We are already half-way through this year, and while there’s nothing interesting on the telly lately, I thought I’d look up what’s cooking in hollywood. Thank goodness we have these films to look forward to. So here are the 10 most anticipated movies to come in 2008:…
Yawning is an involuntary action that everyone does. It’s also been noticed that yawning seems contagious. However, new research suggests rather than being a precursor to sleep, the purpose of yawning is to cool the brain so it operates more efficiently and keeps you awake. The theory could explain…
There’s a huge amount of data (raw and processed) on the Internet, which makes it a uber-database of sorts. What we always needed were tools we could use to fetch or mix this data, and create other useful streams of information. Technically, this mechanism combines data mining (scraping) and…
Religion and science, culture and belief. These attributes have a vast influence on each of us. It turns out that we are all in the middle of a podcast from God! So when I can across this far-fetched yet interesting research paper (link below) titled – Are we living in a…
Test-driven development (TDD [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development]), is an evolutionary approach to software development, in which you write a test before you write just enough production code to fulfill that test. The simple goal of TDD is to write clean code that works. Due to this fact,…
While I was cleaning up my draft posts, a reference to a movie surfaced, which my friend Gautam recommended a couple of months back. The film – 11′ 09” 01 – September 11 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328802/] – is an omnibus collection of eleven short films inspired by the events of…
I came across this great article about “money management”, and it made me ponder. All of us earn money, but how many of us know how to spend (and save) it. I know of so many people, who have grown financially but they still know zero about money management. Earning…
The digital games industry is booming. It’s expected that the video game market will reach $42-44 bln by 2011 [http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P7488]. It’s also being said that 89% of casual gamers are 30+ years old [http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P7790]…