The Great Ganesha

Looks like China’s taking its own shot at the moon as well. And I thought I was just joking around. (via)

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We all know that Google came out with its Google Moon Project a while back. Some of us even read the FAQs where Google says that we can confirm that on July 20th, 2069, in honor of the 100th anniversary of mankind’s first manned lunar landing, Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into [...]

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For a pathetic (but true) insight into a grad student’s life, take a look at this comic strip. If you’re a grad student – particularly, if you’re an entrenched PhD or post-doc – you will find it hilarious! Just make sure your boss doesn’t catch you looking at it in the lab. Actually, maybe he’ll [...]

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So Apple Computers won the lawsuit brought on them by Apple Corp [it's not actually a functioning webpage, but a placeholder], the company that looks after the interests of the Beatles’ music. This editorial in the NYT talks about the case, Michael Jackson (he co-owns their song catalog – which is also part of the [...]

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Apologies for the silence (ie, no posts for a while). I had a meeting with my Dissertation Committee last week. Sensing the impending defense, they suddenly panicked and decided to extract their final pound of flesh from me. Which means they dumped their final load of work on me, in a final attempt to extract [...]

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Freakonomics does it again. It seems that most European soccer stars are born early on in the year. In fact, On recent English teams, for instance, half of the elite teenage soccer players were born in January, February or March, with the other half spread out over the remaining 9 months. In Germany, 52 elite [...]

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