Links

Outsource your own job. A programmer outsourced his job to an Indian programmer. Salary arbitrage: $67,000 – $12,000 = $55,000. He’s planning to get another job and do this again. (It’s probably not true, though)

Watson and Crick’s original paper on DNA in Nature magazine.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

MIT’s Social Media Group

Google games

Alternate exchanges: Hollywood Stock Exchange, Innovation futures, Blogshares. These exchanges are supposed to be remarkably accurate in predictions.

About the mad life we have with children. Aniruddha will appreciate this.

Bald actresses. They look nice without the hair too.

Interesting idea to use gmail for backup.

Nilesh on the Uncanny valley. The point at which a simulation becomes close enough to reality that it stops matching up. I have seen a lot of this happen in software design too.

Street dogs in Athens are being poisoned. Maybe this happens everywhere. Maybe it is for the good. I just wish there were another way. (Don’t watch the clip.)