S Anand

Man 1 Bank 0.

In May of 1995, I suddenly found myself smack in the middle of a very unusual ‘life experiment.’ I deposited a junk mail check into my ATM and to my absolute astonishment, it cashed.

A decade with Netscape. I’ve been wavering between IE, Opera and Mozilla over the last few months, and have come a full circle.

IE: Default browser. Works with BCG’s intranet.
Opera: Great offline browsing. Fast downloading. Tabbed browsing. Mouse gestures.
Mozilla: Powerful plugins.
IE: A9 toolbar. Fantastic way of searching.
IE again: Google desktop. Solves all offline browsing problems I had.

Gmail File System for Windows.

Alan Cox: Tips on writing better software.

iamlearn and rrobot are self-writing blogs. Written by programs, that is. They’re quite readable, though somewhat meaningless. (Why not write a useful self-writing blog… like Google News?)

Dave Archambault’s portfolio — paintings using just a ball-point pen.

Comic Central offers comics downloads via eMule. This includes an Asterix collection (which is best read annotated.

FBI Guide to Investigation Guide of Concealable Weapons. Check out the throwing cards.

These cards are regular sized, but they are all metal and edged on all sides, designed to be thrown at a target.

Some interesting material on complexity that I found when hunting through the web.

What if…
Wired: 12 principles of the networked world
Trojan Mice: What are complex adaptive systems?

Excellent article by a Microsoft cognitive psychologist on how we recognise words.

We recognize a word’s component letters simultaneously, then use that visual information to recognize a word.