January 21 05
Koders is a specialized search engine that searches for source code in many programming languages. You can also choose to search for code available under a particular license. For those who wish to implement a source code search engine on their own computers, gonzui is an open-source tool (cross-platform) that indexes your source code files [...]
January 20 05
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona has a site that computes the effect of an impact on earth. You can feed in the size of the projectile and other parameters such as the impact angle, impact velocity etc and it gives a complete analysis of the resulting effects on earth. Very [...]
January 16 05
Two events have prompted me to write this post. One, I saw Swades and even though parts of the movie are heavily flawed, I was touched by the message. The movie follows Mohan, an Indian born NASA scientist who visits India after a long time and experiences the pain of poverty in rural India. At [...]
January 16 05
After shafting subscribers by disabling file-transfer features from the Motorola v710 phone, Verizon is now at the receiving end of a lawsuit. I fully expect my bluetooth phone to allow me to use bluetooth in whatever way I see fit and it is disappointing to see Verizon stoop so low as to disable features Motorola [...]
January 15 05
Technorati Tags You may have noticed that there are tags below my blog posts now. These are tags that enable Technorati to find other blogs that have the same tags, along with tagged pictures from flickr. Adding these tags to your blog can be tedious, so Oddiophile has a javascript bookmarklet that lets you generate [...]
January 13 05
And now… *drumroll* open source beer! A bunch of guys at Copenhagen have created the world’s first open-source beer named Vores Øl. You cannot buy the beer from them, but you can use their recipe to create your own commercial beer as long as you publish the recipe for the derivative beer under the same [...]
January 13 05
How to fold a shirt This Japanese-sounding video shows the fine art of folding a shirt into a perfect rectangle in just three steps. For a person like me who has to labor over this process only to end up with ugly creases on a shirt, this was absolutely mindblowing! Now to take care of [...]
January 13 05
Community edited resumes! In the spirit of open-source and community edited encyclopedias comes the next best thing in cooperation – community edited resumes! At Resumewiki, you can create your own profile, resume and cover letter and allow your peers to comment and edit them. When you start your three-step process, do change ‘ExampleName‘ to your [...]