NOV
14
2009
Welcome to your Quarterlife Crisis - http://www.eyeweekly.com/print/article/55882
Modern Love: Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/fashion/17love.html
Walkman v iPod: A 13 year old boy's verdict http://bit.ly/UZ497
(Makes me feel ancient)
RT @udupendra: http://tinyurl.com/l89vuj - Nice analysis of the comic book industry (hat tip @gkjohn)
RT @uvfan: Awesome destinations! :) http://bit.ly/1kCcZI
RT @jeresig The Netflix Grand Prize % has been breached: http://bit.ly/12QDMz The top 3(4) teams merged to create one winning solution.
[The new team, BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos - http://bit.ly/11LnVb]
ROTFL. I think I might have seen a few such people http://abstrusegoose.com/43
[I compulsively hover my mouse over any webcomic I encounter. Damn you, xkcd! :-)]
RT @aadisht: Colour photography in early 20th century Russia: http://is.gd/1byvy
A bit disappointing that Intel's ad uses an actor to play Ajay Bhatt - http://tinyurl.com/qspjl9 (via @prempanicker : http://bit.ly/Qyf7f)
Jumbo welcome for Aditi's new employees *ahem* - http://bit.ly/6cW5O [YouTube]
Internet ©rapshoot: How Internet Gatekeepers Stifle Progress - http://bit.ly/MZiDZ
Erik Naggum (1965-2009) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErikNaggum (Check out the flame war links. Vitriolic falls short for describing them)
"You can't judge a book by its movie", "Dyslexics have more fnu" and more - http://bit.ly/16ZnGs
Raises the URL shortening grouse I have always had with Twitter - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001276.html
[I wish Twitter would allow hyperlinks. These shortened URLs are such a pain. After opening a few, I don't know who tweeted what.]
RT @venusatuluri: Why you (not) sleep with Mother Teresa? http://bit.ly/LjPCv
Why did MSD feel the heat/lose his cool at the post-match conference? Because there was no Orient PSPO fan in the hall.
Sounds like extended EAMCET with national scope. What say @venusatuluri? - http://bit.ly/Dzh6D
Dhoni should probably carry Aircel Pocket Internet with him while batting too. Maybe then he can become Man of the Match ;-)
@chan2182 Sadly no - http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14016. Ideally I should have a public profile and msgs should be public by default with the option to tag msgs as private. delicious uses a similar model where you can mark links as 'Do Not Share'. Such a feature is long overdue on Twitter.
[In reply to the question: "When I reply to @someone who doesn't follow me, does @someone still see my tweet? Given that I've protected my updates from non-followers?"]
The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/opinion/09aciman.html (HT: @mahesh_shastry)
25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! - http://bit.ly/LNn4I
The Land of No Smiles - http://bit.ly/VgcQu
(HT @sharathrao)
@uvfan Could be a recursive acronym too. Bing Is Not Google.
[In response to the question: Is Bing an acronym for "But It's Not Google"?]
Ideal search result for Google on Bing: "Google not found. Did you mean 'googol'?
Q: Connect Al Gore to Superman A: http://bit.ly/b5NO0
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NOV
5
2009
Note: Some of the updates here are longer than 140 characters. These are aggregates of multiple related tweets.
How technology lifts Pixar's 'Up' - http://bit.ly/vitFl
Dumbstruck. RT @rameshsrivats K'taka Health Minister spends Rs.20 crore on son's wedding http://is.gd/JBkJ As they say: Health is Wealth.
Is Kanimozhi a freedom fighter? - http://bit.ly/sdTzq (via Churumuri http://bit.ly/7JBf4).
[One commenter there wonders whether the default value for Freedom Fighter is 'Yes'. If so, the implementor should be hauled up. Most GoI/GoK websites are pathetic in terms of usability. Common sense generally thrown out of the window. Is NIC the common culprit here?]
There are two novels that can change a bookish 14-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs (http://moodybiologist.com/blog/?p=126)
RT @aadisht: Dear BSNL, do you seriously expect us to believe that someone who's friends with Deepika Padukone has a "non-happening" life?
@prempanicker Because a penguin is more intelligent than a robin?
[in reply to prempanicker]
Futuristic bus stops blend practical, chic - http://bit.ly/jvK78
I wonder whether FakeIPLPlayer would call Maharoof as "Bada Chath"
@venusatuluri Use text files. Can't get simpler than that. I use them for books and movies, maintaining both done and to-be-done together. I use the GMail Tasks thingy for stuff to be done though.
[In reply to the question: "Is there an app out there that implements a simple priority queue to manage to-do lists, to-read lists, to-watch lists etc.?"]
"The octopus wrapped his testicles round the diver & strangled him" - Exam howlers at http://bombay.indology.info/howlers.html (HT @uvfan)
I was expecting Onions, tears and Windies in some headline. Now I see Cricinfo using "Onions make Windies weep". How about "Onions leaves a bad taste in the mouth of Windies batsmen"? Would have been especially apt if he had broken a few teeth. OTOH, -ve ones: "Smith cuts Onions to size" or even better "Onions peeled away by strong Gayle". Oh boy! This is getting out of hand. As Andrew Miller says on Cricinfo, "...Onions, the man with a surname that headline-writers cannot help but relish..."
FB feed shows an app called "What Periodic Element are you?". Makes me wish 'asinine' was an element :-)
Pak vs Aus T20 match delayed. No, no, it isn't raining in Dubai. They are waiting for the Sheikh to arrive!!!
Is There Anything Good About Men? - http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
Sledging in cricket - http://tinyurl.com/cvmkf3
Playing now - Rajni's Castrol ad (...Ellame Jujubi...) - http://tinyurl.com/dha2dz [YouTube]
Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife - http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060301/confessions_Printer_Friendly.html
Of couples and copulas - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/912d85e8-2d75-11de-9eba-00144feabdc0.html
Guha, Ravi Shankar & the Nobel - http://tinyurl.com/czn9nw
"Testicular guard used first in cricket in 1874 & 1st helmet in 1974. Took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important!", "The species has to continue even if it produces mad people. I think the priority is perfectly fine!" - Quotes from Cricinfo
GMail Autopilot reminds me of http://rajatupadhyaya.net/blog/2005/08/busy-ness-proposal/ (which seems pretty silly in retrospect). The follies of youth!
Introducing Opera Face Gestures - http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/
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