Emergent Noise

With more and more applications being developed for the Web, it is now possible to run Web applications off your computer, as if they were desktop applications. There is no need to load a browser and so on.

For the interested, this is achieved via the Prism frontend for the XULRunner application, currently in . . . → Read More: Prism and the Indic Transliteration System

Windows Live/MSN Messengers and Yahoo Messenger US version supports voice chat. Gtalk users prefer the less bloated client that also provides voice chat features.

Here, is how to make voice calls between GTalk and Yahoo Messenger – from Gtalk or Yahoo Messenger using the Gtalk2VoIP service. Both services can also voice chat with MSN . . . → Read More: How to : Voice Chat between Yahoo, MSN and Gtalk

One of the much famed philosophical implications of the 20th Century is Kurt Goedel’s “Incompleteness theorem” . An implication of this logical proof is that even if the Universe was created by God….his existence is irrelevant to a closed system such as the Universe we live in. In other words, even if there was . . . → Read More: Why Hinduism is subtly but surely atheistic…

Toddlers , it seems cannot tell the difference on a social level between another human and an interactive robot. The robot is treated like a peer rather than a toy, which older children readily understand. It seems then, much of what is “human” is a learned phenomenon. This flies in the face of a . . . → Read More: Human-ness

Here is visual proof, that no matter what nonsense you sing , if you sing it in French, it’s going to sound sweet. Scroll down for an English translation of the lyrics…

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Bubbles and water Legs up for hours My goldfish is under me To bathe for hours Makes my mouth water I’m . . . → Read More: The French Connection

Man, can this kid yodel or what!?

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