Posted on January 20, 2008, 4:36 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
What happens when you take 80 Million tiny images, group them by their name, and create a mosaic from their thumbnails? You get a stunning visualization. You get a searchable database of 80 million images. You get a couple of research papers. You get another website to bookmark and play with. You get one picture […]
Posted on January 20, 2008, 1:45 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Books,
Brain,
DVORAK,
Etc,
Life,
Pakistan,
Scifi.
… from last year that couldn't grow into posts. Now I can clean up my 'TO BLOG' bookmarks folder and continue pretending to be a blogger: Moneygami – great Origami with currency notes. I made a few of these before I ran out of the leftover 1$ bills from my US trip. An impressive interactive […]
Paulo Coelho's book 'The Alchemist' has been the top favorite of the Pakistan Network on Facebook for a few months now. It is not surprising, as the story has a lot of things in common with the mystic/symbolic fairy tales that my generation (or at least a subset of my generation) was brought up on. […]
Posted on October 12, 2007, 1:06 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
<RANDOM_THOUGHT> I am neither a linguist, nor do I care much for politics, but when ever I think about the events scheduled for this nation in January, the term 'selection' rather than 'election' comes to my mind. Infact, I don't get democracy (as practiced in Pakistan) at all. Whoever devised the whole democracy/voting process probably […]
Posted on September 4, 2007, 2:23 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
3D,
Brain,
Etc,
Life,
Pakistan,
Scifi,
Smoking.
The rest of the websites/articles/phenomenon that have been on my mind during August. I can finally empty the 'TO BLOG' folder. So here they are…
Tags:
3D,
bar,
Brain,
Computers,
dark energy,
Etc,
games,
HCI,
laptop,
minesweeper,
neuron,
nicotine,
Pakistan,
Programming,
psychology,
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