Posts Tagged ‘Etc’

80 Million Images

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 […]

A Long List of Leftover Links…

 … 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 […]

We are toads

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. […]

Can we bury the politicians?

<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 […]

B(ack)log Links – Part Two

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…