Year: 2002

Esperanto is quite an easy language to learn. This article from kuro5hin teaches you the basics in 10 minutes. If only it were a widely spoken language… Still, I’m going to learn it.

India Today on blogging. Very nice article, Nidhi. (You need to have a subscription ID. But if you just keep typing random 4-digit numbers, it eventually lets you in.) Featuring Rohini, Prachi, Prabhakar Venkataraman, Radhika, Aditi, Rajesh, Anand, Mahesh, Anita, Arun, Jaykrishnan Nair, Rushi, Kiruba, Madhuri and Sylvia.

Hongo-san turned 115 yesterday. But she slept through it. She sleeps two days, and stays awake for two days. The secret of longevity?

Interesting thought-piece by The Economist on how bankruptcy laws may be hurting America. The logic is, industries with excess capacity have bankruptcies. The bankruptcy restores a balance. If courts help bankrupt companies shed debt and re-enter business, excess capacity again results. Leading to bankruptcies again.

Writing screenplays. Interesting: modern murder-movies are based on Three Little Pigs, Psycho is based on Little Red Riding Hood, Pretty Woman on Cinderella, …

The world’s 100m record is broken. Without drugs, this time. At 9.78 seconds, Montgomery has been running at over 35 km per hour. I used to drive that fast, on average.

MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service. I take a photo, and send it by SMS. I take a video, and post it on my weblog through my cell phone. Nice.

God has been talkative lately. via andersja

Bullet time. How they did it in ‘The Matrix’. (Answer: with lots of cameras.)

Waiving import duty for Sachin’s Ferrari is kicking up a controversy. Fair enough. The smartest thing I see Sachin do is drive it for a while, and auction it for charitable purposes. Announcing, of course, his intentions beforehand.