Year: 2001

Archimedes may have anticipated a bit of Cantor’s work on infinity. In mathematical history terms, that’s about as big as the ancient Greeks invented aeroplanes.

Sanskrit texts and bhajans are available as audio.

Celera’s Genomic News is a pretty good source of information on what’s happening in genetic engineering.

If you thought HAL and IBM in 2001: A Space Odyssey was clever, you should read this article to learn out about the pun in Gattaca.

Someone wanted to know dating sites in India. Bachelors India, India dating, Bharatplanet singles, Yahoo India dating, Dating club, Singles India and Dhak dhak.

David Wheeler’s report shows how open source is quantintatively better than Windows. All it needs is a good user interface, a suite of applications, and a little less fanaticism about keeping it free, in order for it to commercialise.

Am I Annoying has a list of the most and least annoying people in the world. The most annoying person I’d heard of in that list was Steven Seagal (the least was Kate Winslet)

Learn courtesy at CourtesyFlush.

A refreshing personal website by Dipti Kamath.

Tim Berners-Lee’s article on The Semantic Web is the first one that helped me understand what’s so great about the RDF (Resource Description Framework).