Month: April 2010

Something to think about when you read the headlines. The proverbial pinch of salt to go with them…

An interesting bunch of photoshopped pics featuring Obama

A nice graphic showing off the sizes of different characters from the Pixar movies (both long & short)

Is Google all that different from Apple?
"…Google is at least as restrictive about the data on its servers as Apple is about the apps in its App Store…"

A pretty important verdict that could have a cascading effect on other similar patents. Apparently around 20% of human genes have been patented after all.

Is it really worth spending a couple of hours or more a day just travelling to work & back?

Another free apps giveaway site for the iPhone\iPod touch

Free apps given away daily for the iPhone\iPod touch

Another portable apps collection. Over 2GB worth this time.

Another list of April Fools' day pranks

Google's pretty active on this front & so are many others

Quite a few examples from slideshare are embedded

'Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and his students enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. During the 1980s, that exceptional teacher at a poor public school built a calculus program rivaled by only a handful of exclusive academies.
It is less well-known that Escalante left Garfield after problems with colleagues and administrators, and that his calculus program withered in his absence…'

Interesting take on how copyright protection is worked out in the field of comedy. Jokes can be copyrighted after all, but the legal system is not really simple enough for direct enforcement.

Interesting journey & an even more interesting bicycle that is made for 5.

So is a $250 HDMI cable better than a $10 one? No way.