Links For A Sunday Morning

• Hunch!
  Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake launches Hunch, a ‘decision-making’ site.
• Hate Facebook's new look? You'll like it soon enough
  Stop whining about it.
  Yaa…
• Facebook users over 35 double in number in just two months, and more stunning data
  Women over 55 comprise the fastest growing demographic.
  Peg you have way too many friends.
• A new type of ball must be developed after the dearth of wickets in the recent West Indies-England Test series
  I still can’t believe that they don’t have standard ball (and that they can’t make a white ball that lasts 50 overs).
• School assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little red riding hood.
  Sooper!
• Twouble with Twitters
  
• Arsebook
  

  Arsebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.

  I’ll surely have more ‘friends’ on this than on Facebook.

• Wikirank
  What’s popular on Wikipedia.
• How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign
  The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.
• Ads to your ride
  In an initiative that is the first of its kind in India to woo advertisers, 60,000 autos in Bangalore will have an LCD screen installed behind the driver featuring ads, socially relevant messages and emergency numbers. Auto drivers will get a monthly rental and be provided insurance cover.
• Noah Stokes
  Now that’s what a portfolio should look like.
• Photos – Mexico's drug war
• Children’s Bedrooms from Dearkids
• Responding to Your Feedback
  Facebook relents.
• Big Think
  BigThink is a global online forum conducting interviews with lots of interesting folk on many different topics.
  Nice.
• ExecTweets
  Find and Follow Top Business Execs on Twitter
• Skimmer is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities.
  As of now it supports Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger and Twitter.
• Japan: Blurring the line between bullets and trains
  It’s not enough that trains run on time in Japan — they’ve got to break land records. In 2025, the country plans to be traveling by rail at 310 mph.
• Food, Glorious Food Myths
• Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees
  The mysterious ailment called colony collapse disorder has wiped out large numbers of the bees that pollinate a third of our crops. The causes turn out to be surprisingly complex, but solutions are emerging.
• Giving my mother something to brag about
  My fave blogger’s book is finally out. Wonder when it’ll release here.
• T-Shirts for Hairy-Chested Men
  
• Photos – Signs of Spring
• Comic – No Pun Intended
  
• NCP leader Supriya Sule’s blog
• 10 Creative Bathroom Ads

Links For A Sunday Morning

• When It Comes To Shampoo, Less Is More
• Goodbye Google
  

  Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such miniscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.

  To repeat what I said last week…Google is no place for a designer.
  Reactions to the announcement – Google smothers designers, Google’s “designer drain” and a more balanced one from, surprisingly enough, Valleywag – Google's Data Fetish Drives Away Its Top Designer
  

  It’s a microcosm of what’s going wrong at Google: The rigorous culture of making every decision quantitative, every process algorithmic, results in a coldly efficient experience, with no room for the human quirkiness that makes sites like Flickr so appealing. It’s hard to argue with Google’s financial results. But who wants to work inside the bowels of a perfectly tuned machine? If Google runs by the numbers, it hardly needs humans. And that’s why people like Bowman are leaving.

• Barack Obama Interview With Jay Leno – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
  Still cool.
• Academic 'discovers' six works by William Shakespeare
• Facebook Polls Users On Redesign. 94% Hate It.
  Firstly, design by democracy doesn’t work. Secondly, if God herself came down to resdesign Facebook 94% users would still dislike it.
• Who has the most Followers on Twitter? Top 100 for India
  At #13(right now as I am posting this) is 13 yr old Meghna, who is probabay the most popular 13 yr old twitterer/blogger around.
• Improving the Everyday: 8 Useful Objects that Need Fixing
• Scenes from the recession
• Photo Feature > Bharat Sikka’s Indian Men
• 'American Idol' bosses have decided final four: Staffer
  This was proved wrong this week when they didn’t save Alexis. But it shouldn’t really come as a surprise. I think they should start doing this on our singing contests.
• MyAlltop
  MyAlltop enables you to create a custom Alltop page that contains only the subscriptions to the websites and blogs you want.
• My Life With Cables
  Nice graphics. Check out the rest of the blog and subscribe to it.
• SXSW Web Awards Winners
• Opening More Control for Everyone
  You can now make your Facebook profile public to everyone. I suppose its ok for people like me who don’t mind making the profile public but I don’t think too many people will opt for it.
• Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
  Nice. My English teacher used to tell me to…break it down…as I wrote 4 page essays in 9 sentences. That was back when I could actually write a proper sentence.
• No money, no show: Films to go off multiplexes soon
  That’ll be the death of me
• Indian Film Song Lyrics
  Explained with simple graphs.
  

Links For A Sunday Morning

• SerendipiTea's New Workplace Line of Teas
  
• Photos – Holi – the Festival of Colors
• Twitter Claims Valley Crown by Poaching Google's Top Designer
  Google is no place for designers.
• If you designed a Porn site would you put it on your resume?
  I have asked this question myself.
• How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000.
• Welcome to Your New Home Page
  Facebook updates.
• Valley Exec Twitters Through Home Break-In
  Good lord! Instead of observing/reacting/enjoying an event our first reaction is increasingly tending to be to pull out the laptop/mobile/camera and record it.
• The the-80s-were-good-for-cinema post
  Hmmm…I think the 80’s weren’t good for music not cinema…apart from exceptions like Umrao Jaan, Ijaazat…
• Typographic World Map
  Nice.
• MeeHive – Your Personalized Newspaper
  Good start.
• Photos – Sri Lanka and its long war
• Autodrivers want a Nano revolution
  Pollution apart…I wonder if there is research to suggest that uniformity in the kinds of vehicles leads to better traffic management.
• Jai Matadi Lets Rock! The Greatest Hits of Himesh Reshammiya
  My Himess fave is Namastey London in which he got the benefit of a half decent lyricist in Javed Akhtar. And the fave from that movie – Yahi hota pyaar hai kya.
• For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents
  

  My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

• A new view: is this the real Shakespeare?
  Research suggests painting is the only portrait from life.
• My Opus Radio
  India’s first online radio station for international music.
• Zoo chimp 'planned' stone attacks
  A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers. This is evidence that animals can plan for future events.
  And we thought it was going to be the aliens or maybe the robots.
• Stripgenerator
  Create your own comic strip.
• Flop ID
  Compulsory ID cards for autorickshaws were thought to be the answer to passengers’ woes. Today, the traffic department’s stipulation has come a cropper as auto drivers have found various ingenious ways to skirt the rule.
  The ID cards were definitely a good idea.
• How books got their titles
• TXT msg
  poMs that can b delivered as txt msgs.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Deccan Herald of Bangalore, India, redesigns
  After being overtaken by TOI and a strong start by new entrant DNA, they had to do something…and thankfully it isn’t Mario Garcia but Palmer Watson, who have done great work in the past.
• A day in the life of…
  9 Bangaloreans. A commercial pilot, a Kannada soap star, Pramod Mutalik, a triathlete, a recreation management consultant, the 7D bus conductor, a tattoo artist, a tomato and a male prostitute.
• Auto Model
  21-year-old Gayathri, a computer science student who wants to join the IAS, drives an auto and does part-time modelling for a living.
  Quite a combo. The female auto driver is quite a rare species. I have only heard/read of them.
• Want to know what's inside Tendulkar's kit bag?
  A photo of Puttaparthi Sai Baba? Aiyoo…I suppose its better when some amount of mystery/ignorance remains when it comes to the people you adore/idolise. Feel the same after reading Mr. Bachchan’s blog.
• 8×10 Tasveer – Theatrical trailer
  Nagesh Kukunoor’s next.
• Introducing The New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller Lists
  Have taken to graphic novels recently. But I am not a fan of the fantasy/superhero kind but more the Persepolis kind. And I am finding out that the latter aren’t really common.
• Can you hear THIS? Musicians high frequency hearing test
  A list of tones that go from 8Hz all the way up to 22,000Hz and should let you know just how much damage to your ears all those concerts, your ipod and your mom screaming at you have done so far.
• Anger Is the Swiss Army Knife of Emotions T-shirt
  Read through the comments too(not if you are one of those easily offended types).
• 15 Amazingly clever logos
• Photos – Robots
• al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness
• The man behind Advani’s online rallies
• Pictures – Birds Stealing Ice-Cream
• Obama Team Finds It Hard to Adapt Its Web Savvy to Government
• Deconstructing the Missing Weeks of a Teacher’s Life
  On Aug. 28, a Thursday, a 23-year-old schoolteacher from Hamilton Heights named Hannah Emily Upp went for a jog along Riverside Drive. That jog is the last thing that Ms. Upp says she remembers before the deckhands rescued her from the waters of New York Harbor on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 16. The teacher suffers from dissociative fugue, a rare form of amnesia that causes people to forget their identity, suddenly and without warning, and can last from a few hours to years.
  Its also called ‘yaad daash khona’ and our Bollywoodwalas discovered this disease along with its many cures a long time back.
• London Underground Vintage Ads
• Why Hair Goes Gray