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The YouTube of MP3s

With the recent hooplah over downloaded MP3s being illegal and such, it sounds too good to be true. It didn’t seem likely that any respectable company who didn’t want to get sued by the RIAA and their minions, would try to launch a website that did for MP3s what YouTube did for songs.
Well thank god [...]

Discrete Confessions

I had the most wonderful talk of my life…it makes me feel a thousand fold better.
I didn’t know it - but it was eating at me, all this repressed mistrust and anger, all for the sake of being politically correct and maintaining relations. Do I care about these ? Sure. But it was being a [...]

Vande Mataram

From the Youtube archives, a beautiful (read : Not Lata Mangeshkar’s) rendition of Vande Mataram..
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyr_574COQc"]

Prism and the Indic Transliteration System

With more and more applications being developed for the Web, it is now possible to run Web applications off your computer, as if they were desktop applications. There is no need to load a browser and so on.
For the interested, this is achieved via the Prism frontend for the XULRunner application, currently in beta stage [...]

How to : Voice Chat between Yahoo, MSN and Gtalk

Windows Live/MSN Messengers and Yahoo Messenger US version supports voice chat. Gtalk users prefer the less bloated client that also provides voice chat features.
Here, is how to make voice calls between GTalk and Yahoo Messenger - from Gtalk or Yahoo Messenger using the Gtalk2VoIP service. Both services can also voice chat with MSN (Windows Live) [...]

Why Hinduism is subtly but surely atheistic…

One of the much famed philosophical implications of the 20th Century is Kurt Goedel’s “Incompleteness theorem” . An implication of this logical proof is that even if the Universe was created by God….his existence is irrelevant to a closed system such as the Universe we live in. In other words, even if there was a [...]

Human-ness

Toddlers , it seems cannot tell the difference on a social level between another human and an interactive robot. The robot is treated like a peer rather than a toy, which older children readily understand. It seems then, much of what is “human” is a learned phenomenon. This flies in the face of a common [...]

The French Connection

Here is visual proof, that no matter what nonsense you sing , if you sing it in French, it’s going to sound sweet. Scroll down for an English translation of the lyrics…
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJm2xLRGjec"]
Bubbles and water
Legs up for hours
My goldfish is under me
To bathe for hours
Makes my mouth water
I’m “foamely” ecstatic

It’s not a problem
I lazy ‘round
Bubbly and [...]

Ok, I’m impressed.

Man, can this kid yodel or what!?
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDEk2AMJAI"]

The Irony

At the institute where I work , there is a certain neglected space, - a far-cry from the polished glossy surfaces that make most of the institute building. At the back of the building is an area reserved for the outcasts - the trash bins , empty cardboard boxes that have fulfilled their purpose and [...]

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