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Caught in the middle of the downpour/ hailstorm/ whatever-the-bloody-hell-it-was tonight and completely helpless, I for the first time ever feared for my life. Have been trying to describe what it felt like….just can’t seem to…but I sure don’t want to feel that way ever again.

PS – Am doing fine, except for a low-grade fever.
PPS – Still love the rain.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Yahoo kicks off re-wiring project
  Yahoo users will soon have one place where they can manage all the services they use on the popular website.
• Video Comments? No Thanks – 5 Reasons They Don’t Work
• Using Tweets and ImpactWatch Tools to Predict American Idol
  Part 2. Update.
• What makes a design “Googley”?
  On Google’s design principles.
• 25 Seriously Twisted Trees: From Uncanny Overgrowth to Awesome Arbosculpture
• You are what your mother eats: First evidence that mother’s diet influences infant sex
• Live Mesh
  From Microsoft. Synchronize folders across devices and access and share them from anywhere.
• Localization Problems: A Cellphone’s Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail
  That is one helluva strange story.
• Mistranslations
  Our copy of Kamasutra has a couple of mistranslations.
  
• You Can Lead Them to Water
  Sounds like some of the conversations I have with my clients.
• Red Stamp Cards
  Eco-friendly cards made out of recycled paper and embedded with wildflower seeds. Moisten the card, plant in a pot and water.
  Nice.
• Michal Levy GiantSteps
  Animated short film set to John Coltrane’s classic ‘Giant Steps’.
  Fabulous.
• Webware 100 Awards 2008
  The 100 best Web 2.0 applications.
• Dilbert.com relaunches with Web 2.0 flavor
• Flickr: Anatomy of a Long Photograph
  Nice response to the ‘No video on Flickr’ group.
• At Your Service: The Next Evolution of Six Apart
  Six Apart announces Six Apart Services (design, development, implementation) and Six Apart Media (ad network).
• Simplicity
  Cartoon.
• Fighting cancer with radio waves
  Interesting discovery.
• Grooveshark — Listen to Music for Free Online; Download Music and Earn Free Songs for Sharing

Links For A Sunday Morning

• cricinfo.tv
  Has only SportsCenter programmes and a few other videos at the moment.
• BBC Blog Network
• Most Bloggers Don’t Deserve Any Ad Revenue
• Amitabh Bachchan
  is blogging.
• The Blogger Mom, In Your Face
  On Heather Armstrong, my favourite blogger.
• Aerial photography blog
• Mustangs: Profiles in Beauty
  Nice pics of horses for the girl who loves them. (Assuming she still does!)
• Swedes find ‘world’s oldest tree’
• Marry Him!
  The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough. (via)
  Am hating the ’settle’ word at the moment.
• George Steinmetz – Photos of the Tree People of Indonesian New Guinea
• Best practices when moving your site
• Cricketwires
  Cricket news and videos from around the world
• Creatively carved food
• Swoop from space to the streets in Google Earth 4.3
  New Google Earth with 3-D photorealistic buildings.
• Youngme / Nowme
  In pictures.
• Every Simpsons couch
  All the Simpsons intro couch gags.
• Apple iPhone India launch likely in Sept
  Have to start saving.
• Masturbation ‘cuts cancer risk’
  

  If these findings hold up, then it’s perfectly reasonable that men should be encouraged to masturbate

  As if we needed any encouragement!

• Up and Then Down
  Nice article on elevators and about a man trapped in one for 41 hours. Time lapse video of the same.
  Elevators are scary. Especially the see-through capsule ones. And escalators, scarier. Its only recently that I have started taking the ones up. I still don’t take the ones going down.
• I love you, but I don’t know if I believe you
• Everyday People: cartoons about women
• Google AdSense and Blogging Brought Me This Car
  Good going man.
• Why downloading Firefox is like getting into college
• Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader
• Parking Timelapse
  Toronto Coach Terminal. Close to 1500 photos taken in 4 hours, every 10 seconds.
  Nice.
• The Bible According To Google Earth

Links For A Sunday Morning

• 10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less
• Ajantha Mendis – The Mystery Spinner
  And you thought Murali is a freak…
• Dinner in the Sky
  at a table suspended at a height of 50 metres.
• Write like a blogger
• How Deja Vu Works
• Video on Flickr!
• itimes
  A social network from Indiatimes. Now that’s new!
• Lunch
  

  We believe leaving the office everyday for lunch is an invaluable ritual. In a time and city where people are constantly rushing around, trying to accomplish three tasks at once, taking a moment to have a civilized meal becomes even more vital. Eating at your desk while reading emails, surfing the world wide web, snarfing down a bland turkey sandwich from the deli down the street is NOT lunch.

  Blog written by a couple of architects from NYC. They post pics of their lunches everyday. (via)

• Larry Roibal
  Portraits of faces from current events on the pages of the newspaper itself!
• compfight
  A faster way to search Flickr.
• A sequel to the Coca-Cola Happiness Factory
  Fabulous as usual.
• 25 Most Significant Events in India (After Independence)
• Facebook Chat Launches – Tour & First Impressions
• How To: Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Coming soon: superfast internet
  The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
• In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
• babajob
  Finally something different. A social networking and job site for unskilled and semi-skilled workers. Available in Banagalore.
• Global warming ‘dips this year’
  This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998. What global warming?
• US man gets $2.6m for domain name
  A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m – after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994.
• Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone
• Meatwater
• Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
  an overview
• Digsby
  Multiprotocol IM, email notifications and social network alerts..all in one.
• Awesome Light Graffiti Pictures
• Blog List, Scheduled Post Publishing on Blogger in draft
  There is also the Feed Subscription page element and a search box.
• Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal
• Risa Fukui: The Darkness Of Graphical Papercut Reflections
• What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
• Sorapot, The Ultra Chic Teapot from Joey Roth
  Nice.
• Life Before Death
  This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying – and living.
• April Fools’ Day On The Web : 2008
• Offline access to Google Docs
• Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks
• Alphabet Popup Book by Marion Bataille
  Nice.
• Shine
  from Yahoo. Fashion, Beauty, Healthy Living, Parenting, Sex and Love, Career and Money, Food, and more…
• Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes