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Of robots that learn to walk and robots that learn to talk (well, translate, at least).

Findory. Their site says:

1. Just click on the articles which interest you. No signup required.
2. The more you click, the more personalized your Findory homepage will be.
3. Enjoy a great Personalized newspaper!

10 steps for boosting your creativity

If you’re stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this word. You’d be surprised how well this works. The concept is based on a simple but little known truth: freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.

Google Movies.

Stephen Covey’s mission builder.

The Google-like blogger template had me for a while, when I was browsing Shamit’s page.

Google India Zeitgeist.

It’s incredible what RFID and GPS are being used to track:

• cars,
• trucks,
• drug bottles,
• passports,
• driver’s licenses,
• ID cards,
• loyalty cards,
• luggage,
• rifles,
• casino chips,
• shopping carts,
• soda cans,
• newspapers,
• razor blades,
• clothing,
• books,
• tyres, etc.

What’s even more interesting (scary?) is when it’s used to track

• kids,
• students,
• teens,
• girlfriends,
• employees,
• patients and
• criminals.

Marc Eisenstadt has analysed 15 years of email.

… it is trivially easy to get to 2.5 hours per workday assuming a fairly ruthless, ‘one-touch’, knee-jerk email interaction regime. And worse if you deviate from the regime.

Then there are other sources of workflow: blogs, aggregator summaries, phone calls (rare, but I still allow one or two), cell-phone, text message, instant messaging (my buddy list is very large, and most of them are work-related).

Interesting that Knuth opted out of email in 1990.

Google donates infrastructure to Wikipedia. Possible benefits to Google?

1. Test another end use for the famed Google OS
2. Get an “authoritative” knowledge base to provide search results on
3. Position against Microsoft Encarta as an encyclopaedia