Omar Abdullah’s Speech in the parliament 2008.

August 14th, 2008
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff, Musings

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF2Owtpdnr4

This is one of the best speeches I have seen in the Indian Parliament. For those who [...]

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House Of Cards

July 15th, 2008
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff, Music

Saw the video for “House of Cards” from Radiohead’s latest album today and its really cool!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ

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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

February 13th, 2008
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Ny5BYc-Fs

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

February 12th, 2008
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

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 that [...]

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Cricket Quiz and Yahoo BBAuth

November 21st, 2007
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

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!

October 26th, 2007
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

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.

October 16th, 2007
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

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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Book a bus online in India - redbus.in

August 3rd, 2007
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

Redbus.in is an amazing service available online! I discovered it just a few days back and was amazed that this is not as popular as it should be! redbus basically lets you book your seat in a bus with a few basic options. The site lets you choose the type of bus you want, the [...]

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Arthur Desmond

December 17th, 2006
Posted by Raghunath
Interesting stuff

Some slay with sword and some with sword.
Some have no battle plan,
Some stab with venom’s subtle word,
Each does the best he can,
And each man gets what he can win-
Great wealth, great love, or fame;
The conqueror gets his just reward,
The conquered gets his shame,
The weak ones wear a crown of thorns,
Or bleat in living hell,
The strong [...]

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