Links

HowStuffWorks and Learn2 are great places to learn something new on the Net. I learnt how to tie a necktie at Learn2.

Tradeport has a wonderful collection of Indian industry reports and market research along with lots of other stuff on India and other countries.

An interesting story about a hacked computer network and how they recovered.

Deckard was a replicant! The movie BladeRunner starring Harrison Ford raised a controversy. Read the script if you like. Was he an android? The author says he was.

CNet argues that on the Internet (in the US), you have just about no civil rights. Among other things, your employer can monitor your web surfing and e-mail — even at home.

First and second looks much cheaper than Fabmart or Rediff. Compare Archer’s “To cut a long story short”, for example. Rediff: 167. Fabmart: 127. First and second: 105. Or “Built to last”. Rediff: not available. Fabmart: 354. First and second: 274. Oh well, I’m going to need a bot. Why can’t I make one?

Pickover’s site is always a pleasure to visit. His puzzles are great, but you really go there for a blend of art, computers, mathematics and science.

Kjell Sandved goes about taking photographs of plants and animals that have strange patterns. You have to see the moth with a ‘Hi’ written on it to believe.

This site has a menu of messages that have been forwarded many times over. I never saw the point in forwarding jokes in the first place. You can always catch up with the good ones at rec.humor.funny.

Microsoft dumps Java. Doesn’t worry me to much. I’ve never had much use for Java as a user. They’ve ‘adopted’ Perl, though. And I was always a Perl fan.