Links For A Sunday Morning

• The Truth Behind The Stage Show
  Anumeha Yadav charts the dark story of how Gujarat's Muslims are faring in the fields of education, finance, housing and welfare.
• Was Einstein Wrong? New Research Turns Physics on Its Head
  A team of European scientists has reportedly clocked a flock of subatomic particles called neutrinos moving at just a shade over the speed of light. According to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, that can't be, since light, which cruises along at about 186,000 miles per second (299,000 km/sec.), is the only thing that can go that fast.
• Pictures - Hindu Festivals
• An actual working mind probe
  ...researchers at Berkeley have developed a system that reads people's minds while they watch a video and then roughly reconstructs what they were watching from thousands of hours of YouTube videos.
• The World's Rudest Hand Gestures
• Mike Tyson, Navjot Singh Sidhu in Bigg Boss 5
  Other names doing the rounds are Poonam Pandey, Charles Shobhraj's wife Nihita Biswas, Lady Gaga(!), Shakti Kapoor, Pakistani actresses Humaima Malik and Meera, Mink Brar, Riya Sen, Jaspal Bhatti, and TV actors Sanjeeda Sheikh, Aamir Ali, Parul Chauhan, Kratika Sengar and Karan Singh Grover.
  Hope this year will be better than the last couple of years.
• Wild City

  A new online music mag presenting an Indian and international audience with a sleek creative hub offering the latest pop and alternative music news, events and exclusive mixes to download, all for free.

• Pictures - A Trip Around New Zealand
• KeepRecipes Is Like Instapaper for Food
  An easy way to save recipes from websites, cookbooks and other users in one place.
  Have tried a few different places for saving recipes but most fell short. This one might just be a keeper.
  Me on KeepRecipes
• Girl kills self after being dumped on Facebook
  This story has dominated headlines here in B'lore.
• The Digg Newsroom - Sifting the News from the Noise
• Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+
  What happened to 'we count every byte that goes on the homepage'?
• Tell Your Story with Timeline
  New on Facebook.
• Introducing the Subscribe Button
  Subscribe to public posts on Facebook.
• Interesting News, Any Time You Visit
  The news ticker on Facebook.
• Kun Faaya Kun from Rockstar
  Rahman back in form? Hope so.
• Comic - What Would Don Draper Do?
  I have been watching a lot of Mad Men these days.
• Online game Foldit helps anti-Aids drug quest
  An online game has helped determine the structure of an enzyme that could pave the way for anti-Aids drugs.
  This is likely to happen more often. A much more active role by the online community rather than the passive usage of their computing power via their 'idle' computers as it used to be earlier.
• MIT's 1K House Project
• Android app - Indibus
  Bus route info for Indian cities.
• Salman Rushdie on Twitter
• Picking Their Lotus And Eating It Too
  As the UPA regime flounders from one scandal to another, the BJP should have been in pole position to dethrone it. But an ugly power struggle is taking a heavy toll on the main Opposition party.
  They have been offered opportunities on a platter but still can't take advantage of them. And they might just make another blunder by putting up Modi as the prime ministerial candidate in 2014.
• Google Wallet review: photos, videos, and availability
• Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideas

  "Most people think that the opposite of play is work (especially in the corporate world) but the opposite is boredom or even depression." To me, play is what you're passionate about doing. You want to do it because it's enjoyable and you want to keep doing it because it brings you joy. But play is a ton of effort.

• Rajasthan village scripts history, goes online
  In a unique initiative to bring transparency in work , every school, hospital, government office, bus stand and even road in Jhunjhunu's Budania gram panchayat will soon go live with anyone across the world being able to watch 24X7 what's happening in this small village on its website.
• The Local Tea Party
  Interesting blog.
• Women's 'sex strike' ends fighting in Mindanao villages in Philippines
• Reeling It All In
  It's raining blockbusters suddenly. Alas, it's a very different creature from 'Sholay'.
• Critics reviews and ratings this week - Mausam, Speedy Singhs and U R My Jaan.