Links For A Sunday Morning

• I don’t know either why Anu has an image problem
  The Anu Malik story by Vir Sanghvi.
• Why did you leave, I thought we were having fun?
• Lisa Marie Presley on Michael Jackson
• Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable
• Govt Bans Popular Toon Porn Site Savitabhabhi.com; Mounting Concern Over Censorship
• 35 Examples Of Stunning Macro Photography
• 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
  Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around ‘as high as a kite’.
  Thats some story.
• Advertising designs for Container Corporation of America
  See also…gallery 1 and 3.
• Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?
  Could it be that most of us are spending more time than we need to trying to get fit? The answer, a growing number of these sports scientists believe, may be yes.
• Nilekani quits Infosys to take up government project
  which is…an IT-driven programme to provide unique identification numbers to citizens of the country.
• County's crime rate at 20 year low after family jailed
  A county’s crime rate has fallen to a 20-year low after a crimimal family was jailed, a chief constable has reported.
• The Indian soap opera that's taken Brazil by storm
  

  As I go to the embassy and open my e-mail, there are the normal clutch of commercial news letters, trade enquiries, complaints about visa or passport services, invitations for events and so on.
  But these days, also something a little bit more unusual. These are queries about the significance of the bindi. ‘Can a sari be stitched, or worn without a blouse?’ Or ‘Is Kali the name of a curry or something spicier?’ and such other matters of Indian exotica. And all this in Brazil where I am the Indian ambassador, experiencing currently the strangest and strongest manifestation of India’s soft power that I have ever seen in my long and varied career.

• Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful'
  

  When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means—such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime—I couldn’t believe they’d ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless.

  

• Oscar expands best pic nominations to 10
• Twitter litter
  The problem with all of the ‘we’re tracking the most popular links on Twitter’ sites…
• Soccer in South Africa – Pictures
• Asia's Top 50 Internet People by Twitter Followers
• Pain and Posture: The Basics
• What Your Facial Hair Really Says About You
• Email patterns can predict impending doom
  Email logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. That’s the tantalising suggestion to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees.
• Ever Wondered What The Most Common Names On Facebook Are? Here’s A List
• Sania Mirza, Mugdha Godse, Celina Jaitley, Ranbir Kapoor, Lara Dutta
  I get that Globosport is managing them but build such crappy sites which don’t even belong in the 90’s.
• The story behind this website
  

  For as long as Stephen Harper is Prime Minister of Canada, I vow to send him every two weeks, mailed on a Monday, a book that has been known to expand stillness. That book will be inscribed and will be accompanied by a letter I will have written. I will faithfully report on every new book, every inscription, every letter, and any response I might get from the Prime Minister, on this website.
  Yann Martel

• The Story (so far) of Twitter – The poster
• Where There's Smoke…
  If they are going to have such graphics on the ciggy packs I might just start smoking again!
• WALL·E end title sequence
  and interview with end title sequence director Jim Capobianco and animator Alexander Woo from Pixar.
• Lifestream Backup
  Currently they support Flickr, Photobucket, Twitter, Google Docs, Delicious bookmarks and WordPress

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Jobs Had Liver Transplant
  Get well soon.
• 2012 – Trailer
  Looks good.
• Venn Diagram – Happiness in Business
• Rediff Message Board Gets Its First-Ever Decent Comment In 10 Years
  
• Grey-sky thinking: Nine extraordinary clouds
• 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008 selections
  After careful and considered review of more than 900 entries, the 2008 jury of the “AIGA 50 books/50 Covers” competition selected a group of 91 examples of outstanding book and book cover design produced in 2008.
• More Appropriate Wi-Fi Network Names for My Fellow Apartment Building Tenants
  
• CNBC Breaking News: Obama Swats A Fly
• A New Channel Is Born: ET Now Goes On Air With ‘The Economic Times Advantage’
• The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
• I think I am definitely in love with you, but I'm not sure
• What is a Browser?
  Was the question we asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with.
• New Glimpses of Life’s Puzzling Origins
• Fallen Princesses
  These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.
• Opera Unite reinvents the Web
• The delicate art of the man-cry
  

  After his Australian Open defeat — in which he sobbed so unattractively and uncontrollably that a commercial break was needed to allow him time to gather himself — I was beginning to think Federer, like so many athletes before, was a lost cause.
  But on Sunday, as he stood at the podium with the Swiss national anthem playing and drops of rain falling from the Paris sky, Federer bowed his head, took a deep breath and went John Q on us.
  It was a thing of beauty: minimal facial distortion, perfectly paced tears, measured strength, snotless.

• Shutter Island – Trailer
  Martin Scorsese’s new film starring Leonardo Dicaprio.
• Hunch
  Has launched.

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Renting a house in Bangalore
  Lotsa good advice.
• Divorced City trader raffles off £1.5 million lifestyle
  A newly divorced City trader is raffling off his £1.5 million house and possessions because he claims they hold too many painful memories – but still stands to rake in £2.5 million profit from the competition.
  Smart guy. The competition – Win A New Life.
• Nude, Mona Lisa-Like Painting Surfaces
  Leonardo da Vinci, in a Renaissance version of Mad Magazine, may have painted his famous Mona Lisa in a number of ways, including nude. Now, a painting has surfaced that looks much like the original, sparking debate over just how far the master took his iconic painting.
• Iran's Presidential Election – Pictures
• IKEA drops investment plans in India worth $1bn
  
• In South Korea, All of Life Is Mobile
  Kim Hee-young, a statistics major at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, wakes up in the morning when her mobile phone detonates an alarm, a loud Korean pop song. She checks weather forecasts on its screen before selecting what to wear.
  In the subway, Ms. Kim breezes through the turnstile after tapping the phone on a box that deducts the fare from a chip that contains a cash balance. While riding to school, she uses her mobile to check if a book has arrived at the library, slays aliens in a role-playing game, updates her Internet blog or watches TV.
  On campus, she and other students touch their mobiles to the electronic box by the door to mark their attendance.
  Experts say South Korea is the test case for the mobile future.
• WordPress 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets
  Go upgrade.
• Swissarmius Cutlery Holder
  Nice.
• Silly facebook song
  Nice.
• Non-Safety Schools
  
• Aesop's Wife's Fables
  
• There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter — really
• Blind Prom
  Sarah Wilson’s photos from the prom for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
• The Uniform Project
  

  Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accouterments, the majority of which will be vintage, hand-made, or hand-me-down goodies.

  Very creative she is.

• Collections
  Collections are groups of related add-ons assembled for easy sharing. New feature on the add-ons site for Firefox which has been spruced up.
• Pixar Announces Up, Newt, The Bear and the Bow and Cars 2
  How did I miss this.
• Rubber Bandit
  Me wanting.
• Quick Fruit
  Nice packaging concept.
• Save J.D. Salinger's archives!
  Even if we have to save them from Salinger himself.
  If the man has written something over all these years we have the right to read it…umm..or something like that.
• Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames
  Well they are already here and mine is already taken
• Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames
  
• But If We Started Dating It Would Ruin Our Friendship Where I Ask You To Do Things And You Do Them
  
• Color In Nature: Beetles
  Wow. Not for those who don’t like bugs.
• Slaughter House Files
  Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail could have been thwarted. Transcripts of police officers’ frantic calls from Ground Zero on 26/11 reveal a story of terrifying – almost criminal – official chaos.
• Yuva
  The recession hasn’t slowed down magazine launches. Apart from this one the recent ones I have spotted include – Open, Caravan and 360 Career Builder.
• How to Tell Real Breasts from Fake
  Without touching them that is. You can also tell by the way the skin seems too stretched out/taut. NSFW.
• Bowling At The Death
  Cricket’s stars are a ruthless lot, many have crashed and burned at its hallowed pitch. The game that begets a few stars is also father to thousands of disaffected, depressed men.
• Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest
  When the thrill of blogging is gone…
• Back in the rat race
  

  Avinash Yadav’s family lived on the frugal earnings of his father, who grazed cattle and sold milk for a living. But with an ICL cheque of about Rs 70 lakh, the Yadavs now have their own house in Benaras and a gleaming SX4 to give company to the cows and buffaloes in the courtyard. “I’m from a lower-middle class family. They don’t know what the BCCI is or what the ICL means. All they know is that because of cricket our lives have become more comfortable,” says the left-arm spinner, who didn’t go beyond playing a few Ranji Trophy games because of Murali Kartik’s presence in the Central Zone side.

• Few of the “Check please” bits from Goodness Gracious Me

Links For A Sunday Morning

• Chaat transcript
  Bangalore’s finest paani puri joints…supposedly. For things like paani puri you need to go beyond ‘joints’.
• Hungry for action
  Food worth Rs 58,000 crore is wasted every year because even after 20 years of debate India has failed to create the infrastructure needed to enable the farm-to-fork revolution.
  This is something that keeps pissing me off.
• atul’s bollywood song a day- with full lyrics
  Along with Sunday links, this blog was supposed to have a Friday movie review, a Saturday song of the week…but anyway…good to see someone else doing a great job of it.
• Weekend Competition: Tom Swifties
  “Tom Swifties” are curious puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect. For example:
  “I manufacture table tops,” said Tom counterproductively.
  “Let’s have a debate about cows,” Tom mooted.
  “Who discovered radium?” asked Marie curiously.
• Stop Doing Sit-Ups: Why Crunches Don't Work
• Dhoni takes strike
  Why I love Dhoni.
• The secret healing powers of Bangalore’s traffic
  

  In Bangalore, Mrs. Neo has quickly learned that if she keeps gasping and sighing for every near-miss, she will hyperventilate faster than a tragically over-enthusiastic Art of Living newbie.

  

• Anthony Bourdain's 13 Places to Eat Before You Die
• Strike Ends… Finally!
  Hooray!! Given the backlog and the consequent flood of releases, I’ll have to seek temporary accommodation at PVR.
• My Brief Life as a Woman
• Text of Obama’s Speech in Cairo
• Why Health Advice on 'Oprah' Could Make You Sick
  I tried watching her a few times but more than her its the hysterical audience that I can’t tolerate. Also…for some reason…standing and clapping for everything has become the norm in America.
• Marilyn Monroe – Never-Published Photos
• Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads
  Very good list.
• Sulfur mining in Kawah Ijen – Pictures
  …and you think your job sucks?
• If Apple Bought Twitter
  
• Blogger Buzz: Search Box gadget available to all
• Toy Story 3 – Teaser
• WordPress 2.8: What’s new
• Comic – Troll Slayer
  
• Rafa in shocking pink and yellow
  Brave man or maybe it was a sign of things to come.
• What's changed on Cricinfo
  The redesign has launched and as is with every redesign…everybody hates it. Uhh…some things never change.
• 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
  ‘Bonk’ author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious.
• Dream over: Boyle finishes second in reality show