Author: Aditya

Just a matter of scaling it up then

A handy guide to use vmware to setup a virtual WinXP installation

A handy tutorial with a humorous presentation

Toothpicks can be really handy & so can the photoshop clone tool

The puzzle: 'There are three guardians, A, B and C. Their names are Knight, Knave and Chaos. Knight always speaks truly, Knave always lies. Chaos tossed a coin this morning to decide whether today he would behave like Knight or like Knave.
Your task is simple: ask three yes-no questions, each of a single guardian, and determine which is Knight, which is Knave, and which is Chaos. There is, alas, a complication: the guardians understand English but will answer in the local language, in which “Da” means yes and “Ja” means no. Or possibly “Ja” means yes and “Da” means no – you cannot remember.'
There's apparently an entire page on wikipedia for the puzzle including a solution – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever

NASA technology and macrophotography come together to produce a stunning set of images of the real alien ant farm.
A clear gel that holds up in zero gravity & during take off to make special ant farms for NASA

Very interesting talk on how the usage of free time has changed over time
via http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/03/but-its-better-than-tv.html

'Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.'

A very handy software along the lines of Privoxy that acts as a local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

Understand the reason behind success or failure & the context rather than blindly following a company or leader.

Interesting piece of technology. Must have for celebs. Too bad it's only for flash photography.

Food for thought. Luckily you won't gain weight by consuming this… unless you do it sitting down.

MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL

Handy setup guide to setup up a home FTP server. Quite handy for transferring files to the ipod touch.

Fusing a keyboard to pants – now that's innovation. Too bad only one half works.
And a video of them in action – http://blip.tv/file/2095987
via http://hackaday.com/2009/05/11/keyboard-pants/
via http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/12/diy-keyboard-pants-destined-for-the-geek-catwalk/

Interesting way to represent stuff. Not sure how long this link will work though – looks like a temporary one.

Is the customer really the king?

A humorous way to calculate the money wasted on meetings.

I wonder whether this could have any practical applications. Also they should try doing it for Bollywood & see what they get.
'The key thing is having shots of similar length that recur in a regular pattern throughout a film'… However, 'He says that a good narrative and strong acting are probably most important.'

Interesting idea & they do look like the real stuff too

A healthy dose of geekiness

And you'd think that the legal sources would want to save you time…

Interesting way to look at things
via http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_the_internet_can_impede_democracy.php

A nice little benchmark comparing CPUs across the last few generations. Includes the P4 & boy does it get toasted.

Burglary 2.0? The site uses location information from twitter & the like to list "special" opportunities. Another nail in the privacy coffin?
Aim of the site: 'The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc.'

'A few weeks ago it occurred to me that there's a very real possibility that the next breakthrough in advertising itself is its convergence with e-commerce. Buying an app from the Android Market, I realized how those of us with smartphones have become accustomed to seamless purchases on our phone. That is, we search for an app, and then we buy it, directly from our search vendor. '

'Daniel Johnson makes remarkably accurate Olympic medal predictions. But he doesn't look at individual athletes or their events. The Colorado College economics professor considers just a handful of economic variables to come up with his prognostications.
The result: Over the past five Olympics, from the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney through the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, Johnson's model demonstrated 94% accuracy between predicted and actual national medal counts. For gold medal wins, the correlation is 87%.'

They say that the medium is the message. A focus group is a medium. And it lacks the magic of commitment. A full-page ad in the Los Angeles times that says, This Is It, is a message in and of itself. And it's loaded with commitment. You'll never find out the existential truth about anything — a product, service, or anything else — by sending the wrong message. It's the difference between "Will you marry me?" and "I'm trying to decide whether or not to marry you on the basis of whether or not you will say yes to me. I'm not really asking you, but what would you say if I did, hypothetically?