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