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IBM’s made 5 of the top 10 most powerful supercomputers. India doesn’t seem to have made a single one.

The Fat Project tried to get two people to gain 30 pounds in 30 days. One made it. One didn’t. For the first time, you can actually see flesh grow.

If you’ve been following the Nobel prize broadcasts, don’t miss the Ig prizes — for the goofiest achievements.

A study shows that the world is producing about 250MB of info per person per year. It means that, on average, each of us is writing 50 times the size of the complete works of Shakespeare every year! If you’re wondering how that’s possible, just wander around this web page 🙂

I win the bet. ~sanand strikes 14340 to 2931 versus ~mkalidas. Must admit that some people disagree with the majority, though.

Speaking of viruses, anyone heard of a virus called ‘Hanson.scr’? I got this mail from home that had nothing but an attachment, and I’m sure it’s a virus. It keeps sending itself to me, and tries connecting to the Internet when I run it.

IBM has a virus hype alert site, which lists all kinds of virus hoaxes. Incidentally, some people are worried that their web pages are infected.

I had a bet with Kalidas about which of our pages would get more web hits in October. Of course, October isn’t over yet, but with 12,740 on mine against 2,234, I think I have a decent chance of a pizza.

We’re doing a course on Dynamics of Strategy, and using some system dynamics software for this. Vensim and Ithink are powerful simulation tools to think about business.