Why need Vista or OS X anymore?
I have tried various OSes over the past few years, but nothing has impressed me as much as Linux. The power and flexibility of Linux drew me to it initially, but now it even has cool eye candy. The pictures below are taken on Ubuntu 7.04 running Beryl. It’s an evolving 3D windowing system, I [...]
MSFT offers to buy Yahoo?
Atleast that is what this article at ibnlive.com says. I have never heard anything like this before. If it happens it will be one of the biggest mergers in IT industry.
Update: And the story is now on techcrunch.
Must must see
Microsoft demo of touch screen desk concept. Brilliant but looks a little complex. KISS!
Interesting math for numbers 0 to 9999
Erich Friedman, an associate professor of mathematics at Stetson University in Florida, has this page “What’s Special About This Number?“. Though he doesn’t cover every number, he has some interesting math for 2849 of them. If you know something interesting about numbers he hasn’t covered let him know. Here’s a few:
16 is the only number [...]
Indian Embassy
Read this about the Indian Embassy at New York. Its embarrassing!
A plan for the improvement of English spelling
This is an interesting excerpt from Mark Twain, though many people attribute it as not being his we would never know. Here’s it read on.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s”, and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the [...]