Author name: S Anand

The etymology of hello.

Scantips. Ways to improve your scanning.

The secret lives of numbers. These people searched Google for the number of occurrences of EACH number upto 1 million.

Gosh, a ZX Spectrum emulator in Java. Hadn’t thought of the day when the most powerful computer I had once touched would be reduced to an applet.

The deaf use mobile phones through SMS. Good idea.

Looplabs. Make your own music with a Flash synthesizer. I still have no clue how to work the controls.

Spyware.

Pity… Netsurfer’s Digest now costs $20 a year. They’d been hinting about it for a while. I’d probably pay for it, if there weren’t alternatives. I find myself using them less, and substitutes like Metafilter are pretty good too.

Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, Stephanie Zacharek). Full of glowing praise, but with a kind of detail I liked.

Eric’s treasure trove of life. It’s about Conway’s Game of Life. It’s got animations, details about the authors of these patterns, and references.