Amida Simputer [http://www.amidasimputer.com/], the successor (it seems) of the Indian-made Simputer [http://www.simputer.org/] PDA, has been launched. Its price tag reads USD 240 (and above). To me, that doesn’t seem consistent with the companies mission statement — “The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative…
The Project Apollo Image Gallery [http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html]. Spectacular! [via Scoble [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/07/23.html#a7992]]…
WordCount [http://www.fabrica.it/wordcount/main.php] is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality.…
You may have heard and seen The Simpsons, but how about its desi version – The Singhsons [http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/funny/movies/singhsons.html]. Well, as Bart says [http://www.thesimpsonsquotes.com/characters/bart-simpson-quotes-2.html]: Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun 🙂…
This is one funny game [http://www.wagenschenke.ch/], designed in Flash, you have to control the walking drunk dude character with your mouse.…
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Over the year or so, I’ve been bookmarking some of my favorite photographs by some talented photographers, both professional and amateur. So here you go … [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2004/07/favpics/CrystalMill.jpg] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2004/07/favpics/artif_beach1.jpg] [https:…
I watched this piece about the “Afgan Girl” on the National Geographic Channel a couple of months back and I was struck by those beautiful yet haunting green eyes. Long story short, in 1985 the National Geographic Magazine clicked this childhood photo of her and it went on their magazine…