Links For A Sunday Morning

• On url shorteners
  I just hate them. Don't think I have ever used them or want to use them.
• Eatmecrunchy cereal bowl
  Never have soggy cereal again.
• Chemist explains navel fluff
  I have an unending fascination with navel lint and here's some explanation...finally.
• Exercises for tendonitis and carpal tunnel
  Eyes, back and now the wrist. Think I should take an early retirement from web design. But these exercises are good.
• Recent scenes from Afghanistan
• April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.
  Links to may of the April Fools Day jokes.
  I liked the Guardian one, which said they are shutting down the newspaper and switching to Twitter.

  A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include '1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!'; 'OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more'; and 'JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?'

  :)
• BEST Office of the Dy. Engineer Erection(South)
  :)
• Email in Indian languages
  Gmail now in 5 Indian languages.
• KJo wants to check out Savita Bhabhi
  Karan Johar may sue the porn site for stealing Bachchan's KANK look. Uhhh...
• Been wanting to link to a few TED talks but I never got around to it as I watch them in iTunes. Anyway...
  Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity - Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
  David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks - MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?"
  Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense - This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine 'Minority Report' and then some. Mistry these days is the toast of the tech world.
  Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs - Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs -- she's got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.
  Kamal Meattle on how to grow your own fresh air - Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. All three are easily available and quite hardy. Esp. the 'Money plant' which can be grown using hydrophonics.
• Photos - Earth Hour 2009
  Click on the pics to toggle the before/during Earth hour scene.
• Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year
• Dancing To Connect To A Global Tribe

  People want to feel connected to each other. They want to be heard and seen, and they're curious to hear and see others from places far away.

  By Matt Harding of the 'Where The Hell is Matt' videos.