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I came across the four and five dimensional versions of the Rubik's cube the other day. Absolutely fascinating. Links below.Four dimensionsFive dimensions

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Visual acoustics : "Paint" music with your mouse.

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My friend T. and I were discussing the bowling action of the Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga, and the issue of bowling action in cricket. Issues that arose included the legality of Malinga's bowling action and, more generally, the types of bowling actions that ought be considered legitimate. (As a sidenote, T. has requested that, noting India's exit from the World Cup, we should now transfer our

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Here is a neat tool to visualize international development statistics. Notice the progress of the India blob versus time for various years.Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations. [Link]

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My apologies in advance for bringing this to your attention. Another seriously cool Friday evening puzzle : ClickDragType. In the interest of not giving anything away, I will simply link to the site and leave it that.

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Here is an optical illusion created using nothing beyond Adobe PhotoShop. Really neat.Stare at the dot for 30 seconds. Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image. The image will look like it's in color until you move your eyes. [Link]

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Here is another Friday game. Check it out here.Update : link updated.The game involves four different particles falling from the top of the screen, which all look and move similar to sand. The particles resemble sand, water, salt, and oil in color. Along with these four, additional elements can be placed on the screen with the mouse, some that are solid and stationary instead of flowing. By

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Here is a game for this Friday evening. M. sent this in and, at the time, he had a best of 1522. My best so far is 304. You can't blame a guy for trying :)Update : I have left that record in the dust. 342!

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[From AC] A nice puzzle from Amit for the Friday evening :You are travelling to a city in a remote and unknown land and you come to a fork in the road and don't know which branch (left or right) to take. You meet three locals, who know each other. One of them always tells the truth, one always lies and the third answers at random. You yourself know all of this (somehow) but you don't know which

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I am happy to present to readers of this blog a post from Mr. Shammi Kapoor. But first, a few words on songs in movies. I have sometimes been asked if I like songs in my movies. I absolutely do. I have loved every teeny-weeny bit of the major song sequences in "Hum Aapke Hain Koun" and "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" since I was an itsy-bitsy teenager. Questions on this particular topic include “Why do

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Here is a reminder on Asha Quiz 2005 coming up tomorrow. The CNJ chapter of Asha for Education is holding their third annual trivia quiz festival at the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.The event runs from 9am to 4pm on Saturday, 15 October 2005. There are two quizzes, one for schoolchildren (grades 6 to 12, teams of 2) and one for adults (open, teams of 2 or 3). Earlier this

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Downloading software over a low-speed connection can be quite a nightmare. I remember some folks in my lab - this was way back in the mid-90's - trying to download Netscape because there was this really cool thing that everybody was talking about called a "browser". Gosh, what a pain that was. Downloading and installing something like Linux in India - oh well, if you don't have a high-speed line,

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The Economist on the new plane from Dassault designed entirely on computer :The makers of the 7X, however, say that its digital design process went beyond anything that has been done before. Every aspect of the aircraft was modelled in three dimensions, as you would expect, but everything from construction to refuelling and maintenance was also included in the simulation. A single database was

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Below is my biographical information. Linked here is a list of publications.=Anand Manikutty is an engineer, inventor and entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has worked in technology and software companies for over 10 years in the United States, and conducted research in the industry and in academia

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It looks like everybody is now talking about the overheated real estate market. Thomas linked to two articles in the Economist in a previous post (1,2). The Atlantic Monthly has a two-page article on the housing market - the article is subscribers-only, but anyhow, it covers much of the same ground as the article in the Economist. BusinessWeek is running as its top story an article on the

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Below is information on my publications.Published PapersMuralidhar Krishnaprasad, Zhen Hua Liu, Anand Manikutty, James Warner, and Daniela Florescu. "Conquering the Heterogeneity and Evolutionary Nature of XML Using XML Union Views." Proceedings of Databases and Applications, 2006. Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Zhen Hua Liu, Anand Manikutty, James Warner, and Vikas Arora. "Towards an Industrial

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The lovely folks at pamie.com, Pamela Ribon and Daniel Blau, started a drive to reach out to the people affected by the tsunami. They had an initial goal of $3500 which they hit in two days [May 15]. They are now trying to hit $7000, or '1400 kids, more than half of the 2400 in need'. And they are getting close! From pamie.com :I contacted the good people at Asha for Education and asked if we

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Hope you guys have upgraded your Firefox browser. From Yahoo News :The Mozilla Foundation has released a security patch to plug two security flaws in its popular Firefox browser.The flaws were found last week by security firm Secunia who deemed them "extremely critical." Mozilla recommends users upgrade to the latest version, Firefox 1.0.4, which is primarily a security update.From Secunia :Two

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[From Crooked Timber]Check out the wondrous online exhibition at Princeton University entitled the Art of Science . What a freakin' amazing world we live in![Cross-posted on Zoo Station]

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[From Roberto Almanza]A fireball observed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York shows certain characteristics of a black hole, says physicist Horatiu Nastase in a paper that appeared on the pre-print website arxiv.org.Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the

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Amit had posted before on Donald Knuth's near-completion of Volume Four of The Art of Computer Programming. There was a wonderful story on him on NPR earlier this week, where you can hear Knuth talk about his book.From Don Knuth's page on The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford :At the end of 1999, these books were named among the best twelve physical-science monographs of the century by

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Reuben mentioned Google Desktop Search when it came out in Beta. Google Desktop Search is now out of Beta. The security concerns raised at the time of Beta's launch have been addressed - password-protected documents and other secure content on the computer are not indexed. Also, users can disallow indexing of content from secure web-sites. GDS comes with an SDK for developers to extend support,

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This is just a quick reminder regarding the Bay Area Unites concert today to benefit those affected by the tsunami. The concert is from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at the HP Pavilion in San Jose.[Cross-posted to Zoo Station]

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IIT-Kanpur will soon deploy Sun's grid computing solution.Sun's Compute grid rack system is an ideal solution for compute-intensive applications. It is an integrated solution that delivers high compute performance, excellent price/performance, and high density. Sun's President and Chief Software Blogger Jonathan Schwartz had blogged on Sun's move into grid computing, and offered IBM a

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[From BoingBoing via Scientific Indian]Google introduces their new feature : Google Maps. Google Maps is another brilliantly engineered site from Google. There are a couple of really cool new features : infinitely scrollable maps, which help you visualize the map or the route much better than Mapquest and other existing mapping sites, and turn-by-turn driving directions with pop-ups that show a

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President Bush will ask Congress for 950 million in aid for the tsunami-stricken nations. The money will mostly go towards helping Indonesia and Sri Lanka, since India and Thailand have not sought foreign governmental aid. The bill, if approved, would be the single largest pledge made towards any single disaster in US history. This is the sort of the thing that puts compassion into conservativism

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For all the Bay Area readers of the blog out there, Vamsee Tirukkala brings to our attention a fundraising event happening over the next weekend (Feb. 20th) to benefit victims of the tsunami. From Vamsee's e-mail :Many bay area communities are coming together like never before to remember the victims of the tsunami disaster and to raise funds for the rehabilitation of its survivors. On Sunday,

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Amazon.com's latest offering - photo-enhanced Yellow Pages.The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is "Block View" which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of

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Reuben Abraham made a short post regarding Zoo Station winning the Indiblog award for best group blog for 2004, signing off appropriately enough with a trivia question (click on the link above to see the question in the post). The answer to the question? Oh well, let us just say it is around here somewhere. Google around, and you too can find it :)So, it seems like Zoo Station did win the

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[From Raja Reddy] The BBC reports about a screen-saver from Lycos, due December 1, that strikes back at spammers by overloading their servers. This is a flavor of the traditional denial-of-service attacks, wherein the intention is not to actually deny service, but to simply cause increased bandwidth bills.Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that

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For those following the electoral college vote game, check out Electoral-Vote.com, featured in today's New York Times. The man behind the site is Andrew Tanenbaum - reputed professor of computer science, author of standard textbooks on operating systems and computer networks, and U.S. citizen. Although Tanenbaum's political leanings are Democratic, I think the projections can be relied on to be

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A note of warning : this post is a bit graphic.[Via Jim Warner] This has got to one of the greatest comebacks ever. Down 0-3 in the ALCS, the Red Sox came back to force Game 7. Now, they are up 8-1 top of the 5th in Game 7, and I can't believe it. In the meantime, here is how Schilling was able to pitch in Game 6 despite an injured ankle.Well the tendon is out of position and out in front of the

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I was at Fry's, and I saw the $100 Robosapien on sale. Check out these cool videos of Mark Tilden with Robosapien. The second one on the page is really cool! I love that international caveman language that Robosapien speaks. I also happened across Aibo at the Metreon the other time. There seem to be so many robots floating around. This article in Businessweek summarizes the state of the

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The news from Mars is that they have fresh evidence that there were significant quantities of water on the planet.Opportunity was the first to send back evidence that a salty sea once covered the area where it landed, a flat plain known as the Meridiani Planum. Spirit also found signs that the massive Gusev Crater, where it landed, had seen small amounts of water.Now, recent data sent back by

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[Cross-posted to Zoo Station] [From Roberto Almanza] Here is a post on a pretty cool piece of work from the Microsoft folks.Michael Cohen and his colleagues at Microsoft Research have come up with techniques to take digital video like, say, stuff from a hand-held camera, and combine it with animation. In the sample video, they have produce an astonishingly convincing piece of visual magic realism

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Outlook India is running an article of mine. It is a review of the movie "Troy". A short extract from the article is below. Click through for the full version.Where Troy fails is in its depiction of the war. The audience walks away with an impression of a quick, short war, but the Trojan War was a draining, dirty, blood-soaked affair fought over ten years. While the Iliad tried to glorify its

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I am watching a program on The Travel Channel on - get this - the World's 10 best Ancient Cultures still in existence today. Japan is number 9, India is number 8, and the entire continent of North America is at number 8. The concept of ranking cultures is quixotic, but oddly suspenseful. Papua New Guinea is at number 2, and I waited to see who was number 1. The envelope, please? And the winner is

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To make a start both swift and weighty, here is a little post on semiotics that I have been saving up.I first heard the term 'semiotics' on account of a course on rhetoric taught by B. Subramanian at IIT Madras in the context of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose". I had never heard of semiotics before, much less of a professorship of semiotics. As Eco puts it, semiotics is 'the study of

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I started blogging at ZooStation last week. Here is Reuben Abraham's introduction.Zoo Station awoke this morning from uneasy dreams to find itself transformed on its host into a fabulous team blog.Folks, I have been threatening this for some time now -- to convert Zoo Station into a team blog in order to prevent lags in blogging when I am busy, to increase the diversity of content and so on. I

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