Author name: S Anand

Powerful thoughts against digitization. And since these days I need an excuse to justify the amount of paper I’m using, this article helps ease my conscience.

World Gazetteer: a fantastic demographic and geographic database.

Here’s a good reason for me not to advertise my website. Here’s a site on time travel anamolies in films, which is not accessible, thanks to Yahoo’s restrictions on data transfer. One listing on Metafilter probably killed the site.

But then, the question probably is, is that a reason to hate Yahoo?

Interesting read. A weblogger’s date read his weblog. Lesson to all webloggers: say nice thing about yourself.

The Hindutva org-chart. Worrying. Think about it after reading about terrorism.

This DNA computer seems to have done some good work.

The green eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic has been found.

The Doomsday clock has been advanced by 2 minutes. It now reads 7 minutes from midnight. That’s the level is was during the cold war.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.