I knew that Mac users (and general Apple lovers) are a bit crazy, even cultish (in fact, I like Apple products as well, mainly due to aesthetics). But this is kind of extreme:
Violet Blue, a popular blogger and sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, who also features in the film, says: “First of all, [...]
I often get irritated when the IT people at work insist I need to change my e-mail/account login passwords every three months, or when they require it to have combination of numbers, characters etc. But seems like a good idea now, considering this report on Indian Express (via), about a hacker site that has revealed [...]
My first post on the group-blog, Scientific Curiosity is up. It is about a protein that can emit green color and how it has revolutionized modern cell biology.
The blog itself is a really cool attempt by several really smart people (yes it does make you wonder why they let me in) to convey the beauty [...]
There should be warning signs or alert notices with news such as these - otherwise when you are reading them way early in the morning, you are liable to spill the coffee.
First, via Slashdot, a story about the Kerala goverment ‘actively encouraging’ its schools to use Linux and other such free software instead of [...]
Many professors are apparently banning the use of laptops in their classes - arguing that laptop use, particularly to surf the internet during lectures, are a ‘distraction’.
As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face. But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student [...]
That was my first thought when I saw the report of this accident of an Enzo Ferrari on the Pacific Coast Highway near Los Angeles about a month and a half ago.
I mean you drive off the road at 160 miles per hour (~260kmph) (’fly off the road’ according to one witness), your [...]
Via Amit Varma’s India Uncut, came accross this article by Michael Crichton in the NYT. Crichton says,
[T]he human genome exists in every one of us, and is therefore our shared heritage and an undoubted fact of nature. Nevertheless 20 percent of the genome is now privately owned. The gene for diabetes is owned, and [...]
As is well-known, many of the major discoveries in science have been serendipitous - most famously Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin.
A group in Britain has shown that forgeries of paper documents, plastic cards etc can be detected by using a simple laser scanner. The method, published in the latest edition of Nature, takes advantage of [...]
Interesting story from BBC about how Apple’s product-line (epecially iPod) has almost spawned a new religion.While, I am not about to perform an aarti on my iPod, I have to admit that it is a very good product and it came in a goovily packed black cube-shaped box (it looks so good that I haven’t [...]
The hackers from MIT strike - not against Caltech in retaliation - but to make a point about worthless scientific conferences.
….the graduate students involved were sick and tired of receiving computer generated spam soliciting entries to what they felt were questionable academic conferences.
Jeremy Stribling, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said [...]
Yet another tool (in its beta form of course) from the Google stable - Google Suggest. Similar to a Google search - but a drop-down menu of suggested terms appear as you start typing. Found this via Gizmodo.
Finally got my Gmail invite, courtesy of SFX, who are promoting the Mozilla Firefox browser. The invite was in response to placing a Firefox banner on my web-site. For those who have been living in a cave for the past year - Gmail is Google’s new e-mail service - launched earlier this year with [...]
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