Links For A Sunday Morning

• Kamran's dream run-up: From tennis-ball cricket in UP village to Shane Warne's super over
• in which the producer-multiplex owner battle forces the blogger to protest
  With no end in sight to the strike I am getting crankier by the day. I am with the producers on this one. I hate the multiplexes' arbitrariness.
  One, the way they jack up the ticket prices for major releases(like at PVR I paid 350 bucks for the first day first show of Ghajini and 250 for Singh Is King, Bachna Ae Haseeno and Jaane Tu, when the usual price is supposed to be 160/170 bucks).
  Two, the pricing of the food stuff. PVR charges 60 bucks for popcorn when the thing can be made for 2 bucks(Act II) and get this...PVR situated on the 3rd floor of Forum Mall charges 50 bucks for Pepsi. Climb down one floor and go to the Transit food court on the 2nd floor and the same quantity of Pepsi is available for 23 bucks!
  Three, is the show timings. I watch at least 3-4 movies a week and have been doing so consistently for 3-4 years, most of them at PVR, and not one of those hundreds of shows has ever started on time.
  Four, the cancellation of shows/movies. At PVR they seem to have arrived at some sorta 'quorum' of 6/7. Less than that number of people and the show is cancelled. I don't know how much of a difference it makes whether one person watches it or 6. (And they don't tell you that the show is cancelled. They say its 'sold out'. I almost a heart attack when I was told a few weeks back that tickets for Abhijeet Sawant's debut movie, Lottery, were 'sold out'!)
• FMyLife Moments in Greek Mythology
  :)
• Articles of Clothing That Go Well With Distressed Jeans
  :)
• Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
• Two overs too many
  Sambit Bal isn't a fan of the Super Over and asks, "So what's wrong with a tie?"...hmmm...am inclined to agree with him on this.
• 3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
• Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities
  I spent countless hours in tiny cyber cafes on sloooow connections building my first website on Geocities.
• Kashyap and the music in his films
  One of the less talked about aspects of his movies. No Smoking is esp. the one that doesn't get much attention. One, cos nobody saw the movie and two, cos the score focuses on a singular not very relatable topic.
• How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
• PHD Comics: Tales from the Road talks about cancer
  The sad truth.
• To Tweet or Not to Tweet
  Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter interviewed by Maureen Dowd. Why the hell is she so bitchy...
  Turns out she pissed off a lot of other people. Couple of reactions - In defense of Twitter and the hilarious, Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone
• The Bride Was Beautiful - Series of photos

  Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. Katie had chased away cancer once, only to have it return - to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart. Breathing was difficult now, she had to use oxygen. The pain in her back was so intense it broke through the morphine that was supposed to act as a shield. Her organs were shutting but it would not stop her from marrying Nick Godwin, 23, who was in love with Katie since 11th grade. Five days later, Katie died.

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• Bookshelf-annotation
  Nice!
• Waterfall Shower to Rain Shower
  Nice!
• The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV
  Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
• Fake IPL Player
  Has the IPL owners chaddis in a twist. Much fun. There were reports that the blogger was Ranadeb Bose or Aakash Chopra and that 'he' had been caught. Other reports have suggested that the blogger isn't with the Kolkotta Knight Riders but is with a rival team and has a 'source' in KKR. That makes this a very serious issue.
• Cyber pass
  A few South Bangalore candidates are betting on an Obama strategy for their campaigns, and looking hard at the internet.
  Must say I have wondered if I should ever join a campaign team for a candidate. Quickly realised though that I find no single candidate compelling enough. (Although, if Priyanka Gandhi ever decides to join politics, I would be very interested in joining her campaign team :)
• Google Similar Images
  Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words.
• Google Timeline
  Organise Google news and search results on a timeline.
• Nixon's Undelivered Moon Disaster Speech [1969]
  On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. The following speech, revealed in 1999, was prepared by Nixon's then speechwriter, William Safire, to be used in the event of a disaster that would maroon the astronauts on the moon.
• Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
  xkcd is one of my faves.
• Show me the money say lyricists and music composers
  Strangely enough in Bollywood, neither of them have any rights on the songs.
• The painful truth about trainers: Are expensive running shoes a waste of money?
  Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips...the $20 billion running - shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we've been told about running shoes is wrong - and that it might even be better to go barefoot...
• We Live in Public (and the end of empathy)

  Are we going to destroy ourselves to the point at which we unplug the Internet? Are we going to have to create private areas for discourse and lose the "Open Web" gestalt?

• Singletasking
  Hmm...should try to implement.