Links For A Sunday Morning

• The interactive Periodic Table of Swearing
  Fucking genius! I wish the swear words were a bit better. Way too British.
• The Year in Movies
  "Drive," "Bridesmaids," Chaos Cinema, movies that weren't movies, hilarious old-person makeup and the sundry objects that were hurled off the screen in 3-D.
• The Generous Marriage
  From tribesmen to billionaire philanthropists, the social value of generosity is already well known. But new research suggests it also matters much more intimately than we imagined, even down to our most personal relationships.
• On the Limits of Self-Improvement
  There's an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment. The author-58, full-figured, and ferocious in his consumption of cigarettes and scotch-agreed to test its limits, starting with the Executive De-Stress Treatment at a high-end spa.
  Part I, Part II, Part III.
• Guantánamo Diary
  The youngest prisoner held at Guantánamo on his seven years in detention.
• The Top 10 Everything of 2011
  In 54 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months.
• Voice Control, the End of the TV Remote?
  Samsung, LG, and others are racing to bring voice control to the TV set.
• A Brave Comeback For Bahadur?
  After more than two decades, Abid Surti is reviving his comic book superhero through the silver screen.
• Shall We Call The President?
  Pending bills, disrupted sessions, no legislation. Maybe it's time for Parliament to go, says Shashi Tharoor.

  The recent political shenanigans in New Delhi, notably the repeated paralysis of Parliament by slogan-shouting members violating (with impunity) every canon of legislative propriety, have confirmed once again what some of us have been arguing for years: that the parliamentary system we borrowed from the British has, in Indian conditions, outlived its utility. Has the time not come to raise anew the case — long consigned to the back burner - for a presidential system in India?

• The dolphin jetpack that lets you swim like one
  Wow!
• Startup Radically Reinvents The Disposable Coffee Cup, Eliminating Plastic Lids
• Love me tender?

  There is a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time now, particularly of my filmmaker friends: Can you name ten tender love scenes from Hindi films made in the last five years?
  Can you? Because I can't. I can't even think of even five. Of course, people's interpretation and judgment might differ, but when I say tender love scenes, the emphasis is not on love scenes. The emphasis is on tenderness. Which involves a measure of gentleness. A certain degree of empathy, even respect.

• Google Currents: First Impressions Of Google's Flipboard Competitor
• Mind-Boggling Digital Portrait Uses Video Clips As Paint
• The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies
  The Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in films and just how well rounded and complete those roles are. (via)
• ZopNow
  Online grocery store catering to South Bangalore.
• India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content
  As usual Sibal shoots off before thinking.
• Censorship
  The Indian government's most recent attempt at censorship may be mired in controversy, but it is hardly unusual.
• Did Kapil Sibal Inspire Sonia Gandhi Hackers?
  India's Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal may have unwittingly inspired hackers to deface Sonia Gandhi's web profile Friday, the day the Congress party president turned 65.
• Saul Bass Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star
• Famous Magazines' First Covers
• Introducing Graphic India
  Liquid Comics presents Graphic India, a web portal that will not only be home to several popular and brand new digital comics but also aims to be the premier place to discuss pop-culture from around the world.
• Tom kaun? Junior artists paid Rs 150 to play screaming fans of Tom Cruise at airport!
• Twitter's 2011 Year in review
• Twitter: Yours to discover
  Twitter rolling out new design.
• The new, new Twitter: 10 big takeaways
• New York Times's Reveal is the Mirror of the Future
  Reveal, created by The NY Times Company Research & Development Lab, is a mirror platform that explores the roles information and media might play in our future routines.
  A smart mirror like Reveal displays your heath stats, the weather and news headlines while you’re brushing your teeth.
• Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino, Reveals Stunning Renderings
  More - Apple's New Campus Will Put On A Spectacular Show Every Year, Starting On Steve Jobs' Birthday
• H&M Puts Real Model Heads On Fake Bodies
  The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and "completely virtual," the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then "dresses" it by drawing on its clothes, and digitally pastes on the heads of real women in post-production.
• Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internet's Future
  Twine, a puck filled with sensors, detects anything from moisture to magnetism: Stick it anywhere, and it'll tweet status updates at your command. And there's no coding skills required.
• Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
  After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately -- all for free.
• How to Choose the Perfect Mouse and Keyboard
• Infographic - Wal-Mart Is HUGE
• A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead
  A surprising drug has brought a kind of consciousness to patients once considered vegetative - and changed the debate over pulling the plug.
• Kolaveri Di featuring Sonu Nigam's son Nevaan Nigam
  At least this is cute. (via Megha)
• Pictures - Fukushima: Inside the Exclusion Zone
  In June, National Geographic sent AP photographer David Guttenfelder into the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, which was badly damaged in the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year. He captured images of communities that had become ghost towns, with pets and farm animals roaming the streets. Later, in November, Guttenfelder returned to photograph the crippled reactor facility itself as members of the media were allowed inside for the first time since the triple disaster last March.
• Cartoon - Death by PowerPoint
• Shocking News Cast
  The Most Important News Story You Will Ever See!
  Haha. Spot on from The Onion.
• Critics reviews and ratings this week - Ladies VS Ricky Bahl, Lanka and Ye Stupid Pyar.