Links For A Sunday Morning

• Could This Be The End Of Cancer?
  It's a disease that kills millions a year and a slew of hoped-for miracle treatments have gone nowhere. Now scientists say vaccines could hold the key-not just to a cure but to wiping out cancer forever.
• Extraditing Christopher Coke and a Massacre in Jamaica
  After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.
• Twitter Tips: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask
• Google Zeitgeist 2011
• Your Life on Facebook, in Total Recall
  Facebook brings back the past with new design.
• 2011 Rewind – 11 songs we played in non-stop loop
• Homaro Cantu & Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy
  Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche come from Moto, a Chicago restaurant that plays with new ways to cook and eat food. But beyond the fun and flavor-tripping, there's a serious intent: Can we use new food technology for good?
• IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

  Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC.

  That's good news.
• Do Vitamins Actually Work?
• Sports Illustrated launches Swimsuit Issue in India
• Aakash Tablet
  is now available.
  So why aren't our MP's getting it.
• How hot is pepper spray, anyway?
• Video - Bearded Dragon playing Ant Crusher
  Haha!
• Joyce Carol Vincent: how could this young woman lie dead and undiscovered for almost three years?
  On 25 January 2006, officials from a north London housing association repossessing a bedsit in Wood Green owing to rent arrears made a grim discovery. Lying on the sofa was the skeleton of a 38-year-old woman who had been dead for almost three years. In a corner of the room the television set was still on, tuned to BBC1, and a small pile of unopened Christmas presents lay on the floor. Washing up was heaped in the kitchen sink and a mountain of post lay behind the front door. Food in the refrigerator was marked with 2003 expiry dates. The dead woman's body was so badly decomposed it could only be identified by comparing dental records with an old holiday photograph of her smiling. Her name was revealed to be Joyce Carol Vincent.
• Pictures - The Ashaninka, A Threatened Way of Life
  The Ashaninka are one of the largest indigenous groups in South America, their ancestral homelands ranging from Brazil to Peru. Since colonial times, their existence has been difficult -- they have been enslaved, had their lands taken away or destroyed, and were caught up in the bloody internal conflict in Peru during the late 20th century. Today, a large communal reserve set aside for the Ashaninka is under threat by the proposed Pakitzapango dam, which would displace some 10,000 Ashaninka.
• Rahul Dravid's speech at the Sir Donald Bradman Oration in Canberra:
• Awkward Family Photos
  Truly awkward.
• Alter Ego: Portraits of Gamers Next to Their Avatars
• Catch the fever: It'll help you fight off infection, evidence shows
  With cold and flu season almost here, the next time you're sick, you may want to think twice before taking something for your fever. That's because scientists have found more evidence that elevated body temperature helps certain types of immune cells to work better.
• The Indian Road Romeo
  Photoblog of M.S. Gopal, winner of Best online photojournalist at the T.S. Satyan Memorial Awards for Photojournalism 2011. (via)
• The Facebook Resisters
  As Facebook aims at millions of users, some are content to sit out.
• Comic - Plastic Bags
  Stores have a competition to see who can spread your items across the most plastic shopping bags.
  :)
• Archaic Ranji points system needs a revamp
• Meet the Internet's newest boy genius
• Get your personal Chrome experience on all your devices
  Google updates Chrome with multiple user profiles.
• How to Share Google Chrome with Multiple People on the Same Computer Without Screwing Up Your Logins
• New Tweets Per Second Record - 25,088 TPS - Set By Screening Of Japanese Movie "Castle in the Sky"
• Pictures - China's Abandoned Wonderland
  In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn. Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be "the largest amusement park in Asia," stopped around 1998 after disagreements with the local government and farmers over property prices.
• Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
  Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.
• Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple
  Rare 22 minute presentation given by Steve Jobs in 1980. The video was gifted to Computer History Museum by Regis McKenna.
• Why Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance rejected the UID Bill (embeded report)
  The committee headed by Yashwant Sinha pointed out several anomalies in the existing bill and urged the government to "reconsider and review the UID scheme as also the proposals contained in the Bill in all its ramifications and bring forth a fresh legislation before Parliament." The committee also suggested that the data already collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) could be transferred to the National Population Register.
• Scientists discover a gene linked to short sleep times
  German scientists have found a gene variant that may be responsible for some people's short sleeping habits.
• WordPress 3.3 "Sonny"
  Available for download.
• Sherlock returns in January
  Hope we get it soon on BBC Entertainment in India.
• Minimalist Tees
  7 tees...one for each day of the week. Nice.
• Could Eiffel Tower become world's largest tree?
  An engineering firm has unveiled plans to turn the Eiffel Tower into a vast, tree-like monument by cladding its mesh iron body in over 600,000 plants.
• Why sexualisation of female news anchors doesn't really work
  ...a study conducted by two Indiana University researchers recently found that women looking to break through the glass ceiling into senior broadcast news positions or more prominent on-camera roles in television may hinder themselves when they succumb to pressures to dress in a more sexually alluring manner.
• International Development Ryan Gosling
  Nice 'hey girl' meme.
• Critics reviews and rating this week - Faraar, Jo Hum Chahein, Pappu Can't Dance Saala and With Love, Delhi.