Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Life is diverse. There is no doubting that. In fact, the diversity has led many to believe that the possibilities offered by the seed of complex interactions, several thousand genes and their myriad products are so large, that we shouldn’t really be surprised at just about anything we see in the biosphere. Adding a little [...]
A bit of good reading, with reference to the writing of a certain holy book.
Disclaimer : The following is an excerpt from Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses”. This particular excerpt is , to my knowledge , in the public domain.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list
I watched a recent TED talk and loved this poem by Felix Dennis – poet, resurrected from drug addiction, and a titan in the publishing industry , who in his own words ‘has too much money to care about it now’. He has a unique style of reciting his poetry, and as for this particular [...]
The Readability Experiment lets you restyle web pages for better reading. They offer “Bookmarklets” that one can click to re-style a given webpage so that it is easier to read. Ubiquity is an “intelligent” command-line and natural language parser for Firefox. Its hard to explain because of its ubiquitous features( everything from Twitter posts to [...]
I’ve been around the forums a bit, and have gotten used to the fact that you have to have pretty thick skin if you are going to state your opinion on the internet. As any veteran on internet discussion forums will tell you, “Argumentum Ad Hominem” is a common method that people fall back on. [...]
xkcd – A Webcomic – Correlation You have to be a geek to get this
UPDATE 4th July 2009 : Due to lack of time and the fact that similar and much better scripts have been written, I recommend everyone install the Gadget-supported Gmail (ad-less and wide) script. I myself use this script now, and it is done much better. The author also commits to updating the script periodically. Cheers [...]
Cosmic Variance , a blog on Discover Magazine, had a post about Mr.John McCain’s snide and sarcastic remark on his Twitroll "nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy" – he quips. Cosmic Variance puts it down as an appeal to a feeling many average citizens have "Scientists are not You and [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
PBS made an hour-long documentary for you to watch for free “Frontline : Inside the Meltdown”