The Great Ganesha

Amit Pitaru has created something which absolutely blew my mind: The SonicWire Sculptor. It’s something which combines drawing and sound. You actually draw sounds and can create all kinds of funky noise. It doesn’t look like this the first time Amit has tried to combine music with visualization. He also created this tool, which he [...]

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Apparently, in Albert Brooks’ last film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World there’s someone in a call center in Delhi who answers the phone by saying: “This is the White House. How may I direct your call?” Timothy Noah, a Slate columnist, writes that According to a study released in March by the Government [...]

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No, I’m not talking about some groundbreaking research done by some post-doctoral fellows to invent VoIP. I’m talking about two great bargains. They’re both cheap and provide excellent value for money. Harvard economist Larry Freeman writes about what a great bargain post-docs are: The United States could hardly ask for a more cost-effective way to [...]

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Let’s see a show of hands for those who remember the grainy black and white reels that used to be shown before movies in Indian cinemas in the 80s. Remember those reels by ‘Films Division Presents’? I remember one on Hillary (not Clinton – the original one) and his conquest of Everest. Yes – they [...]

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There is now a machine through which you can attain nirvana for only $23. It was only a matter of time, you know… And, oh yeah, no mind-altering substances involved. Just a little ambient music. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

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For you distance-running, techno-lovers, I found this podcast from a runner-friendly DJ. DJ Steveboy creates 1-2 hour long podcasts, also listing the beats-per-minute of the track. Pretty cool. Incidentally, there is pretty solid evidence that the right kind of music can enhance athletic performance. This meta-analytic study (that means an analysis of other people’s analysis) [...]

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It’s been a while since I posted, but since I read somewhere that blogging was defined as “talking to a brick wall,” I figured that it would be ok. Still, apologies to the regular viewer (note singular usage). I just got to know last week that my advisors are letting me defend in June/July sometime. [...]

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Apparently, in Albert Brooks’ last film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World there’s someone in a call center in Delhi who answers the phone by saying: “This is the White House. How may I direct your call?” Timothy Noah, a Slate columnist, writes that According to a study released in March by the Government [...]

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The Onion – America’s Finest News Source does it again. You researchers out there will surely appreciate this one… If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

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Did you miss the momentous occasion? Last night in the US, at one hour, two minutes and three seconds past midnight, was the only time in this century that the clock said 01:02:03, 04/05/06. Wow. And I slept through the whole thing. Maybe a country was destroyed or something… Here’s what Wired News had to [...]

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