Links For A Sunday Morning

• How David Beats Goliath
  When underdogs break the rules by Malcolm Gladwell.
• All You Need to Know to Tweet on Twitter
• Levi Meeuwenberg – Freerunning Showreel
  Nice! A bit like parkour but more artistic.
• Vodafone ZooZoos
  Hutch has changed to Vodafone here in India but their advertising pattern remains the same. They overdid the ‘kutta’ ads and now again these…Am already sick of ‘em.
• The Art of Penguin Science Fiction Book Covers
• 2009 Swine Flu outbreak – Photos
• Searching For Sachin
  Sachin Tendulkar is the subject – cricket is the game. Biographer cvwilliams keeps you up-to-date on her research on the life of the brilliant batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
• 40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks
• At Home With Tom Colicchio – Interview
  

  Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

  Buy the best you can find or afford and don’t overmanipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

• 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Emoticons
• Goodness Gracious Me! – Going out for an english and Asian Top Gear
• RGV’s Rann – First look
• How to Block Facebook Photos of Yourself
• The Webby Awards Remain the Best Scam Going and Category Inflation at the Webbys
• Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old
  Because it is used in every e-mail address and many tweets, you might be forgiven for thinking that the remarkably common symbol @, which English-speakers know as the “at sign,” but Italians call a “snail,” and south Slavs know as a “monkey,” is a fairly recent invention. In fact, as Wired magazine’s Tony Long points out, a Florentine merchant named Francesco Lapi used the symbol @ in a letter written 473 years ago today, on May 4, 1536.
• No solution, no show: filmmaker-multiplex row on
  
• First Look: Rocket Singh – Salesman of the Year
  From the Shimit Amin/Jaideep Sahni combo.
• Philips – Carousel
  Created by Tribal DDB and Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9.
  Excellent!
• Photos – The 2009 Kentucky Derby
• …for years i’ve been looking for this lucky shot…
• Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
• Ed Pilkington meets Ray Kurzweil, the man who predicts future
  The head of Google’s new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life – no wonder he is so optimistic.
• An invention that could change the internet for ever
  Revolutionary new web software could put giants such as Google in the shade when it comes out later this month.
• 15 Unusual and Creative Bus Stops