Links For A Sunday Morning

• Obama, a stickler for pronunciation
• India's secret torture chambers
  They are our own Gitmos. Where, far away from the eyes of the law, 'enemies of the state' are made to 'sing'.
• Not safe for work: Did Techcrunch really kill Blognation? Time – and the courts – will tell
  On the Sam Sethi lawsuit against Techcrunch.
• Iran or Star Wars?
  :)
• Twitter followers 'can be bought'
  Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers. Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a paid service that finds followers for users of the micro-blogging service.
• MTV's brand new look
• Federal IT Dashboard
  The IT Dashboard is a new website enabling federal agencies and the general public to view details of federal information technology investments.
  Fancy.
• Introducing gdgt
• Pirate Bay's Weird New Business Plan
  The new owner of the swashbuckling Swedish peer-to-peer outfit will bundle up the collective Internet bandwidth of its users and resell it to ISPs.
• Dil Bole Hadippa - Theatrical Trailer
  Looks horrible.
• Kaminey - Dhan Te Nan - Full Song
  Like me, if you can't wait till tomorrow for the music release. Its Dhan Te Nan time :)
• Worst Tech Commercial Ever, Probably - Microsoft
  The Seinfeld ones seem better now.
• 3 apps to check username availability across all sites at once
• Tell me - I forget. Provoke me - I engage. Tease me - I buy. Love me - I come back
  Nice.
• Spezify
  Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.
• Can We Blame Our Bad Behavior on Stone-Age Genes?
  Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around? The fault, dear Darwin, lies not in our ancestors, but in ourselves.
• Low-Cost Cures
  World-class healthcare at affordable rates in rural and semi-urban areas. It's not a paradox, as this Bangalore-based start-up is showing.
• India's New Retailers
  Microfinance institutions are going beyond financial products to sell phones, fridges and more. Everyone gains: rural consumers, rural sellers, companies and MFIs.
  Love the ChotuKool refrigerator :)
• Color Inspiration: Indian Matchboxes & Film Posters
• Are humans cruel to be kind?
  Making sense of human spite.