2002

Vice Fund is a mutual fund investing in vices. Tobacco companies, casinos, etc. I do hope it’s not a hoax. Such a nice idea…

Programmers: learn from this. Laymen want documentation they understand. (Wish someone told me 5 years ago.)

An interesting application of genetic programming. Two people at the University of Sussex wrote this genetic program to make a circuit produce sound. The circuit became a radio instead.

I’ve seen the Economic Times server have lots of problems. But this is a new one on me. (Didn’t last long, though…)

I’m trying Mozilla. It has native SOAP support. So I can make a web page that has dynamic Google searches (and Amazon booklists, etc) without a web-server.

Good summary of superconductivity at kuro5hin.

Google toolbar: experimental features.

Garth is working on audio-blogging tools. Given the amount of poetry I see among bloggers, this might unleash a host of blog-singers.

Google-watch is against Google, because they’re unfair, and don’t respect privacy (via Salon). I still don’t mind, as long as I get good search results. But this “unfair” part I kind-of agree with. Wish Google would search recently updated sites better. And they’ve also got a point about the ordering. Sometimes, I would like to see the “less important” (low pagerank) sites on top.

America’s population ageing seems to be less than was expected, thanks to more kids per couple. kuro5hin has a good discussion.