Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Bookmarks

There was an old story of Google releasing the most popular search queries. Along the same lines, since I've been reading a little too much for that past 2 months, I decided to put up my Firefox bookmarks list online. This will give you a vague idea of a tiny, minuscule bit of what I've been reading. But I strongly want to recommend these books before going on to the bookmarks (I wouldn't recommend any of the bookmarks :P)

Phantoms in the Brain - V.S.Ramachandran
Collection of Sceptical Essays - Bertrand Russel
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

And for bookmarks: (I would like to thank Sayan Ganguly for the idea of a CSV or a list representing a large turn of events) Let me remind you that most of these links are on Wikipedia, which has been my single most faithful companion during my internship :)

Bohemian Rhapsody (song by Queen), Boojum (superfluidity), The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) (a poem by Lewis Carroll!), Debye Model (lattice specific heat), Fresnel Lens, SnorriCam, Requiem for a Dream (the movie), Ampersand, Hyphen War, a picture on the mech2k4 Google group :D, Rom di Prisco's personal page, Area 404 (a collection of 404 error pages), Yahweh, Differential Geometry, Nash Equilibrium (Nash of 'A Beautiful Mind'), Hex (a board game developed by Nash), Godel Escher Bach, Molecular Borromean Rings (on nOnoscience), Board Crazy (a skateboarding site), MCPlus+ (a nerdcore rapper), Constellations in Popular culture, Psychoacoustics (see BOSE), Equalization, DirectX, Mellotron, Mondegreen (you have to read this!), Ich Hasse Musik (on Rammstein's page), Ma Baker (the song and the real story), Bonnie and Clyde (the fashion designer too!), Linux Audio software list, Hydrogen (drum machine for Linux), Tor (the famous anony - also Torpark, OperaTor), 0xDEADBEEF (the brilliant few among you will realize it's more than easy meat), Cult of the Dead Cow (now I'm giving it away), Tyrannosaurus, Dromaeosauridae, Yahoo (see Jonathan Swift), Batman: The Animated Series, Golden Raspberry Awards, The Elements (fanimutation of a song by Tom Lehrer), Audrey Munson (an actress), Fakelore (and similar portmanteaus), Science Park (read IT Park), And Then There Were None (novel by Agatha Christie, also a poem), American Serial Killers, Snowclone (see Mad lib), Powers of Ten, Simpsons Chalkboard Gags, Homer Simpson's jobs, Red Hot Chili Peppers (the homepage), It Must Be True! (an episode of Garfield and Friends, see also Wyoming), Capitalsaurus (see also List of US state dinosaurs), LMS colour space, Terratag (makers of the Laughing Man logo), Bible Black (see also Futanari), Bakunyuu, lonelygirl15 (meme), 120 Days of Sodom (book by Marquis de Sade), The Bus Uncle (video meme on YouTube), Blueprints database (an online database of actual blueprints), Nonogram (a puzzle/game), Tesseract (4D equivalent of a cube), RS232, Salvador Dali, Ambient Occlusion (a realistic reflection model), ContextFreeArt (this is an amazing crack of a software).

There are lots more, but this is just to give a flavour of the variety of stuff that I've been reading on.

4 comments:

SpankMac said...

You've been tagged!

Mohan K.V said...

Ah, lovely list! We should think of some way to quickly, I mean _quickly_ read browse through it without having to read the whole wiki page... I think the crux, the real joy is in the connections :-)

psychedelically_yours said...

you've been tagged!

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