Links For A Sunday Morning

• I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook
  True stories from the Dear Leader's onetime chef.
• Selco's Harish Hande Wants To Spread The Light
  Harish Hande says small-scale, stand-alone solar installations are a better way of reaching poor, remote villages. That's why he wants to seed and mentor local enterprises in this field.
• Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief
  Gerald Blanchard could hack any bank, swipe any jewel. There was no security system he couldn't beat.
• Counter-Terrorism Is Getting Complicated
• The Boy Who Heard Too Much
  He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower - one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI.
• Some Like Her Hot
  A profile of actor Michelle Williams.
• Conversations in the Nude
  Open's staff writer Mihir Srivastava likes to sketch nude portraits of regular people-men and women, strangers and friends, thin and fat. Some are disgusted when he asks them if they would pose for him. But, surprisingly, many agree. Why?
• The Fast Life of Oscar Pistorius
  The "fastest man on no legs" may be Olympic-bound.
• Kerala to have 450 e-toilets by March
  An e-toilet has an automated door opening, power flushing, automatic closet washing and sterilisation and automatic platform-cleaning mechanism -- all backed by SMS alerts to inform a control room about the status of water tank and biogas plant in the event of any errors or failures.
  Good but the cost is prohibitive.
• Chocolates You Customize From Modular Parts
  Nice.
• In Which I Fix My Girlfriend's Grandparents' WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
  :)
• How do the Japanese multiply?
  Interesting.
• TOI film critic Nikhat Kazmi passes away
  Hers was the first review I would post every week.
• Lucky Ant
  Every week we bring you a project from a business in your neighborhood that needs to be funded.
  When you see something you like, you can pledge money. Once the business reaches their goal, they will use that money to complete their project. If they don't reach their goal, we'll just give you your money back.
  You get rewards and perks from the business that you invested in like free stuff, behind the scenes access, and VIP treatment! You also get the satisfaction of having invested in your neighborhood!
  Kickstarter for the neighbourhood.
• Video - Marcos Baghdatis blows up and breaks 4 tennis racquets
  Rage!
• Rajinikanth's website does not need the internet
  Webchutney has developed a microsite dedicated to superstar Rajinikanth for the Bollywood site desimartini.com that runs without the internet.
• Amit Gupta found a bone marrow donor
  Well done interweb!
• Double Dish - Serve snacks, hide what's left behind
  Nice.
• Watch The "Powers Of Ten" Remade Using Food
• Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
• The Whisky Water Trick
  Neat.
• Notification Control
  Access your email notification settings for services like Facebook, Twitter etc.
  Use along with MyPermissions.
• Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
  What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it Atheism 2.0 -- that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.
• Computer Games - Look Around You
  :)
• Pictures - Animals in the News
• Om my God, who wrecked our yoga? The Dirty Picture of a 5 bn dollar industry
  In response to the NYT article, How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body.
• Make Your Cubicle a Better Place to Work
• Designer kitchens
  Carl Kleiner photographed the ingredients for Ikea's Homebaked is Best recipe book in 2010. His latest work for the brand's kitchenware revisits the same minimalist, if slightly obsessive, aesthetic...
• People Are Awesome: The Coffee Shop Where Everyone Pays for Everyone Else's Drinks
• Urination at War: Don't Be Mad at the Peeing; Be Mad at the Killing
  Hell yes!
  On the uproar about a video that appears to depict four Marines urinating onto the dead, bloodied bodies of Taliban fighters.
• Save cricket from lynch mob experts; it needs help, not curses
  At last somebody is talking sense.