Upgraded to Google Reader!

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/07755022389501118450

Pownce

Stuff is going to be on Pownce now:
http://pownce.com/vijaygkrishna/

No DNA test required.

England smoking ban in effect - CNN.com

England smoking ban in effect - CNN.com

Rushdiehumbled by knighthood but others upset | Top News | Reuters

Rushdiehumbled by knighthood but others upset | Top News | Reuters

Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent - New York Times

Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent - New York Times

The Largest Known Primes

The Largest Known Primes

Virtual Barbershop

David’s Weblog » Virtual Barbershop

CEO: GM Will "Fight Hard for Every Sale" - Forbes.com

CEO: GM Will "Fight Hard for Every Sale" - Forbes.com

NASA - STEREO - The Sun in 3D

NASA - STEREO - The Sun in 3D

CAT scores hit all time low

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/CAT_scores_hit_a_low/articleshow/1027931.cms

Word of the year

Truthiness

Deep Fritz wins 4-2

Kramnik loses Game 6 as black.

Game 5 a fighting draw

Kramnik's last game as white.

Game 4 a tough draw

Kramnik plays Black.

Bill Watkins, Seagate CEO

"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."

You think tech execs are boring?

Scoble and Winer

Is Microsoft innovating or catching up?

Game 3 Drawn

Kramnik plays White.

An Hour With Bill Gates

Philanthropy, Vista, iPod, Google, PS3 and more!

J Allard

Internet, XBox and Zune

Kramnik allows mate in one!

Deep Fritz wins Game 2.



35.Qh7# 1-0.

Kramnik draws with White

Man Vs Machine

Game 1: 1/2 - 1/2

Don't bet against the internet

It's simply the best

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google

Twitter

Have a GMail account?

Milton Friedman dies

New7Wonders

Vote for the new 7 wonders of the world.

yourdraft - World Editable Drafts

http://www.yourdraft.com

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Wednesday's Mercury Transit

Hilarious!

Microsoft Firefox!

Cool is this!

Photosynth is seriously cool!

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

It's time!

Vista Goes Gold

Explore the Tree of Life

Will blow minds.

Tree of Life Web Project

The Most Corrupted Countries in the World

An interesting report

"Countries which saw a major improvement included Algeria, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Mauritius, Paraguay, Slovenia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uruguay."

Web 2.0 - Find interesting new sites here.

The Duel: man vs. machine

Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz

100 Million Web Sites!

popurls - A meta-meta aggregator!

http://www.popurls.com

An interview with Andrew Viterbi

Btw, Qualcomm owns Eudora!

Vladimir Kramnik – World Chess Champion 2006

World Chess 2006

http://www.shelfari.com

Your Online Bookshelf.

World Chess 2006 at Elista.

http://www.worldchess2006.com

Results, pgns and more.

Future Me

Send emails to your-future-self!
Guess at your future and verify how accurate you have been when the email arrives!

http://www.futureme.org

Syntience Inc.

Awesomest 8 Queens solution!

Grisha Perelman, where are you?

Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery

UPDATE:
Here's a follow-up.

Urbanization - see how the cities have grown in population, over the past 5 decades.

Steve Job's Speech in Stanford Ceremony

Had earlier read the transcript. The video is even more impressive ... rather inspiring.

We know that the Voyager 1 has recently reached a distance of 100 AU from the sun. Read this exhilarating piece to know more!

Exciting? Read this too. And, the official website too, just in case!

We've seen how empty an atom is. Before you start feeling queasy about that, look at how packed the solar system is..

Indra Nooyi's Graduation Remarks

Was going through a few articles on this highly accomplished lady on the eve of her being named the CEO of PepsiCo. Came aross this graduation remarks of hers.

Google Maps Flight Simulator

*Very* addictive!

An extremely cool, informative, and interactive flash application explaining evolution - right from the Big Bang!

Help finding the stardust - project stardust@home

Peoplicious

CNN.com - Scientists: Cosmic blob biggest thing in universe - Jul 28, 2006

It's like 200 million light years wide. Just for comparison, the width of our milky way is estimated to be around 0.1 million light years.

The World Map of Happiness - University of Leicester

"We were surprised to see countries in Asia scoring so low, with China 82nd, Japan 90th and India 125th. These are countries that are thought as having a strong sense of collective identity which other researchers have associated with well-being."

sanskrit tubhyam rocate? (do you like sanskrit?)

Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution

New 7 wonders of the world

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : A `business model' to help the tiger

CNN.com - Fruit flies might help astronauts thrive on long missions - Jul 17, 2006

This has immune system as humans do

Survey reveals rich heritage of Telugu

అరుదైన తాళపత్రాలు లభ్యం

Dr. Google Sends Pain Relief : Andy Beal's MarketingPilgrim.com

Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page
Given a sheet of printed music in SouthIndian musical notation, the computer recognizes the different symbols and prints them out in some standard notation...

Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors - Fact Sheet

Nature creates our first nuclear reactors in Oklo, Gabon - 2 billion years ago!

New Scientist Features - 13 things that do not make sense

20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf (application/pdf Object)

A joint statement by national science academies all over the world on the teaching of evolution.

CNN.com - Discovery docks with space station - Jul 6, 2006

Discovery docks with space station.

Open Source Smack-Down - Forbes.com

SCO vs IBM update.

The Size Of Our World

Keeping things in perspective!

The New Worlds Atlas is a continuously updated database of all planets that have been discovered around stars other than the Sun.:

"Total planets discovered: 171* Total planetary systems: 97"

PhD Thesis: Cascading Style Sheets

Ph.D Thesis of Håkon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera.

Hydrogen Atom Scale Model

So you think you are a solid person?

Discovery_The_Lost_Temples_of_India.avi - Google Video

An amazing video of a programme aired on Discovery Channel.

Ray Ozzie: Chief Software Architect

The new CSA of Microsoft.

Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates: Working full time at Microsoft through June 2008, Gates then will continue as chairman and advisor while increasing Foundation efforts; Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie to assume expanded roles.

Gates stepping down.

Plugged in: A kinder, gentler Microsoft - Jun. 13, 2006

A newly likeable Bill Gates isn't afraid to admit his company is lagging in some areas, says FORTUNE's Adam Lashinsky.

EO Study: Bright Lights, Big City

Mapping urbanization by using satellite images of the light cities generate at night...

Visible Earth: Maximum Ozone Hole Extent (1980-2004)

The ozone "hole" is not really a hole...

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Search for India's ancient city

Muziris.

Net Neutrality

A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality

By Eric Schmidt.

Afghans go wild for Indian soap | Reuters.com

Like, wow!

Key factors that can take India to the top- The Economic Times
For all of us...

Deccan Traps, India

This is one of the two notable volcanoes in India, the other being Barren Island in Andaman.

WSJ.com - Microsoft and Adobe Square Off

Microsoft Vs Adobe.

FORTUNE: RAZR'S edge - Jun. 1, 2006

How a team of engineers and designers defied Motorola's own rules to create the cellphone that revived their company.

Psychology Today: Getting Out From Under

Follow the 10-minute rule!

Legion of Little Helpers in the Gut Keeps Us Alive

How are you going to deal with the fact that about 90% of cells in the human body are actually bacteria?

These 100 Trillion (that's right) bacteria weigh only about 3 pounds though.

Paper airplane - The best paper airplane in the world!

Really Cool!

Media Executive Interview Series: Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters: PaidContent.org

Key Quotes:

"On the enterprise side, the company has been facing strong competition from Bloomberg"

'Glocer has a "seeder of clouds" view of the incumbent big media companies'

"We chose India intentionally, because the economics of the market suggested that we could launch a new service there and still make money from it."

"The television channel in India, which we launched in January, has already captured a 10% share of the local market."

Anyone following this channel?

Periodic Table - Flash Version

A visual periodic table that associates elements with images.

Discovery Channel :: News :: Study: Milky Way Is Tentacled Beast:

"Our galaxy is a much wilder looking tentacled beast than suspected, say astronomers who have used a new technique to map the Milky Way."

"It’s like trying to figure out the shape of a forest when you’re sitting in the middle of it," said Blitz.

ACM: Press Release, March 01, 2006:

"The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Naur's pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming language."

Kerala is now selling ... Monsoon.

One more from Nikhil's blog about how Brand Kerala is targetting a very niche market with this promotion.

Loved the picture.

Chark Blog - Book and media statistics

Richard Charkin is the CEO of MacMillan publishers (they publish the science journal Nature for example). Some key quotes from the post:

"On average across the world people spend 6.5 hours a week reading. The most of amount time spent reading is in India (10.7 hours), the least Korea (3.1 hours). UK is very near the bottom at 5.3 hours, Germany and USA a little higher at 5.7 hours."

"On average people now spend more time on the Internet for leisure (not work) than reading - 8.9 vs 6.5 hours. Mexico uses the Intenet for leisure least (6.3 hours) and Taiwan the most (12.6 hours)."

"Internet use reduces the time people have for reading by around 20%."

"40% of Europeans do not read books."

FORTUNE: Banish the HQ - Jun. 1, 2006

An interesting look at MySQL, the company, which apparently employs 320 workers in 25 countries, 70 percent of whom work from home.

Mastan, first Telugu person to conquer Mt. Everest

CNN.com - Google has no plan for its own browser - May 31, 2006