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Snails in the Internet Wormhole
In his recent (and apparently his last before blogging retirement) article, “A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas“, Reg Braithwaite wrote about the dangers associated with technology (ideas). Reg’ article also draws a reflection on how the Internet has become a dangerous idea for corpocracy.
Web applications are dangerous. Never mind the fact that they make desktop [...]
Radiohead just released a new video for their song “House of Cards”. It’s a ground-breaking experiment with capturing 3D images.
Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine
Fall off the table and get swept under
Denial, denial
The infrastructure will collapse
From voltage spikes
Put your keys in the bowl
Kiss your husband goodnight
Digital lives where apostasy has become a [...]
Once Einstein was on his way to deliver a speech to university students. His faithful chauffeur not only drove his car, but was always present amongst the audience during all his speeches. Einstein had delivered this particular speech so many times that his chauffeur had actually memorized it. On that day, Einstein, while on his [...]
As much as I like thought provoking films, I also like thought provoking animations. Yesterday night, lying in bed, I was pondering over how the day went, and what I have for tomorrow, for the weekend, for the next few months. Caught up in the loop of thoughts, while randomly searching Vimeo, a slick video [...]
People get in their own way. So says a group of researchers, who also highlight the value of not overthinking a decision. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its ‘mind’ 10 seconds before we even become conscious of a decision.
And we think, and think, and overthink, till the last drop, when infact [...]
A recent news article suggested that the matter in the universe ‘may be’ arranged in a fractal pattern. With all the randomness of nature, that might not just be a coincidence between fact and fiction.
The other night I was hurriedly trying to watch this sci-fi film called “Primer“. Unfortunately I couldn’t finish it as I [...]
The author of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling, recently gave a commencement speech at Harvard.
An excerpt …
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. You might never fail on the same scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, [...]
What does it mean to be human? However vast this question might sound, the answers are infinite. This infinite nature of thoughts is the basis of humanity. Can science illuminate the answers? A panel of scientists share their answers in a nutshell.
Windows XP is the most popular, and in many ways more reliable, than any other computer operating system offered by Microsoft. Windows XP is also one of the largest consumer software applications.
But, let’s face it, Microsoft has had a hard time selling Vista, their most recent operating system. The sales have been lower than expected [...]
Around the world, except for the Middle-East, there’s a bubble building up around oil prices (and real-estate costs). Oil prices are rising, like never before. And the world is worried.
Futures speculation has created frenzy, unless you are driving a Prius. Supply fears have sent oil past record $135 a barrel, likely to reach $200 soon.
So, [...]
The past few weeks have been utterly busy, but the road get’s a bit easier when you are passionate about what you are doing. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing (your profession for that matter), you’ll never stimulate your passion to its limit-less state, and eventually you cannot enjoy the money you (can) [...]
Downtown
waiting
at your
window
strain to
drop by
while you
ask why
You’re reaching
for stars now
try to
hold on
ahead
Can’t
can’t we
can’t we be
can’t we be dreaming?
That’s Menwhopause‘ unreleased track titled “Downtown” (mp3 here, courtesy Shree Mulay). Two other unreleased songs titled “Time” and “Floating” are up for streaming on their MySpace profile. After their gig at SXSW 2007 (the first Indian rock band to [...]
HackerTV is broadcasting Startup School 2008, an all-day event that covers pretty much everything one would ever want to know about technology startups. A crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium for a chance to pick the mind of tech-industry greats. A streaming video of the entire event (also see [...]
Wealth intrigues me. And, it amuses me, because at times I wonder if there’s anything close to “adequate wealth”, or maybe, “good enough to last long” wealth. We are chasing wealth, but it comes with no guarantee of happiness. So I’ve pondered on one of the simplest ways of making wealth. There’s a more complex, [...]