Author Archives: anil

The HuffPo gets a Pulitzer

Congrats to them, but I can never take them more seriously than a supermarket checkout rag.

The Mix & Stir Unhackathon for TED City 2.0

Our idea will be one of the three being presented to the TED folks. On the TED Blog.

The early-bird penalty

Get this. I got a fixit ticket for a broken tail-light on Feb 1. In California, this means that you have to get it fixed, then go to a designated court, show it to a peace officer, and then pay an administrative fee to close the issue. So, I got it fixed and 21 days [...]

How Browsers Work: A deep, deep view

A very fascinating look at how modern browsers (at least the open-source ones) work. Cheers to researcher Tali Garsiel for creating this. [original link on Tail's website]

The importance of data visualization

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 [...]

Glee is just a serialized Bollywood movie. Seriously.

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 [...]

Amazon nearly takes down the Web… and what we can learn from it

A collection of stories from around the Web about the Amazon AWS failure and the lessons learned.

Interview on The Takeaway

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.