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yahoo! vs. google: carnatic music

visual treat…

via Shaun Inman // Common Interests

DJ Adams has improved OSS interface with a greasemonkey user script
to achieve the following
1) remove frames
2) add note number to title
3) add hyper links to related notes

Tested and works very well…

Latest blog item SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality? : …In our SAP landscape, we have major SAP-powered applications that are written in Perl (with Apache, running on Linux)… mmm…

via Simon Willison: Fixing web applications with Greasemonkey

strandbeest.com : …Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives…

Do watch the videos on theo jansen’s site

via Theo Jansen and his beach animals (kottke.org)

The New Paper Big Walk 2005

Originally uploaded by Kishore Balakrishnan.

During The New Paper Big Walk 2005, I walked with the Vegetarian Society‘s contingent and carried the banner “Walk to the Happier World” most of the time. Our group photo has appeared on the front page of the new paper’s website. I have not yet seen the hard copy… Have you ?

Update: The same group photo appears on the hard copy too – page 14 –

How to Become an Early Riser » Steve Pavlina’s Personal Growth Blog : …Go to bed only when you’re too sleepy to stay up, and get up at a fixed time every morning…

Update on 2005-05-31 – How to Become an Early Riser – Part II

WordPress › Development Blog › WordPress 1.5.1 (Updated) : …In our effort to optimize we made two mistakes in 1.5.1, one related to feeds and one related to trackbacks and pingbacks. We’ve updated the download with 1.5.1.1 which corrects these bugs and a few others…

Thanks and Done

The Simplicity Resource Guide ~ Recipe for Simplicity

The Web Of Simplicity – The Simple Living Network

Stopdesign | Capgemini Redesign : … Stopdesign proudly announces the new design for Capgemini, a global leader in consulting and technology with headquarters in Paris, and regional operations throughout Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific…

Very nice…

Where is the RSS feed for the news section…

ATTN: upcoming.org

In Singapore (India too), zipcodes are 6 characters long… Please extend zip code length to more than 5 characters…

The ancient Indian culture revolves around the scriptures written in Sanskrit, the mystic language with a multitude of meanings. Yet, Panini has summarized this language in just 4000 verses. Sanskrit stands unparalleled among the world’s languages as the most precise in its formation and structure.

Come and experience its simplicity expressed through thrilling sounds that resonate with the Cosmos!

This is a unique opportunity not to “Speak About Sanskrit” but to “Speak Sanskrit”.

Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore – Activities : …Sri Aurobindo Society invites you to attend a 10 day, 20 hour “Speak Sanskrit” Course conducted by Anuradha Choudry. An ex-student of the Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, she is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Sanskrit on the topic of the Vedas. She has conducted several 10-day Spoken Sanskrit Courses in many parts of India including Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Karagpur…This time, she invites YOU to come and enjoy a class with a difference – to be initiated into Spoken Sanskrit through Mantras, songs, games, stories and dramas – in just 10 days! You can do it!…

Edited on 2005-06-06

Realised that this entry has been blogged at tomorrow.sg by cowboycaleb