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Police is watching
When you right-click on the website of the Mysore City Police, you get this stern warning:
I wonder if it's some sort of joke, or someone hacked the site and put it in there as a prank?
Billboard produces drinkable water from thin air
This is absolutely incredible. A billboard in Lima, Peru, produces drinkable water from thin air, and with a tap at the base allowing people to take it and use it.
Found on Gizmodo via Jason Calacani…
Our universe is amazing - awe-inspiring video of an eruption from the sun
Came across this awe-inspiring video of an eruption from the sun that looks like falling rain.
How incredible our universe is. To think that this thing is sitting out there spewing out light and heat…
We're so much more than our brains
A top neuroscientist, Miguel Nicolelis says we'll never be replicated by computers:
“The brain is not computable and no engineering can reproduce it,” says Nicolelis, author of several pioneering pap…
Building great things
Jason Fried rants against maximization:
I get how it works. I just don’t care. I’m not interested in squeezing something so tight that I get every last drop. I don’t want, need, or care about every l…
Trust vs fear
Chris Moody has a guest post on Brad Feld's blog titled Trust can scale:
Now ask yourself “Are we adding this process because we don’t trust people to make decisions?” If the answer to this question …
Gratitude
I just got back to my home in Mysore a few days ago, and this morning was the first time practicing back at the yoga shala.
Whenever I leave, I always make it a point to greet Sharath, my teacher, and…
2013 Sony World Photography Awards
Beautiful beautiful photos. My favorites are number 9, 13, 16, 17, 28, 37, and 39. What are yours?
No past and no future
I came across a copy of The Economist at my dad's from last summer, which had the Higgs particle on the front page. In the leader, this paragraph caught my eye:
Without the Higgs there would be no ma…
A dinner in honor of Steve Jobs
Their house didn’t intimidate with art or polish; in fact, for many of the first years I knew Steve and Lo together, dinner was served on the grass, and sometimes consisted of just one…