Author name: S Anand

A cool combination of the Amazon and Google APIs to BookWatch. (Incidentally, I downloaded the Amazon and Google APIs.)

I learnt mind mapping. Ref: 1 2

For a few tenths of a second, at the micrometer level, the Second law of Thermodynamics can be violated. The interesting thing is that it happens at such a large scale.

Yahoo’s been filtering e-mail viruses. Good, but they’ve been a little crude. So a Google search for medireview reveals a book on Middle Ages: that medireview chronology, and a treasure ride with medireview jewels, a medireview city and medireview treasures.

A Google blog. And while we’re on the subject, I’ve found Google labs’ glossary very useful. So are some Google applications based on their API. (Incidentally, their server is overloaded. I tried getting a key yesterday, put it politely declined.)

This article mentions a Patrick Critton. Thanks to this innocuous reference, he ended up in jail.

The winner of the Google programming contest.

I know — I’ve been talking too much about Google. Still, here’re the dates on which Google updates itself.

Text-based games on the rise? Skotos‘ site looks interesting anyway.

In-depth portraits of open source pioneers.