Links For A Sunday Morning

• 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson - Review - NYTimes.com
• The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared
  A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later - posing as a high school student.
• Hacked!
  An inside look at the unsettling perils of cloud computing—and how to avoid them.
• A Death-Row Love Story
  She was a landscape architect in New York. He was a death-row inmate in Arkansas. This is how they fell in love.
• Highway Robbery
  There is corruption beyond the 2G scam. India's highways and road construction projects are mired in multi-million financial scandals. Ashish Khetan exposes the builder-official nexus that plagues our roads.
• Why I Left India (Again)
• OMGWTF: A guide to Internet acronyms
• Picures - 21st-Century China
• Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
  As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
• Couple Married 72 Years Dies Holding Hands

  Gordon died at 3:38 p.m. holding hands with his wife as the family they built surrounded them.
  "It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going," said Dennis Yeager. "But we were like, he isn't breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that's because they were holding hands and it's going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up."
  "They were still getting her heartbeat through him," said Donna Sheets.
  At 4:38 p.m., exactly one hour after Gordon died, Norma passed too.

• Jumbo King vada pav launches first outlet in Bangalore
  Some competition for Goli Vada Pav.
• Video - 5 days of Facebook
  Nice.
• Two Upper Class Indians Try Living On 100 Rupees A Day
• I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words
  I like the one on creativity:

  Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. "Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."

  ~ Wired, February, 1995
• DC's Most Over-Rated Thinkers
  Fareed Zakaria is included with a scathing profile.
• Glaxo's RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise, Scientists Say
  Preliminary results from the trial of a malaria vaccine show that it protected nearly half of the children who received it from bouts of serious malaria.
• SIMRAN
  Indian Railways real-time train tracking service.
• Blood and sex: TV's inaccurate portrayal of forensic nursing
  Here are some of the differences between forensic nursing and the position which is portrayed on television.
• Skin writing
  Artist Ariana Page Russell has a skin condition called dermatographic urticaria that causes her skin to become inflamed when lightly scratched. Russell uses the condition to make art on her body.
• Jotly
  Rate everything. Everything about your life is exciting. To everyone.
  :) Excellent social commentary.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses
  A collection of photos of celebrity noses modified to look like ninja turtles.
• Commit Logs From Last Night
  Sort of a nerdy version of Texts From Last Night, Commit Logs From Last Night chronicles the often frustrating process of committing working code.
• Good to Know
  Advice for staying more secure on the web and an overview of some of the security tools that Google offers.
• Notes From a Dragon Mom

  ...my son is 18 months old and will likely die before his third birthday. Ronan was born with Tay-Sachs, a rare genetic disorder. He is slowly regressing into a vegetative state. He'll become paralyzed, experience seizures, lose all of his senses before he dies. There is no treatment and no cure.
  How do you parent without a net, without a future, knowing that you will lose your child, bit by torturous bit?

• Pictures - Occupy Wall Street Spreads Worldwide
• CMU Researchers Turn Any Surface Into A Touchscreen
• Sharda Ugra meets Umesh Valjee, the England deaf team captain
  The ECB's disability award this year went to Umesh Valjee, the leader of the England deaf team. He talks about what it is like to play among the "hearing" with a handicap.
• Explained: The different types of mobile phone screens
• Milaap
  Bangalore-based, trying to replicate the Kiva model in India.
• How Elephants Cope With Heat
  They don't sweat, they don't pant-yet they manage to survive temperatures of up to 40 deg Celsius.
• Got Change?
  The logic of currency denominations. And the possible irrelevance of it all.
• What Bollywood Thinks of You
  ...and why that should make you gnash your teeth.
• Critics reviews and ratings this week - Be-Careful and Jumbo 2.