Category Archives: Interesting stuff

Religion and Atheism

By Raghunath | Published: May 31, 2009
It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: you came up with the idea. Why do you believe it? – Ricky Gervais on being an atheist.
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Kilmer on Poetry

By Raghunath | Published: December 25, 2008
“Poetry is a very subjective and intimate expression. It’s literally your heartbeat. Your rhythm. The song of your soul. It’s superconcentrated. It’s a dense piece of yourself.”
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Links: What I Read Today (22nd October)

By Raghunath | Published: October 22, 2008
Sharing links to a couple of things I read today. While I struggle with a patience block and am unable to write, others are busy creating amazing content Obama: Photographed Callie Shell has some amazing photographs of current US Presidential candidate Barack Obama that are simply a don’t miss. Doesn’t matter who you support or [...]
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Omar Abdullah’s Speech in the parliament 2008.

By Raghunath | Published: August 14, 2008
This was one of the very few excellent, passionate and real speeches I have seen in the parliament. Omar Abdullah’s speech about Kashmir and all the unnecessary constraints being placed on kashmir in the guise of the Amarnath yatra. This is one of the best speeches I have seen in the Indian Parliament. For those [...]
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House Of Cards

By Raghunath | Published: July 15, 2008
Saw the video for “House of Cards” from Radiohead’s latest album today and its really cool!! . The video is made without any cameras – only lasers and data. There was a post on the google blog on that and its pretty darn interesting, if you are into that sort of thing. Check it out.
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Theo Jansen in an amazing commercial

By Raghunath | Published: February 13, 2008
Theo Jansen is an artist and kinetic sculptor from the Netherlands. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. Jansen is dedicated to creating artificial life through the use of [...]
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Rediscovering the web with TED.com

By Raghunath | Published: February 12, 2008
After a long time, I decided that I needed to press the reset button on my feeds list. Mostly because I had too many blogs that I was tracking and ended up not reading everyone of them, negating any and all advantages that using feed readers would have anyway. One major benefit of doing this [...]
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Cricket Quiz and Yahoo BBAuth

By Raghunath | Published: November 21, 2007
For those of us who are interested in and follow cricket like a religion, or like the rest of the Indian population, I found an interesting quiz over at Amaltas‘ website. Go have a dekko at the quiz, well thought out and quick too Cricket Quiz Another thing is, if you are interested in web [...]
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Pixar short films collection… Interesting!

By Raghunath | Published: October 26, 2007
Pixar is releasing a DVD with a lot of their short films on it. This collection includes shorts like Luxo Junior, which is the first computer animated short nominated for an Academy Award and Knick Knack – a story about a snowman in a snow globe who wants to join two knick knacks from a [...]
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Breakfast.

By Raghunath | Published: October 16, 2007
I saw this really nice website that maps people (in America) with the kind of breakfast they would have . I am going to try an annoying and terrible hack and put the site in an iframe … Let me know how much you hate me for this AND what u think of the site [...]
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