S Anand

Fantastic images at the Internet Ray Tracing Contest and at POVRay.

Yahoo’s auction listings fell 82% when they started charging for auctions. But the sales apparantly is steady, and quality of listings is going up. Amazon may follow suit. Looks like the pay-model is the one that will survive on the Net.

Fucked company reports that X-Drive.com is likely to lay off people. Given their accuracy, I’d recommend anyone having files on X-Drive make backups in the near future.

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

NASSCOM 2001 is on.

In Delhi & Mumbai, you can send voice messages, and soon (hopefully) use the telephone to access e-mail. Through Indivoice. They have a long way to go, though, to get on par with Yahoo! by Phone.

The Annals of Improbable Research have sent all kinds of things by post. Almost two-thirds were delivered. I doubt if it would happen in India.

US Postal Department archives interesting letters. It includes famous love letters and ‘Dear Santa’s.

Of the films selected by the National Film Registry for preservation in 2000, I haven’t seen a single one! Not even read the script of any, for that matter.

Kumbha Mela from space. If they can do this for free, I suppose Frederick Forsyth’s and Tom Clancy’s description of satellites catching individual’s faces can’t be far from the truth. They’ve got a pretty good gallery.