The most interesting review of The Matrix Reloaded I’ve read, rating the film on spiritual grounds. Of course, the film does badly. Have a look at the “WISDOM” graph to the top-right of the page. The film barely makes a ‘D’ and half an ‘M’ on this scale.
Yet another example of the regulation doing the opposite of what was intended. The CAS – Conditional Access System Bill was introduced to ensure that customers pay only for what they want to see (and hence, presumably, less than before). However, the customer is likely to pay 2-3 times as much. Of course, the other objective of making local cable operators pay their full dues is likely to succeed.
About Webmap. It maps the Web topographically, offering a different way of navigating. Pity, the download is not available any more.
Full text of Jeffey Archer’s short story: The Perfect Gentleman. A nice introduction to Archer’s style, if you haven’t read him. And here’s some more from Harper Collins.
PS: Here’s an introduction to backgammon.
The Grammer of Sound. (Free registration required.) Fast-Talk has created a product which can search sound files for text. So you can type “Dil” to find all Hindi songs having the word.
Lateral thinking: A woman has incontrovertible proof in court that her husband was murdered by her sister. The judge declares, “This is the strangest case I’ve ever seen. Though it’s a cut-and-dried case, this woman cannot be punished.”
Reason: The sisters are Siamese twins.
PS: Was Ravana a Siamese decuplet?
US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).
The Darwin Awards honor thouse who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. (Tales of silly deaths.) via Abheek
