Multi-touch Smartboards

AJ [http://www.thegrover.com] sent me this interesting looking technology feature on “Smartboards [http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~rdivecha/archives/2006/02/the_world_of_sm.html]“. > The technology is multi-touch screens, developed at NYU (as per post on the Cult of Mac blog). And the interesting part…

Yashi Googled Colby

[http://www.theknot.com/ch_article_local.html?Object=A51121145932&keyword=COLORADO] Egosurfing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_surfing] is passe. So, my cousin sis Yashi looked up for her hubby Colby over at Google, and found this beautiful wedding feature at TheKnot.com [http://www.theknot.com/…

Venom Bicycles

The prototypes of the Venom line of bikes by Specialized [http://www.mountainbiketales.com/Verdra3.htm] are quite futuristic, if not realistic yet [http://www.mountainbiketales.com/VerdraUpdate.htm]. The actual creator of the prototypes is concept designer, Scott Robertson [http://www.drawthrough.com/sketches/colordigital/g1.html], who also…

Laundry Powder

Laundry is a perfect example of just how far you have to go and invariably it makes you wish that you were there yesterday! Our washing machine is getting a bit cranky lately. After a bit of mood swings, it overflowed yesterday with some nasty temper, yet again. Not too…

Cathartic Kiss

That’s one of history’s famous kisses. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1945 “LIFE” magazine photograph of a sailor stamping a passionate kiss on a nurse (Edith Shain). Well, if kissing is universal, then someone must have invented it, or rather discovered it. Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist at Texas A&…

A fly fell into my daal

The Paradox of our Age [http://www.sharrongold.com/tshirts.html]. “We have bigger houses but smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more medicines, but less healthiness; We’ve been all the way to the moon and…

Amor Vincit Omnia

Once upon a time, in a far away land, there was Clementine. I’ve been told that there are six people [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation], anywhere, who might spend this day without thinking of Clementine. So if you are one of those six, then don’…