Author name: S Anand

Progress on the polynomial-time computability of prime numbers.

Asimov’s Foundation was translated into Arabic. Title: Al-Qaeda. The Guardian explores the link between Asimov and bin Laden.

The Invisible Library. Has books that exist only inside other books. Neat stuff. Talks of various books by Holmes & Watson (Doyle) as well as Oolon Colluphid (Douglas Adams), though I was disappointed that too little of Lewis Caroll is mentioned.

Contract research by Eli Lilly. They put up problems in chemistry. You solve them. You get paid.

P K Rappai has been banned from restaurants because he eats too much.

The flip side of copyright: Hindi songs featured in albums.

Now the UK wants a DMCA-like law.

Bizarre. Funeral homes offer to convert cremated ashes into a diamond.

Musharraf is now officially a dictator. In all but name.