Here's stuff I found on my travels through the Internet today.
LifeHacker.com - downloads, websites and shortcuts to save time.
LifeHack.org - this is a similar sounding site on productivity and "getting things done".
MinimizeToTray - this Firefox extension allows the Firefox browser to be minimized to tray.
AJAX - this technology has been made popular by Google via its various services such as Google Maps and Google Suggest. Here's a good example of a web-based service developed using AJAX.
OneLook reverse dictionary - describe a concept and get back a word. Simple.
Google Blog Search - Finally Google unveils a specialized search for just the blogs. I searched for my name and found a link to my blog and also this post on another blog.
Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions - Yes Microsoft actually gives away "express" versions of its Visual Studio software (includes free versions of Visual Basic 2005, Visual C# 2005, etc).
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Cool stuff for the week
Here's some stuff that I am trying out currently.
Qurb - this software provides spam protection as well as a "challenge-response" mechanism to keep your inbox clean of unwanted email. It also has a very fast email search facility for Outlook.
Audible - Listen to hundreds of books, magazines and radio shows. I'm addicted. Atleast this way I read/listen to one book every month.
RhymeZone - When you haven't got the time, to make up a rhyme - visit the RhymeZone and get tons of suggestions.
Qurb - this software provides spam protection as well as a "challenge-response" mechanism to keep your inbox clean of unwanted email. It also has a very fast email search facility for Outlook.
Audible - Listen to hundreds of books, magazines and radio shows. I'm addicted. Atleast this way I read/listen to one book every month.
RhymeZone - When you haven't got the time, to make up a rhyme - visit the RhymeZone and get tons of suggestions.
Engineering the environment
I was listening to Michael Crichton's State of Fear last month (yes, listening and not reading - I finally subscribed to Audible). The book's excellent and well researched like most of Crichton's books. This book and some real life incidents have set me thinking.
In the book, an organization working for environmental protection and against global warming resorts to engineering natural disasters like a tsunami, hurricane and so on in order to prove its point that global warming is leading to disastrous changes in climate.
Over the past month two natural disasters occured that I am aware of - one was the torrential rains that hit Mumbai in the North of India and the other was the Hurricane Katarina that hit the Gulf Coast of USA. Both incidents resulted in unprecedented losses of life and property.
I'm not saying that these incidents are due to global warming. But I am thinking what would happen if real life mirrored fiction and terrorist organizations started engineering natural disasters by manipulating the environment? Would this lead to "eco"-terrorism?
In the book, an organization working for environmental protection and against global warming resorts to engineering natural disasters like a tsunami, hurricane and so on in order to prove its point that global warming is leading to disastrous changes in climate.
Over the past month two natural disasters occured that I am aware of - one was the torrential rains that hit Mumbai in the North of India and the other was the Hurricane Katarina that hit the Gulf Coast of USA. Both incidents resulted in unprecedented losses of life and property.
I'm not saying that these incidents are due to global warming. But I am thinking what would happen if real life mirrored fiction and terrorist organizations started engineering natural disasters by manipulating the environment? Would this lead to "eco"-terrorism?
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