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Employee management at Saravana Bhavan. (via Vadivel.)

Blue Oyster Spiral is a video zooming into the Mandelbrot set for two-and-a-half minutes. Hard to believe that it’s just one simple equation.

Scoble on To videoblog or not to videoblog.

Down the memory lane with Hrishikesh Mukherji’s movies via Shruti.

The 10 Laws of Simplicity.

Arrange books by colour. It looks lovely.

The best time to buy everything: when to buy air tickets, get great deals on electronics, and so on.

What would an honest in-flight announcement sound like? Among other things, it would say…

Please switch off all mobile phones, since they can interfere with the aircraft’s navigation systems. At least, that’s what you’ve always been told. The real reason to switch them off is because they interfere with mobile networks on the ground, but somehow that doesn’t sound quite so good.

Waiter Rant: daily experiences of an anonymous waiter in New York. via Shruti’s post on Waiter Rant

This entire music video (set to the song “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime” by Beck) has been filmed backwards.