July 18 11
Hans Rosling’s talks are data porn for me. He illustrates a very important concept – our perceptions can be very far from the truth, and nothing illustrates the truth like good visualizations of data. Let’s hope that one day, enough data will be freed up, and will be in the hands of people in an [...]
June 13 11
I’ve been watching the first season of Glee on Netflix, and while I think that the story is over the top and there’s too much suspension of disbelief, I can’t stop watching it, mainly because it’s just so much fun – Which is precisely how I feel about most Bollywood movies too. Which kinda makes [...]
April 22 11
A collection of stories from around the Web about the Amazon AWS failure and the lessons learned.
April 19 11
On Monday morning, I ended up talking with the hosts of The Takeaway, a morning news program from WNYC. You can listen to the segment here.
March 19 11
One of the interesting things I found out when I visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich this week is that for practical purposes, the prime meridian isn’t exactly where it’s marked as such. The prime meridian (0 degrees of longitude) is a completely arbitrary line and for historic reasons, it’s located in Greenwich. However, the [...]
March 4 11
The thing about Apple that I find so impressive is that they understand the importance of selling a complete system. While other companies tout the specs of their hardware, Apple sells the complete experience. Yesterday’s iPad2 launch was a great example – Not only did they improve the hardware specs (A third thinner, faster, yada [...]
March 3 11
A look at some amazing Sim-City style imagery being used in Chinese map websites.
March 3 11
The Supreme Court today ruled that the Westboro Baptist church could not stopped from protesting at the funerals of dead soldiers, however offensive it may be. The church has been notorious for their hateful protests and their claims that the deaths are because America tolerates homosexuality and ‘God hates fags’. The ruling is notable because [...]