Cosmology
An excellent tutorial on cosmology from NASA.
anand_m26blr: Hi Sonisha! How’re you?
sonisha_jd: hi
anand_m26blr: Where are you from?
sonisha_jd: adb
anand_m26blr: Sorry? ADB?
sonisha_jd: adilabad
sonisha_jd: a.p
anand_m26blr: Oh, I see. I’m right now in Mumbai.
anand_m26blr: Which chat room are you in?
The reason I asked this was because sonisha_jd wasn’t in the chat room I was in, and I was logged in invisibly. I have a theory on who sonisha_jd is, but that’s a different story.
sonisha_jd: will u mail me?
sonisha_jd: yahoo
anand_m26blr: Sure… but mail you what? I didn’t understand…
sonisha_jd: what?
anand_m26blr: You said “will you mail me?” — I didn’t get that part. You mean, keep in touch on e-mail? Or you want me to mail you right away?
sonisha_jd: u mail me
sonisha_jd: ok
anand_m26blr: OK, I’ll mail you. sonisha_jd@yahoo.com — right?
By this time, I’m confused enough to agree to anything.
sonisha_jd: ya
sonisha_jd: how u got it
That sounded like a condescending “How clever?” that I’ve heard before. Fuelled my suspicions on the identify of sonisha_jd.
anand_m26blr: How did I get what? Your e-mail ID? From your login…
anand_m26blr: Are you a student?
sonisha_jd: ya
sonisha_jd: u?
sonisha_jd: lazy bone!
Unprovoked and meaningless outburst. Again something I’m used to and have a theory about.
anand_m26blr: What? Who’s a lazy bone!?
sonisha_jd: ok bye mail me!
sonisha_jd: u
anand_m26blr: Hello?
Abrupt termination of conversation. Intruiging.
A good collection of Bollywood links.
BBC’s study on human faces analyses how beauty can be measured, how we can spot lies, etc. They even have a video that shows Bill Clinton’s testimony — and a furrowed brow.
Google has an image search with 150 million images. (While on the topic of Google, try this search on dead.long.live.)
The public preview of IE 6 is out. The revolutionary feature is smart tags. I think the image toolbar is a pretty neat idea too.
PC World’s Best of the Web uncovers gems like Safeweb (like Anomymizer.com but free), MegaPixel (digital cameras), Betanews, ArtistDirect (music search) and Multimedia Library.
Sony Entertainment’s site has an archive of broadband content, including trailers, Sony TV interviews, etc. Pretty good!
The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.