Google's Gmail hit by trademark claim

Google sets a $2.7B IPO. Will this really trigger off another dot-com IPO craze, as most analysts have ben predicting?

How Do You 'Vet' an Employer? - A nice discussion on what to look for in your prospective employer.

Hackers: Under the hood - Five real-life hackers

Got my gmail account. Impressed at first glance. Need to see how well their spam detection is.

A Car Stereo That Can Kill You? Cool.

New optical disc made from paper

Fontifier - You can create your own handwriting as a font!

Indian economy drifting towards crisis - A nice article by Prem Shankar Jha

Is Google the future of e-mail?

The Tamil Calendar

World's Most Expensive Hotels

Design Principles

In June 1999, Tim Peters channeled Guido and listed 19 guiding principles
for Python's design in a comp.lang.python posting. The principles shouldn't
be taken too seriously, as they're not hard-and-fast constraints and for
each rule you can probably list instances where it's been broken. Still, no
one has had much disagreement with this list of design criteria:

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Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than right now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
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How Microsoft Got Smart About Phones

You can download the Cog television ad here. This ad for the Honda Accord Euro is acclaimed as the best car ad in recent years.

A nice quote. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people"

Stanford ready to give Einstein big exam - Satellite experiment will test whether General Theory of Relativity is correct

iTunes: How Copyright, Contract, and Technology Shape the Business of Digital Media. A Harvard research paper

Why Gmail gives me the creeps

A Nation Betrayed.com. Congress' reply to India Shining