  

  A six-month project to fund my studies at LSE.

• Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
• 2007 Lists
  A compilation of all the year end lists.
• iDesktop.tv
  A better way to search, watch and download YouTube videos.
• The 10 Best Books of 2007 – New York Times
• The Webby Awards’ 12 Most Influential Online Videos of All Time
• There’s No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere
• Entire Blogosphere Stunned By Blogger’s Special Weekend Post
  
• Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups
• 100 Notable Books of the Year – 2007 – New York Times
• When Bollywood Attacks: A Rediff Original movie
  Saawariya retold.
• Top 10 bizarre experiments
• TOP 6 Of Japanese Winter Warmers
  The warmer mouse pad is wonderful