While I was browsing some national news, I came across an interesting piece on a scientific proposal [http://www.htnext.in/news/7097_2030862,008700010013.htm] made by a group of scientists in India. They have suggested pushing the Indian Standard Time (IST, viz GMT +5:30) by half-an-hour to…
> There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. The director [http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=6b3876e8-73a5-4a0f-8bd5-95c83a92c5e6] of this short film on Global Warming [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35u0J4p26Fg], choose to make…
If world politics was a truely open global forum, Who would the world elect for the President of the United States? [http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/] Seems like its Obama all the way!…
A good list of Contextual Advertising programs [http://netprofitstoday.com/_resources/google-adsense-alternatives.html] which can be used as Google AdSense [http://adsense.google.com] alternatives. I tried Chitika sometime back but it didn’t yield good results. For now, I’m just using Adsense and Pheedo [http://pheedo.com], and…
When I first saw Wasp [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388534/], a short film by Andrea Arnold, I was moved by its absorbing yet naturalistic pace. Wasp went on to win an Oscar in 2005 for the Best Short Film, but I resisted writing about this great film until I…
The TRYNT Term Extraction Web Service [http://www.trynt.com/trynt-contextual-term-extraction-api/] provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. Yahoo has a similar Content Analysis Web Service [http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html], which is also available in Yahoo Pipes [http://pipes.…
Google has launched Indic Transliteration [http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic] for instant English to Hindi language translation online. I gave a quick try and it seems quite good.…
If you are trying to decide between two things, a good trick is to flip a coin. Assign one choice to heads and the other to tails. You’ll find yourself subtly “hoping” for one choice over the other. Decision made. Keep things simple!…