Links For A Sunday Morning

• 10 Books to Gift the Geeky Creative in Your Life
• Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
  A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community.
• Loony directors, phenomenal flops: Longform.org's guide to the craziest movie-making stories of all time.
  Five amazing magazine stories about the film industry, from loony directors to phenomenal flops.
• The Machine That Makes You Musical
  Is everyone musical? One sonic pioneer thinks so. And he has the technology to prove it.
• My Life as a White Supremacist
  An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror.
• 10 Bodily Functions That Continue After Death
• Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone
  South Korean kids study day and night, which helps explain their world-beating test scores. Now the government wants them to go to bed early.
• The Social Network 2 – If Zuckerberg Deleted Facebook Parody Trailer
  :)
• Jack draws anything

  Welcome to my website. I am drawing *anything* to raise funds for the Sick Kids, just ask me. My brother goes in a lot. My name is JACK and I am 6 years old.

• Video: "Warriors of Goja" on India Talent Show Goes Viral
  I am surprised they let them go ahead with it.
• The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
  Susan Kare designed the original icons for the Mac.
• Video - The History of the English in Ten Minutes
  Most excellent.
• International Year of Chemistry posters
  Nice.
• The American Behind India's 9/11-And How U.S. Botched Chances to Stop Him
  Officials say David Coleman Headley slipped through the cracks despite repeated warnings to U.S. law enforcement. Indian authorities think the U.S. knew more than it has revealed about the ex-informant's activities before the 2008 siege that killed 166 people, including six U.S. citizens.
• An Indian Chef Questions Whether 'Indian' Food Exists

  There is no such thing as "Indian food." It's a fabrication of the West. Each state has its own regional cuisines: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bengal. And then even the states have subcategories - there's coastal Maharashtrian, inland Maharashtrian, Muslim-influenced. Sadly, what most of the world knows today as Indian food is bastardized, trivialized - tandoori chicken, black dal, everything deep-fried. And it's just a shame that many Americans will only experience it in some buffet line in New Jersey.
  Plus everything is overspiced and overcooked. I understand the history of why. In a hot country with poor refrigeration and sanitation, it was a safeguard against spoilage and contamination - but come on, we have refrigeration now. Plus, to me, cuisine should be allowed to change and grow. I don't see that being done successfully in India.

• Comic - Porn Folder
  :)
• Pictures - Nearing the End of the Iraq War
• A fall spring-clean - 1, 2, 3.
  Google shutters a bunch of its products.
• Artist Terry Border Imagines Everyday Objects in Romantic and Risque Scenarios
  :)
• Google Android 4.0: There's not enough to love about Google's confusing, overstuffed mobile operating system.
• Design of the 60's and 70's for Nerds - a photoset
• Money Chart
  A chart of money, all of it, where it is, and what it can do.
• Leonardo's To-Do List
  In a book soon to be published, historian Toby Lester says Leonardo da Vinci used to travel with a small notebook hanging from his belt, and "whenever something caught his eye," he would make a note, or begin "sketching furiously."
• Audio-Blogging From India's Maoist Heartland
• Why did the 'happy' couple kill themselves?
  They were young, intelligent, rich and well travelled. They were also extremely satisfied with their lives. So, they decided to end it, leaving behind many questions that might never be answered...
  Their suicide note - "We have lived a very eventful and happy life together," they had written. "We've travelled the world, lived in different countries, made more money than we ever thought possible, and enjoyed spending as much of it as we could on things that brought us joy and satisfaction. We believe in the philosophy that our life belongs to us and only us, and we have the right to choose to die as much as we have the right to live. We leave behind no debts or liabilities."
• The revolution man
  What makes Chetan Bhagat, India's only author selling in millions, such a publishing phenomenon?
• Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies
  Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Computers and the only American in the country who had any clue what the fuck he was doing, died Wednesday at the age of 56. "We haven't just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman, we've literally lost the only person in this country who actually had his shit together and knew what the hell was going on," a statement from President Barack Obama read...
  Missed this one from The Onion.
• Critics reviews and ratings this week - Dam 999 and Desi Boyz.