Links

Pictorial economics of the Iraq war.

Complexity Digest. A collection of articles on complexity from cyberspace. via missing matter

Blogshares — creating an economy out of blogs. You get $500 (notional) and you can buy or sell blogs with it. via andersja

Impressive ASCII art of Bollywood heroines. via Rajneesh

W3C’s making the first concrete, organised, meaningful move against intellectual property over-protection. W3C standards will be royalty-free.

Excellent kuro5hin article on the brain and Turing machines. While on brains, kuro5hin also talks about geniuses.

Google hacks on BuzzToolBox.com.

The Economist on Sony’s strategy. via emergic

Information Age Intelligence talks about how “… the information age … opens up the opportunity for those with weaker memories to compete on a more even playing field than those with good ones.” And it’s the one of the best things that ever happened to me. via andersja

The most interesting part of the budget, for me, is the little line that reads “Electronic filing of returns”. What that really means is that “the Income Tax Act is being amended to enable electronic filing of returns”. Hope the IT Department puts this facility on their site by this year.