Links For A Sunday Morning

• WordPress 2.5 now available for download
  Includes a completely redesigned admin among other things.
• 50 Great Things you Never Knew you Could do with Tennis Balls
  I am going to try out the laundry tips.
• 7 Ways To Create Your Own Digg Clone
• 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider
• Clickpass
  OpenID made easy.
• Vintage Japanese Pillbox Designs
• The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs
• Adobe Photoshop Express
  A stripped down free online version of Photoshop. Along with the ability to save and share pics. One aspect that I like is the ability to import pics from Facebook etc., edit them and upload them back.
• Titles of Love Songs I Would Write for People Like Me
  
• Sex and flirting in Japan
• Muxtape
  Make and share mixtapes.
• 25 Ways to Simplify Your Life with Kids
• SaveTheDevelopers
  Stop using IE6.
• 13 Fabulous Photos of a Rainy Day
  For fellow rain lovers.
• The Ten Tastiest Food Photography Tips
• Disqus
  Comment system for your blog.
• The Evolution of Websites: How 10 Popular Websites Have (And Have Not) Changed
• Retractable Indoor Clotheslines
  Nice.
• Flowering Trees
  in Bangalore. Well done sir. I can now name them when I post their pics.
• The Simpsons – Painting references
• What You Don’t Know About Living in Space
• We Eatt
  Store and share your recipes.
• sk*rt
  It’s being called the “Digg for chicks and by chicks”.
• First Vid of Dean Kamen’s Miracle Water Distiller
  Question is – how much does it cost, to buy and run? I remember Ratan Tata saying after the Nano launch that his next big project would be a cheap water purification system.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• World’s Worst Intersections & Traffic Jams
• A legless artist documents the world in 32,000 stares
  Tired of gawkers, Kevin Connolly traveled by skateboard, capturing their sheer human curiosity. His gallery.
• Open Source Living
  Open Source software resource.
• Labor of Love
  

  To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child.

• Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage Proposal?
• Video Coming To Flickr Soon
• The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere
• World’s Most Expensive Foods
• Surveil Yourself
  A Brooklyn-based photographer named Izaz Rony is offering a new kind of portrait service: You tell him where you’re going to be on a particular day, and what you’ll be wearing, and he shows up in the general vicinity and snaps your picture, without you knowing exactly where he is or when he’ll be there.
• Title sequences from Saul Bass, the master of film title design
• 40 years of driving on the right side in Sweden
  On September 3, 2007, it will be 40 years to the day since Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right side. Here is a short story of how it came to happen.
• More Privacy Options
  on Facebook.
• Flickr Pool: Desire Paths
  

  desire paths… the imprints of ‘foot anarchists’, individuals who had trodden their own routes into the landscape, regardless of the intentions of government, planners and engineers. A desire path could be a short cut through waste ground, across the corner of a civic garden or down an embankment.

• More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.
• Sideline Slogger
  “Is Sachin Tendulkar’s team in the Indian Premier League the bearer of the worst franchise name in the history of cash-cow cricket competitions? They’re called the Mumbai Indians.”
  Hell yes!
• Google LatLong: It’s your world. Map it
  Google Maps is open to user edits.
• Ten Legal Commandments of Photography
• Firefox 3 Trounces IE, Opera and Safari in Memory Tests
• Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update
  Doesn’t show up in my updates…
• WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek
  My wish list had checkboxes, to select multiple posts/pages/categories and edit them. In RC1 I see only the delete action. Am still hopeful though.
• Vintage Logos – a photoset on Flickr
• 10 Ways to Control Your Cravings
• YouTube – 2007 Video Awards
• Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader
• Why bother having a resume?
  Hmm…
• Down for everyone or just me?
  Find out if a site is…
• Demitri Martin – flip chart and art
  The guy is funny.
• Road warrior
  Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played the most internationals of anyone in the last 15 months. How long can he keep going at this rate before something gives?
  Just what I was thinking about. And when the guy does get some rest there are all these felecitations and ad shoots and what not.
• Cool business card designs
• Six degrees of messaging…the average shortest number of jumps to get from one random user to another was 6.6; spookily close to the infamous six degrees of separation demonstrated practically in a group of 64 people by Stanley Milgram, at Harvard University, in the 1960s.
• Super Real Mario World
  If Mario was real.
• How to Remove Gum from Clothes
• Animals+Fruits+Photoshop

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things
• Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service
• Adobe Cards
  Creative License. Take as much as you want.
• Seek
  Seek adds faceted browsing features to Mozilla Thunderbird and lets you search through your email more effectively.
• Managing Computer File Clutter
• Mansion Planter
  Lovely flower pots.
• Breaking Google Captchas for $3 a Day
  …spammers are using the old-fashioned “mechanical turk” trick-an operation where low-paid laborers in third-world countries are enlisted to solve the puzzles, one by one.
• Flashy Lights: Taxi Illumination In Japan
• Nerve-tapping neckband allows ‘telepathic’ chat
  A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a ‘voiceless’ phone call for the first time.
• 8 Unstoppable Rules For Writing Killer Short Stories
• A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks
• Five great auditory illusions
• Woman sits on boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years
  Girlfriend was physically stuck to the seat – her skin had grown around it.
• Indian launches site for disabled
  The Indian government has launched its first interactive web portal for people with disabilities. I haven’t tested it out yet.
• hulu
  The much-hyped Hulu is open to public. Only available in the US though
• Someone To Watch Over Me
  How can you tell if you’re being followed?
• Apple’s design process
• Google Zurich Office photos
• Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
  The Macbook Air is so thin and light you end up tossing it out along with the newspapers!
• Michael Pollan: Don’t Eat Anything That Doesn’t Rot
  Interview with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
• Bird flu showing signs of mutation: China expert
• Meal Time Madness: Mango Chicken with Red Peppers
  Sounds interesting.
• Eighth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2008 Bloggies
  Winners announced.
• WordPress Upgrade Preparation Checklist
• Fewer confessions and new sins
  The Vatican has brought up to date the traditional seven deadly sins by adding seven modern mortal sins it claims are becoming prevalent in what it calls an era of ‘unstoppable globalisation’.
• When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook ‘Friend’
• The world’s 50 most powerful blogs

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Greetings, Earthlings. Your New Restroom Is Ready.
  They should install a few here.
• ‘I fell in love with a female assassin’
  

  There comes a point in every new relationship when your girlfriend wants to share a secret. Usually it’s to do with sex – how many other partners she’s had (with a few conveniently erased) – that sort of thing. Often, the secret changes the basis of the relationship; honesty comes with consequences. But what happens if your new girlfriend has a much darker and more sinister secret than having slept around a bit?

• Is User-Generated Content Out?
  The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.
• Twitter in Plain English
  Nice explanation.
• A Comprehensive List of Third-Place Finishers for U.S. President, 2008–2036.
  
• Must Watch: I Am Legend’s Original Ending
• Internet Explorer 8
  is here.
• All bow before the might of the placebo effect, it is the coolest strangest thing in medicine
  Also one of my fave topics of interest.
• Search within a site: A tale of teleportation
  A search box within the search results. New feature from Google search.
• Test to spot early glaucoma signs
  Computer software to spot signs of glaucoma earlier than conventional tests is being developed by UK experts.
• Poop For Peace: April 18, 2008
• The trouble with Steve Jobs
  Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.
• Aromatherapy is no cure for what ails you
• Why flu strikes in cold weather
  Scientists believe they have uncovered a key reason why flu viruses tend to strike in cold weather.
  They found the viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens to a gel, protecting them in the cold.
  This coating melts in the higher temperatures of the respiratory tract, allowing the virus to infect cells.
• Blogging boosts your social life: research
• My 23andMe DNA Results
  Might just become a trend.
• Stylish Blight – Slide show
  David Yocum and Brian Bell’s architecture office in Atlanta. Love it.
• After Suicide, Blog Insults Are Debated
  Posts and comments on 2 blogs might be responsible for advertising professional’s death.
• Black Fungus Found in Chernobyl Eats Harmful Radiation
• The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing
• Woman Does 21 Different Accents

Links For A Sunday Morning

• A Soldier Prince and the Secret Kept by Fleet Street
  Today’s media are widely perceived to be cutthroat, sensationalistic and anti-authoritarian, yet hundreds of journalists, including those in London’s rabid tabloid culture, kept the deployment(of Prince Harry in Afghanistan) secret for close to three months.
• DanceJam
  Users dance off against each other and viewers vote on the best video. There are also other dance videos, uploaded videos and ones from other sites.
• 20 Beautiful high dynamic range imaging(HDRI) Pictures
• Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
  
• What’s New with You?
  MyBlogLog adds an activity stream of sorts to user profiles.
• Microsoft cutting price of Vista
  Still wouldn’t recommend it.
• The adventures of Marissa
  The serious power and glam passions of Marissa Mayer, the gorgeously geeky Googler who’s generating a new kind of Silicon Valley notoriety.
• Bringing it all together
  JotSpot wiki relaunched as Google Sites.
• Colour-blind artist learns to paint by hearing
• Google Health, a first look
• How SMS marketing helped Misra win Lead India
  After all that hullaboo he is going to launch a social network..uhhh…
• garfield minus garfield
  

  Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?

  I can finally tolerate the comic.

• A First Glimpse at the Improved Profile
  on Facebook.
• Cubicle Future Cartoon
  
• Striking Pakistan Truck design
• Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
  Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam – and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.
• Google Talk chatback
  A new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you.
• Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy
  Last year, the top 100 Diggers submitted 44 percent of the site’s top stories. In 2006, they were responsible for 56 percent.
• MySpace Sued Over 2006 Teen Suicide
  The family of a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide following a sexual relationship with a 27-year-old man she met online is suing MySpace for allegedly facilitating communication between the two.
• Encyclopedia of Life
  which aims to catalogue every one of our planet’s 1.8 million species has been launched.
• Liveblogging the Vasectomy Chronicles
  This is what the interweb thing was invented for.
• FriendFeed
  A social feed aggregator that lets you keep track of your friends across 28 Websites and services, including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, YouTube, blog posts, shared items on Google Reader, Amazon wish lists, and what they are watching on Netflix….
• 79 Years of Academy Award Best Picture Winners in Posters
• Botanicalls Twitter DIY
  Get a Twitter update when your plant needs watering.
  Hey bhagwaan! What about one when you yourself need ummm…watering…or need to be fed or have to take that next breath!
• TimesMachine
  70 years of NYT archives.
• The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur
• Our secret sauce
  Google tries to figure out the reason for its own success.
• Art Suites at Icehotel
• Adobe merge on and offline worlds
  Adobe has launched software designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline.
• Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web
  with the release of AIR.
• 6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out
• The Many Faces Of Tomoko Sawada
  In her photo works, Kobe-based Tomoko Sawada shows us shifting aspects of her personality. By disguising herself as multiple women of Japanese society, she is playing with social norms and gender roles without judgment but simply imitating them with humour.
• 20 Amazing Firefox Shortcuts to Save You Time and Money
• Blogged
  Blog Directory.
• Fuck grapefruit – comic
  
• Spot the ‘invisible’ men and women in artist’s amazing photographs
• BlogsJam
  India specific online feed aggregator with posts from top blogs organized by channels.
• Remember when? Man with big memory does