Reigning in Evolution

By Nash, on February 10th, 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 . . . → Read More: Reigning in Evolution

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Passive Sensationalism

By Nash, on February 3rd, 2010%

You see, this is why you begin to mistrust journalists. The passive sensationalism is, ironically blatant. I am referring to an article in the Indian Express .

Before I begin I’ll reproduce the article here….

 

China considered India ‘bottomless pit’ for foreign aid

Agencies Tags : Jawaharlal Nehru, Richard Nixon, . . . → Read More: Passive Sensationalism

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Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list

By Nash, on October 28th, 2009%

Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list . . . → Read More: Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list

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Wave Mania

By Nash, on October 1st, 2009%

I woke up today to Wavemania hitting the tubes. Google apparently decided to send out 100,000 invites to their chosen lot. Obviously , I am not one of their chosen lot – since a quick check of my inbox revealed no invitation.

Twitter however was buzzing, and Google was bombarded with searches for “Google . . . → Read More: Wave Mania

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Using Ubiquity+Readability Project

By Nash, on March 10th, 2009%

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 . . . → Read More: Using Ubiquity+Readability Project

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A Better Gmail (in Firefox only)

By Nash, on March 6th, 2009%

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.

. . . → Read More: A Better Gmail (in Firefox only)

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Why Scientists won’t use Twitter…

By Nash, on February 15th, 2009%

Twitter doesn’t need an introduction. The microblogging service is widely popular, and most Twitter users swear by its wonderful utility. It is a “Social Commons”, as one enthusiastic web junkie put it. But a few months into using Twitter, I realised that there are very few scientists – and I mean natural scientists, on . . . → Read More: Why Scientists won’t use Twitter…

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